The Waldrons, Croydon house prices

The Waldrons, Croydon house prices are built from 214 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 2 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £160,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +49.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +8.4%.

HM Land Registry214 sales61 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Dec 2025

The chart tracks the median The Waldrons, Croydon house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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.

The highest yearly median on record for The Waldrons, Croydon is £440,000 in 2022; the lowest is £48,250 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £54,000 to £315,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £119,906, so the real change over the whole record is +168.4% — about +3.35% 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: +49.6% in cash against +8.4% 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 The Waldrons, Croydon values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

210 of the sales on record are leasehold and 4 freehold — 98.1% 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 £159,950 and the median freehold sale £462,500 — a gap of +189.2%. 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 — +199.3%. 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 15 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 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.

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 £160,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.81% 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 CR0, 636 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 184 violent, 30 burglary, 58 vehicle-related and 136 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.8 times busier.

Against the 390,719 residents the 2021 census counted in Croydon, that is 1.63 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 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.

44 state and independent schools have a CR0 postcode: 37 primary, 6 secondary, 1 nursery. 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. The Waldrons, Croydon sits above that national figure — +1.9%.

Within Croydon the street ranks 722 of 949 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £192,000 (-16.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,429 per square metre, across 61 of the 214 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 £36,000 to £755,000. 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 Waldrons, Croydon 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.

Streets nearby

• Saffron Central Square£262,762 median
• Davidson Road£190,000 median
• London Road£142,604 median
• Addiscombe Road£180,000 median
• Wickham Road£179,000 median
• Lower Addiscombe Road£150,000 median
• Whitestone Way£219,995 median
• Sydenham Road£175,000 median
• Whitehorse Road£152,000 median
• Canning Road£146,500 median
• Coombe Road£153,000 median
• St James's Road£120,000 median
• Cherry Orchard Road£340,000 median
• Franklin Way£123,000 median
• High Street£326,500 median
• Osward£192,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• THE BASEMENT FLAT AT, 9 the Waldrons6 sales
• FLAT 7, 12 the Waldrons5 sales
• FLAT 5, KEELING COURT, 28 the Waldrons5 sales
• FLAT 2, 12 the Waldrons5 sales
• 10B the Waldrons4 sales
• 20A the Waldrons4 sales
• 6C the Waldrons4 sales
• 16C the Waldrons4 sales
• FLAT 3, 13 the Waldrons4 sales
• FLAT 1, 13 the Waldrons4 sales
• 22C the Waldrons4 sales
• FLAT 42, MORRIS COURT, 30 the Waldrons4 sales
• FLAT 4, 12 the Waldrons4 sales
• 16A the Waldrons3 sales
• FLAT 6, MAPLECOURT, 11 the Waldrons3 sales
• 22B the Waldrons3 sales
• FLAT 8, 12 the Waldrons3 sales
• FLAT 3, 12 the Waldrons3 sales
• FLAT 1, 12 the Waldrons3 sales
• FLAT 2, MAPLECOURT, 11 the Waldrons3 sales
• 10C the Waldrons3 sales
• FLAT 5, 13 the Waldrons3 sales
• 9C the Waldrons3 sales
• 17C the Waldrons3 sales

Back to Croydon house prices.

What is the average house price in The Waldrons, Croydon?

The median price paid in The Waldrons, Croydon across every sale on the register is £160,500. 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 Waldrons, Croydon?

214 sales are on record for The Waldrons, Croydon, the most recent completing on 2 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have The Waldrons, Croydon house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +49.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +8.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were The Waldrons, Croydon house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £440,000, set in 2022. 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 Waldrons, Croydon?

£2,429 per square metre, from the 61 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 2 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 Waldrons, Croydon 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.