8 Cranleigh Close, South Croydon, CR2 9LH

8 Cranleigh Close is a five-bedroom detached house in South Croydon (CR2 9LH). It has a recorded floor area of 253 m² (around 2723 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 2012 onwards. The latest certificate (March 2021) returns a B (score 81), comfortably above the UK average. Earlier certificates rated it A (September 2020); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The property has underfloor heating on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£325/sq ft) was about 32.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 253 m² the property is well over the postcode median (74 m² across 25 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 88% of similar EPCs). 4 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold June 2021 for £885,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.