About £282,500 for the typical Eastbourne house. Roughly 1,455 of them changed hands last year. Detached around £421,500. Flats around £190,000. That's a south-coast resort priced like an honest one.
Underneath the headline number, the market splits by property type in the way you'd expect. Detached houses sit at about £421,500 across roughly 280 sales in the past year. Semi-detached around £330,000 across some 275. Terraces at about £277,000 across roughly 370, which is the engine room of the local market. Flats run to around £190,000 across more than 500 transactions, the bigger end of the volume picture. The average price has come off around 3% over the past 12 months, so anyone watching the chart sees a market that has softened rather than one that is roaring.
Council tax mostly sits in band B, with about four in ten dwellings in bands A or B combined. That is meaningful on the south coast, where most resort towns have inflated themselves out of the cheap bands. A typical Eastbourne household pays at the lower end of the South East scale rather than the middle, which is one of those quiet structural advantages nobody puts on the brochure.
Typical private rent across the Eastbourne area runs to about £1,160 a month, which is a local-authority figure covering the wider patch rather than the immediate neighbourhood's own headline. A one-bed averages around £815 a month. Two-bed around £1,070. Three-bed around £1,300. Four or more around £1,790. Those numbers sit well below the Brighton equivalent and not far above what people in Hastings consider normal, which puts Eastbourne in the awkward middle where most renters can actually afford to live.
Median household income in the wider area runs to around £50,000. The typical house at £282,500 sits at a price-to-income ratio that is the standard south-coast multiple rather than the heroic one. A median-earning household with a normal deposit and a normal mortgage can reach the typical Eastbourne price without the lender's calculator going red. That is genuinely unusual on this stretch of coast, where the maths usually requires either family money or pretending the partner's income is bigger than it is.
Houses in Eastbourne cost less than you would expect for a south-coast resort with the Downs at its back, which is why the affordability scores four and a half out of five. The market is softer than it was a year ago, the price tag is honest, and the arithmetic does the rest.