The average Brighton & Hove home sold for £407,803 in June 2026, up 0.3% in a year. Prices by type and by area, and why flats are still falling.
The average home in Brighton & Hove sold for £407,803 in June 2026, up 0.3% on a year earlier, the first annual rise since October 2025. Asking prices in agents’ windows tell you what sellers hope for; the figures on this page are what homes actually changed hands for, recorded by HM Land Registry once each sale completes and published as the UK House Price Index. The city is still lagging the country: England’s average rose 1.8% over the same twelve months, six times Brighton’s rate. Here is the full picture, each figure linked to its source.
The headline figure
The £407,803 city average for June 2026 is the provisional figure from the official UK House Price Index, built from completed Land Registry sales across the whole of Brighton & Hove: Brighton, Hove, Portslade, Rottingdean, Saltdean and everywhere between.
Three things stand out in the latest data:
- Prices rose 0.3% over the twelve months to June 2026, worth £1,187 on the average home, after seven straight months of annual falls that bottomed at -4.2% in March.
- The city exactly matched its region. The South East’s average also rose 0.3%, to £380,380, while England’s rose 1.8% to £293,262. Brighton & Hove still costs more than both, and the gap over the regional average is about £27,000.
- Flats are doing the falling. More than in most cities, Brighton’s market is a flat market, and flats are down 3.6% on the year while houses of every kind broadly held their value.
One caveat worth carrying: UKHPI figures are provisional and get revised as late-registered sales arrive, so treat the precise pounds as an estimate that will settle over the next few months.
What you pay by property type
These are the June 2026 averages from the UK House Price Index for Brighton and Hove, with the change over the year:
- Detached houses: £851,059, up 0.2% on the year. Rare in the city itself, these cluster in Withdean, Woodingdean, Ovingdean and the older roads of Hove.
- Semi-detached houses: £546,143, up 1.7%, joint strongest performer of the year.
- Terraced houses: £472,809, up 1.7%. The classic Brighton home, from Hanover’s coloured cottages to the long streets off Lewes Road.
- Flats and maisonettes: £296,227, down 1.1%, still the weakest corner of the market though the fall has narrowed from 6.9% in March. Flat buyers are the most exposed to mortgage costs and, in Brighton, to rising service charges and leasehold caution, and it shows.
A first-time buyer in Brighton & Hove paid an average of £343,425 in June 2026, up 0.4% on a year earlier. A home mover, someone selling one home to buy another, paid £497,845. The £154,000 gap between those figures is the size of the step from a first flat to a family house in this city.
Hove, Portslade and the villages
The city average hides a wide spread. Rightmove’s sold-price records put the last year’s averages by area as follows; these are listing-area figures built from a smaller number of sales than the city-wide index, so treat them as a guide to the pecking order rather than gospel:
- Hove: £538,607, about 1% down on the previous year. The premium over Brighton reflects Hove’s stock: wide Victorian terraces and semis rather than one-bed flats.
- Rottingdean: £703,736, up sharply on the year, though the village’s small number of sales makes its average jumpy (Rightmove).
- Portslade: £392,875, the most affordable of the three, and the closest thing the city has to a value route into a house with a garden (Rightmove).
The rule of thumb: seafront squares and the conservation streets of Hove and Kemptown carry the premiums, while Portslade, Moulsecoomb and Whitehawk offer the lower rungs of the ladder.
How Brighton & Hove compares to its neighbours
| Area | Average price | Change in a year |
|---|---|---|
| Brighton & Hove | £407,803 | +0.3% |
| Mid Sussex | £426,441 | -0.9% |
| Adur | £380,031 | +1.8% |
| Lewes district | £367,918 | +1.7% |
| South East region | £380,380 | +0.3% |
| England | £293,262 | +1.8% |
Brighton & Hove has stopped falling, and Mid Sussex has started: the commuter district over the Downs fell 0.9% and still averages more than the city. Part of that is the flat effect: the neighbouring districts sell far more houses than flats, so the type of home doing worst nationally weighs less on their averages. If you are selling a house in Brighton or Hove, the market for your home is stronger than the headline suggests; if you are selling a flat, price realistically from the start.
What it means for you
If you are buying, flats are still the softest part of the market and the only type of home cheaper than a year ago; check the council tax band of anything you view, since that bill runs £1,500 to £4,500 a year in this city. If you are selling a house, semis and terraces both gained 1.7% over the year and well-priced terraces still move. If you are staying put, your home is worth roughly what it was two years ago in cash terms, and the fast trains to London that underpin Brighton commuter demand are not getting slower.
For the month-by-month picture and how Brighton compares with the rest of Sussex, see our report on the June 2026 release.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Brighton?
£407,803 in June 2026 across Brighton & Hove, per the UK House Price Index, which is built from completed Land Registry sales. Houses average far more: £472,809 for a terrace, £546,143 for a semi.
Are Brighton house prices falling?
Not any more, narrowly. The city average rose 0.3% in the year to June 2026, its first annual rise since October 2025. Flats are the exception and still fell 1.1%, while semi-detached and terraced houses rose 1.7%.
Why are flats in Brighton cheaper than houses by so much?
The average flat sold for £296,227 against £472,809 for a terraced house. Flats are the first rung of the ladder, the most mortgage-sensitive purchase, and Brighton has a very large supply of converted and purpose-built flats, so soft demand shows up there first.
Is Hove more expensive than Brighton?
On sold prices over the last year, Hove averaged £538,607 (Rightmove), well above the city-wide £407,803, reflecting its larger stock of houses rather than a like-for-like premium on identical homes.
Sources
- UK House Price Index, Brighton and Hove (E06000043), June 2026 provisional figures published on 19 August 2026 (HM Land Registry / ONS), including property types and buyer status, plus the same series for Lewes, Adur, Mid Sussex, the South East and England
- Rightmove sold-price areas for Hove, Rottingdean and Portslade (last-year listing-area averages)
Figures are provisional and revised as late sales register: the May 2026 city average was first published as £403,999 and has since been revised to £406,488. Checked against the sources above on 24 August 2026.
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