Downs Road, Coulsdon house prices are built from 117 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 8 Nov 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £410,000. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved +100.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +45.3%.
Median price paid
£410,000
Change in cash, 2007–2021
+100.0%
Change in real terms
+45.3%
Median per m²
£3,527
HM Land Registry117 sales22 with floor areaLatest sale 8 Nov 2024
Section 01
How Downs Road, Coulsdon prices moved
The chart tracks the median Downs Road, Coulsdon house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2021. 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 | 1 | £178,000 | £395,244 |
| 2000s | 4 | £280,000 | £510,078 |
| 2010s | 2 | £399,950 | £563,930 |
| 2020s | 2 | £595,000 | £607,935 |
The highest yearly median on record for Downs Road, Coulsdon is £790,000 in 2021; the lowest is £178,000 in 1998. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £178,000 to £790,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £369,088, so the real change over the whole record is +170.4% — about +4.42% 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: +100.0% in cash against +45.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 8 Nov 2024 | Detached | £665,000 | £699,739 |
| Flat 2 60 | 19 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| Marhill Cottage, 86 | 18 Dec 2023 | Detached | £840,000 | £907,586 |
| 115 | 4 Aug 2023 | Detached | £570,000 | £615,862 |
| 12 | 2 Aug 2023 | Detached | £615,000 | £664,483 |
| 78 | 6 Jul 2023 | Detached | £755,000 | £815,747 |
| 49 | 24 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £573,000 | £663,870 |
| 98 | 18 May 2022 | Detached | £850,000 | £984,799 |
| 40 | 8 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £825,000 | £955,834 |
| 94 | 9 Dec 2021 | Detached | £848,000 | £1,071,398 |
| 50 | 29 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £565,000 | £713,844 |
| 68a | 25 Jun 2021 | Detached | £790,000 | £998,118 |
| 82 | 14 May 2021 | Detached | £975,000 | £1,231,855 |
| 26a | 10 May 2021 | Terraced | £675,000 | £852,823 |
| 123 | 14 Apr 2021 | Detached | £824,000 | £1,041,075 |
| 90 | 19 Mar 2021 | Detached | £715,000 | £903,360 |
| 100 | 19 Feb 2021 | Detached | £805,000 | £1,017,070 |
| 84 | 21 Jan 2021 | Detached | £750,000 | £947,581 |
| 119 | 15 Dec 2020 | Detached | £665,000 | £861,019 |
| 92 | 26 Nov 2020 | Detached | £732,500 | £948,416 |
| Flat 4 60 | 9 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £317,218 |
| 110 | 9 Sep 2020 | Detached | £675,500 | £874,614 |
| 111 | 24 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £712,121 |
| 107 | 19 Jun 2020 | Detached | £595,000 | £770,386 |
| Upper Flat 44 | 6 Jan 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £299,950 | £388,365 |
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 Downs Road, Coulsdon values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Downs Road | £129,000 (1995) | £665,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| FLAT 2 60 Downs Road | £230,000 (2016) | £250,000 (2024) | +1.0% | -2.5% |
| MARHILL COTTAGE, 86 Downs Road | £294,700 (2002) | £840,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 115 Downs Road | £320,000 (2002) | £570,000 (2023) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
| 50 Downs Road | £339,950 (2011) | £565,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +3.2% |
| 26A Downs Road | £456,000 (2013) | £675,000 (2021) | +5.0% | +3.2% |
| 123 Downs Road | £380,000 (2004) | £824,000 (2021) | +4.7% | +2.3% |
| 90 Downs Road | £650,000 (2016) | £715,000 (2021) | +1.9% | -0.1% |
| 100 Downs Road | £475,500 (2012) | £805,000 (2021) | +6.0% | +4.1% |
| FLAT 4 60 Downs Road | £250,000 (2016) | £245,000 (2020) | -0.5% | -2.4% |
| 110 Downs Road | £290,000 (2001) | £675,500 (2020) | +4.6% | +2.3% |
| 111 Downs Road | £213,500 (2002) | £550,000 (2020) | +5.4% | +3.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Downs Road, Coulsdon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 73 | 62.4% | £490,000 | £128,000 – £1,185,000 |
| Semi-detached | 26 | 22.2% | £360,000 | £98,250 – £595,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 12 | 10.3% | £245,000 | £58,000 – £410,000 |
| Terraced | 6 | 5.1% | £530,000 | £323,000 – £825,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Downs Road, Coulsdon
12 of the sales on record are leasehold and 105 freehold — 10.3% 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 £247,500 and the median freehold sale £454,500 — a gap of +83.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 12 | 10.3% | £247,500 |
| Freehold | 105 | 89.7% | £454,500 |
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 Downs Road, Coulsdon
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 £410,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.62% 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 CR5, 104 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 37 violent, 6 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 15 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times quieter.
