Croston Road, Preston house prices are built from 168 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 6 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £128,750. Across the 11 years from 2013 to 2024 the median moved +32.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.3%.
Median price paid
£128,750
Change in cash, 2013–2024
+32.6%
Change in real terms
-4.3%
HM Land Registry168 salesLatest sale 6 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Croston Road, Preston prices moved
The chart tracks the median Croston Road, Preston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2024. 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 | £53,000 | £117,685 |
| 2000s | 8 | £117,000 | £213,140 |
| 2010s | 4 | £161,000 | £227,010 |
| 2020s | 1 | £222,500 | £227,337 |
The highest yearly median on record for Croston Road, Preston is £222,500 in 2024; the lowest is £44,500 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £44,500 to £222,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £96,531, so the real change over the whole record is +142.5% — about +3.21% 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: +32.6% in cash against -4.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 6 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 3a | 31 Oct 2025 | Detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 61 | 4 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £296,500 | £302,946 |
| 31 | 22 Nov 2024 | Detached | £150,000 | £157,836 |
| 2 | 20 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £131,000 | £137,843 |
| 12 | 8 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £157,836 |
| 45 | 26 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 28 | 24 Jun 2024 | Detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 89 | 28 Mar 2024 | Detached | £337,500 | £355,131 |
| 101a | 26 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £117,000 | £123,112 |
| 30 | 7 Mar 2024 | Detached | £552,500 | £581,362 |
| 20 | 30 Aug 2023 | Detached | £405,000 | £437,586 |
| 80 | 27 Apr 2023 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| 68 | 10 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £127,500 | £137,759 |
| 30 | 27 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 38 | 31 May 2022 | Detached | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 109 | 20 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £173,574 | £201,101 |
| 105 | 15 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| 107 | 3 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £203,000 | £256,478 |
| 15 | 16 Dec 2020 | Detached | £350,000 | £453,168 |
| 84 | 11 Dec 2020 | Detached | £375,000 | £485,537 |
| 76 | 19 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £136,000 | £176,088 |
| 7 | 5 Feb 2020 | Detached | £239,950 | £310,679 |
| 80 | 9 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £106,000 | £138,646 |
| 55 | 25 Mar 2019 | Detached | £227,000 | £296,911 |
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 Croston Road, Preston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Croston Road | £80,500 (2004) | £180,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
| 3A Croston Road | £85,000 (1996) | £450,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 61 Croston Road | £199,999 (2014) | £296,500 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.5% |
| 31 Croston Road | £98,000 (2002) | £150,000 (2024) | +2.0% | -0.8% |
| 2 Croston Road | £47,500 (1997) | £131,000 (2024) | +3.8% | +1.2% |
| 12 Croston Road | £53,000 (1997) | £150,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 45 Croston Road | £79,000 (2000) | £295,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 28 Croston Road | £78,000 (2003) | £295,000 (2024) | +6.5% | +3.6% |
| 89 Croston Road | £90,800 (1996) | £337,500 (2024) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 101A Croston Road | £44,000 (2001) | £117,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 20 Croston Road | £87,500 (1998) | £405,000 (2023) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 80 Croston Road | £110,000 (2005) | £250,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Croston Road, Preston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 74 | 44.0% | £137,000 | £4,500 – £296,500 |
| Terraced | 47 | 28.0% | £80,500 | £17,000 – £245,000 |
| Detached | 45 | 26.8% | £230,000 | £53,000 – £552,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 1.2% | £44,000 | £44,000 – £117,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Croston Road, Preston
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 168 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 168 | 100.0% | £128,750 |
A further 7 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 Croston Road, Preston
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Chorley, 49.1% of 53,253 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 472 | 0.9% |
| B | 7,878 | 14.8% |
| C | 17,819 | 33.5% |
| D | 19,242 | 36.1% |
| E | 5,947 | 11.2% |
| F | 1,439 | 2.7% |
| G | 456 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Chorley at £785 a month as of Jun 2026 — £589 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £128,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.32% 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 PR5, 124 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 44 violent, 5 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 25 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times quieter.
Against the 117,732 residents the 2021 census counted in Chorley, that is 1.05 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 Croston Road, Preston
The 2021 census counted 117,732 residents in Chorley across 50,135 households. 72.8% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a PR5 postcode: 15 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brownedge St Mary's Catholic High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 772 |
| Lostock Hall Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 759 |
| Walton-Le-Dale High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 688 |
| Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 446 |
| Lostock Hall Community Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 422 |
| Our Lady and St Gerard's Roman Catholic Primary School, Lostock Hall | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 341 |
| St Mary's and St Benedict's Roman Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 251 |
| Walton-le-Dale, St Leonard's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 228 |
| St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, Walton-le-Dale | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 199 |
| Cuerden Church School, Bamber Bridge | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 195 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bamber Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Leyland Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Buckshaw Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
| Pleasington Rail Station | Rail | 7.5 km |
Section 09
How Croston Road, Preston compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Croston Road, Preston sits below that national figure — -18.3%.
Within Preston the street ranks 2235 of 3749 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £125,000 (+3.0%).
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 £4,500 to £552,500. 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.
Croston Road, Preston sits in Chorley, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Chorley at 6.3 times median local earnings of £34,980 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
- Holland House Road£109,975 median
- Higher Walton Road£122,750 median
- Brownedge Road£120,500 median
- Brindle Road£145,000 median
- Hampshire Road£119,975 median
- Gregson Lane£148,000 median
- Hoghton Lane£172,750 median
- Queensway£115,000 median
- Windsor Road£119,225 median
- Chorley Road£125,000 median
- Marlborough Drive£112,500 median
- Rydal Avenue£124,250 median
- Watkin Lane£78,000 median
- Fareham Close£162,950 median
- The Ferns£120,475 median
- Todd Lane North£143,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 5 Croston Road8 sales
- 37 Croston Road7 sales
- 30 Croston Road6 sales
- 12 Croston Road5 sales
- 20 Croston Road5 sales
- 7 Croston Road5 sales
- 70 Croston Road5 sales
- 33 Croston Road5 sales
- 31 Croston Road4 sales
- 80 Croston Road4 sales
- 76 Croston Road4 sales
- 55 Croston Road4 sales
- 22 Croston Road4 sales
- 67 Croston Road4 sales
- 119 Croston Road4 sales
- 105 Croston Road3 sales
- 84 Croston Road3 sales
- 62 Croston Road3 sales
- 24 Croston Road3 sales
- 35 Croston Road3 sales
- 26 Croston Road3 sales
- 3A Croston Road2 sales
- 61 Croston Road2 sales
- 2 Croston Road2 sales
Back to Preston house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Croston Road, Preston?
The median price paid in Croston Road, Preston across every sale on the register is £128,750. 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 Croston Road, Preston?
168 sales are on record for Croston Road, Preston, the most recent completing on 6 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Croston Road, Preston house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +32.6% between 2013 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Croston Road, Preston house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £222,500, set in 2024. 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 Croston Road, Preston?
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 6 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, “Croston Road, Preston 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.