Welcomes Road, Kenley house prices are built from 159 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £499,950. Across the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 the median moved +120.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +70.6%.
Median price paid
£499,950
Change in cash, 2012–2022
+120.0%
Change in real terms
+70.6%
Median per m²
£2,997
HM Land Registry159 sales24 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Welcomes Road, Kenley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Welcomes Road, Kenley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. 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 | £229,000 | £508,488 |
| 2000s | 5 | £485,000 | £883,527 |
| 2010s | 4 | £500,000 | £705,000 |
| 2020s | 3 | £570,000 | £582,391 |
The highest yearly median on record for Welcomes Road, Kenley is £1,100,000 in 2022; the lowest is £166,000 in 1995. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £166,000 to £1,100,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £368,598, so the real change over the whole record is +245.8% — about +4.70% 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: +120.0% in cash against +70.6% 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 | 23 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £865,000 | £865,000 |
| 6a | 7 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £1,095,000 | £1,118,804 |
| 63 | 27 May 2025 | Detached | £697,500 | £712,663 |
| 8 | 13 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £1,160,000 | £1,185,217 |
| Flat 7 36 | 14 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £294,000 | £309,358 |
| 118 | 17 Sep 2024 | Detached | £805,000 | £847,052 |
| Flat 8 36 | 6 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £445,000 | £468,246 |
| 37 | 23 Nov 2023 | Detached | £807,500 | £872,471 |
| 4 | 18 Oct 2023 | Detached | £958,000 | £1,035,080 |
| 80 | 2 Dec 2022 | Detached | £1,073,500 | £1,243,743 |
| 145 | 2 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £1,680,000 | £1,946,426 |
| 88 | 18 Aug 2022 | Detached | £930,000 | £1,077,486 |
| 67 | 29 Apr 2022 | Detached | £800,000 | £926,869 |
| Flat 8 Oakhill House, 32 | 29 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £450,000 | £521,364 |
| 6a | 4 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £1,165,000 | £1,349,753 |
| 151a | 11 Feb 2022 | Detached | £1,152,000 | £1,334,692 |
| 25 | 28 Jan 2022 | Detached | £1,100,000 | £1,274,445 |
| 68 | 7 Jan 2022 | Detached | £1,150,000 | £1,332,375 |
| 159 | 19 Nov 2021 | Detached | £1,890,000 | £2,387,903 |
| 17 | 18 Nov 2021 | Detached | £1,650,000 | £2,084,677 |
| Flat 9 Oakhill House, 32 | 21 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £392,500 | £495,901 |
| Flat 2 Oakhill House, 32 | 24 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £440,000 | £555,914 |
| 59 | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £890,000 | £1,124,462 |
| Flat 3 Oakhill House, 32 | 30 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £415,000 | £524,328 |
| Flat 5 Oakhill House, 32 | 30 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £405,000 | £511,694 |
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 Welcomes Road, Kenley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Welcomes Road | £166,000 (1995) | £865,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 6A Welcomes Road | £985,000 (2017) | £1,095,000 (2025) | +1.3% | -2.2% |
| 63 Welcomes Road | £359,950 (2003) | £697,500 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.2% |
| 8 Welcomes Road | £840,000 (2012) | £1,160,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| FLAT 7 36 Welcomes Road | £290,000 (2020) | £294,000 (2024) | +0.3% | -4.7% |
| FLAT 8 36 Welcomes Road | £450,000 (2020) | £445,000 (2024) | -0.3% | -5.3% |
| 4 Welcomes Road | £305,000 (1998) | £958,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 145 Welcomes Road | £190,000 (1997) | £1,680,000 (2022) | +9.1% | +6.5% |
| 88 Welcomes Road | £410,500 (2002) | £930,000 (2022) | +4.2% | +1.6% |
| 67 Welcomes Road | £273,000 (2000) | £800,000 (2022) | +5.0% | +2.4% |
| 151A Welcomes Road | £320,000 (1997) | £1,152,000 (2022) | +5.3% | +2.7% |
| 25 Welcomes Road | £470,000 (2006) | £1,100,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Welcomes Road, Kenley 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 | 120 | 75.5% | £560,000 | £135,000 – £1,890,000 |
| Semi-detached | 21 | 13.2% | £535,000 | £166,000 – £1,680,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 17 | 10.7% | £415,000 | £290,000 – £485,000 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.6% | £788,750 | £788,750 – £788,750 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Welcomes Road, Kenley
17 of the sales on record are leasehold and 142 freehold — 10.7% 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 £415,000 and the median freehold sale £555,000 — a gap of +33.7%. 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 | 17 | 10.7% | £415,000 |
| Freehold | 142 | 89.3% | £555,000 |
| New build | 21 | 13.2% | £410,000 |
| Existing home | 138 | 86.8% | £555,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -26.1%. 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 27 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 Welcomes Road, Kenley
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 £499,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.79% 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 CR8, 202 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 63 violent, 7 burglary, 26 vehicle-related and 30 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.
