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Kenley market report CR8 4, Purley
The CR8 4 (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: 3,120 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CR8 4 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 17 registered 2026 sales put the CR8 4 (Purley) median at £440,000, down 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £508,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,030 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,120 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CR8 4 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 4 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 4 homes really sell for
Across 17 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CR8 4 home went for £440,000. The mean is £508,900, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
CR8 4 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in CR8 4 have sold for about £5,030 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CR8 4 54% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CR8 4 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 | £440,000 | £440,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £565,000 | £578,511 | 71 |
| 2024 | £510,000 | £542,235 | 86 |
| 2023 | £475,000 | £521,909 | 80 |
| 2022 | £525,000 | £615,622 | 96 |
| 2021 | £473,800 | £599,892 | 112 |
| 2020 | £445,000 | £577,397 | 85 |
| 2019 | £442,500 | £580,012 | 76 |
| 2018 | £501,000 | £667,842 | 55 |
| 2017 | £530,000 | £722,867 | 73 |
| 2016 | £411,000 | £574,993 | 75 |
| 2015 | £358,000 | £505,854 | 95 |
| 2014 | £370,200 | £525,193 | 110 |
| 2013 | £326,500 | £469,801 | 98 |
| 2012 | £320,000 | £471,000 | 75 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 71 |
| 2010 | £320,000 | £501,842 | 69 |
| 2009 | £275,000 | £442,065 | 61 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 69 |
| 2007 | £298,000 | £505,491 | 141 |
| 2006 | £264,500 | £459,138 | 159 |
| 2005 | £240,000 | £427,103 | 109 |
| 2004 | £237,000 | £430,438 | 116 |
| 2003 | £233,500 | £430,164 | 116 |
| 2002 | £200,000 | £376,298 | 138 |
| 2001 | £156,000 | £299,902 | 130 |
| 2000 | £147,000 | £288,488 | 120 |
| 1999 | £114,200 | £227,595 | 176 |
| 1998 | £125,000 | £252,321 | 110 |
| 1997 | £123,000 | £252,248 | 121 |
| 1996 | £108,500 | £228,822 | 132 |
| 1995 | £87,800 | £190,864 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical CR8 4 home went from £87,800 in 1995 to £440,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 131%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 39% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CR8 4 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 2017 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−22.1%). 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) | −22.1% | −23.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 17 sales completed in CR8 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 129 sales a year before the financial crisis and 70 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.
How CR8 4 trades
Only 17 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CR8 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 4 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around CR8 4
CR8 4 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 £440,000 median sold price, £1,572 a month is £18,864 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Common questions on CR8 4 (Kenley)
How much did a house sell for in CR8 4 (Kenley)?
Are property prices falling in CR8 4 (Kenley)?
Is CR8 4 (Kenley) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CR8 4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
What is for sale in CR8 right now
The live side of the market holds 150 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CR8 district, not just CR8 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 →
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
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%) | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, CR area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £428,000 | 54 |
| CR8 3 | £817,500 | 12 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CR8 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CR8 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CR8 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CR8 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CR8 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CR8 4 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.