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Kenley market report CR8 1, Purley
The CR8 1 (Kenley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,427 HM Land Registry entries for CR8 1 (Purley), 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: 24 registered 2026 sales put the CR8 1 (Purley) median at £646,200, up 20% on five years earlier, with a mean of £597,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,220 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,427 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CR8 1 is one sector of CR8 (Purley): 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 CR8 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.
What CR8 1 homes really sell for
24 sales were registered in CR8 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £646,200. The mean works out at £597,900, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
CR8 1 prices by floor area
A square metre of CR8 1 home has cost about £5,220 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CR8 1 trades 127% above the country as a whole.
A typical CR8 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £646,200 | £646,200 | 24 |
| 2025 | £625,000 | £639,946 | 65 |
| 2024 | £640,000 | £680,451 | 61 |
| 2023 | £600,000 | £659,253 | 62 |
| 2022 | £606,500 | £711,190 | 87 |
| 2021 | £540,000 | £683,710 | 121 |
| 2020 | £591,500 | £767,483 | 68 |
| 2019 | £555,000 | £727,472 | 57 |
| 2018 | £561,000 | £747,824 | 80 |
| 2017 | £525,000 | £716,047 | 69 |
| 2016 | £540,000 | £755,465 | 67 |
| 2015 | £495,000 | £699,435 | 75 |
| 2014 | £427,500 | £606,483 | 78 |
| 2013 | £379,500 | £546,063 | 72 |
| 2012 | £370,000 | £544,594 | 64 |
| 2011 | £320,000 | £483,077 | 55 |
| 2010 | £334,500 | £524,582 | 58 |
| 2009 | £315,000 | £506,365 | 46 |
| 2008 | £347,000 | £568,806 | 46 |
| 2007 | £336,200 | £570,289 | 100 |
| 2006 | £310,200 | £538,468 | 92 |
| 2005 | £305,000 | £542,777 | 73 |
| 2004 | £297,500 | £540,318 | 85 |
| 2003 | £285,000 | £525,039 | 88 |
| 2002 | £235,000 | £442,150 | 85 |
| 2001 | £221,500 | £425,822 | 96 |
| 2000 | £190,200 | £373,268 | 88 |
| 1999 | £159,000 | £316,879 | 96 |
| 1998 | £145,000 | £292,693 | 95 |
| 1997 | £132,500 | £271,731 | 102 |
| 1996 | £118,200 | £249,279 | 90 |
| 1995 | £113,200 | £246,079 | 82 |
In cash terms the typical CR8 1 home went from £113,200 in 1995 to £646,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 163%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CR8 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 2003 (+21.3% 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.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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 24 CR8 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 88 sales a year before the financial crisis and 60 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.
Rents around CR8 1
For renting purposes CR8 1 sits in Croydon. The ONS average private rent there is £1,572 a month (May 2026). 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 £646,200 median purchase price, a rent of £1,572 a month (£18,864 a year) works out at a 2.9% 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.
How CR8 1 trades
This is a thin market: 24 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. Against the CR8 district median, CR8 1 sits 31% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: CR8 1 (Kenley)
How much did a house sell for in CR8 1 (Kenley)?
Are property prices falling in CR8 1 (Kenley)?
Is CR8 1 (Kenley) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CR8 1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
CR8's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 150 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CR8 district, not just CR8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CR8 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CR: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CR area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
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 CR8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CR8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CR8 2 | £428,000 | 54 |
| CR8 3 | £817,500 | 12 |
| CR8 4 | £440,000 | 17 |
| CR8 5 | £516,500 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full CR8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CR8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CR8 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CR8 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the CR8 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CR8 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CR8 1.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CR8 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CR8 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.
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.