The average Worthing home sold for £299,075 in August, 5.0% down on a year earlier and the steepest fall in Sussex. Prices have held level since June.
The average Worthing home sold for £299,075 in August 2026. That is £15,904 less than a year earlier, a fall of 5.0%, and the steepest of any district in Sussex.
The figures come from HM Land Registry’s UK House Price Index, in its latest release. It is built from completed sales, not asking prices. It is a mean average, not a median, so a few large sales can move it.
There is a second, quieter finding in the same release. Worthing prices have stopped falling month to month. The average has sat at about £299,000 since June.
The steepest fall in Sussex, by a distance
Every one of the 13 districts in West Sussex, East Sussex and Brighton & Hove has now reported for August. Ten fell over the year, Adur was flat and two rose.
Worthing’s 5.0% fall was nearly twice the next steepest, Chichester at 2.7%.
The neighbours did better:
| District | August 2026 average | Change on the year |
|---|---|---|
| Worthing | £299,075 | -5.0% |
| Adur | £378,990 | 0.0% |
| Arun | £320,505 | -1.2% |
| West Sussex | £373,470 | -1.4% |
| South East | £379,953 | -0.8% |
| England | £293,525 | +0.4% |
Cross the boundary at Lancing into Adur and the average home costs almost £80,000 more than in Worthing. England as a whole rose slightly over the year.
Falling over the year, flat over the summer
The annual figure is large partly because August 2025 was a high point. A year ago the Worthing average was £314,979, up 4.5% on the year before.
The month-by-month picture since then is a long slide, then a pause.
| Month | Average | Change on previous month | Change on the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £307,270 | -1.1% | -2.7% |
| February 2026 | £305,604 | -0.5% | -2.6% |
| March 2026 | £304,302 | -0.4% | -2.9% |
| April 2026 | £301,634 | -0.9% | -4.4% |
| May 2026 | £302,738 | +0.4% | -2.6% |
| June 2026 | £299,446 | -1.1% | -4.1% |
| July 2026 | £299,090 | -0.1% | -3.3% |
| August 2026 | £299,075 | 0.0% | -5.0% |
June, July and August are within £400 of each other. Three months is not a trend, and the latest months are the most likely to be revised. But it is the first summer since the slide began that the line has gone flat.
A note on revisions. We reported June 2026 at £296,227 and a 5.1% annual fall, which is what the index said at the time. Late-registered sales have since lifted June to £299,446 and a 4.1% fall. The figures above are all from the latest release, so they compare like with like.
The index is set to 100 in January 2023, when the Worthing average was £328,454. August’s reading is 91.1, so prices are about 9% below where they stood at the start of 2023.
Flats fell furthest
Every type of home lost value over the year, flats most of all.
| Type | August 2026 average | Change on the year |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £598,727 | -4.5% |
| Semi-detached | £412,920 | -3.6% |
| Terraced | £328,230 | -4.0% |
| Flat or maisonette | £181,456 | -7.0% |
That matters in Worthing more than in most of the county. A large share of the town’s homes are flats, particularly along the seafront and in Central and Heene wards, so a fall in flat prices pulls the whole average down.
The average Worthing flat now costs £16,314 less than the West Sussex flat average of £197,770.
A first-time buyer in Worthing paid an average of £245,915, down 5.2% on the year. Cash buyers paid £285,028 (down 5.5%) and mortgage buyers £306,431 (down 4.8%).
Fewer homes are selling
Sales counts lag prices by about two months. The latest for Worthing is June 2026, with 114 sales, against 153 in June 2025. That is a quarter fewer.
What it means for you
- If you are buying, Worthing is now about £74,000 cheaper than the West Sussex average, and about £5,500 above England’s. Flats are where the falls have been sharpest.
- If you are selling, last year’s comparable sales are likely to look optimistic. The summer figures suggest prices have stopped sliding, not that they have recovered.
- If you are remortgaging, a lender’s valuation will be based on recent local sales, which are 5% lower than a year ago on average.
- If you want your street’s figure, our Worthing house prices page has the median price in all 13 wards.
Sources
- UK House Price Index, Worthing, HM Land Registry, monthly figures for Worthing January to August 2026 and August 2025, read 23 October 2026 (August 2026 data)
- UK House Price Index for August 2026 for Adur, Arun, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex, Brighton and Hove, Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Rother, Wealden, West Sussex, the South East and England, from the same HM Land Registry data service
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