Standing view · housing · Brighton and Hove
deteriorating, held with established confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2026-07.
The average house price in Brighton and Hove rose from £400,134 in March 2026 to £407,803 in June. Rents were flat or slightly lower: a two-bedroom home cost £1,529 a month in March, £1,523 in May and £1,520 in June, while a terraced home cost £2,004 in April and a semi-detached home £2,023 in July. Households served a no-fault eviction notice and owed a prevention duty rose to 42 in the first quarter of 2026. Rising prices alongside more eviction notices is the pressure here; rents themselves held broadly steady.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Brighton and Hove. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Prevention duty, section 21 notice | 2026-Q1 | deteriorating |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Average house price | 2026-03 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-03 | — |
| Average private rent, terraced | 2026-04 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-05 | — |
| Average house price | 2026-06 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-06 | — |
| Average private rent, semi-detached | 2026-07 | — |