Cranbrook house prices

Cranbrook house prices are built from 9,332 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £270,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +18.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -14.9%.

HM Land Registry9,332 sales607 with floor areaLatest sale 15 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Cranbrook house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Cranbrook is £475,000 in 2023; the lowest is £81,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £87,500 to £427,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £194,291, so the real change over the whole record is +120.0% — about +2.58% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +18.8% in cash against -14.9% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Cranbrook values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cranbrook is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,709 certificates cover Cranbrook, and their median floor area is 90 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +18.4%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

622 of the sales on record are leasehold and 8,710 freehold — 6.7% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £156,650 and the median freehold sale £280,000 — a gap of +78.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +27.1%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 609 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across East Devon, 43.8% of 81,511 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in East Devon at £970 a month as of Jun 2026 — £686 for a one-bedroom home and £1,123 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £270,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.31% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of EX5, 11 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 9 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 2 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 15.2 times quieter.

Against the 150,828 residents the 2021 census counted in East Devon, that is 0.07 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 150,828 residents in East Devon across 66,788 households. 73.6% of those households own their home and 26.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

15 state and independent schools have a EX5 postcode: 13 primary, 1 secondary, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cranbrook sits above that national figure — +71.4%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,796 per square metre, across 607 of the 9,332 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £2,291 to £3,650,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Cranbrook sits in East Devon, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in East Devon at 8.3 times median local earnings of £40,224 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Cranbrook

• Cranbrook Road461 sales
• High Street410 sales
• Rye Road335 sales
• The Street195 sales
• Angley Road133 sales
• Joyce Close127 sales
• Talbot Road121 sales
• Wheatfield Way117 sales
• The Hill102 sales
• North Road100 sales
• Rectory Fields95 sales
• Hastings Road92 sales
• Highgate Hill90 sales
• Church Road86 sales
• Hartley Road84 sales
• Smugglers84 sales
• Horns Road77 sales
• Dorothy Avenue76 sales
• Oatfield Drive75 sales
• Stone Street71 sales
• The Moor71 sales
• Winchester Road71 sales
• Waterloo Road70 sales
• Bodiam Road68 sales
• Turner Avenue68 sales
• Goudhurst Road66 sales
• Bedgebury Road63 sales
• Water Lane59 sales
• Maytham Road58 sales
• Moor Hill58 sales
• Lossenham Lane57 sales
• Stream Pit Lane57 sales
• Woodbury Road57 sales
• Conghurst Lane55 sales
• The Common53 sales
• Bramling Gardens52 sales
• Hartley Court Gardens51 sales
• Herschel Place51 sales
• North Grove Road50 sales
• Mill Street49 sales
• Norris Close49 sales
• Queens Road49 sales
• Frensham Road48 sales
• Horsley Place47 sales
• Standen Street47 sales
• Iden Green Road46 sales
• Oakfield45 sales
• Stream Lane45 sales
• Beresford Road44 sales
• Hawkhurst Road44 sales
• Ockley Lane44 sales
• Vale Road44 sales
• Winser Road44 sales
• Sparkeswood Avenue43 sales
• Thornden Lane43 sales
• All Saints Road41 sales
• The Green41 sales
• Rolvenden Road40 sales
• Copthall Avenue39 sales
• Hovendens39 sales

Postcode districts covering Cranbrook

• TN17£285,000 median
• TN18£248,000 median
• EX5£230,000 median

What is the average house price in Cranbrook?

The median price paid in Cranbrook across every sale on the register is £270,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Cranbrook?

9,332 sales are on record for Cranbrook, the most recent completing on 15 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Cranbrook house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +18.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -14.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Cranbrook house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £475,000, set in 2023. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Cranbrook?

£2,796 per square metre, from the 607 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 15 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Cranbrook house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.