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Old Coulsdon market report CR5 1, Coulsdon
The CR5 1 (Old Coulsdon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,369 registered sales in CR5 1 (Coulsdon) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CR5 1 (Coulsdon) is £577,500, from 46 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier; the mean is £601,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,380 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,369 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CR5 1 is one sector of CR5 (Coulsdon): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CR5 1 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.
CR5 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 46 registered 2026 sales in CR5 1 and the middle price, the median, is £577,500. The mean lands at £601,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
CR5 1 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in CR5 1 have sold for about £5,380 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 CR5 1 103% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CR5 1 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £577,500 | £577,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £520,000 | £532,435 | 119 |
| 2024 | £545,000 | £579,447 | 136 |
| 2023 | £545,000 | £598,822 | 103 |
| 2022 | £525,000 | £615,622 | 163 |
| 2021 | £500,000 | £633,065 | 245 |
| 2020 | £483,000 | £626,702 | 147 |
| 2019 | £435,000 | £570,181 | 146 |
| 2018 | £465,000 | £619,854 | 143 |
| 2017 | £440,000 | £600,116 | 171 |
| 2016 | £430,000 | £601,574 | 146 |
| 2015 | £405,000 | £572,265 | 193 |
| 2014 | £370,000 | £524,910 | 173 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 132 |
| 2012 | £315,000 | £463,641 | 128 |
| 2011 | £302,000 | £455,904 | 143 |
| 2010 | £296,500 | £464,988 | 149 |
| 2009 | £285,000 | £458,140 | 108 |
| 2008 | £288,800 | £473,404 | 106 |
| 2007 | £295,000 | £500,402 | 231 |
| 2006 | £282,000 | £489,516 | 283 |
| 2005 | £262,500 | £467,144 | 208 |
| 2004 | £275,000 | £499,454 | 291 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 192 |
| 2002 | £220,000 | £413,928 | 237 |
| 2001 | £195,000 | £374,878 | 252 |
| 2000 | £175,000 | £343,438 | 140 |
| 1999 | £135,000 | £269,048 | 184 |
| 1998 | £132,500 | £267,461 | 167 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 176 |
| 1996 | £98,000 | £206,678 | 169 |
| 1995 | £88,800 | £193,038 | 142 |
In cash terms the typical CR5 1 home went from £88,800 in 1995 to £577,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 199%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CR5 1 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 (+29.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−6.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +11.1% | +8.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in CR5 1
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 46 CR5 1 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 229 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 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 CR5 1
The local authority for CR5 1 is Croydon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,572 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,256 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,654, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Croydon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,572 a month is £18,864 a year, which against the £577,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the CR5 1 market
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CR5 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
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What happens to CR5 1 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in CR5 now
The live side of the market holds 38 homes at the moment, listed by 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CR5 district, not just CR5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
38% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CR5 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CR prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CR area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, CR area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CR5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CR5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CR5 2 | £425,000 | 47 |
| CR5 3 | £600,000 | 48 |
Zoom out to the full CR5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CR5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CR5 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CR5 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the CR5 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CR5 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CR5 1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CR5 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CR5 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.