Shakespeare Road, Worthing house prices are built from 321 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £124,950. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -2.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -29.6%.
Median price paid
£124,950
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-2.8%
Change in real terms
-29.6%
Median per m²
£1,563
HM Land Registry321 sales37 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Shakespeare Road, Worthing prices moved
The chart tracks the median Shakespeare Road, Worthing 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 | £29,000 | £64,394 |
| 2000s | 9 | £108,750 | £198,110 |
| 2010s | 10 | £156,000 | £219,960 |
| 2020s | 6 | £199,500 | £203,837 |
The highest yearly median on record for Shakespeare Road, Worthing is £265,000 in 2024; the lowest is £26,750 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £26,750 to £199,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £59,398, 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: -2.8% in cash against -29.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 26 Mar 2026 | Detached | £660,000 | £660,000 |
| Flat 4 Stratford Court | 13 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| Flat 6 27 | 3 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| Flat 4 14 | 19 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| Ground Floor Flat 55 | 11 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £278,000 | £284,043 |
| Flat 1 37 | 15 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £162,000 | £165,522 |
| 16 | 25 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £398,000 | £406,652 |
| Flat 5 14 | 12 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £107,283 |
| 37a | 28 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £199,500 | £203,837 |
| Flat 4 54 | 16 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £226,231 |
| Flat 2 56 | 25 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 39a | 18 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £278,843 |
| 46 | 7 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £349,000 | £367,231 |
| 44 | 14 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £382,500 | £402,481 |
| Flat 1 34 | 21 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £140,460 |
| Flat 9 30 – 32 | 5 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £221,494 |
| Flat 3 Shakespeare House, 3 | 28 Apr 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £210,690 |
| Flat 4 24 | 21 Apr 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| Flat 3 37 | 30 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £182,000 | £196,644 |
| Flat 2 46a | 3 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £233,500 | £252,287 |
| Flat 3 27 | 20 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £232,000 | £268,792 |
| Flat 3 66 | 27 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £335,990 |
| Flat 7 30 – 32 | 18 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £258,000 | £298,915 |
| Flat 12 30 – 32 | 16 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| Flat 10 30 – 32 | 30 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £301,233 |
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 Shakespeare Road, Worthing values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 Shakespeare Road | £108,000 (1996) | £660,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| FLAT 4 STRATFORD COURT Shakespeare Road | £160,000 (2010) | £260,000 (2026) | +3.1% | +0.1% |
| FLAT 6 27 Shakespeare Road | £28,500 (1996) | £165,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| FLAT 4 14 Shakespeare Road | £66,500 (2001) | £220,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| FLAT 1 37 Shakespeare Road | £120,000 (2004) | £162,000 (2025) | +1.4% | -1.4% |
| 16 Shakespeare Road | £46,250 (1996) | £398,000 (2025) | +7.7% | +4.9% |
| FLAT 4 54 Shakespeare Road | £120,000 (2007) | £215,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| FLAT 2 56 Shakespeare Road | £45,000 (2000) | £220,000 (2024) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 44 Shakespeare Road | £410,000 (2005) | £382,500 (2024) | -0.4% | -3.2% |
| FLAT 1 34 Shakespeare Road | £68,400 (2006) | £130,000 (2023) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| FLAT 9 30 – 32 Shakespeare Road | £138,500 (2006) | £205,000 (2023) | +2.3% | -0.6% |
| FLAT 3 SHAKESPEARE HOUSE, 3 Shakespeare Road | £100,000 (2009) | £195,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +1.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Shakespeare Road, Worthing 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 273 | 85.0% | £116,000 | £13,000 – £398,000 |
| Semi-detached | 23 | 7.2% | £265,000 | £89,000 – £600,000 |
| Detached | 21 | 6.5% | £415,000 | £90,000 – £660,000 |
| Terraced | 4 | 1.2% | £84,000 | £35,000 – £405,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Shakespeare Road, Worthing
245 of the sales on record are leasehold and 76 freehold — 76.3% 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 £138,808 — a gap of +15.7%. 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 | 245 | 76.3% | £120,000 |
| Freehold | 76 | 23.7% | £138,808 |
| New build | 12 | 3.7% | £123,000 |
| Existing home | 309 | 96.3% | £124,950 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -1.6%. 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 Shakespeare Road, Worthing
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Worthing, 37.6% of 58,070 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 | 134 | 0.2% |
| B | 4,766 | 8.2% |
| C | 16,945 | 29.2% |
| D | 23,667 | 40.8% |
| E | 9,662 | 16.6% |
| F | 2,289 | 3.9% |
| G | 607 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Worthing at £1,306 a month as of Jun 2026 — £896 for a one-bedroom home and £1,437 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £124,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.54% 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 BN11, 596 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 173 violent, 10 burglary, 15 vehicle-related and 140 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.6 times busier.
Against the 111,338 residents the 2021 census counted in Worthing, that is 5.35 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 Shakespeare Road, Worthing
The 2021 census counted 111,338 residents in Worthing across 49,538 households. 68.2% of those households own their home and 31.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
5 state and independent schools have a BN11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davison Church of England High School for Girls, Worthing | Secondary | Voluntary controlled school | 1,334 |
| Homefield Primary School and SSC | Primary | Community school | 642 |
| Heene CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 382 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 253 |
| Elm Grove Primary School, Worthing | Primary | Community school | 203 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Worthing Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| West Worthing Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| East Worthing Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Durrington-on-Sea Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
Section 09
How Shakespeare Road, Worthing compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Shakespeare Road, Worthing sits below that national figure — -20.7%.
Within Worthing the street ranks 1152 of 1259 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £177,000 (-29.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,563 per square metre, across 37 of the 321 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 £660,000. 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.
Shakespeare Road, Worthing sits in Worthing, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Worthing at 9.6 times median local earnings of £36,569 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
- Grand Avenue£175,000 median
- Brighton Road£160,500 median
- Heene Road£155,000 median
- West Parade£230,000 median
- Downview Road£131,500 median
- Mill Road£147,975 median
- Rowlands Road£107,500 median
- Marine Parade£190,000 median
- Tarring Road£135,000 median
- Park Road£107,750 median
- Lansdowne Road£139,000 median
- St Botolphs Road£135,000 median
- Shelley Road£125,000 median
- Heene Terrace£125,000 median
- Ham Road£150,000 median
- Wallace Avenue£137,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 16 Shakespeare Road10 sales
- FLAT 3, 27 Shakespeare Road6 sales
- 59 Shakespeare Road6 sales
- 44 Shakespeare Road5 sales
- FLAT 3, 37 Shakespeare Road5 sales
- FLAT 2, 23 Shakespeare Road5 sales
- FLAT 4, 56 Shakespeare Road5 sales
- FLAT 4, 38 Shakespeare Road5 sales
- 35 Shakespeare Road5 sales
- FLAT 6, 27 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 4, 54 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 4, 24 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 12, 30 – 32 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 10, 30 – 32 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, 30 – 32 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 14 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, 24 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 23 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- 49A Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, 24 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- 28 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 5, 27 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, 27 Shakespeare Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 51 Shakespeare Road4 sales
Back to Worthing house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Shakespeare Road, Worthing?
The median price paid in Shakespeare Road, Worthing across every sale on the register is £124,950. 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 Shakespeare Road, Worthing?
321 sales are on record for Shakespeare Road, Worthing, the most recent completing on 26 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Shakespeare Road, Worthing house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -2.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -29.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Shakespeare Road, Worthing house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £265,000, set in 2024. 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 Shakespeare Road, Worthing?
£1,563 per square metre, from the 37 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 26 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, “Shakespeare Road, Worthing 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.