About £388,000 buys the typical Croydon home. Flats go for not much over a quarter of a million. Detached houses cost far more, and few ever come up for sale. Prices have hardly moved in a year. It's still London, at a price you can say out loud without wincing.
The Land Registry recorded about 1,090 sales in the year to May 2026, with a typical price of about £388,000. Flats are where most buyers start. There were 367 flat sales at a typical £255,000, and 431 terraces at about £417,000. The 212 semis went for about £483,000. Only 79 detached houses sold, at about £640,000. Because flats are such a big part of the market, ask for the service charge and the remaining lease length when you ask for the price, since both affect what the flat really costs. A detached house here is something people mention more often than they buy.
The house price index for Croydon put the average at about £397,000 in May 2026, down by less than 1% over the year. Flats did a little worse, down about 3%. The five-year change is about 1% up. That suits a first-time buyer coming in now. It is less welcome to anyone who bought a flat five years ago hoping the commute would do the saving for them.
Council tax is mid-range. Band C is the most common band, and about 19% of homes are in bands A or B. A Band D bill in Croydon comes to about £2,600 a year, so that is the figure to check against what you pay now.
Typical private rent is about £1,560 a month across the whole London Borough of Croydon, as of April 2026. That figure comes from the Office for National Statistics index, is an average and not a median of listings, and was up about 4% on the year. By size, the borough averages are about £1,250 for one bedroom, £1,560 for two, £1,840 for three, and about £2,650 for four or more. About half the town rents, so first-time buyers often meet landlords at the same flat viewings.
The Office for National Statistics models median household income at about £71,000 gross, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. It is a modelled estimate averaged across the area's neighbourhoods. On that income, a flat is realistic and a terrace is achievable. A semi starts to depend on a bigger deposit or on family help with one.
For the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, about 80% of the total, the median price was about £4,880 a square metre. The typical home in that group was about 84 square metres. That is a decent amount of space for London money, though the figure covers only the sales that could be measured.
The 2021 census shows what that space looks like in bedrooms. About 20% of homes have one bedroom, 32% have two, 35% have three and 13% have four or more. Three-bed homes are the most common, so a growing family has more to choose from than Croydon's reputation as a town of flats would suggest.
Croydon is one of the cheaper ways to buy in London without leaving London. For anyone starting out, or trading up to a terrace, the prices work well in the buyer's favour.