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Old Coulsdon market report CR5, Coulsdon
The standing CR5 (Old Coulsdon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 15,245 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CR5 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CR5 (Coulsdon) came in at £571,000, out of 141 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £596,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,290 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 15,245 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district CR5 covering Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon, Chipstead sits in Coulsdon. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where CR5 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 prices, from the sold record
Across 141 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CR5 home went for £571,000. The mean is £596,900, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in CR5
The last five years of sales put CR5 at roughly £5,290 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CR5 100% above the national figure.
The price of a typical CR5 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 | £571,000 | £571,000 | 141 |
| 2025 | £545,000 | £558,033 | 373 |
| 2024 | £560,000 | £595,395 | 397 |
| 2023 | £545,000 | £598,822 | 333 |
| 2022 | £550,000 | £644,938 | 483 |
| 2021 | £500,000 | £633,065 | 684 |
| 2020 | £485,000 | £629,298 | 482 |
| 2019 | £528,000 | £692,082 | 575 |
| 2018 | £500,000 | £666,509 | 514 |
| 2017 | £489,500 | £667,629 | 513 |
| 2016 | £461,000 | £644,944 | 476 |
| 2015 | £397,000 | £560,961 | 511 |
| 2014 | £359,000 | £509,304 | 489 |
| 2013 | £330,000 | £474,837 | 363 |
| 2012 | £324,000 | £476,888 | 359 |
| 2011 | £290,000 | £437,788 | 344 |
| 2010 | £300,000 | £470,477 | 356 |
| 2009 | £270,000 | £434,027 | 281 |
| 2008 | £297,500 | £487,665 | 308 |
| 2007 | £302,500 | £513,124 | 605 |
| 2006 | £275,000 | £477,365 | 738 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 526 |
| 2004 | £265,000 | £481,292 | 637 |
| 2003 | £245,000 | £451,349 | 540 |
| 2002 | £217,500 | £409,224 | 666 |
| 2001 | £187,200 | £359,882 | 614 |
| 2000 | £172,500 | £338,531 | 411 |
| 1999 | £137,100 | £273,233 | 580 |
| 1998 | £132,000 | £266,451 | 468 |
| 1997 | £105,000 | £215,334 | 595 |
| 1996 | £95,000 | £200,351 | 514 |
| 1995 | £88,000 | £191,298 | 369 |
In cash terms the typical CR5 home went from £88,000 in 1995 to £571,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 198%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. 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 CR5 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 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CR5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.8% | +2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £795,000 against £280,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, CR5
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 | 51 | 4,661 |
| Semi-detached | £586,000 | 44 | 5,330 |
| Terraced | £420,000 | 23 | 2,983 |
| Flats | £280,000 | 23 | 2,271 |
Sales activity in CR5
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 307 CR5 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 592 sales a year before the financial crisis and 345 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.
Reading the CR5 market
By median price, CR5 presently tops its postcode area.
What homes rent for around CR5
CR5 falls under Croydon, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £571,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,572 a month (£18,864 a year) works out at a 3.3% 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.
Common questions on CR5 (Old Coulsdon)
Are property prices falling in CR5 (Old Coulsdon)?
Is CR5 (Old Coulsdon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CR5 (Old Coulsdon)?
Will CR5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
On the market in CR5 today
Everything above is what homes in CR5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 38 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% above the CR5 median sold price.
38% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in CR
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CR area, 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%) | — |
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
CR5 ranks 1 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.
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.
Inside CR5, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CR5 1 | £577,500 | 46 |
| CR5 2 | £425,000 | 47 |
| CR5 3 | £600,000 | 48 |
How CR5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CR5 (this report) | £571,000 | +14% |
| CR6 | £520,000 | +2% |
| CR8 | £495,000 | +9% |
| CR2 | £452,000 | +6% |
| CR3 | £445,000 | +5% |
| CR4 | £425,000 | +2% |
| CR7 | £415,000 | +8% |
| CR0 | £389,000 | +5% |
Before you sell in CR5: 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'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CR5.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CR5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CR5 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.