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Whyteleafe market report CR3 5, Caterham
The standing CR3 5 (Whyteleafe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,225 HM Land Registry entries for CR3 5 (Caterham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CR3 5 (Caterham) sold for £475,000 in 2026, the median of 75 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £522,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,140 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,225 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like CR3 5 is a single group of streets within CR3 (Caterham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CR3 5 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.
Today's CR3 5 prices, from the sold record
The CR3 5 median stands at £475,000 for 2026, built from 75 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £522,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CR3 5
Per square metre, CR3 5 homes have averaged around £5,140 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CR3 5 sits 67% above the national market.
The price of a typical CR3 5 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 | £475,000 | £475,000 | 75 |
| 2025 | £475,000 | £486,359 | 192 |
| 2024 | £475,000 | £505,023 | 182 |
| 2023 | £465,000 | £510,921 | 195 |
| 2022 | £505,000 | £592,170 | 242 |
| 2021 | £433,000 | £548,234 | 252 |
| 2020 | £423,800 | £549,889 | 180 |
| 2019 | £393,500 | £515,784 | 189 |
| 2018 | £380,000 | £506,547 | 205 |
| 2017 | £393,800 | £537,104 | 230 |
| 2016 | £365,000 | £510,639 | 244 |
| 2015 | £385,000 | £544,005 | 310 |
| 2014 | £305,000 | £432,696 | 287 |
| 2013 | £280,000 | £402,892 | 227 |
| 2012 | £260,000 | £382,688 | 197 |
| 2011 | £249,500 | £376,649 | 209 |
| 2010 | £259,000 | £406,179 | 167 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 209 |
| 2008 | £243,000 | £398,328 | 153 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 366 |
| 2006 | £230,500 | £400,119 | 354 |
| 2005 | £214,000 | £380,834 | 309 |
| 2004 | £230,000 | £417,725 | 321 |
| 2003 | £218,800 | £403,083 | 370 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 388 |
| 2001 | £165,000 | £317,204 | 351 |
| 2000 | £140,700 | £276,124 | 371 |
| 1999 | £118,500 | £236,164 | 344 |
| 1998 | £97,300 | £196,407 | 342 |
| 1997 | £92,200 | £189,084 | 390 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 216 |
| 1995 | £74,000 | £160,865 | 158 |
In cash terms the typical CR3 5 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £475,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 195%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CR3 5 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 2015 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−7.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in CR3 5
Sales per year, counted
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 register shows 75 CR3 5 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 354 sales a year before the financial crisis and 177 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around CR3 5
The local authority for CR3 5 is Tandridge, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,622 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,147 a month here against £2,803 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Tandridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £475,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,622 a month (£19,464 a year) works out at a 4.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about CR3 5 (Whyteleafe)
Is CR3 5 (Whyteleafe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CR3 5 (Whyteleafe)?
Are property prices falling in CR3 5 (Whyteleafe)?
Are CR3 5 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in CR3 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 223 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CR3 district, not just CR3 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Macaulay Road, Caterham, CR3
- Dene Court, 40 Stafford Road, Caterha...
- Addison Road, Caterham, Surrey, CR3
"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 CR3 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in CR: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CR area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £499,999 | £675,000 (+35%) | £885,000 (+31%) | £1,150,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £365,000 | £435,000 (+19%) | £533,000 (+23%) | £650,000 (+22%) | £775,000 (+19%) |
| Terraced | £350,000 | £405,000 (+16%) | £460,000 (+14%) | £550,000 (+20%) | £690,000 (+25%) |
| Flat | £242,000 | £310,000 (+28%) | £405,000 (+31%) | £454,000 (+12%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CR3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CR3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CR3 0 | £317,200 | 32 |
| CR3 6 | £420,000 | 63 |
| CR3 7 | £1,585,000 | 8 |
Zoom out to the full CR3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CR3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CR3 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CR3 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the CR3 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CR3 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CR3 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CR3 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CR3 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.