Commonwealth Drive, Crawley house prices are built from 1,203 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2007 and the most recent on 8 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £180,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved -2.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -30.3%.
Median price paid
£180,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
-2.7%
Change in real terms
-30.3%
Median per m²
£2,887
HM Land Registry1,203 sales88 with floor areaLatest sale 8 May 2026
Section 01
How Commonwealth Drive, Crawley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Commonwealth Drive, Crawley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2007 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | £185,000 | £337,016 |
| 2010s | 10 | £185,000 | £260,850 |
| 2020s | 7 | £220,000 | £224,783 |
The highest yearly median on record for Commonwealth Drive, Crawley is £228,000 in 2017; the lowest is £151,000 in 2012. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £223,000 to £214,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £387,707, so the real change over the whole record is -44.8% — about -3.08% 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: -2.7% in cash against -30.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 88 Finlay Court | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £211,500 | £211,500 |
| Flat 87 Finlay Court | 24 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| Flat 122 Howlands Court | 4 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £208,000 | £208,000 |
| Flat 136 Howlands Court | 16 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| Flat 93 Page Court | 13 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £216,500 | £216,500 |
| Flat 72 Howlands Court | 12 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| Flat 111 Howlands Court | 19 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| Flat 38 Howlands Court | 4 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| Flat 42 Page Court | 18 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| Flat 47 Page Court | 30 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| Flat 41 Choda House | 21 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| Flat 154 Howlands Court | 11 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £196,000 | £200,261 |
| Flat 84 Rampling Court | 27 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| Flat 75 Rampling Court | 19 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £84,000 | £85,826 |
| Flat 66 Tomlin Court | 23 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £117,500 |
| 65 | 1 May 2025 | Detached | £385,000 | £393,370 |
| Flat 11 Choda House | 28 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £178,804 |
| Flat 51 Tomlin Court | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| Flat 102 Page Court | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| Flat 54 Howlands Court | 27 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £231,000 | £236,022 |
| Flat 114 Howlands Court | 25 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| Flat 31 Page Court | 20 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| Flat 28 Howlands Court | 6 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £237,000 | £242,152 |
| Flat 134 Howlands Court | 14 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £188,000 | £192,087 |
| Flat 76 Rampling Court | 31 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £235,000 |
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 Commonwealth Drive, Crawley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 88 FINLAY COURT Commonwealth Drive | £170,000 (2012) | £211,500 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| FLAT 87 FINLAY COURT Commonwealth Drive | £190,000 (2011) | £250,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.0% |
| FLAT 122 HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive | £160,000 (2009) | £208,000 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.4% |
| FLAT 136 HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive | £170,000 (2009) | £220,000 (2026) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| FLAT 93 PAGE COURT Commonwealth Drive | £155,000 (2012) | £216,500 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| FLAT 72 HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive | £167,500 (2009) | £210,000 (2026) | +1.3% | -1.6% |
| FLAT 111 HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive | £175,000 (2009) | £210,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| FLAT 38 HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive | £154,850 (2010) | £220,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.6% |
| FLAT 42 PAGE COURT Commonwealth Drive | £155,000 (2012) | £235,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| FLAT 47 PAGE COURT Commonwealth Drive | £155,000 (2012) | £205,000 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.8% |
| FLAT 41 CHODA HOUSE Commonwealth Drive | £179,950 (2009) | £195,000 (2025) | +0.5% | -2.4% |
| FLAT 154 HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive | £158,000 (2014) | £196,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Commonwealth Drive, Crawley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 1,131 | 94.0% | £175,500 | £35,000 – £407,250 |
| Terraced | 67 | 5.6% | £250,000 | £152,500 – £450,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3 | 0.2% | £332,500 | £260,000 – £350,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 0.2% | £250,000 | £250,000 – £385,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Commonwealth Drive, Crawley
1,132 of the sales on record are leasehold and 71 freehold — 94.1% 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 £175,250 and the median freehold sale £250,000 — a gap of +42.7%. 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 | 1,132 | 94.1% | £175,250 |
| Freehold | 71 | 5.9% | £250,000 |
| New build | 493 | 41.0% | £164,000 |
| Existing home | 710 | 59.0% | £207,750 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -21.1%. 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 74 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 Commonwealth Drive, Crawley
