House prices in England and Wales: the dearest homes, streets and districts

How our districts compare with England

The England average is £291,581. CR5 sits 97% above the England average, and CR3 sits 45% above the England average, and CR8 sits 74% above the England average.

The most expensive homes we cover

Ranked by the automated valuation. Open a home for its sale history, energy rating and nearby places.

Three roads at the top of the market

Each of these roads ranks among the dearest we hold, shown with a photograph taken from the road.

Park View Road

£2,006,000 median value, 21 homes in CR3

The grandest home we hold here is Lothlorien, valued at £2,528,000 on 452 m² with 11 rooms.

Coulsdon Lane

£1,489,500 median value, 12 homes in CR5

The grandest home we hold here is Spinners, valued at £1,848,000 on 416 m² with 12 rooms.

Station Road, Woldingham

£1,482,000 median value, 21 homes in CR3

The grandest home we hold here is Wold Cottage, valued at £1,973,000 on 440 m² with 12 rooms.

Where prices come from

The most affordable street

Whytecliffe Road South

£157,000 median value across 51 homes, CR8

Whytecliffe Road South sits at the other end of the market from the dearest roads we cover: its typical home is valued at £157,000, 69% below the CR8 median of £506,000, which usually means flats and smaller terraces rather than a cheaper postcode.

Homes here have sold for a median of £124,500 since 2019, from 20 sales. Open the street page for every home, sale and energy rating.

Nearby: Riddlesdown. Riddlesdown is a place in the London Borough of Croydon, one mile east from the centre of its post town of Purley. The name applies to the residential district and to the green space maintained by the City of London Corporation… Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, 0.9 miles away.

The costliest square metre

Hill View

£7,600/m² median value per square metre, 15 homes, CR3

Price per square metre strips out size, so it shows where space itself is expensive. Hill View comes out at £7,600 a square metre against £4,957 for CR3 as a whole.

Homes here have sold for a median of £322,500 since 2019, from 13 sales. Open the street page for every home, sale and energy rating.

Nearby: Riddlesdown Common. Riddlesdown Common or Riddlesdown is a 43 hectare area of green space in Kenley, towards the northern end of the North Downs in the London Borough of Croydon. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, 1.0 miles away.

What a typical home costs, by type

Estimated value, averaged across the districts we cover and weighted by the number of homes.

Grand houses at the top of the market

The most expensive homes we cover are large detached houses on generous plots. Surrey’s historic country houses show what the very top of the market looks like.

Admiral Edward Boscawen built Hatchlands in the late 1750s, and Robert Adam, then early in his career, designed the interiors that still run through the principal floor. Gertrude Jekyll designed a garden here, and the National Trust has cared for the estate since the 1940s. Houses of this period reward a close look at the proportions: tall sash windows, a pedimented centre and a south front built to face the sun.

Thomas Cubitt built the Regency villa in the 1820s on a ridge of the North Downs, and the society hostess Margaret Greville remodelled it in 1906. She filled it with paintings, porcelain and silver and entertained royalty here; the Duke and Duchess of York spent part of their honeymoon in the house in 1923. The long south terrace shows why Surrey ridge-top plots are so prized.

Giacomo Leoni designed the Palladian house for Thomas Onslow in the 1720s, and its double-height Marble Hall was among the finest Georgian rooms in England. A fire in April 2015 gutted the interior, and the National Trust is restoring the house. The brick-and-stone exterior survived, a reminder that the best period houses are defined by their facades first.

The dearest and the most affordable streets

Median estimated value of the homes on each street, for streets with at least five valued homes. The median sold price since 2019 sits alongside where there are four or more sales.

Prices by property type

A detached home costs 2.5 times as much as a flat in the same district at the widest gap.

Median estimated value by property type, from the energy certificate type and built form. Districts without a recorded built form show only the types we can identify.

Homes with a story

A name often says more than a number. These houses carry names that point to a rectory, a lodge, a barn or a manor, with what we hold on each.

Clergy house

Vicarage

Houses named Rectory or Vicarage were built for the parish clergy, usually beside the church, with rooms and gardens to match the office. Many were sold by the Church in the twentieth century and are now sought-after family homes.

188 m². Last sold for £710,000 in 2024, now estimated at £671,000. CR8

Lodge

Atherfield Lodge

A lodge was the gatehouse of a larger estate, often built in the same style as the main house. Many outlived the mansion they once guarded.

