Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon house prices

Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon house prices are built from 177 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 28 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £310,000. Across the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 the median moved +65.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +28.2%.

HM Land Registry177 sales42 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Nov 2025

The chart tracks the median Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon is £650,000 in 2021; the lowest is £111,000 in 1995. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £111,000 to £597,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £246,472, so the real change over the whole record is +180.9% — about +3.90% 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: +65.3% in cash against +28.2% 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 Purley Oaks Road, South 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. Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

40 of the sales on record are leasehold and 137 freehold — 22.6% 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 £143,000 and the median freehold sale £355,000 — a gap of +148.3%. 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 — +25.7%. 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 8 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 £310,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.11% 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 CR2, 134 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 46 violent, 5 burglary, 22 vehicle-related and 25 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.

Against the 390,719 residents the 2021 census counted in Croydon, that is 0.34 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.

13 state and independent schools have a CR2 postcode: 10 primary, 3 secondary. 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. Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon sits above that national figure — +96.8%.

Within South Croydon the street ranks 155 of 369 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £236,000 (+31.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,195 per square metre, across 42 of the 177 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 £39,000 to £1,000,000. 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.

Purley Oaks Road, South 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

• Brighton Road£144,625 median
• Addington Road£249,999 median
• Selsdon Road£205,000 median
• Warham Road£160,000 median
• Normanton Road£192,000 median
• Limpsfield Road£248,000 median
• Pampisford Road£240,000 median
• Haling Park Road£197,000 median
• Avondale Road£156,000 median
• Sanderstead Road£194,950 median
• Birdhurst Road£178,000 median
• Bynes Road£194,500 median
• St Augustines Avenue£157,000 median
• Croham Road£185,000 median
• Birdhurst Rise£160,500 median
• Mayfield Road£169,500 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 54 Purley Oaks Road5 sales
• 37A Purley Oaks Road5 sales
• FLAT 1, 13 Purley Oaks Road4 sales
• 1B Purley Oaks Road4 sales
• 106 Purley Oaks Road4 sales
• 60 Purley Oaks Road4 sales
• 1A Purley Oaks Road4 sales
• 121C Purley Oaks Road3 sales
• 3 Purley Oaks Road3 sales
• 115 Purley Oaks Road3 sales
• 15 Purley Oaks Road3 sales
• 35 Purley Oaks Road3 sales
• 20 Purley Oaks Road3 sales
• 24 Purley Oaks Road3 sales
• 27 Purley Oaks Road3 sales
• 89 Purley Oaks Road3 sales
• 12A Purley Oaks Road3 sales
• 21 Purley Oaks Road2 sales
• 129 Purley Oaks Road2 sales
• 159 Purley Oaks Road2 sales
• 131 Purley Oaks Road2 sales
• 142 Purley Oaks Road2 sales
• 12B Purley Oaks Road2 sales
• 93 Purley Oaks Road2 sales

Back to South Croydon house prices.

What is the average house price in Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon?

The median price paid in Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon across every sale on the register is £310,000. 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 Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon?

177 sales are on record for Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon, the most recent completing on 28 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +65.3% between 2012 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +28.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £650,000, 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 Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon?

£3,195 per square metre, from the 42 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 28 Nov 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, “Purley Oaks Road, South 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.