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Bickley market report BR1 2, Bromley
The standing BR1 2 (Bickley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,452 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BR1 2 (Bromley) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for BR1 2 (Bromley) is £652,500, from 40 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £742,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,000 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,452 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BR1 2 is one sector of BR1 (Bromley): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BR1 2 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.
BR1 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 40 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BR1 2 home went for £652,500. The mean is £742,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BR1 2
A square metre of BR1 2 home has cost about £6,000 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BR1 2 trades 129% above the country as a whole.
BR1 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £652,500 | £652,500 | 40 |
| 2025 | £692,500 | £709,060 | 138 |
| 2024 | £645,000 | £685,767 | 172 |
| 2023 | £650,000 | £714,191 | 105 |
| 2022 | £670,000 | £785,651 | 168 |
| 2021 | £645,000 | £816,653 | 247 |
| 2020 | £530,000 | £687,686 | 187 |
| 2019 | £600,000 | £786,456 | 159 |
| 2018 | £595,000 | £793,146 | 165 |
| 2017 | £661,500 | £902,220 | 142 |
| 2016 | £543,800 | £760,782 | 174 |
| 2015 | £547,500 | £773,618 | 208 |
| 2014 | £495,000 | £702,244 | 241 |
| 2013 | £407,000 | £585,632 | 187 |
| 2012 | £377,500 | £555,633 | 180 |
| 2011 | £400,000 | £603,846 | 165 |
| 2010 | £395,000 | £619,462 | 185 |
| 2009 | £355,000 | £570,666 | 168 |
| 2008 | £445,000 | £729,449 | 123 |
| 2007 | £360,600 | £611,678 | 330 |
| 2006 | £328,000 | £569,366 | 387 |
| 2005 | £305,000 | £542,777 | 258 |
| 2004 | £292,000 | £530,329 | 269 |
| 2003 | £292,500 | £538,856 | 212 |
| 2002 | £255,700 | £481,097 | 274 |
| 2001 | £224,000 | £430,629 | 254 |
| 2000 | £192,700 | £378,174 | 205 |
| 1999 | £158,000 | £314,886 | 223 |
| 1998 | £131,400 | £265,240 | 188 |
| 1997 | £122,500 | £251,223 | 268 |
| 1996 | £117,200 | £247,170 | 254 |
| 1995 | £117,000 | £254,340 | 176 |
In cash terms the typical BR1 2 home went from £117,000 in 1995 to £652,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 157%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BR1 2 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 2008 (+23.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.8% | −8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BR1 2
Sales per year, counted
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.
BR1 2 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 274 sales a year before the financial crisis and 125 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the BR1 2 market
This is a thin market: 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within BR1, this sector trades 40% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around BR1 2
BR1 2 falls under Bromley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,675 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,304 a month here against £2,915 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £652,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.1%. 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.
BR1 2 (Bickley): the questions that come up
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What happens to BR1 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in BR1 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 161 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR1 district, not just BR1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 BR1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in BR
Real sold prices by size across the BR area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £539,000 | £760,000 (+41%) | £1,098,750 (+45%) | £1,443,750 (+31%) |
| Semi-detached | £400,000 | £464,000 (+16%) | £595,000 (+28%) | £775,000 (+30%) | £985,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £369,000 | £425,000 (+15%) | £545,000 (+28%) | £690,000 (+27%) | — |
| Flat | £268,500 | £367,000 (+37%) | £498,750 (+36%) | £750,000 (+50%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BR1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BR1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR1 1 | £409,400 | 8 |
| BR1 3 | £428,500 | 76 |
| BR1 4 | £465,000 | 50 |
| BR1 5 | £450,000 | 41 |
Zoom out to the full BR1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BR1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BR1 2? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BR1 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BR1 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BR1 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BR1 2.
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The live map plots every individual BR1 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.