Built 1900-1929. 149 m². Last sold for £537,500 in 2011, now estimated at £1,855,000. CR3

Farm building

Coach House

Barn, granary, stable and coach house names mark outbuildings converted to homes. Their tall volumes and timber frames are prized, and such buildings can be listed.

Built 1900-1929. 147 m². Last sold for £320,000 in 2010, now estimated at £516,000. CR3

Manor or hall

Pirbright Manor, Hogscross Lane

Names such as Manor, Hall, Grange, Priory or Castle signal a house with some pretension, whether or not the original estate survives.

Built before 1900. 214 m². Last sold for £800,000 in 2017, now estimated at £1,006,000. CR5

Lodge

Holly Lodge

Built 1900-1929. 318 m². Last sold for £1,050,000 in 2017, now estimated at £1,601,000. CR3

Lodge

Bracken Lodge, Coulsdon Lane

Built 1967-1975. 159 m². Last sold for £910,000 in 2018, now estimated at £1,251,000. CR5

Property curiosities

The biggest rise, the longest wait and the smallest floor plan across the homes we cover.

Highest recent sales

The most expensive homes sold since the start of 2024.

The places behind the prices

What the areas we cover are known for, from Wikipedia: commons and downs, historic churches, airfields and villages.

CR5 · 0.2 miles from Netherne-on-the-Hill

Netherne Hospital

Netherne Hospital, formerly The Surrey County Asylum at Netherne or Netherne Asylum was a psychiatric hospital in Hooley, Surrey in the United Kingdom.

CR5 · 0.2 miles from Netherne-on-the-Hill

Netherne-on-the-Hill

Netherne-on-the-Hill is a village in Surrey, England, occupying a plateau once home to Netherne Hospital. The village is across a narrow valley from Hooley in north of the borough of Reigate and Banstead;

CR5 · 0.2 miles from Old Coulsdon

Old Coulsdon

Old Coulsdon is a village near Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon, England, 14.4 miles (23 km) south of Charing Cross. It is the southernmost settlement in Greater London.

CR5 · 0.3 miles from Hooley

Hooley

Hooley is a village in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, England. Within its small grid of streets is the 13th-century church of Chipstead which has been, since time immemorial, its ecclesiastical parish.

CR5 · 0.4 miles from Old Coulsdon

Dollypers Hill

Dollypers Hill is a 12-hectare (30-acre) nature reserve south east of Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust. This urban site has ancient woodland, chalk grassland and scrub.

CR5 · 0.5 miles from Chipstead

Chipstead, Surrey

Chipstead is a predominantly commuter village in the Reigate and Banstead district, in north-east Surrey, England, that has been a small ecclesiastical parish since the Domesday Survey of 1086.

Summaries are from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. Photographs are from Wikimedia Commons and credited on each card.

Compare postcode districts

Median sale price since 2019 and the share of homes rated EPC C or better.

What the prices say

How each district compares with the others we cover.

CR5 (Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon, Chipstead, Netherne-on-the-Hill and Hooley) has a median sale price of £500,000 since 2019, 10% above the median across districts of £455,000. Its homes have an estimated median value of £574,000, and 40% are rated EPC C or better. Of the 2,672 homes we cover there, 136 streets have enough valued homes to be ranked, and the dearest ranked street is Coulsdon Lane at £1,489,500.

CR3 (Caterham, Chaldon, Whyteleafe, Woldingham and Woldingham Garden Village) has a median sale price of £390,000 since 2019, 14% below the median across districts of £455,000. Its homes have an estimated median value of £424,000, and 47% are rated EPC C or better. Of the 3,853 homes we cover there, 132 streets have enough valued homes to be ranked, and the dearest ranked street is Park View Road at £2,006,000.

CR8 (Purley, Kenley, Woodcote, Russell Hill, Portley & Queens Park and Whyteleafe) has a median sale price of £455,000 since 2019, in line with median across districts of £455,000. Its homes have an estimated median value of £506,000, and 42% are rated EPC C or better. Of the 3,892 homes we cover there, 147 streets have enough valued homes to be ranked, and the dearest ranked street is Silver Lane at £1,981,000.

The dearest ranked street, Park View Road, has a median estimated value of £2,006,000, which is 12.8 times as much as the most affordable, Whytecliffe Road South, at £157,000. A gap that wide inside one area is why street-level prices matter more than a district average when you are choosing where to buy.

Prices are medians, so a handful of very large or very small sales does not move them. Each figure is recalculated whenever Land Registry publishes new sales, and a newly added district takes its place in these comparisons straight away.

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