New Road, Mitcham house prices are built from 268 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 12 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £109,000. Across the 13 years from 2008 to 2021 the median moved +111.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +59.1%.
Median price paid
£109,000
Change in cash, 2008–2021
+111.4%
Change in real terms
+59.1%
Median per m²
£2,589
HM Land Registry268 sales51 with floor areaLatest sale 12 May 2026
Section 01
How New Road, Mitcham prices moved
The chart tracks the median New Road, Mitcham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2021. 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 | 4 | £48,248 | £107,132 |
| 2000s | 9 | £125,000 | £227,713 |
| 2010s | 3 | £225,000 | £317,250 |
| 2020s | 1 | £334,000 | £341,261 |
The highest yearly median on record for New Road, Mitcham is £334,000 in 2021; the lowest is £46,745 in 1997. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £48,248 to £334,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £104,660, so the real change over the whole record is +303.2% — about +5.74% 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: +111.4% in cash against +59.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87 | 12 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £237,500 | £237,500 |
| Flat 3 Cherry Court | 10 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 65 | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 4 | 8 May 2024 | Terraced | £415,000 | £436,679 |
| 2a | 12 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £430,000 | £452,463 |
| 94 | 5 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £298,000 | £313,567 |
| Flat 3 Johnstone Court | 16 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 100 | 31 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £295,000 | £318,736 |
| 35 | 28 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £520,000 | £602,465 |
| 54 | 21 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 100 | 21 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £286,000 | £361,344 |
| 17a | 19 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 68 | 17 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 36 | 7 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £390,000 | £492,742 |
| 32 | 30 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £380,000 | £480,108 |
| 66 | 28 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £233,737 |
| 40 | 27 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £410,000 | £518,011 |
| 88 | 13 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 27 | 19 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £420,000 | £530,645 |
| 34 | 24 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £395,000 | £499,059 |
| 3 | 28 May 2021 | Terraced | £445,000 | £562,231 |
| 12 | 29 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £363,000 | £458,629 |
| 9 | 19 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £305,000 | £385,349 |
| 76 | 28 Jan 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £303,226 |
| 15 | 1 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £336,639 |
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 New Road, Mitcham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87 New Road | £47,495 (1997) | £237,500 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| FLAT 3 CHERRY COURT New Road | £43,000 (1999) | £210,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 65 New Road | £33,495 (1997) | £140,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 4 New Road | £180,000 (2004) | £415,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
| 94 New Road | £64,995 (1996) | £298,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| FLAT 3 JOHNSTONE COURT New Road | £54,500 (1997) | £275,000 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 100 New Road | £64,495 (1996) | £295,000 (2023) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 54 New Road | £44,995 (1996) | £210,000 (2022) | +6.1% | +3.6% |
| 17A New Road | £53,000 (1998) | £255,000 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| 68 New Road | £53,995 (1996) | £250,000 (2021) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
| 36 New Road | £68,000 (1996) | £390,000 (2021) | +7.2% | +4.9% |
| 32 New Road | £187,500 (2009) | £380,000 (2021) | +6.1% | +3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. New Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 216 | 80.6% | £98,000 | £30,500 – £305,000 |
| Terraced | 41 | 15.3% | £190,000 | £59,990 – £445,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7 | 2.6% | £195,000 | £46,000 – £520,000 |
| Detached | 4 | 1.5% | £75,500 | £55,000 – £473,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in New Road, Mitcham
218 of the sales on record are leasehold and 50 freehold — 81.3% 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 £99,000 and the median freehold sale £191,500 — a gap of +93.4%. 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 | 218 | 81.3% | £99,000 |
| Freehold | 50 | 18.7% | £191,500 |
| New build | 52 | 19.4% | £46,495 |
| Existing home | 216 | 80.6% | £129,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -64.0%. 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 4 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 New Road, 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 £109,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 17.38% 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 CR4, 429 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 166 violent, 23 burglary, 31 vehicle-related and 107 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.6 times busier.
Against the 390,719 residents the 2021 census counted in Croydon, that is 1.10 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 New Road, 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.
18 state and independent schools have a CR4 postcode: 15 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harris Academy Merton | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,371 |
| St Mark's Church of England Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 983 |
| Harris Primary Academy Merton | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 486 |
| Liberty Primary | Primary | Community school | 446 |
| Gorringe Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 434 |
| Cranmer Primary School | Primary | Community school | 430 |
| St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 408 |
| Culvers House Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 407 |
| Haslemere Primary School | Primary | Community school | 286 |
| Lonesome Primary School | Primary | Community school | 273 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Mitcham Eastfields Rail Station | Rail | 0.5 km |
| Mitcham Tram Stop | Metro or underground | 1.1 km |
| Mitcham Tram Stop | Metro or underground | 1.2 km |
| Mitcham Tram Stop | Tram | 1.2 km |
Section 09
How New Road, Mitcham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. New Road, Mitcham sits below that national figure — -30.8%.
Within Mitcham the street ranks 330 of 343 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £173,125 (-37.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,589 per square metre, across 51 of the 268 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 £30,500 to £520,000. 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.
New Road, 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
- London Road£160,000 median
- Mullards Close£107,000 median
- Grove Road£158,250 median
- Heathfield Drive£119,250 median
- Commonside East£228,000 median
- Ashbourne Road£188,750 median
- Tamworth Lane£200,000 median
- Lowry Crescent£130,000 median
- Tynemouth Road£159,000 median
- Manor Way£219,000 median
- Manor Road£215,000 median
- Church Road£150,000 median
- Firs Close£120,000 median
- Sherwood Park Road£220,000 median
- Deer Park Gardens£125,000 median
- Abbotts Road£220,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 100 New Road7 sales
- 96 New Road6 sales
- 64 New Road6 sales
- 87 New Road5 sales
- 68 New Road5 sales
- 40 New Road5 sales
- 90 New Road5 sales
- 102 New Road5 sales
- FLAT 4, CHERRY COURT New Road5 sales
- FLAT 3, CHERRY COURT New Road4 sales
- 54 New Road4 sales
- 17A New Road4 sales
- 36 New Road4 sales
- 66 New Road4 sales
- 88 New Road4 sales
- 76 New Road4 sales
- 72 New Road4 sales
- 89 New Road4 sales
- 70 New Road4 sales
- 50 New Road4 sales
- 80 New Road4 sales
- 59 New Road4 sales
- 82 New Road4 sales
- 65 New Road3 sales
Back to Mitcham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in New Road, Mitcham?
The median price paid in New Road, Mitcham across every sale on the register is £109,000. 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 New Road, Mitcham?
268 sales are on record for New Road, Mitcham, the most recent completing on 12 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have New Road, Mitcham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +111.4% between 2008 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +59.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were New Road, Mitcham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £334,000, set in 2021. 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 New Road, Mitcham?
£2,589 per square metre, from the 51 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 12 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, “New Road, 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.