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Old Coulsdon market report CR5 2, Coulsdon
The CR5 2 (Old Coulsdon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,454 HM Land Registry entries for CR5 2 (Coulsdon), 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 CR5 2 (Coulsdon) sold for £425,000 in 2026, the median of 47 registered sales, down 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £495,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,050 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,454 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CR5 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CR5 (Coulsdon). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CR5 2 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 CR5 2 prices, from the sold record
Across 47 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CR5 2 home went for £425,000. The mean is £495,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in CR5 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CR5 2 sales average about £5,050 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CR5 2 runs 49% above it.
The price of a typical CR5 2 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £555,000 | £568,272 | 115 |
| 2024 | £630,000 | £669,819 | 123 |
| 2023 | £482,000 | £529,600 | 116 |
| 2022 | £550,000 | £644,938 | 144 |
| 2021 | £470,000 | £595,081 | 207 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 151 |
| 2019 | £478,800 | £627,592 | 130 |
| 2018 | £505,000 | £673,175 | 121 |
| 2017 | £460,000 | £627,394 | 107 |
| 2016 | £422,500 | £591,082 | 121 |
| 2015 | £396,000 | £559,548 | 150 |
| 2014 | £330,100 | £468,305 | 121 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 111 |
| 2012 | £330,000 | £485,719 | 101 |
| 2011 | £290,000 | £437,788 | 95 |
| 2010 | £266,000 | £417,156 | 95 |
| 2009 | £270,000 | £434,027 | 82 |
| 2008 | £300,000 | £491,763 | 105 |
| 2007 | £315,000 | £534,328 | 177 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 224 |
| 2005 | £240,000 | £427,103 | 141 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 166 |
| 2003 | £224,500 | £413,583 | 157 |
| 2002 | £201,000 | £378,180 | 213 |
| 2001 | £197,000 | £378,722 | 173 |
| 2000 | £182,000 | £357,175 | 130 |
| 1999 | £150,000 | £298,942 | 205 |
| 1998 | £125,000 | £252,321 | 159 |
| 1997 | £105,000 | £215,334 | 193 |
| 1996 | £93,800 | £197,820 | 154 |
| 1995 | £93,000 | £202,168 | 120 |
In cash terms the typical CR5 2 home went from £93,000 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 110%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 37% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CR5 2 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 2024 (+30.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−23.4%). 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) | −23.4% | −25.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.1% | −3.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 47 sales completed in CR5 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 173 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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 kind of market CR5 2 is
This is a thin market: 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within CR5, this sector trades 26% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of CR5 2
For renting purposes CR5 2 sits in Croydon. 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.
Against the £425,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,572 a month (£18,864 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
Asked and answered: CR5 2 (Old Coulsdon)
How much did a house sell for in CR5 2 (Old Coulsdon)?
Are property prices falling in CR5 2 (Old Coulsdon)?
Is CR5 2 (Old Coulsdon) a good place to buy a house?
Will CR5 2 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in CR5 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 38 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CR5 district, not just CR5 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CR
Real sold prices by size across the CR area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 1 | £577,500 | 46 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CR5 2: 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 CR5 2'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CR5 2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CR5 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CR5 2 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.
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.