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Crawley, 56.8% of 46,789 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 1.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 73 | 0.2% |
| B | 5,737 | 12.3% |
| C | 20,784 | 44.4% |
| D | 16,341 | 34.9% |
| E | 3,247 | 6.9% |
| F | 483 | 1.0% |
| G | 124 | 0.3% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Crawley at £1,484 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,064 for a one-bedroom home and £1,637 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £180,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.89% 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 RH10, 180 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 63 violent, 6 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 47 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 118,493 residents the 2021 census counted in Crawley, that is 1.52 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 Commonwealth Drive, Crawley
The 2021 census counted 118,493 residents in Crawley across 45,502 households. 57.0% of those households own their home and 42.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
22 state and independent schools have a RH10 postcode: 18 primary, 3 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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazelwick School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,913 |
| Oriel High School | Secondary | Community school | 1,441 |
| Thomas Bennett Community College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,261 |
| The Gatwick School | All-through | Free schools | 861 |
| Northgate Primary School | Primary | Community school | 649 |
| Milton Mount Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 618 |
| Three Bridges Primary School | Primary | Community school | 600 |
| Maidenbower Junior School | Primary | Community school | 559 |
| The Oaks Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 449 |
| Desmond Anderson Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 434 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Three Bridges Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Crawley Rail Station | Rail | 2.4 km |
| Gatwick Airport Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
| Ifield Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
Section 09
How Commonwealth Drive, Crawley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Commonwealth Drive, Crawley sits above that national figure — +14.3%.
Within Crawley the street ranks 885 of 1469 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £188,500 (-4.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,887 per square metre, across 88 of the 1,203 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 £35,000 to £450,000. 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.
Commonwealth Drive, Crawley sits in Crawley, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Crawley at 8.5 times median local earnings of £41,977 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
- Bolton Road£130,000 median
- Woodfield Road£206,800 median
- Turners Hill Road£294,100 median
- Milborne Road£168,000 median
- Dakin Close£102,000 median
- Lyon Close£109,950 median
- Boleyn Close£174,500 median
- Goddard Close£139,975 median
- Trafalgar Gardens£200,000 median
- Heathfield£198,975 median
- Ashdown Drive£179,475 median
- Gales Drive£149,950 median
- Malthouse Road£223,000 median
- Brookhill Road£203,000 median
- North Road£217,000 median
- Stone Court£229,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 38, HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive5 sales
- FLAT 6, PAGE COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 97, RAMPLING COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 26, RAMPLING COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 138, NOKES COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 118, HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 65, PAGE COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 45, PAGE COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 28, RAMPLING COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 135, HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 108, PAGE COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 65, FINLAY COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 35, RAMPLING COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 27, HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive4 sales
- FLAT 72, HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive3 sales
- FLAT 111, HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive3 sales
- FLAT 42, PAGE COURT Commonwealth Drive3 sales
- FLAT 41, CHODA HOUSE Commonwealth Drive3 sales
- FLAT 154, HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive3 sales
- FLAT 84, RAMPLING COURT Commonwealth Drive3 sales
- FLAT 66, TOMLIN COURT Commonwealth Drive3 sales
- FLAT 102, PAGE COURT Commonwealth Drive3 sales
- FLAT 28, HOWLANDS COURT Commonwealth Drive3 sales
- FLAT 76, RAMPLING COURT Commonwealth Drive3 sales
Back to Crawley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Commonwealth Drive, Crawley?
The median price paid in Commonwealth Drive, Crawley across every sale on the register is £180,000. 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 Commonwealth Drive, Crawley?
1,203 sales are on record for Commonwealth Drive, Crawley, the most recent completing on 8 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Commonwealth Drive, Crawley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -2.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -30.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Commonwealth Drive, Crawley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £228,000, set in 2017. 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 Commonwealth Drive, Crawley?
£2,887 per square metre, from the 88 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 May 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, “Commonwealth Drive, Crawley 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.