The average Worthing home sold for £296,227, down 5.1% in a year. That is the steepest fall of any district in Sussex and the lowest average since 2021.

The average Worthing home sold for £296,227 in June 2026, down £16,070 on a year earlier. That is a fall of 5.1%, and it is the steepest of any district in Sussex.

The figure comes from HM Land Registry’s UK House Price Index, which is built from sales as they complete rather than from asking prices. It is a mean average and not a median, so a handful of large sales can move it, which is why the pattern over several months matters more than any single figure.

That pattern is not ambiguous. Worthing prices have fallen in every month of 2026.

The town is now the cheapest in Sussex, by some way

Across the 13 local authority districts of West Sussex, East Sussex and Brighton & Hove, Worthing had the largest annual fall in June. It also has the lowest average price of any of them apart from Hastings and Eastbourne.

Bar chart of annual house price change in the 13 Sussex districts to June 2026: Worthing -5.1%, Hastings -4.6%, Eastbourne -3.7%, Chichester -2.3%, Mid Sussex -0.9%, Wealden -0.7%, Horsham -0.2%, Brighton and Hove +0.3%, Lewes +1.7%, Adur +1.8%, Rother +2.4%, Arun +3.1%, Crawley +4.5%

The contrast with the immediate neighbours is the part worth pausing on. Cross the boundary at Lancing into Adur and prices rose 1.8% to £380,031. Cross west into Arun and they rose 3.1% to £321,927. West Sussex as a whole was flat, at 0.0%.

Nationally, June was not a bad month for house prices. Of the 295 English local authority districts in the index, only 62 recorded an annual fall at all, and England overall rose 1.8%. Worthing’s drop was the 12th steepest of the 295. Seven of the eleven districts that fell further were London boroughs. Outside London, only South Hams in Devon, Guildford and Tandridge fell more sharply.

The lowest average since 2021

£296,227 is the lowest monthly average the index has recorded for Worthing since August 2021, when it stood at £294,429.

Set against the index’s own baseline the slide is clearer still. The UK House Price Index is set to 100 in January 2023, when the Worthing average was £328,454. The June 2026 reading is 90.2, which puts the town’s prices 9.8% below where they stood at the start of 2023.

Recent months, from the same source:

Month Average Change on previous month Change on the year
January 2026 £306,529 -1.1% -2.9%
February 2026 £304,127 -0.8% -3.1%
March 2026 £303,424 -0.2% -3.2%
April 2026 £300,456 -1.0% -4.7%
May 2026 £299,018 -0.5% -3.8%
June 2026 £296,227 -0.9% -5.1%

The May figure is worth a note. When it was first published, May 2026 was recorded as £299,298 and a 3.7% annual fall. This month’s release revises it to £299,018 and 3.8%. Revisions of that size are routine, because late-registering sales keep changing the picture for months.

Flats are pulling the average down

Every property type fell in Worthing over the year, but not by the same amount.

Type June 2026 average Change on the year
Detached £592,121 -5.3%
Semi-detached £408,869 -3.9%
Terraced £324,454 -4.0%
Flat or maisonette £180,145 -6.5%

At £180,145 the average Worthing flat is now the cheapest in Sussex, and £16,869 below the West Sussex flat average of £197,014. Flats matter here more than in most of the county, because a good deal of the town’s stock, particularly in Central and Heene, is flats. When they fall, the whole borough average follows.

For scale: a flat in Brighton & Hove averaged £296,227 in June, which is precisely what an average Worthing home of any kind cost in the same month.

A first-time buyer in Worthing paid an average of £243,736, down 5.1% on the year.

Very few homes are changing hands

Sales volumes lag prices in the index by about three months, so the most recent publishable count for Worthing is April 2026, at 89 sales. March 2026 recorded 73.

Compare that with a year earlier and the 2025 stamp duty deadline dominates everything. Worthing recorded 319 sales in March 2025, then 69 in April 2025, either side of the 1 April threshold change. Anyone comparing this spring with last spring is comparing against a distortion rather than a normal market.

What it means for you

  • If you are buying, the town is now roughly £3,000 above the England average of £293,262, and about £76,000 below the West Sussex average. Worthing is cheap relative to its county in a way it has not been for years, and the train still reaches Brighton in 23 minutes.
  • If you are selling, particularly a flat, the index says the market has moved against you for six straight months. Pricing to last year’s comparables is unlikely to work.
  • If you are staying put, this is a paper loss unless you are remortgaging. It matters most if you bought near the January 2023 peak, because prices are now 9.8% below that level.
  • Do not read one month as a trend, and do not read this as your street. The index is a mix-adjusted mean for the whole borough. Our Worthing house prices page carries the median sold price in all 13 wards, which is a better guide to what a specific area is doing.

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