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Old Coulsdon market report CR5 3, Coulsdon
The standing CR5 3 (Old Coulsdon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,422 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CR5 3 (Coulsdon) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CR5 3 (Coulsdon) sold for £600,000 in 2026, the median of 48 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £692,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,400 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,422 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 CR5 3 is a single group of streets within CR5 (Coulsdon), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CR5 3 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 3 sold prices: where the market stands
The CR5 3 median stands at £600,000 for 2026, built from 48 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £692,600, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in CR5 3
The last five years of sales put CR5 3 at roughly £5,400 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CR5 3 111% above the country at large.
CR5 3's median sold price, 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 | £600,000 | £600,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £592,500 | £606,668 | 139 |
| 2024 | £525,000 | £558,183 | 138 |
| 2023 | £558,400 | £613,545 | 114 |
| 2022 | £582,500 | £683,048 | 176 |
| 2021 | £543,500 | £688,141 | 232 |
| 2020 | £562,500 | £729,855 | 184 |
| 2019 | £588,000 | £770,727 | 299 |
| 2018 | £555,000 | £739,825 | 250 |
| 2017 | £545,000 | £743,325 | 235 |
| 2016 | £513,000 | £717,692 | 209 |
| 2015 | £390,000 | £551,070 | 168 |
| 2014 | £361,000 | £512,142 | 195 |
| 2013 | £342,000 | £492,104 | 120 |
| 2012 | £337,500 | £496,758 | 130 |
| 2011 | £274,500 | £414,389 | 106 |
| 2010 | £340,000 | £533,208 | 112 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 91 |
| 2008 | £302,500 | £495,861 | 97 |
| 2007 | £299,000 | £507,187 | 197 |
| 2006 | £275,000 | £477,365 | 231 |
| 2005 | £247,000 | £439,560 | 177 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 180 |
| 2003 | £225,000 | £414,505 | 191 |
| 2002 | £216,200 | £406,778 | 216 |
| 2001 | £176,000 | £338,351 | 189 |
| 2000 | £165,000 | £323,813 | 141 |
| 1999 | £133,000 | £265,062 | 191 |
| 1998 | £137,200 | £276,948 | 142 |
| 1997 | £98,000 | £200,978 | 226 |
| 1996 | £92,000 | £194,024 | 191 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 107 |
In cash terms the typical CR5 3 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £600,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 225%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CR5 3 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 1998 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−19.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CR5 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.3% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 48 sales completed in CR5 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 190 sales a year before the financial crisis and 123 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.
The shape of the CR5 3 market
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CR5 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around CR5 3
The local authority for CR5 3 is Croydon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,572 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,256 a month here against £2,654 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Croydon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £600,000 median sold price, £1,572 a month is £18,864 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
CR5 3 (Old Coulsdon): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CR5 3 (Old Coulsdon)?
Is CR5 3 (Old Coulsdon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CR5 3 (Old Coulsdon)?
What happens to CR5 3 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
CR5's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 38 homes on the market right now, from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CR5 district, not just CR5 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 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.
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%) | — |
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CR5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CR5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CR5 1 | £577,500 | 46 |
| CR5 2 | £425,000 | 47 |
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 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CR5 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the CR5 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CR5 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working CR5 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CR5 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CR5 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CR5 3 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.
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.