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Bromley market report BR
The standing BR (Bromley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 166,827 HM Land Registry entries for the BR postcode area (Bromley), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the BR postcode area (Bromley) came in at £520,000, out of 1,788 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £584,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,760 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 166,827 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The figures for BR centred on Bromley run across 8 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where BR sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What BR homes really sell for
The BR median stands at £520,000 for 2026, built from 1,788 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £584,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BR
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BR sales average about £5,760 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BR 82% above the national figure.
BR's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £520,000 | £520,000 | 1,788 |
| 2025 | £520,000 | £532,435 | 4,185 |
| 2024 | £504,900 | £536,812 | 3,928 |
| 2023 | £500,000 | £549,378 | 3,381 |
| 2022 | £511,000 | £599,206 | 4,557 |
| 2021 | £487,000 | £616,605 | 5,793 |
| 2020 | £465,000 | £603,347 | 4,048 |
| 2019 | £430,000 | £563,627 | 4,340 |
| 2018 | £430,000 | £573,198 | 4,272 |
| 2017 | £430,000 | £586,477 | 4,392 |
| 2016 | £411,500 | £575,693 | 4,991 |
| 2015 | £375,000 | £529,875 | 5,563 |
| 2014 | £335,000 | £475,256 | 5,556 |
| 2013 | £293,000 | £421,598 | 5,086 |
| 2012 | £279,000 | £410,653 | 4,510 |
| 2011 | £275,000 | £415,144 | 4,080 |
| 2010 | £275,000 | £431,271 | 4,198 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 3,776 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 3,526 |
| 2007 | £259,000 | £439,336 | 7,483 |
| 2006 | £243,500 | £422,685 | 7,947 |
| 2005 | £234,500 | £417,315 | 5,954 |
| 2004 | £228,200 | £414,456 | 6,889 |
| 2003 | £208,000 | £383,186 | 6,440 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 7,606 |
| 2001 | £156,000 | £299,902 | 6,946 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 5,975 |
| 1999 | £119,500 | £238,157 | 6,603 |
| 1998 | £102,900 | £207,711 | 5,667 |
| 1997 | £88,000 | £180,470 | 6,791 |
| 1996 | £82,000 | £172,934 | 6,006 |
| 1995 | £78,000 | £169,560 | 4,550 |
In cash terms the typical BR home went from £78,000 in 1995 to £520,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 207%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BR median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+17.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−3.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 29% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £825,000 against £334,200 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, BR
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £825,000 | 293 | 26,558 |
| Semi-detached | £605,000 | 577 | 49,029 |
| Terraced | £490,000 | 480 | 44,747 |
| Flats | £334,200 | 438 | 46,493 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.9% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 3,145 BR sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 6,905 sales a year before the financial crisis and 3,568 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around BR
BR falls under Bromley, the local authority covering most of the BR area, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,675 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,304 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,915 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bromley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,675 a month is £20,100 a year, which against the £520,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about BR (Bromley)
Are property prices falling in BR (Bromley)?
Is BR (Bromley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BR (Bromley)?
Where do BR prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in BR now
Everything above is what homes in BR sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 666 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the BR median sold price.
Set against 3,145 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 666 homes on the market here are roughly 3 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
15% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BR home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
BR: the homes on offer and the homes that go
In BR, terraced homes made up 26% of recent sales yet only 13% of today's listings. Demand outrunning supply for a type is the clearest sign a fairly priced one will go quickly.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 17% | 17% |
| Semi-detached | 35% | 31% |
| Terraced | 13% | 26% |
| Flats | 35% | 26% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side (92 of them here).
Month by month: when BR sells
March is when BR changes hands most (11.6% of the 21,844 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.2%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,507 | 6.9% |
| February | 1,727 | 7.9% |
| March | 2,542 | 11.6% |
| April | 1,365 | 6.2% |
| May | 1,511 | 6.9% |
| June | 2,523 | 11.6% |
| July | 1,575 | 7.2% |
| August | 1,866 | 8.5% |
| September | 2,098 | 9.6% |
| October | 1,709 | 7.8% |
| November | 1,762 | 8.1% |
| December | 1,659 | 7.6% |
Moving up a bedroom in BR: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BR area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £535,000 | £640,000 (+20%) | £750,000 (+17%) | £940,000 (+25%) | £1,220,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £410,000 | £453,600 (+11%) | £565,000 (+25%) | £725,000 (+28%) | £875,000 (+21%) |
| Terraced | £340,000 | £406,000 (+19%) | £490,000 (+21%) | £610,000 (+24%) | £755,000 (+24%) |
| Flat | £260,000 | £350,000 (+35%) | £435,000 (+24%) | £602,500 (+39%) | £740,000 (+23%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, BR area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The spread inside BR matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| BR4 West Wickham | £680,000 | +7% | 115 |
| BR6 Orpington, Locksbottom | £592,500 | +12% | 301 |
| BR7 Chislehurst, Elmstead | £584,100 | -1% | 120 |
| BR2 Bromley, Hayes | £550,000 | +10% | 281 |
| BR3 Beckenham, Elmers End | £540,800 | +8% | 326 |
| BR1 Bromley, Bickley | £463,800 | +5% | 250 |
| BR5 Petts Wood, St Mary Cray | £460,000 | +8% | 241 |
| BR8 Swanley, Hextable | £411,800 | +10% | 154 |
Selling a home in BR? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BR's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BR. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual BR sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.