BN2 4DD
Last sold £300,000 in January 2025
249, Bear Road, Brighton
- Property type
- Flat
- Bedrooms
- 2 (est.)
- Tenure
- Leasehold
- Floor area
- 570 sq ft / 53 sq m
- EPC rating
- C
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Price history in context
- Jan 2025 — £300,000 · +3.4% · 5 pts behind the UK market
- Sep 2021 — £290,000 · +82.4% · 30 pts ahead of the UK market
- Jul 2013 — £159,000 · +34.7% · 7 pts behind the UK market
- Feb 2003 — £118,000
What this home might be worth today
£306,000
Estimate range £291,000–£321,000
+2.0% since January 2025 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid above the local norm at the time
vs 188 nearby sales within a year · 2-bed (est.) flat within 1 km
The life around it
- St Martin's CofE Primary School 529m
- Coombe Road Primary School 244m
- Moulsecoomb station 1.0km
- Woodland 2.5km
- The coast (coastline) 2.4km
- Hove Lagoon 5.7km
- Saunders Park Pond 562m
- Papermill Cut 9.4km
- The Cockshut 8.4km
- Public Park 533m
- Play Area 295m
- Milner Convenience Store 232m
- Bear Road (O/S 253) 9m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Moulsecoomb, 1.0km away
- 5 min Brighton
- 81 min London
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
Noise
Road noise here is mapped at 60–64 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — a busy road within earshot.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,750 hours a year. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on a gentle south-west-facing slope; surrounding hills hide about 5% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Among the highest for England & Wales — 215 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 251, Bear Road, Brighton £237,000 · 2016
- 247, Bear Road, Brighton £156,000 · 2006
- 245, Bear Road, Brighton £269,450 · 2019
- 255, Bear Road, Brighton £170,000 · 2013
- 253, Bear Road, Brighton £225,000 · 2015
- 259, Bear Road, Brighton £300,000 · 2021
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Erection of a single storey rear extension with revised fenestration and associated works. Oct 2025 source
- Permitted Certificate of Lawfulness for the loft conversion incorporating a rear dormer with one… Aug 2025 source
- Withdrawn Prior approval for the erection of a single storey rear extension, which would extend… Aug 2025 source
- Permitted Certificate of lawfulness for proposed alterations to existing single storey outrigger… Jul 2025 source
- Permitted Erection of single storey garage for use as storage with a workshop area (sui generis). Dec 2025 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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