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Elmers End market report BR3 1, Beckenham
The BR3 1 (Elmers End) 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: 6,666 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BR3 1 (Beckenham) 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: the middle 2026 sale in BR3 1 (Beckenham) came in at £415,000, out of 51 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £558,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,830 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,666 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BR3 1 is one sector of BR3 (Beckenham): 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 BR3 1 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.
The going rate for a home in BR3 1
51 sales were registered in BR3 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £415,000. The mean works out at £558,000, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in BR3 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BR3 1 costs about £5,830 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BR3 1 trades 46% above the country as a whole.
BR3 1's median sold price, 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 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £437,500 | £447,962 | 170 |
| 2024 | £415,000 | £441,230 | 160 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 143 |
| 2022 | £413,800 | £485,228 | 168 |
| 2021 | £447,500 | £566,593 | 194 |
| 2020 | £420,000 | £544,959 | 121 |
| 2019 | £395,000 | £517,750 | 151 |
| 2018 | £378,000 | £503,881 | 143 |
| 2017 | £420,000 | £572,838 | 145 |
| 2016 | £390,000 | £545,614 | 191 |
| 2015 | £400,000 | £565,200 | 214 |
| 2014 | £320,000 | £453,976 | 242 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 195 |
| 2012 | £256,500 | £377,536 | 219 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 150 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 188 |
| 2009 | £218,000 | £350,437 | 153 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 153 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 284 |
| 2006 | £235,000 | £407,930 | 328 |
| 2005 | £216,200 | £384,749 | 244 |
| 2004 | £230,000 | £417,725 | 301 |
| 2003 | £197,500 | £363,843 | 267 |
| 2002 | £164,500 | £309,505 | 301 |
| 2001 | £139,500 | £268,182 | 292 |
| 2000 | £118,000 | £231,575 | 283 |
| 1999 | £95,000 | £189,330 | 298 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 289 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 274 |
| 1996 | £69,000 | £145,518 | 218 |
| 1995 | £69,200 | £150,430 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical BR3 1 home went from £69,200 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 176%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 28% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BR3 1 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 1998 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−10.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BR3 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.1% | −7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 51 sales completed in BR3 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 288 sales a year before the financial crisis and 138 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.
The shape of the BR3 1 market
This is a thin market: 51 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. Against the BR3 district median, BR3 1 sits 25% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around BR3 1
For renting purposes BR3 1 sits in Bromley. The ONS average private rent there is £1,675 a month (May 2026). 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 £415,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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 BR3 1 (Elmers End)
How much did a house sell for in BR3 1 (Elmers End)?
Are property prices falling in BR3 1 (Elmers End)?
Is BR3 1 (Elmers End) a good place to buy a house?
Will BR3 1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BR3 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 99 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR3 district, not just BR3 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% 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.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BR3 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. 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 | — | £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. 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 BR3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BR3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR3 3 | £715,000 | 59 |
| BR3 4 | £557,500 | 70 |
| BR3 5 | £420,000 | 60 |
| BR3 6 | £668,800 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full BR3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BR3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BR3 1? Price it on the evidence
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See every individual BR3 1 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.