The Drive, Uckfield house prices are built from 230 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 £327,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -40.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -56.8%.
Median price paid
£327,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-40.3%
Change in real terms
-56.8%
Median per m²
£3,745
HM Land Registry230 sales44 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How The Drive, Uckfield prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Drive, Uckfield 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 | 4 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 8 | £215,000 | £391,667 |
| 2010s | 10 | £455,000 | £641,550 |
| 2020s | 6 | £675,000 | £689,674 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Drive, Uckfield is £895,000 in 2020; the lowest is £60,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £60,000 to £400,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £133,228, so the real change over the whole record is +206.8% — about +3.81% 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: -40.3% in cash against -56.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockcake Cottage, 6a | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £403,000 | £403,000 |
| 79 | 4 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| Acer House | 27 Oct 2025 | Detached | £1,150,000 | £1,175,000 |
| 37 | 3 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 62 | 25 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 68 | 11 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £372,935 |
| 117 | 27 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| Pinedrive | 20 May 2025 | Detached | £1,280,000 | £1,307,826 |
| Field House | 20 Mar 2025 | Detached | £1,175,000 | £1,200,543 |
| Woodstock | 19 Mar 2025 | Detached | £767,000 | £783,674 |
| 116 | 17 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| Alder | 19 Dec 2024 | Detached | £1,450,000 | £1,525,746 |
| Treetops | 17 Dec 2024 | Detached | £865,000 | £910,187 |
| 17 | 29 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 109 | 31 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £389,328 |
| Wildwood | 30 Aug 2024 | Detached | £1,365,000 | £1,436,306 |
| Sedona | 8 Aug 2024 | Detached | £1,620,000 | £1,704,627 |
| Birchwood | 13 Jun 2024 | Detached | £600,000 | £631,343 |
| Old Garden Cottage | 31 May 2024 | Detached | £750,000 | £789,179 |
| 87 | 2 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 56 | 28 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £261,000 | £274,634 |
| 47 | 8 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £369,990 | £399,759 |
| 68 | 4 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| 93 | 1 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £348,000 | £376,000 |
| 123 | 31 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £340,345 |
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 The Drive, Uckfield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACER HOUSE the Drive | £670,000 (2009) | £1,150,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| 37 the Drive | £95,000 (2014) | £340,000 (2025) | +12.3% | +8.9% |
| 62 the Drive | £216,000 (2010) | £400,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.1% |
| 68 the Drive | £257,500 (2019) | £365,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +1.7% |
| 117 the Drive | £94,500 (2003) | £205,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| PINEDRIVE the Drive | £540,000 (2004) | £1,280,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
| 116 the Drive | £173,000 (2010) | £370,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.1% |
| 109 the Drive | £165,000 (2009) | £370,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.4% |
| SEDONA the Drive | £975,000 (2007) | £1,620,000 (2024) | +3.0% | +0.0% |
| OLD GARDEN COTTAGE the Drive | £285,000 (1997) | £750,000 (2024) | +3.6% | +1.0% |
| 87 the Drive | £135,000 (2003) | £300,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 47 the Drive | £335,000 (2022) | £369,990 (2023) | +10.4% | +3.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Drive, Uckfield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 107 | 46.5% | £700,000 | £150,000 – £2,475,000 |
| Semi-detached | 87 | 37.8% | £197,500 | £37,250 – £747,000 |
| Terraced | 26 | 11.3% | £165,000 | £54,000 – £369,990 |
| Flat or maisonette | 10 | 4.3% | £129,000 | £41,000 – £205,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Drive, Uckfield
11 of the sales on record are leasehold and 219 freehold — 4.8% 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 £129,000 and the median freehold sale £340,000 — a gap of +163.6%. 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 | 11 | 4.8% | £129,000 |
| Freehold | 219 | 95.2% | £340,000 |
| New build | 3 | 1.3% | £755,000 |
| Existing home | 227 | 98.7% | £319,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +136.7%. 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.
Section 07
Living in The Drive, Uckfield
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 £327,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.85% 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 TN22, 52 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 26 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 10 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.2 times quieter.
Against the 99,905 residents the 2021 census counted in Lewes, that is 0.52 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 The Drive, Uckfield
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.
14 state and independent schools have a TN22 postcode: 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uckfield College | Secondary | Community school | 1,671 |
| Manor Primary School | Primary | Community school | 399 |
| Harlands Community Primary & Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 267 |
| St Philip's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 213 |
| Rocks Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 207 |
| Buxted CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 192 |
| Bonners CofE School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 145 |
| Blackboys Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 139 |
| High Hurstwood Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 101 |
| Little Horsted Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 86 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Uckfield Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Buxted Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Sheffield Park (Bluebell Railway) | Tram | 7.3 km |
| Sheffield Park (Bluebell Railway) | Metro or underground | 7.4 km |
Section 09
How The Drive, Uckfield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Drive, Uckfield sits above that national figure — +107.9%.
Within Uckfield the street ranks 140 of 372 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £242,000 (+35.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,745 per square metre, across 44 of the 230 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 £37,250 to £2,475,000. 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.
The Drive, Uckfield 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
- High Street£217,250 median
- Framfield Road£172,750 median
- London Road£118,000 median
- Pipers Field£172,000 median
- Nevill Road£179,000 median
- Newtown£119,450 median
- Mallard Drive£172,975 median
- Alexandra Road£147,340 median
- Forge Rise£214,000 median
- Hunters Way£235,000 median
- Rocks Park Road£208,250 median
- Lewes Road£410,000 median
- Grange Road£200,000 median
- Tower Ride£174,500 median
- Browns Lane£180,000 median
- The Dene£170,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- THE MANOR HOUSE the Drive5 sales
- 19 the Drive5 sales
- 117 the Drive4 sales
- 87 the Drive4 sales
- NUTHATCH the Drive4 sales
- GENOTA the Drive4 sales
- 115 the Drive4 sales
- 118 the Drive4 sales
- 68 the Drive3 sales
- SEDONA the Drive3 sales
- OLD GARDEN COTTAGE the Drive3 sales
- 22 the Drive3 sales
- NORTH COTTAGE the Drive3 sales
- 20 the Drive3 sales
- LODGE GATES the Drive3 sales
- 120 the Drive3 sales
- STRETTONS the Drive3 sales
- YE OLDE COTTAGE the Drive3 sales
- THE DREY the Drive3 sales
- PINE ACRE the Drive3 sales
- 65 the Drive3 sales
- 28 the Drive3 sales
- ACER HOUSE the Drive2 sales
- 37 the Drive2 sales
Back to Uckfield house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Drive, Uckfield?
The median price paid in The Drive, Uckfield across every sale on the register is £327,500. 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 The Drive, Uckfield?
230 sales are on record for The Drive, Uckfield, 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 The Drive, Uckfield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -40.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -56.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Drive, Uckfield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £895,000, set in 2020. 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 The Drive, Uckfield?
£3,745 per square metre, from the 44 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, “The Drive, Uckfield 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.