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Bickley market report BR1, Bromley
The standing BR1 (Bickley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 30,096 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BR1 (Bromley) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BR1 (Bromley) came in at £465,000, out of 215 registered, up 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £521,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,580 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 30,096 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BR1 is a postcode district covering Bromley, Bickley, Downham in Bromley. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BR1 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 buyers actually paid in BR1
Across 215 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BR1 home went for £465,000. The mean is £521,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in BR1
Per square metre, BR1 homes have averaged around £5,580 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BR1 sits 63% above the national market.
BR1'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £465,000 | £465,000 | 215 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 672 |
| 2024 | £457,500 | £486,416 | 645 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 530 |
| 2022 | £445,000 | £521,813 | 804 |
| 2021 | £440,000 | £557,097 | 945 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 623 |
| 2019 | £382,500 | £501,366 | 689 |
| 2018 | £390,000 | £519,877 | 678 |
| 2017 | £390,000 | £531,921 | 749 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 860 |
| 2015 | £340,000 | £480,420 | 1,129 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 1,040 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 862 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 751 |
| 2011 | £249,000 | £375,894 | 706 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 683 |
| 2009 | £227,000 | £364,904 | 695 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 639 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 1,591 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 1,615 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 1,169 |
| 2004 | £192,500 | £349,618 | 1,309 |
| 2003 | £182,000 | £335,288 | 1,226 |
| 2002 | £161,000 | £302,920 | 1,517 |
| 2001 | £137,500 | £264,337 | 1,308 |
| 2000 | £127,000 | £249,238 | 1,141 |
| 1999 | £100,000 | £199,295 | 1,228 |
| 1998 | £92,000 | £185,709 | 940 |
| 1997 | £79,000 | £162,013 | 1,232 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 1,086 |
| 1995 | £69,500 | £151,082 | 819 |
In cash terms the typical BR1 home went from £69,500 in 1995 to £465,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 208%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BR1 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 (+27.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−3.4%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £808,800 against £340,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BR1
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 | £808,800 | 24 | 3,622 |
| Semi-detached | £650,000 | 38 | 5,287 |
| Terraced | £455,000 | 89 | 11,375 |
| Flats | £340,000 | 64 | 9,812 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.3% | +0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in BR1
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 482 sales completed in BR1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,360 sales a year before the financial crisis and 573 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.
Rents around BR1
The local authority for BR1 is Bromley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,675 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,304 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,915, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bromley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £465,000 median sold price, £1,675 a month is £20,100 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
BR1 (Bickley): the questions that come up
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What happens to BR1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
BR1's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BR1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 161 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% below the BR1 median sold price.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in BR: the cost
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BR1 ranks 6 of 8 in the BR area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside BR1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR1 1 | £409,400 | 8 |
| BR1 2 | £652,500 | 40 |
| BR1 3 | £428,500 | 76 |
| BR1 4 | £465,000 | 50 |
| BR1 5 | £450,000 | 41 |
How BR1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BR4 | £675,000 | +6% |
| BR7 | £600,000 | +2% |
| BR6 | £591,200 | +12% |
| BR2 | £555,000 | +11% |
| BR3 | £550,000 | +10% |
| BR1 (this report) | £465,000 | +6% |
| BR5 | £447,000 | +5% |
| BR8 | £411,800 | +10% |
Selling a home in BR1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BR1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BR1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BR1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BR1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BR1.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BR1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BR1 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.
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.