The average Brighton & Hove home reached £407,803 in June, up 0.3% on the year. Houses are pulling the city up; flats are still falling and now match Worthing.
The average Brighton & Hove home was worth £407,803 in June, 0.3 per cent more than a year earlier. It is the city’s first annual rise in eight months. The figure comes from the UK House Price Index, published by HM Land Registry and the ONS on 19 August.
In cash terms the recovery is slight. Twelve months of the market added £1,187 to the average price. But the direction has changed: Brighton had been falling every month since November, and as recently as March the annual change was minus 4.2 per cent.
The recovery is not shared evenly across the city’s housing.
Houses up, flats down
The city average is a blend of four very different markets:
| Property type | June 2026 average | Change on the year |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £851,059 | +0.2% |
| Semi-detached | £546,143 | +1.7% |
| Terraced | £472,809 | +1.7% |
| Flat or maisonette | £296,227 | -1.1% |
Semis and terraces did the lifting. Flats are still going backwards, though the fall has narrowed sharply from minus 6.9 per cent in March.
Here is what that has cost. The average Brighton or Hove flat is now worth £296,227. The average home of any kind in Worthing, just along the coast, is worth £296,227 as well. The two figures are identical in the same month of the same dataset.
First-time buyers paid an average of £343,425, up 0.4 per cent on the year.
Brighton against everywhere else
England as a whole rose 1.8 per cent over the year, to £293,262. The South East rose 0.3 per cent, exactly matching Brighton. London fell 2.5 per cent.
Ranked against all 295 English local authority areas on annual change, Brighton & Hove comes 227th. Sixty-two of those 295 areas fell outright, so the city is in the sluggish part of a mostly rising market rather than the falling part of it.
Across Sussex the spread is remarkably wide for one county in one month:
- Crawley +4.5% (£338,311), the strongest in the county
- Arun +3.1% (£321,927)
- Rother +2.4% (£343,870)
- Adur +1.8% (£380,031)
- Lewes +1.7% (£367,918)
- Brighton & Hove +0.3% (£407,803)
- Horsham -0.2% (£436,940)
- Wealden -0.7% (£386,787)
- Mid Sussex -0.9% (£426,441)
- Chichester -2.3% (£429,978)
- Eastbourne -3.7% (£251,811)
- Hastings -4.6% (£236,966)
- Worthing -5.1% (£296,227), the weakest
Brighton is not the dearest part of Sussex. Horsham (£436,940), Chichester (£429,978) and Mid Sussex (£426,441) all average more, and all three fell over the year while Brighton rose.
Two warnings about these numbers
This is a mean, not a median. The UK House Price Index averages the value of every home, so a handful of Regency conversions and seafront houses pull the Brighton figure above what a typical buyer pays. The first-time buyer average of £343,425 is closer to the entry price.
May was revised, and by a lot. When the May figures first appeared a month ago, the city average was given as £403,999 and the annual change as minus 1.4 per cent. In the June release, May reads £406,488 and minus 0.8 per cent. The Land Registry revises each month as more completed sales are registered, and early figures on a single month are the least reliable part of the index.
Sales volumes lag further still. They are blank for May and June, and the last month with a published count is April 2026, at 176 sales. The four months to April recorded 818 sales against 1,435 in the same months of 2025. That gap is not a market collapse: March 2025 alone recorded 700 sales as buyers rushed to complete before the 1 April stamp duty change, and April 2025 then dropped to 125.
What it means for you
If you are selling a house in Brighton or Hove, the market has stopped moving against you, and semis and terraces are worth a little more than they were a year ago. If you are selling a flat, you are still asking a buyer to pay less than a comparable seller got last summer, and you are competing with a whole coastline of cheaper alternatives.
If you are buying, the two figures worth holding in your head are the flat average of £296,227 and the first-time buyer average of £343,425. Anything quoted as “the Brighton average” of £407,803 includes a market of detached houses at £851,059 that most buyers here are not shopping in.
Our Brighton house prices page carries the full picture by property type and area, and the council tax bands page shows what each band costs this year.
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