The Birches, Crawley house prices are built from 151 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 3 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £182,000. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +53.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +9.1%.
Median price paid
£182,000
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+53.2%
Change in real terms
+9.1%
Median per m²
£2,531
HM Land Registry151 sales32 with floor areaLatest sale 3 Dec 2025
Section 01
How The Birches, Crawley prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Birches, Crawley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | 3 | £64,500 | £143,220 |
| 2000s | 7 | £170,000 | £309,690 |
| 2010s | 6 | £215,000 | £303,150 |
| 2020s | 2 | £335,000 | £342,283 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Birches, Crawley is £370,000 in 2025; the lowest is £57,250 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £57,250 to £370,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £124,188, so the real change over the whole record is +204.4% — about +3.91% 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: +53.2% in cash against +9.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 199 | 3 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £342,000 | £349,435 |
| 215 | 25 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 54 | 27 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 13 | 14 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 7 | 31 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 207 | 10 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £365,000 | £372,935 |
| 129 | 31 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 98 | 1 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £232,000 | £244,119 |
| 161 | 12 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £355,000 | £373,545 |
| 56 | 18 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £380,000 | £399,851 |
| 75 | 6 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £325,100 | £342,083 |
| 28 | 13 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £369,000 | £398,690 |
| 29 | 30 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £388,000 | £419,218 |
| 161 | 21 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £335,000 | £388,127 |
| 107 | 29 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £480,813 |
| 99 | 22 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £388,127 |
| 92 | 15 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 16 | 7 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £330,000 | £382,334 |
| 37 | 24 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £310,000 | £391,667 |
| 207 | 20 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £330,000 | £416,935 |
| 18 | 28 May 2021 | Terraced | £290,000 | £366,398 |
| 46 | 14 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £336,000 | £424,516 |
| 93 | 9 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £392,393 |
| 70 | 10 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £317,000 | £422,467 |
| 161 | 31 May 2018 | Terraced | £260,000 | £346,503 |
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 The Birches, Crawley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 the Birches | £106,000 (2001) | £400,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 13 the Birches | £205,000 (2006) | £400,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.6% |
| 207 the Birches | £330,000 (2021) | £365,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -2.7% |
| 129 the Birches | £275,000 (2018) | £360,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +0.1% |
| 98 the Birches | £45,000 (1996) | £232,000 (2024) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 161 the Birches | £260,000 (2018) | £355,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +1.3% |
| 56 the Birches | £295,000 (2016) | £380,000 (2024) | +3.2% | -0.4% |
| 28 the Birches | £58,500 (1996) | £369,000 (2023) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| 29 the Birches | £136,000 (2002) | £388,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 107 the Birches | £57,000 (1995) | £415,000 (2022) | +7.6% | +5.1% |
| 99 the Birches | £199,950 (2004) | £335,000 (2022) | +2.9% | +0.3% |
| 92 the Birches | £87,000 (2004) | £260,000 (2022) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Birches, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 96 | 63.6% | £185,000 | £52,000 – £400,000 |
| Semi-detached | 47 | 31.1% | £164,000 | £20,000 – £415,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 8 | 5.3% | £145,000 | £45,000 – £260,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Birches, Crawley
7 of the sales on record are leasehold and 144 freehold — 4.6% 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 £157,000 and the median freehold sale £184,975 — a gap of +17.8%. 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 | 7 | 4.6% | £157,000 |
| Freehold | 144 | 95.4% | £184,975 |
A further 8 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 The Birches, 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 £182,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.78% 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 The Birches, 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 The Birches, Crawley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Birches, Crawley sits above that national figure — +15.6%.
Within Crawley the street ranks 869 of 1469 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £188,500 (-3.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,531 per square metre, across 32 of the 151 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 £20,000 to £415,000. 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.
The Birches, 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
- Commonwealth Drive£180,000 median
- 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 107 the Birches5 sales
- 28 the Birches4 sales
- 29 the Birches4 sales
- 99 the Birches4 sales
- 18 the Birches4 sales
- 173 the Birches4 sales
- 54 the Birches3 sales
- 98 the Birches3 sales
- 161 the Birches3 sales
- 92 the Birches3 sales
- 41 the Birches3 sales
- 119 the Birches3 sales
- 187 the Birches3 sales
- 33 the Birches3 sales
- 36 the Birches3 sales
- 171 the Birches3 sales
- 91 the Birches3 sales
- 49 the Birches3 sales
- 111 the Birches3 sales
- 13 the Birches2 sales
- 207 the Birches2 sales
- 129 the Birches2 sales
- 56 the Birches2 sales
- 16 the Birches2 sales
Back to Crawley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Birches, Crawley?
The median price paid in The Birches, Crawley across every sale on the register is £182,000. 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 The Birches, Crawley?
151 sales are on record for The Birches, Crawley, the most recent completing on 3 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Birches, Crawley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +53.2% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +9.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Birches, Crawley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £370,000, set in 2025. 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 The Birches, Crawley?
£2,531 per square metre, from the 32 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 3 Dec 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, “The Birches, 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.