Against the 390,719 residents the 2021 census counted in Croydon, that is 0.27 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 Downs Road, Coulsdon
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.
9 state and independent schools have a CR5 postcode: 7 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodcote High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,250 |
| Oasis Academy Coulsdon | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 927 |
| Woodcote Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 871 |
| Chipstead Valley Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 684 |
| Smitham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 654 |
| Keston Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 457 |
| Oasis Academy Byron | Primary | Academy converter | 221 |
| St Aidan's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 215 |
| Coulsdon CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 181 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Coulsdon South Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Woodmansterne Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Coulsdon Town Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Chipstead Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
Section 09
How Downs Road, Coulsdon compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Downs Road, Coulsdon sits above that national figure — +160.3%.
Within Coulsdon the street ranks 114 of 286 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £303,000 (+35.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,527 per square metre, across 22 of the 117 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 £58,000 to £1,185,000. 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.
Downs Road, Coulsdon sits in Croydon, in London.
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
- Chipstead Valley Road£220,000 median
- Brighton Road£174,500 median
- Coulsdon Road£259,000 median
- St Andrews Road£300,000 median
- Caterham Drive£292,000 median
- Chaldon Way£340,000 median
- Outwood Lane£436,500 median
- Woodcote Grove Road£376,250 median
- The Glade£220,000 median
- Reddown Road£305,000 median
- Mead Way£300,000 median
- Tollers Lane£325,000 median
- Winifred Road£285,500 median
- Fairdene Road£350,000 median
- Westleigh Avenue£230,725 median
- Cayton Road£327,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 10 Downs Road6 sales
- 123 Downs Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, 60 Downs Road3 sales
- MARHILL COTTAGE, 86 Downs Road3 sales
- 26A Downs Road3 sales
- 100 Downs Road3 sales
- 111 Downs Road3 sales
- THE FARTHINGS, 66 Downs Road3 sales
- 28 Downs Road3 sales
- 73 Downs Road3 sales
- 8 Downs Road3 sales
- 115 Downs Road2 sales
- 50 Downs Road2 sales
- 90 Downs Road2 sales
- FLAT 4, 60 Downs Road2 sales
- 110 Downs Road2 sales
- 107 Downs Road2 sales
- 96 Downs Road2 sales
- 32 Downs Road2 sales
- FLAT 1, 60 Downs Road2 sales
- 109 Downs Road2 sales
- 2 Downs Road2 sales
- 76 Downs Road2 sales
- 114 Downs Road2 sales
Back to Coulsdon house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Downs Road, Coulsdon?
The median price paid in Downs Road, Coulsdon across every sale on the register is £410,000. 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 Downs Road, Coulsdon?
117 sales are on record for Downs Road, Coulsdon, the most recent completing on 8 Nov 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Downs Road, Coulsdon house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +100.0% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +45.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Downs Road, Coulsdon house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £790,000, set in 2021. 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 Downs Road, Coulsdon?
£3,527 per square metre, from the 22 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 8 Nov 2024. 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, “Downs Road, Coulsdon 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.