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Elmers End market report BR3 4, Beckenham
The BR3 4 (Elmers End) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,335 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BR3 4 (Beckenham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in BR3 4 (Beckenham) sold for £557,500 in 2026, the median of 70 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier. The mean was £592,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,220 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 9,335 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BR3 4 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 4 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 4
Take the 70 registered 2026 sales in BR3 4 and the middle price, the median, is £557,500. The mean lands at £592,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in BR3 4
By floor space, homes in BR3 4 have sold for about £6,220 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BR3 4 runs 96% above it.
BR3 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £557,500 | £557,500 | 70 |
| 2025 | £535,000 | £547,793 | 189 |
| 2024 | £534,000 | £567,752 | 183 |
| 2023 | £477,500 | £524,656 | 215 |
| 2022 | £480,000 | £562,855 | 283 |
| 2021 | £485,000 | £614,073 | 309 |
| 2020 | £445,000 | £577,397 | 202 |
| 2019 | £445,200 | £583,551 | 206 |
| 2018 | £436,000 | £581,196 | 219 |
| 2017 | £449,000 | £612,391 | 238 |
| 2016 | £407,500 | £570,097 | 289 |
| 2015 | £385,000 | £544,005 | 280 |
| 2014 | £322,500 | £457,523 | 311 |
| 2013 | £294,000 | £423,037 | 293 |
| 2012 | £270,000 | £397,406 | 241 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 213 |
| 2010 | £268,000 | £420,293 | 212 |
| 2009 | £229,000 | £368,119 | 215 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 205 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 433 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 438 |
| 2005 | £215,800 | £384,037 | 384 |
| 2004 | £213,000 | £386,850 | 375 |
| 2003 | £194,000 | £357,395 | 391 |
| 2002 | £167,000 | £314,209 | 430 |
| 2001 | £138,000 | £265,298 | 382 |
| 2000 | £128,000 | £251,200 | 369 |
| 1999 | £103,000 | £205,274 | 405 |
| 1998 | £88,200 | £178,038 | 396 |
| 1997 | £74,500 | £152,784 | 360 |
| 1996 | £69,000 | £145,518 | 336 |
| 1995 | £66,000 | £143,474 | 263 |
In cash terms the typical BR3 4 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £557,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 289%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BR3 4 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 (+24.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.4%). 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) | +4.2% | +1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.8% | +1.9% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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, 70 sales completed in BR3 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 400 sales a year before the financial crisis and 188 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 rental side of BR3 4
For renting purposes BR3 4 sits in Bromley. The ONS average private rent there is £1,675 a month (May 2026). 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 £557,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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.
BR3 4 (Elmers End): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BR3 4 (Elmers End)?
Is BR3 4 (Elmers End) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BR3 4 (Elmers End)?
Will BR3 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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 is for sale in BR3 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 99 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR3 district, not just BR3 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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.
Moving up a bedroom in BR: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BR area, 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%) | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the BR area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 1 | £415,000 | 51 |
| BR3 3 | £715,000 | 59 |
| 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 4? 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 BR3 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BR3 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BR3 4 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 BR3 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BR3 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BR3 4 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.