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Kenley market report CR8 2, Purley
The standing CR8 2 (Kenley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,447 registered sales in CR8 2 (Purley) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in CR8 2 (Purley) sold for £428,000 in 2026, the median of 54 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £451,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,960 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,447 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CR8 2 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 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.
CR8 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 54 registered 2026 sales in CR8 2 and the middle price, the median, is £428,000. The mean lands at £451,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
CR8 2 prices by floor area
Per square metre, CR8 2 homes have averaged around £4,960 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CR8 2 trades 50% above the country as a whole.
CR8 2's median sold price, 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 | £428,000 | £428,000 | 54 |
| 2025 | £407,500 | £417,245 | 127 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 101 |
| 2023 | £447,500 | £491,693 | 120 |
| 2022 | £423,800 | £496,954 | 209 |
| 2021 | £423,800 | £536,585 | 250 |
| 2020 | £409,000 | £530,686 | 97 |
| 2019 | £418,000 | £547,898 | 111 |
| 2018 | £357,100 | £476,021 | 160 |
| 2017 | £375,900 | £512,690 | 136 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 161 |
| 2015 | £317,500 | £448,628 | 164 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 181 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 143 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 114 |
| 2011 | £247,500 | £373,630 | 151 |
| 2010 | £237,000 | £371,677 | 131 |
| 2009 | £216,200 | £347,543 | 132 |
| 2008 | £242,000 | £396,689 | 133 |
| 2007 | £246,000 | £417,285 | 234 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 249 |
| 2005 | £219,000 | £389,732 | 207 |
| 2004 | £199,500 | £362,331 | 208 |
| 2003 | £192,900 | £355,369 | 206 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 262 |
| 2001 | £143,000 | £274,910 | 253 |
| 2000 | £126,000 | £247,275 | 213 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 214 |
| 1998 | £91,000 | £183,690 | 207 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 213 |
| 1996 | £73,200 | £154,376 | 172 |
| 1995 | £68,500 | £148,908 | 134 |
In cash terms the typical CR8 2 home went from £68,500 in 1995 to £428,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 187%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CR8 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 1999 (+20.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.0% | +2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CR8 2
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 54 sales completed in CR8 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 229 sales a year before the financial crisis and 122 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 homes rent for around CR8 2
The local authority for CR8 2 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.
£1,572 a month is £18,864 a year, which against the £428,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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.
Reading the CR8 2 market
Only 54 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CR8 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the CR8 district median, CR8 2 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
CR8 2 (Kenley): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CR8 2 (Kenley)?
Is CR8 2 (Kenley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CR8 2 (Kenley)?
Are CR8 2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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 CR8 right now
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 CR8 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
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CR area districts: five years of change
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 1 | £646,200 | 24 |
| 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 2? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CR8 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CR8 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CR8 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CR8 2.
Keep digging
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See every individual CR8 2 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.