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Preston · Brighton · South East
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Matched sales804 of 887 sales
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House prices per square metre in BN1
£5,380median per m²High confidence
95% CI £5,280–£5,520 per m² · n = 804 matched sales
The median sold price in BN1 (Preston, Brighton) is £5,380 per square metre (£500 per ft²), based on 804 matched sales in the 12 months to July 2026, at a median sale price of £439,500. Over the 10 years to Q1 2026, the mix-adjusted median price per square metre changed by +1.9% a year in cash terms, or −1.5% a year after inflation.
Map of 887 sales in BN1 in the last 12 months; median £5,380 per square metre. Full details are in the sold-prices table below.
Postcode district
Prices in BN1
Tenure
Median price per m²
£5,380
n = 804 matched sales
Median sale price
£439,500
n = 887 sales
How prices are spread in BN1
Distribution of £/m² for the matched resale sales in BN1 over the last 12 months. The median is £5,380/m² with a 95% CI of £5,280 to £5,520 and a middle 60% running £4,460 to £6,460. Every one of these sales is listed in the table below.
- p20 £4,460
- p80 £6,460
- 95% CI £5,280–£5,520
The individual sales appear here once BN1's sold-price file loads. The markers are the published statistics.
By property type
| Property type | Median £/m² | Matched sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £5,750/m² | n = 80 |
| Semi-detached | £5,180/m² | n = 158 |
| Terraced | £5,830/m² | n = 252 |
| Flat | £5,080/m² | n = 314 |
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Tenure
£441,000
Middle 60% (p20–p80): £366,000–£530,000
82 m² at the median £/m² across all tenures · n = 804 matched sales (last 12 months)
Sold prices (last 12 months)
30 sales
Property type
| Address | Details | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28/07/26 | 39 Hollingbury Rise, Brighton | £492,500 | Terraced | Freehold | £5,660 | |
| 27/07/26 | 16 Bavant Road, Brighton | £915,000 | Semi | Freehold | £6,100 | |
| 24/07/26 | 24 West Hill Street, Brighton | £760,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £6,910 | |
| 24/07/26 | 24 Mill Rise, Brighton | £500,000 | Semi | Freehold | £4,130 | |
| 23/07/26 | Flat 4 Bankside Court, Brighton | £300,000 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 20/07/26 | 5 Herbert Road, Brighton | £630,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £6,360 | |
| 17/07/26 | 20 Upper Hamilton Road, Brighton | £700,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £6,310 | |
| 17/07/26 | 28 Sandgate Road, Brighton | £680,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £6,420 | |
| 17/07/26 | 12 Talbot Crescent, Brighton | £465,000 | Semi | Freehold | £3,060 | |
| 17/07/26 | Flat 2 15 Vernon Terrace, Brighton | £397,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £5,670 | |
| 16/07/26 | 48 Clyde Road, Brighton | £468,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £3,840 | |
| 16/07/26 | Flat 3 27 Albert Road, Brighton | £405,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £5,470 | |
| 15/07/26 | First and Second Floor Mezzanine Flat 19 St Michaels Place, Brighton | £128,000 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 14/07/26 | 3 Ditchling Rise, Brighton | £835,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £4,490 | |
| 13/07/26 | 53 Leahurst Court, Brighton | £330,000 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 10/07/26 | 9 Barclay Cottages North Road, Brighton | £440,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £9,360 | |
| 10/07/26 | 7 Wellingtonia Court Laine Close, Brighton | £385,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £4,640 | |
| 10/07/26 | 9A Sussex Heights, Brighton | £305,000 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 08/07/26 | 52 Old London Road, Brighton | £800,000 | Detached | Freehold | £6,900 | |
| 07/07/26 | 31 Highdown Court Varndean Drive, Brighton | £355,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £4,330 |
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Head to head: BN1 vs BN3 · BN1 vs BN2 · all comparisons · league tables
Ranked here: 48th of 277 in most expensive postcode districts in South East
Nearby districts
Median price per square metre in the nearest districts.
- BN3 · Hove£5,710/m² median
- BN2 · Saltdean£5,060/m² median
- BN41 · Portslade£4,800/m² median
- BN42 · Southwick£4,530/m² median
- BN45 · PyecombeSee sold prices
- BN43 · Shoreham Airport£4,820/m² median
- BN6 · Hurstpierpoint£5,480/m² median
Each trend line is that district’s own quarterly median price per square metre, scaled to its own range: compare directions, not heights. Gaps are quarters with too few matched sales to publish a median.
Further reading
- Freehold and leasehold are different markets60% of matched sales here are freehold
- Cash terms, real terms, and which to trustPrices here rose 1.9% a year in cash and fell 1.5% after inflation
- How to compare two areas before you moveSame measure, same window, same tenure: how to do it honestly
- What is a good price per square metre?How to read a price per square metre against its area
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HM Land Registry sold prices to July 2026 (registrations lag sales by 2–8 weeks) · updated July 2026 · how these figures are made
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RealScout, "House prices per square metre in Preston (BN1)", dataset version 2026-07, https://realscout.uk/property-prices/bn1. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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<p>Source: <a href="https://realscout.uk/property-prices/bn1">RealScout</a>, house prices per square metre in Preston (BN1) (2026-07). Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.</p>
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