Against the 390,719 residents the 2021 census counted in Croydon, that is 0.52 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 Welcomes Road, Kenley
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 CR8 postcode: 6 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riddlesdown Collegiate | Secondary | Academy converter | 2,074 |
| The John Fisher School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,116 |
| Thomas More Catholic School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 599 |
| Harris Primary Academy Kenley | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 433 |
| The Hayes Primary School | Primary | Community school | 420 |
| Christ Church CofE Primary School (Purley) | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 397 |
| Beaumont Primary School | Primary | Community school | 222 |
| Margaret Roper Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 212 |
| New Valley Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 191 |
| Purley Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 87 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Reedham (Surrey) Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Purley Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Riddlesdown Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Kenley Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
Section 09
How Welcomes Road, Kenley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Welcomes Road, Kenley sits above that national figure — +217.4%.
Within Kenley the street ranks 26 of 95 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £290,000 (+72.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,997 per square metre, across 24 of the 159 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 £135,000 to £1,890,000. 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.
Welcomes Road, Kenley 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
- Brighton Road£176,000 median
- Foxley Lane£355,000 median
- Lansdowne Road£194,250 median
- Old Lodge Lane£270,000 median
- Godstone Road£156,000 median
- Valley Road£249,950 median
- Hayes Lane£300,000 median
- Aveling Close£179,975 median
- High Street£205,000 median
- Woodcote Valley Road£432,500 median
- Montpelier Road£242,000 median
- Pampisford Road£250,000 median
- Northwood Avenue£279,475 median
- Riddlesdown Road£395,000 median
- Lower Road£214,500 median
- Higher Drive£400,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 18 Welcomes Road7 sales
- 67 Welcomes Road4 sales
- 151A Welcomes Road4 sales
- 132 Welcomes Road4 sales
- 30 Welcomes Road4 sales
- 64 Welcomes Road4 sales
- 6A Welcomes Road3 sales
- 63 Welcomes Road3 sales
- 25 Welcomes Road3 sales
- 17 Welcomes Road3 sales
- 157 Welcomes Road3 sales
- 122 Welcomes Road3 sales
- 106 Welcomes Road3 sales
- 45A Welcomes Road3 sales
- 153A Welcomes Road3 sales
- 69 Welcomes Road3 sales
- 8 Welcomes Road2 sales
- FLAT 7, 36 Welcomes Road2 sales
- FLAT 8, 36 Welcomes Road2 sales
- 4 Welcomes Road2 sales
- 145 Welcomes Road2 sales
- 88 Welcomes Road2 sales
- 68 Welcomes Road2 sales
- 159 Welcomes Road2 sales
Back to Kenley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Welcomes Road, Kenley?
The median price paid in Welcomes Road, Kenley across every sale on the register is £499,950. 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 Welcomes Road, Kenley?
159 sales are on record for Welcomes Road, Kenley, the most recent completing on 23 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Welcomes Road, Kenley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +120.0% between 2012 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +70.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Welcomes Road, Kenley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £1,100,000, 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 Welcomes Road, Kenley?
£2,997 per square metre, from the 24 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 23 Feb 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, “Welcomes Road, Kenley 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.