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Whyteleafe market report CR3, Caterham
The CR3 (Whyteleafe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 19,276 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CR3 (Caterham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CR3 (Caterham) sold for £445,000 in 2026, the median of 178 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £517,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,950 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 19,276 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CR3 is a postcode district covering Caterham, Whyteleafe in Caterham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CR3 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.
What CR3 homes really sell for
In the CR3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £445,000, from 178 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £517,500, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in CR3
By floor space, homes in CR3 have sold for about £4,950 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CR3 56% above the country at large.
CR3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £445,000 | £445,000 | 178 |
| 2025 | £460,000 | £471,000 | 445 |
| 2024 | £433,900 | £461,325 | 435 |
| 2023 | £452,500 | £497,187 | 373 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 565 |
| 2021 | £422,000 | £534,306 | 633 |
| 2020 | £415,500 | £539,120 | 456 |
| 2019 | £380,000 | £498,089 | 448 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 533 |
| 2017 | £365,000 | £497,823 | 577 |
| 2016 | £348,000 | £486,855 | 627 |
| 2015 | £344,500 | £486,779 | 698 |
| 2014 | £285,000 | £404,322 | 695 |
| 2013 | £269,400 | £387,640 | 552 |
| 2012 | £248,500 | £365,761 | 497 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 465 |
| 2010 | £268,500 | £421,077 | 444 |
| 2009 | £221,000 | £355,259 | 492 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 417 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 978 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 861 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 690 |
| 2004 | £221,200 | £401,742 | 702 |
| 2003 | £201,000 | £370,291 | 767 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 847 |
| 2001 | £145,000 | £278,755 | 757 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 722 |
| 1999 | £107,500 | £214,242 | 810 |
| 1998 | £98,500 | £198,829 | 791 |
| 1997 | £88,000 | £180,470 | 808 |
| 1996 | £76,800 | £161,968 | 568 |
| 1995 | £74,000 | £160,865 | 445 |
In cash terms the typical CR3 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £445,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 177%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CR3 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 2010 (+21.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−6.9%). 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, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £795,000 against £264,200 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, CR3
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 | £795,000 | 47 | 5,040 |
| Semi-detached | £445,000 | 50 | 4,962 |
| Terraced | £450,000 | 29 | 2,773 |
| Flats | £264,200 | 52 | 6,501 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.3% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 357 sales completed in CR3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 791 sales a year before the financial crisis and 399 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around CR3
The local authority for CR3 is Tandridge, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,622 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,147 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,803 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Tandridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £445,000 median sold price, £1,622 a month is £19,464 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.
CR3 (Whyteleafe): the questions that come up
Is CR3 (Whyteleafe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CR3 (Whyteleafe)?
Are property prices falling in CR3 (Whyteleafe)?
Are CR3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in CR3 now
Everything above is what homes in CR3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 223 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% below the CR3 median sold price.
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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CR3 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CR: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CR area, straight 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CR3 ranks 5 of 8 in the CR area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside CR3, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CR3 0 | £317,200 | 32 |
| CR3 5 | £475,000 | 75 |
| CR3 6 | £420,000 | 63 |
| CR3 7 | £1,585,000 | 8 |
How CR3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CR5 | £571,000 | +14% |
| CR6 | £520,000 | +2% |
| CR8 | £495,000 | +9% |
| CR2 | £452,000 | +6% |
| CR3 (this report) | £445,000 | +5% |
| CR4 | £425,000 | +2% |
| CR7 | £415,000 | +8% |
| CR0 | £389,000 | +5% |
Before you sell in CR3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CR3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CR3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CR3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CR3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CR3 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.