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Kenley market report CR8 3, Purley
The CR8 3 (Kenley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,392 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CR8 3 (Purley) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: 12 registered 2026 sales put the CR8 3 (Purley) median at £817,500, up 50% on five years earlier, with a mean of £805,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,320 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,392 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like CR8 3 is a single group of streets within CR8 (Purley), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CR8 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.
Today's CR8 3 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for CR8 3 is £817,500, taken from 12 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £805,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in CR8 3
A square metre of CR8 3 home has cost about £5,320 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CR8 3 187% above the national figure.
CR8 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 | £817,500 | £817,500 | 12 |
| 2025 | £800,000 | £819,130 | 73 |
| 2024 | £825,000 | £877,144 | 69 |
| 2023 | £477,500 | £524,656 | 78 |
| 2022 | £567,500 | £665,459 | 108 |
| 2021 | £545,000 | £690,040 | 127 |
| 2020 | £520,500 | £675,360 | 87 |
| 2019 | £517,500 | £678,319 | 80 |
| 2018 | £675,000 | £899,788 | 75 |
| 2017 | £750,000 | £1,022,925 | 63 |
| 2016 | £695,500 | £973,011 | 62 |
| 2015 | £700,000 | £989,100 | 75 |
| 2014 | £640,000 | £907,952 | 63 |
| 2013 | £481,000 | £692,111 | 83 |
| 2012 | £605,000 | £890,484 | 52 |
| 2011 | £602,500 | £909,543 | 50 |
| 2010 | £537,500 | £842,938 | 63 |
| 2009 | £500,000 | £803,754 | 63 |
| 2008 | £557,500 | £913,860 | 64 |
| 2007 | £460,000 | £780,288 | 110 |
| 2006 | £471,600 | £818,637 | 94 |
| 2005 | £456,200 | £811,852 | 76 |
| 2004 | £475,000 | £862,693 | 77 |
| 2003 | £470,000 | £865,854 | 81 |
| 2002 | £420,000 | £790,226 | 70 |
| 2001 | £370,000 | £711,306 | 83 |
| 2000 | £371,000 | £728,088 | 68 |
| 1999 | £252,500 | £503,219 | 77 |
| 1998 | £263,800 | £532,499 | 66 |
| 1997 | £210,000 | £430,668 | 89 |
| 1996 | £180,000 | £379,612 | 97 |
| 1995 | £187,500 | £407,596 | 57 |
In cash terms the typical CR8 3 home went from £187,500 in 1995 to £817,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 101%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CR8 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 2024 (+72.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−23.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CR8 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.4% | +3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Sales activity in CR8 3
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CR8 3 recorded 12 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 68 sales a year recently, against 82 a year before 2008. 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.
What homes rent for around CR8 3
CR8 3 falls under Croydon, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £817,500 median sold price, £1,572 a month is £18,864 a year, a gross yield of 2.3%: 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.
How CR8 3 trades
This is a thin market: 12 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the CR8 district median, CR8 3 sits 65% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
CR8 3 (Kenley): the questions that come up
Is CR8 3 (Kenley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CR8 3 (Kenley)?
Are property prices falling in CR8 3 (Kenley)?
Will CR8 3 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 50% over five years in cash and up 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% 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" 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CR prices by size
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 CR8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CR8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CR8 1 | £646,200 | 24 |
| CR8 2 | £428,000 | 54 |
| 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 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CR8 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the CR8 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CR8 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CR8 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CR8 3 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.
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.