Cairns Avenue, Mitcham house prices are built from 23 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2012 and the most recent on 16 Nov 2012. The median price paid across the whole record is £247,500.
Median price paid
£247,500
HM Land Registry23 salesLatest sale 16 Nov 2012
Section 01
How Cairns Avenue, Mitcham prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Cairns Avenue, Mitcham to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 16 Nov 2012 | Terraced | £247,000 | £368,930 |
| 25 | 1 Nov 2012 | Terraced | £289,950 | £433,082 |
| 43 | 31 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £309,950 | £462,955 |
| 12 | 31 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £249,950 | £373,336 |
| 18 | 31 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £247,500 | £369,677 |
| 14 | 31 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £247,500 | £369,677 |
| Flat 6 Fielding House, 45 | 31 Oct 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £235,950 | £352,425 |
| Flat 2 Fielding House, 45 | 31 Oct 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £229,950 | £343,463 |
| Flat 1 Fielding House, 45 | 31 Oct 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £229,950 | £343,463 |
| 11 | 29 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £299,950 | £448,019 |
| 13 | 26 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £299,950 | £448,019 |
| 15 | 26 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £297,500 | £444,359 |
| 31 | 26 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £284,950 | £425,614 |
| 19 | 26 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £249,950 | £373,336 |
| 35 | 26 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £247,500 | £369,677 |
| 21 | 26 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £247,500 | £369,677 |
| 17 | 25 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £299,950 | £448,019 |
| 23 | 25 Oct 2012 | Terraced | £247,000 | £368,930 |
| Flat 6 Peakes House, 1 | 24 Oct 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £171,950 | £256,832 |
| Flat 9 Peakes House, 1 | 19 Oct 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £184,950 | £276,249 |
| Flat 5 Styles House, 9 | 12 Oct 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £189,950 | £283,718 |
| Flat 7 Styles House, 9 | 4 Oct 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £194,950 | £291,186 |
| Flat 4 Styles House, 9 | 4 Oct 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £189,950 | £283,718 |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cairns Avenue, Mitcham 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 | 15 | 65.2% | £249,950 | £247,000 – £309,950 |
| Flat or maisonette | 8 | 34.8% | £189,950 | £171,950 – £235,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cairns Avenue, Mitcham
8 of the sales on record are leasehold and 15 freehold — 34.8% 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 £192,450 and the median freehold sale £249,950 — a gap of +29.9%. 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 | 8 | 34.8% | £192,450 |
| Freehold | 15 | 65.2% | £249,950 |
| New build | 22 | 95.7% | £247,500 |
| Existing home | 1 | 4.3% | £309,950 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -20.1%. 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.
Section 07
Living in Cairns Avenue, Mitcham
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 £247,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.66% 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 SW16, 631 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 187 violent, 40 burglary, 63 vehicle-related and 123 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 1.61 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 Cairns Avenue, Mitcham
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.
12 state and independent schools have a SW16 postcode: 9 primary, 2 all-through, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunraven School | All-through | Academy converter | 1,744 |
| Woodmansterne School | All-through | Community school | 1,637 |
| Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,187 |
| Penwortham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 675 |
| Granton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 637 |
| Hitherfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 630 |
| Immanuel and St Andrew Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 425 |
| Norbury Manor Primary School | Primary | Community school | 406 |
| St Andrew's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 406 |
| Sunnyhill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 402 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Streatham Rail Station | Rail | 0.5 km |
| Streatham Common Rail Station | Rail | 0.5 km |
| Norbury Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Streatham Hill Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
Section 09
How Cairns Avenue, Mitcham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cairns Avenue, Mitcham sits above that national figure — +57.1%.
Within Mitcham the street ranks 41 of 343 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £173,125 (+43.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £171,950 to £309,950. 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.
Cairns Avenue, Mitcham 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
- Streatham High Road£227,000 median
- London Road£185,000 median
- Leigham Court Road£219,500 median
- Gleneagle Road£221,995 median
- Knollys Road£205,000 median
- Valley Road£277,000 median
- Gleneldon Road£207,250 median
- Wellfield Road£249,975 median
- Ribblesdale Road£278,725 median
- Eardley Road£230,000 median
- Stanford Road£280,000 median
- Mitcham Lane£219,000 median
- Aldrington Road£141,750 median
- Babington Road£226,000 median
- Sunnyhill Road£235,000 median
- Northborough Road£180,000 median
Back to Mitcham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cairns Avenue, Mitcham?
The median price paid in Cairns Avenue, Mitcham across every sale on the register is £247,500. 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 Cairns Avenue, Mitcham?
23 sales are on record for Cairns Avenue, Mitcham, the most recent completing on 16 Nov 2012. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were Cairns Avenue, Mitcham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £247,500, set in 2012. 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 Cairns Avenue, Mitcham?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 16 Nov 2012. 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, “Cairns Avenue, Mitcham 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.