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Croydon market report CR
The CR (Croydon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 192,899 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the CR postcode area (Croydon) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 1,819 registered 2026 sales put the the CR postcode area (Croydon) median at £430,000, up 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £474,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,070 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 192,899 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CR is the postcode area centred on Croydon, taking in 8 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where CR sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
CR sold prices: where the market stands
In the CR property market, the 2026 median sale price is £430,000, from 1,819 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £474,000, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CR
Per square metre, CR homes have averaged around £5,070 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CR runs 51% above it.
The price of a typical CR home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £430,000 | £430,000 | 1,819 |
| 2025 | £435,000 | £445,402 | 4,383 |
| 2024 | £425,000 | £451,862 | 4,066 |
| 2023 | £420,000 | £461,477 | 3,694 |
| 2022 | £430,000 | £504,224 | 5,173 |
| 2021 | £414,800 | £525,190 | 6,420 |
| 2020 | £400,000 | £519,008 | 4,371 |
| 2019 | £385,000 | £504,643 | 4,538 |
| 2018 | £380,000 | £506,547 | 4,694 |
| 2017 | £370,000 | £504,643 | 5,453 |
| 2016 | £342,000 | £478,461 | 5,882 |
| 2015 | £311,900 | £440,715 | 6,200 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 6,458 |
| 2013 | £243,600 | £350,516 | 5,293 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 4,271 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 4,088 |
| 2010 | £228,000 | £357,563 | 4,264 |
| 2009 | £208,000 | £334,362 | 4,052 |
| 2008 | £232,000 | £380,297 | 4,426 |
| 2007 | £228,000 | £386,752 | 9,087 |
| 2006 | £212,000 | £368,005 | 9,041 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 7,132 |
| 2004 | £192,000 | £348,710 | 8,069 |
| 2003 | £179,000 | £329,761 | 8,262 |
| 2002 | £157,000 | £295,394 | 9,344 |
| 2001 | £132,500 | £254,724 | 7,643 |
| 2000 | £117,000 | £229,613 | 6,684 |
| 1999 | £93,000 | £185,344 | 8,752 |
| 1998 | £83,000 | £167,541 | 8,194 |
| 1997 | £74,500 | £152,784 | 8,298 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 7,205 |
| 1995 | £64,000 | £139,126 | 5,643 |
In cash terms the typical CR home went from £64,000 in 1995 to £430,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 209%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CR median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £750,000 against £270,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, CR
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £750,000 | 283 | 25,765 |
| Semi-detached | £527,000 | 427 | 40,617 |
| Terraced | £430,500 | 550 | 59,192 |
| Flats | £270,000 | 559 | 67,325 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.2% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 3,191 CR sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 8,158 sales a year before the financial crisis and 3,827 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around CR
For renting purposes CR sits in Croydon, the local authority covering most of the CR area (parts fall under Tandridge and Merton, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £1,572 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,256 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,654 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Croydon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £430,000 median sold price, £1,572 a month is £18,864 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
CR (Croydon): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CR (Croydon)?
Is CR (Croydon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CR (Croydon)?
Will CR prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CR's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CR sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 1,105 homes on the market right now, from 16 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the CR median sold price.
CR registered 3,191 sales in the last twelve months; the 1,105 homes listed now would take about 4 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
12% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CR home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The CR sales calendar
Take the 23,736 CR sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 11.6% of the total, April trails with 6.6%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,690 | 7.1% |
| February | 1,943 | 8.2% |
| March | 2,762 | 11.6% |
| April | 1,572 | 6.6% |
| May | 1,686 | 7.1% |
| June | 2,547 | 10.7% |
| July | 1,719 | 7.2% |
| August | 2,044 | 8.6% |
| September | 2,264 | 9.5% |
| October | 1,850 | 7.8% |
| November | 1,867 | 7.9% |
| December | 1,792 | 7.5% |
What another bedroom costs in CR
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CR area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £482,000 | £550,000 (+14%) | £640,000 (+16%) | £780,000 (+22%) | £975,000 (+25%) |
| Semi-detached | £370,000 | £417,500 (+13%) | £490,000 (+17%) | £595,000 (+21%) | £730,000 (+23%) |
| Terraced | £332,000 | £385,000 (+16%) | £427,250 (+11%) | £475,000 (+11%) | £530,555 (+12%) |
| Flat | £228,000 | £285,000 (+25%) | £330,000 (+16%) | £390,000 (+18%) | £445,000 (+14%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CR area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every CR district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| CR5 Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon | £566,800 | +13% | 170 |
| CR6 Warlingham, parts of Chelsham and Farleigh | £510,000 | +0% | 57 |
| CR8 Purley, Kenley | £482,000 | +6% | 177 |
| CR2 South Croydon, Sanderstead | £450,000 | +6% | 275 |
| CR3 Caterham, Whyteleafe | £441,500 | +5% | 214 |
| CR4 Mitcham, Mitcham Common | £430,000 | +4% | 161 |
| CR7 Thornton Heath | £415,500 | +8% | 128 |
| CR0 Croydon, Addiscombe | £390,000 | +5% | 637 |
Before you sell in CR: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CR's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CR. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CR sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.