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Thornton Heath market report CR7
The CR7 (Thornton Heath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 16,495 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CR7 (Thornton Heath) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 107 registered 2026 sales put the CR7 (Thornton Heath) median at £415,000, up 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £394,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,760 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 16,495 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district CR7 covering Thornton Heath sits in Thornton Heath. 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 CR7 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 buyers actually paid in CR7
Across 107 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CR7 home went for £415,000. The mean is £394,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in CR7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CR7 sales average about £4,760 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CR7 46% above the national figure.
CR7'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 107 |
| 2025 | £412,000 | £421,852 | 329 |
| 2024 | £405,000 | £430,598 | 277 |
| 2023 | £405,000 | £444,996 | 281 |
| 2022 | £415,000 | £486,635 | 337 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 420 |
| 2020 | £350,000 | £454,132 | 318 |
| 2019 | £344,000 | £450,902 | 316 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 311 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 366 |
| 2016 | £310,000 | £433,693 | 426 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 440 |
| 2014 | £248,700 | £352,824 | 488 |
| 2013 | £229,200 | £329,796 | 358 |
| 2012 | £214,200 | £315,276 | 274 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 303 |
| 2010 | £191,500 | £300,321 | 323 |
| 2009 | £192,000 | £308,642 | 247 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 424 |
| 2007 | £217,000 | £368,092 | 918 |
| 2006 | £197,000 | £341,967 | 811 |
| 2005 | £187,500 | £333,674 | 692 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 801 |
| 2003 | £168,000 | £309,497 | 929 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 936 |
| 2001 | £121,000 | £232,616 | 575 |
| 2000 | £106,500 | £209,006 | 601 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 820 |
| 1998 | £78,000 | £157,449 | 830 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 813 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 779 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 645 |
In cash terms the typical CR7 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 250%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CR7 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 (+25.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.7%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 56% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £463,800 against £265,000 for a flat, 1.8 times the price.
Median by property type, CR7
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 | £463,800 (2024) | – | 182 |
| Semi-detached | £485,000 | 15 | 1,971 |
| Terraced | £431,000 | 65 | 9,138 |
| Flats | £250,000 | 25 | 5,171 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.7% | −1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
CR7 recorded 238 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 783 sales a year before the financial crisis and 266 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.
Reading the CR7 market
Among the 8 measurable districts of its area, CR7 ranks 7 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Rents around CR7
CR7 falls under Croydon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,572 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,572 a month is £18,864 a year, which against the £415,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.
Common questions on CR7 (Thornton Heath)
Is CR7 (Thornton Heath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CR7 (Thornton Heath)?
Are property prices falling in CR7 (Thornton Heath)?
Will CR7 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
CR7's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CR7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 145 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the CR7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 22% 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 CR7 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
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CR7 ranks 3 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.
CR area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CR7, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CR7 6 | £465,000 | 17 |
| CR7 7 | £416,000 | 37 |
| CR7 8 | £400,000 | 53 |
How CR7 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 | £445,000 | +5% |
| CR4 | £425,000 | +2% |
| CR7 (this report) | £415,000 | +8% |
| CR0 | £389,000 | +5% |
Thinking of selling in CR7? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CR7'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.
Estate agents working CR7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CR7.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CR7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CR7 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.