Vale Road, Seaford house prices are built from 237 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 6 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £165,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +42.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +3.1%.
Median price paid
£165,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+42.3%
Change in real terms
+3.1%
Median per m²
£1,813
HM Land Registry237 sales65 with floor areaLatest sale 6 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Vale Road, Seaford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Vale Road, 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £62,000 | £137,669 |
| 2000s | 9 | £158,750 | £289,196 |
| 2010s | 8 | £230,000 | £324,300 |
| 2020s | 2 | £327,250 | £334,364 |
The highest yearly median on record for Vale Road, Seaford is £375,000 in 2018; the lowest is £47,750 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £53,500 to £327,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £118,795, so the real change over the whole record is +181.5% — about +3.51% 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: +42.3% in cash against +3.1% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 6 Mar 2026 | Detached | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 186 | 6 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 121 | 27 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £317,500 | £317,500 |
| 92 | 30 Jan 2026 | Detached | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 74 | 16 Dec 2025 | Detached | £387,000 | £395,413 |
| 125 | 28 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 124 | 11 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £337,000 | £344,326 |
| 73 | 3 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £311,630 |
| 133 | 31 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| 77 | 25 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £317,500 | £324,402 |
| 47 | 18 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 176 | 25 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 146 | 12 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 89 | 20 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £389,328 |
| 182 | 31 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £299,950 | £315,619 |
| 129 | 29 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 197 | 16 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £378,161 |
| 9 | 28 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £390,000 | £421,379 |
| 93 | 30 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £425,000 | £492,399 |
| 72 | 27 Sep 2022 | Detached | £650,000 | £753,081 |
| 56 | 4 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 33 | 17 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £353,369 |
| 13 | 17 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 161 | 18 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 120 | 8 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £379,032 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Vale Road, Seaford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 186 Vale Road | £53,000 (1996) | £300,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 121 Vale Road | £85,000 (2002) | £317,500 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 92 Vale Road | £170,000 (2009) | £365,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.6% |
| 74 Vale Road | £65,500 (1995) | £387,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 124 Vale Road | £147,500 (2005) | £337,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.2% |
| 73 Vale Road | £187,500 (2013) | £305,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| 133 Vale Road | £69,950 (2000) | £290,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.0% |
| 47 Vale Road | £53,500 (1995) | £340,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 176 Vale Road | £83,000 (1999) | £375,000 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 146 Vale Road | £46,500 (1995) | £320,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +4.2% |
| 89 Vale Road | £187,000 (2006) | £370,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +0.9% |
| 129 Vale Road | £138,000 (2003) | £275,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Vale Road, Seaford is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 128 | 54.0% | £162,500 | £25,000 – £475,000 |
| Detached | 58 | 24.5% | £199,000 | £42,000 – £650,000 |
| Terraced | 41 | 17.3% | £160,000 | £13,000 – £425,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 10 | 4.2% | £120,000 | £56,000 – £220,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Vale Road, Seaford
9 of the sales on record are leasehold and 228 freehold — 3.8% 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 £120,000 and the median freehold sale £169,975 — a gap of +41.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 9 | 3.8% | £120,000 |
| Freehold | 228 | 96.2% | £169,975 |
A further 5 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.
Section 07
Living in Vale Road, Seaford
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 292 | 0.6% |
| B | 5,294 | 10.7% |
| C | 15,189 | 30.8% |
| D | 18,836 | 38.2% |
| E | 7,179 | 14.6% |
| F | 1,948 | 4.0% |
| G | 519 | 1.1% |
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 £165,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.62% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Vale Road, Seaford
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seaford Head School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,461 |
| Cradle Hill Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 661 |
| Seaford Primary School | Primary | Community school | 393 |
| Chyngton School | Primary | Academy converter | 332 |
| Annecy Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 189 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Seaford Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Bishopstone Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
| Newhaven Harbour Rail Station | Rail | 4.0 km |
| Newhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 4.1 km |
Section 09
How Vale Road, Seaford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Vale Road, Seaford sits above that national figure — +4.8%.
Within Seaford the street ranks 307 of 378 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £197,000 (-16.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,813 per square metre, across 65 of the 237 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 £13,000 to £650,000. 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.
Vale Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Claremont Road£125,000 median
- Esplanade£93,250 median
- Sutton Road£106,500 median
- Dane Road£208,000 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
- 186 Vale Road5 sales
- 121 Vale Road5 sales
- 133 Vale Road5 sales
- 26 Vale Road5 sales
- 148 Vale Road5 sales
- 74 Vale Road4 sales
- 47 Vale Road4 sales
- 146 Vale Road4 sales
- 13 Vale Road4 sales
- 96 Vale Road4 sales
- 4 Vale Road4 sales
- 37 Vale Road4 sales
- 42 Vale Road4 sales
- 204 Vale Road4 sales
- 157 Vale Road4 sales
- 92 Vale Road3 sales
- 124 Vale Road3 sales
- 176 Vale Road3 sales
- 129 Vale Road3 sales
- 93 Vale Road3 sales
- 72 Vale Road3 sales
- 161 Vale Road3 sales
- 84 Vale Road3 sales
- 70 Vale Road3 sales
Back to Seaford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Vale Road, Seaford?
The median price paid in Vale Road, Seaford across every sale on the register is £165,000. 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 Vale Road, Seaford?
237 sales are on record for Vale Road, Seaford, the most recent completing on 6 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Vale Road, Seaford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +42.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +3.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Vale Road, Seaford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £375,000, set in 2018. 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 Vale Road, Seaford?
£1,813 per square metre, from the 65 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 6 Mar 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, “Vale Road, 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.