Howe Drive, Caterham house prices are built from 92 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 28 Mar 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £161,750. Across the 5 years from 1997 to 2002 the median moved +85.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +68.5%.
Median price paid
£161,750
Change in cash, 1997–2002
+85.2%
Change in real terms
+68.5%
Median per m²
£2,086
HM Land Registry92 sales25 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Mar 2025
Section 01
How Howe Drive, Caterham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Howe Drive, Caterham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2002. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £70,725 | £157,043 |
| 2000s | 3 | £128,750 | £234,545 |
The highest yearly median on record for Howe Drive, Caterham is £131,000 in 2002; the lowest is £70,725 in 1997. Across the full 6-year record the cash median has moved from £70,725 to £131,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £149,958, so the real change over the whole record is +68.5% — about +11.00% 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: +85.2% in cash against +68.5% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £442,500 | £452,120 |
| 32 | 3 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 33 | 1 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £265,000 | £278,843 |
| 11 | 22 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 17 | 17 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £430,000 | £464,598 |
| 12 | 19 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £385,000 | £446,056 |
| 35 | 30 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £345,000 | £399,712 |
| 32 | 31 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £341,783 |
| 28 | 21 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £579,293 |
| 24 | 21 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £382,000 | £482,634 |
| 17 | 4 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 23 | 26 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £240,000 | £313,915 |
| 30 | 18 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £365,000 | £477,412 |
| 19 | 18 Feb 2019 | Terraced | £350,000 | £457,792 |
| 18 | 11 May 2018 | Semi-detached | £341,000 | £454,452 |
| 25 | 22 Mar 2018 | Semi-detached | £362,500 | £483,105 |
| 10 | 4 Aug 2017 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £353,861 |
| 20 | 16 Mar 2017 | Terraced | £300,000 | £408,301 |
| 24 | 21 Sep 2016 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £467,673 |
| 1 | 19 Jun 2015 | Detached | £385,000 | £542,850 |
| 35 | 15 Jan 2015 | Terraced | £264,500 | £372,945 |
| 11 | 25 Jul 2014 | Semi-detached | £199,950 | £286,805 |
| 6 | 17 Jul 2014 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £229,502 |
| 17 | 13 Jun 2014 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £394,456 |
| 18 | 13 Dec 2013 | Semi-detached | £239,950 | £349,875 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Howe Drive, Caterham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Howe Drive | £92,700 (1998) | £442,500 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 32 Howe Drive | £82,500 (2000) | £280,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 33 Howe Drive | £50,000 (1995) | £265,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 11 Howe Drive | £66,000 (1998) | £290,000 (2023) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 17 Howe Drive | £151,000 (2002) | £430,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| 12 Howe Drive | £87,000 (1998) | £385,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.8% |
| 35 Howe Drive | £71,000 (1995) | £345,000 (2022) | +6.0% | +3.5% |
| 24 Howe Drive | £135,500 (2001) | £382,000 (2021) | +5.3% | +3.0% |
| 30 Howe Drive | £102,000 (1998) | £365,000 (2019) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
| 19 Howe Drive | £82,000 (1997) | £350,000 (2019) | +6.8% | +4.5% |
| 10 Howe Drive | £87,000 (2001) | £260,000 (2017) | +7.1% | +4.7% |
| 20 Howe Drive | £73,500 (1996) | £300,000 (2017) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Howe Drive, Caterham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 52 | 56.5% | £154,950 | £52,500 – £500,000 |
| Terraced | 28 | 30.4% | £168,500 | £59,500 – £385,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 7 | 7.6% | £102,500 | £50,000 – £265,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 5.4% | £225,000 | £136,000 – £385,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Howe Drive, Caterham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 92 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 92 | 100.0% | £161,750 |
A further 2 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.
Section 07
Living in Howe Drive, Caterham
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Croydon, 44.2% of 186,890 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 437 | 0.2% |
| B | 23,858 | 12.8% |
| C | 58,330 | 31.2% |
| D | 70,808 | 37.9% |
| E | 27,074 | 14.5% |
| F | 5,050 | 2.7% |
| G | 1,333 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Croydon at £1,579 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,262 for a one-bedroom home and £1,853 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £161,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.71% 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 CR3, 142 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 45 violent, 3 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 27 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 390,719 residents the 2021 census counted in Croydon, that is 0.36 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Howe Drive, Caterham
The 2021 census counted 390,719 residents in Croydon across 152,945 households. 56.1% of those households own their home and 43.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a CR3 postcode: 9 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| de Stafford School | Secondary | Academy converter | 811 |
| Hillcroft Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 462 |
| Whyteleafe Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 447 |
| St John's CofE Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 444 |
| St Francis Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 398 |
| Marden Lodge Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 215 |
| Audley Primary School | Primary | Community school | 211 |
| Woodlea Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| St Peter and St Paul Church Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 185 |
| Kenley Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 143 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Caterham Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Whyteleafe South Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Woldingham Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Upper Warlingham Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
Section 09
How Howe Drive, Caterham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Howe Drive, Caterham sits above that national figure — +2.7%.
Within Caterham the street ranks 256 of 276 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £249,950 (-35.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,086 per square metre, across 25 of the 92 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 £50,000 to £500,000. 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.
Howe Drive, Caterham sits in Croydon, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Croydon at 10.6 times median local earnings of £40,033 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Croydon Road£171,630 median
- Godstone Road£157,500 median
- Stafford Road£200,000 median
- Coulsdon Road£174,975 median
- Chaldon Road£150,000 median
- Tupwood Lane£250,000 median
- Harestone Valley Road£300,000 median
- Banstead Road£210,000 median
- Hillside Road£152,500 median
- Whyteleafe Hill£285,000 median
- Farningham Road£185,000 median
- Godstone Road£246,327 median
- Beechwood Road£205,000 median
- Harestone Hill£269,750 median
- Addison Road£220,000 median
- Church Hill£177,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 5 Howe Drive6 sales
- 18 Howe Drive5 sales
- 11 Howe Drive5 sales
- 17 Howe Drive5 sales
- 19 Howe Drive4 sales
- 10 Howe Drive4 sales
- 32 Howe Drive3 sales
- 12 Howe Drive3 sales
- 35 Howe Drive3 sales
- 24 Howe Drive3 sales
- 8 Howe Drive3 sales
- 26 Howe Drive3 sales
- 7 Howe Drive3 sales
- 38 Howe Drive3 sales
- 9 Howe Drive3 sales
- 21 Howe Drive3 sales
- 16 Howe Drive3 sales
- 33 Howe Drive2 sales
- 30 Howe Drive2 sales
- 20 Howe Drive2 sales
- 1 Howe Drive2 sales
- 6 Howe Drive2 sales
- 2 Howe Drive2 sales
- 14 Howe Drive2 sales
Back to Caterham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Howe Drive, Caterham?
The median price paid in Howe Drive, Caterham across every sale on the register is £161,750. 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 Howe Drive, Caterham?
92 sales are on record for Howe Drive, Caterham, the most recent completing on 28 Mar 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Howe Drive, Caterham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +85.2% between 1997 and 2002. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +68.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Howe Drive, Caterham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £131,000, set in 2002. 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 Howe Drive, Caterham?
£2,086 per square metre, from the 25 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 28 Mar 2025. 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, “Howe Drive, Caterham 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.