Esplanade, Seaford house prices

Esplanade, Seaford house prices are built from 378 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £93,250. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +61.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +17.3%.

HM Land Registry378 sales94 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Esplanade, Seaford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Esplanade, Seaford is £223,750 in 2025; the lowest is £26,250 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £30,000 to £223,750.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £66,614, so the real change over the whole record is +243.2% — about +4.20% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +61.8% in cash against +17.3% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Esplanade, Seaford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Esplanade, Seaford is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

376 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2 freehold — 99.5% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £93,250 and the median freehold sale £316,500 — a gap of +239.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +43.8%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 14 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Lewes, 42.2% of 49,257 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Lewes at £1,323 a month as of Jun 2026 — £917 for a one-bedroom home and £1,495 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £93,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 17.03% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of BN25, 101 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 36 violent, 1 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 29 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times quieter.

Against the 99,905 residents the 2021 census counted in Lewes, that is 1.01 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 99,905 residents in Lewes across 43,688 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

5 state and independent schools have a BN25 postcode: 4 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Esplanade, Seaford sits below that national figure — -40.8%.

Within Seaford the street ranks 374 of 378 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £197,000 (-52.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,088 per square metre, across 94 of the 378 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £6,625 to £585,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Esplanade, Seaford sits in Lewes, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Lewes at 9.7 times median local earnings of £39,798 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets nearby

• Claremont Road£125,000 median
• Sutton Road£106,500 median
• Dane Road£208,000 median
• Vale Road£165,000 median
• Surrey Road£130,000 median
• Princess Drive£220,000 median
• Sutton Drove£110,000 median
• Marine Parade£133,750 median
• The Causeway£123,000 median
• Stafford Road£174,500 median
• Pelham Road£87,000 median
• Clementine Avenue£252,500 median
• Sutton Park Road£189,225 median
• North Way£265,000 median
• Ringmer Road£110,500 median
• Belgrave Road£126,500 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT A, 31 Esplanade7 sales
• 44, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade6 sales
• 52, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade6 sales
• 5, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade6 sales
• FLAT 3, 13 Esplanade6 sales
• 46, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade5 sales
• FLAT 14, HARDWICKE HOUSE Esplanade5 sales
• 29, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade5 sales
• 2, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade5 sales
• 10, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade5 sales
• 50, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade5 sales
• 9, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade5 sales
• 47, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade5 sales
• 48, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade5 sales
• FLAT 4, 10 Esplanade5 sales
• FLAT 10, HARDWICKE HOUSE Esplanade5 sales
• 31, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade5 sales
• 35E Esplanade5 sales
• FLAT 7, 18 Esplanade4 sales
• 70, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade4 sales
• 17, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade4 sales
• 39, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade4 sales
• 8, STRATHEDEN COURT Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 6, 18 Esplanade4 sales

Back to Seaford house prices.

What is the average house price in Esplanade, Seaford?

The median price paid in Esplanade, Seaford across every sale on the register is £93,250. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Esplanade, Seaford?

378 sales are on record for Esplanade, Seaford, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Esplanade, Seaford house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +61.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +17.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Esplanade, Seaford house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £223,750, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Esplanade, Seaford?

£2,088 per square metre, from the 94 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 1 May 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Esplanade, Seaford house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.