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Hayes market report BR2 8, Bromley
The BR2 8 (Hayes) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,702 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BR2 8 (Bromley) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BR2 8 (Bromley) home changed hands for £550,000 in 2026 (median of 47 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier), with the mean at £543,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,830 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,702 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BR2 8 is a single group of streets within BR2 (Bromley), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BR2 8 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 BR2 8 homes really sell for
Across 47 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BR2 8 home went for £550,000. The mean is £543,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
BR2 8 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in BR2 8 have sold for about £5,830 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BR2 8 93% above the country at large.
The price of a typical BR2 8 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £550,000 | £550,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £565,000 | £578,511 | 101 |
| 2024 | £543,000 | £577,321 | 117 |
| 2023 | £595,000 | £653,760 | 71 |
| 2022 | £551,500 | £646,697 | 122 |
| 2021 | £500,500 | £633,698 | 192 |
| 2020 | £500,000 | £648,760 | 131 |
| 2019 | £468,800 | £614,485 | 146 |
| 2018 | £442,500 | £589,861 | 136 |
| 2017 | £445,000 | £606,935 | 119 |
| 2016 | £440,000 | £615,564 | 123 |
| 2015 | £380,000 | £536,940 | 124 |
| 2014 | £354,000 | £502,211 | 160 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 156 |
| 2012 | £283,500 | £417,277 | 110 |
| 2011 | £286,200 | £432,052 | 123 |
| 2010 | £272,000 | £426,566 | 129 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 120 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 108 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 193 |
| 2006 | £249,500 | £433,100 | 215 |
| 2005 | £227,200 | £404,324 | 144 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 179 |
| 2003 | £225,000 | £414,505 | 173 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 205 |
| 2001 | £161,000 | £309,514 | 190 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 168 |
| 1999 | £121,800 | £242,741 | 202 |
| 1998 | £105,000 | £211,950 | 149 |
| 1997 | £95,000 | £194,826 | 188 |
| 1996 | £78,000 | £164,499 | 171 |
| 1995 | £84,500 | £183,690 | 190 |
In cash terms the typical BR2 8 home went from £84,500 in 1995 to £550,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 199%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BR2 8 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 2003 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−8.7%). 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) | −2.7% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 47 sales completed in BR2 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 183 sales a year before the financial crisis and 92 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market BR2 8 is
This is a thin market: 47 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.
What tenants pay around BR2 8
BR2 8 falls under Bromley, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,675 a month is £20,100 a year, which against the £550,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. 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.
Common questions on BR2 8 (Hayes)
How much did a house sell for in BR2 8 (Hayes)?
Are property prices falling in BR2 8 (Hayes)?
Is BR2 8 (Hayes) a good place to buy a house?
Are BR2 8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
BR2's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 207 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR2 district, not just BR2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
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.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BR2 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.
What another bedroom costs in BR
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BR area, 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BR area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BR2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BR2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR2 0 | £497,500 | 63 |
| BR2 6 | £576,000 | 8 |
| BR2 7 | £630,000 | 36 |
| BR2 9 | £525,000 | 72 |
Zoom out to the full BR2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BR2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BR2 8? 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 BR2 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BR2 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BR2 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BR2 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BR2 8 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.
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.