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West Wickham market report BR4 9
The BR4 9 (West Wickham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,869 registered sales in BR4 9 (West Wickham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BR4 9 (West Wickham) came in at £700,000, out of 45 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £682,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,670 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,869 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BR4 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BR4 (West Wickham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BR4 9 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 BR4 9
The BR4 9 median stands at £700,000 for 2026, built from 45 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £682,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in BR4 9
By floor space, homes in BR4 9 have sold for about £5,670 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, BR4 9 runs 146% above it.
The price of a typical BR4 9 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £700,000 | £700,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £712,500 | £729,538 | 134 |
| 2024 | £641,500 | £682,046 | 117 |
| 2023 | £635,000 | £697,710 | 93 |
| 2022 | £685,000 | £803,241 | 135 |
| 2021 | £655,500 | £829,948 | 190 |
| 2020 | £602,500 | £781,756 | 134 |
| 2019 | £560,000 | £734,026 | 133 |
| 2018 | £540,000 | £719,830 | 119 |
| 2017 | £542,000 | £739,234 | 139 |
| 2016 | £540,000 | £755,465 | 157 |
| 2015 | £502,500 | £710,033 | 164 |
| 2014 | £456,500 | £647,625 | 132 |
| 2013 | £380,000 | £546,782 | 142 |
| 2012 | £375,000 | £551,953 | 131 |
| 2011 | £351,100 | £530,026 | 134 |
| 2010 | £345,000 | £541,049 | 153 |
| 2009 | £316,000 | £507,973 | 116 |
| 2008 | £290,000 | £475,371 | 133 |
| 2007 | £340,000 | £576,735 | 192 |
| 2006 | £326,800 | £567,283 | 226 |
| 2005 | £300,700 | £535,125 | 158 |
| 2004 | £287,500 | £522,156 | 196 |
| 2003 | £258,000 | £475,299 | 158 |
| 2002 | £246,000 | £462,847 | 236 |
| 2001 | £220,000 | £422,939 | 175 |
| 2000 | £187,200 | £367,380 | 150 |
| 1999 | £154,000 | £306,914 | 197 |
| 1998 | £140,000 | £282,600 | 170 |
| 1997 | £125,000 | £256,350 | 188 |
| 1996 | £102,500 | £216,168 | 168 |
| 1995 | £99,500 | £216,298 | 154 |
In cash terms the typical BR4 9 home went from £99,500 in 1995 to £700,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 224%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BR4 9 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 1997 (+22.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−14.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.8% | −4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in BR4 9
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.
BR4 9 recorded 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 105 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 BR4 9 market
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BR4 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around BR4 9
The local authority for BR4 9 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 £700,000 median sold price, £1,675 a month is £20,100 a year, a gross yield of 2.9%: 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.
What people ask about BR4 9 (West Wickham)
Are property prices falling in BR4 9 (West Wickham)?
Is BR4 9 (West Wickham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BR4 9 (West Wickham)?
Will BR4 9 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 BR4 today
Turning to what is actually available: 86 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR4 district, not just BR4 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 12% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Copse Avenue, West Wickham, BR4
- Courtfield Rise, West Wickham, West Wickham
- Silver Lane, West Wickham, West Wickham
"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 BR4 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: BR prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BR area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
Winners and losers across the BR area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BR4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BR4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR4 0 | £667,500 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full BR4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BR4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BR4 9: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BR4 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BR4 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BR4 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BR4 9.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BR4 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BR4 9 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.