Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe house prices are built from 7 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2021 and the most recent on 21 Jul 2021. The median price paid across the whole record is £168,500.
Median price paid
£168,500
Median per m²
£2,718
HM Land Registry7 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 21 Jul 2021
Section 01
How Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Floor Flat 5 | 21 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £270,000 | £341,129 |
| 3 | 6 Sep 2013 | Terraced | £250,000 | £364,529 |
| Ground Floor Flat 5 | 16 Dec 2008 | Flat or maisonette | £153,000 | £256,821 |
| 7 | 27 Apr 2007 | Flat or maisonette | £168,500 | £292,953 |
| 3 | 8 Sep 2005 | Terraced | £199,950 | £364,250 |
| 4 | 17 Mar 2005 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £282,364 |
| 4 | 25 Apr 2001 | Flat or maisonette | £91,000 | £178,456 |
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 Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GROUND FLOOR FLAT 5 Bournefield Road | £153,000 (2008) | £270,000 (2021) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
| 3 Bournefield Road | £199,950 (2005) | £250,000 (2013) | +2.8% | +0.0% |
| 4 Bournefield Road | £91,000 (2001) | £155,000 (2005) | +14.2% | +12.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe 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 | 5 | 71.4% | £155,000 | £91,000 – £270,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 28.6% | £199,950 | £199,950 – £250,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe
5 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2 freehold — 71.4% 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 £155,000 and the median freehold sale £224,975 — a gap of +45.1%. 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 | 5 | 71.4% | £155,000 |
| Freehold | 2 | 28.6% | £224,975 |
A further 2 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 Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe
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 £168,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.25% 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 CR3, 142 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 45 violent, 3 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 27 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 390,719 residents the 2021 census counted in Croydon, that is 0.36 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 Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe
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 CR3 postcode: 9 primary, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| de Stafford School | Secondary | Academy converter | 811 |
| Hillcroft Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 462 |
| Whyteleafe Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 447 |
| St John's CofE Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 444 |
| St Francis Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 398 |
| Marden Lodge Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 215 |
| Audley Primary School | Primary | Community school | 211 |
| Woodlea Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| St Peter and St Paul Church Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 185 |
| Kenley Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 143 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Caterham Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Whyteleafe South Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Woldingham Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Upper Warlingham Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
Section 09
How Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe sits above that national figure — +7.0%.
Within Whyteleafe the street ranks 26 of 34 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-8.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,718 per square metre, across 5 of the 7 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 £91,000 to £270,000. 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.
Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe sits in Croydon, in the South East.
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
- Croydon Road£171,630 median
- Godstone Road£157,500 median
- Stafford Road£200,000 median
- Coulsdon Road£174,975 median
- Chaldon Road£150,000 median
- Tupwood Lane£250,000 median
- Harestone Valley Road£300,000 median
- Banstead Road£210,000 median
- Hillside Road£152,500 median
- Whyteleafe Hill£285,000 median
- Farningham Road£185,000 median
- Godstone Road£246,327 median
- Beechwood Road£205,000 median
- Harestone Hill£269,750 median
- Addison Road£220,000 median
- Church Hill£177,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 5 Bournefield Road2 sales
- 3 Bournefield Road2 sales
- 4 Bournefield Road2 sales
Back to Whyteleafe house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe?
The median price paid in Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe across every sale on the register is £168,500. 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 Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe?
7 sales are on record for Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe, the most recent completing on 21 Jul 2021. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
What is the price per square metre in Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe?
£2,718 per square metre, from the 5 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 21 Jul 2021. 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, “Bournefield Road, Whyteleafe 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.