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Petts Wood market report BR5 1, Orpington
The standing BR5 1 (Petts Wood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,267 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BR5 1 (Orpington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical BR5 1 (Orpington) home changed hands for £672,500 in 2026 (median of 64 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £691,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,680 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,267 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BR5 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BR5 (Orpington). 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 BR5 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.
What a home in BR5 1 sells for
In the BR5 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £672,500, from 64 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £691,300, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in BR5 1
The last five years of sales put BR5 1 at roughly £6,680 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BR5 1 trades 136% above the country as a whole.
A typical BR5 1 home, priced year by year (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 | £672,500 | £672,500 | 64 |
| 2025 | £739,500 | £757,184 | 180 |
| 2024 | £644,600 | £685,342 | 124 |
| 2023 | £660,800 | £726,058 | 130 |
| 2022 | £695,500 | £815,553 | 174 |
| 2021 | £675,000 | £854,637 | 241 |
| 2020 | £615,000 | £797,975 | 169 |
| 2019 | £597,500 | £783,179 | 180 |
| 2018 | £568,500 | £757,821 | 162 |
| 2017 | £605,000 | £825,159 | 149 |
| 2016 | £575,000 | £804,431 | 162 |
| 2015 | £504,500 | £712,859 | 212 |
| 2014 | £482,500 | £684,511 | 195 |
| 2013 | £410,000 | £589,949 | 217 |
| 2012 | £395,000 | £581,391 | 190 |
| 2011 | £420,000 | £634,038 | 181 |
| 2010 | £382,500 | £599,858 | 160 |
| 2009 | £335,000 | £538,515 | 165 |
| 2008 | £346,500 | £567,987 | 126 |
| 2007 | £370,000 | £627,623 | 260 |
| 2006 | £327,500 | £568,498 | 301 |
| 2005 | £302,500 | £538,328 | 204 |
| 2004 | £290,000 | £526,697 | 216 |
| 2003 | £262,000 | £482,668 | 229 |
| 2002 | £240,000 | £451,558 | 300 |
| 2001 | £210,500 | £404,676 | 234 |
| 2000 | £200,000 | £392,500 | 202 |
| 1999 | £167,000 | £332,822 | 211 |
| 1998 | £140,000 | £282,600 | 227 |
| 1997 | £130,000 | £266,604 | 267 |
| 1996 | £115,000 | £242,530 | 244 |
| 1995 | £105,000 | £228,254 | 191 |
In cash terms the typical BR5 1 home went from £105,000 in 1995 to £672,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 195%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 21% 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 BR5 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 2000 (+19.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−9.1%). 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) | −9.1% | −11.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in BR5 1
Sales per year, counted
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, 64 sales completed in BR5 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 243 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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.
What homes rent for around BR5 1
The local authority for BR5 1 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.
Against the £672,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,675 a month (£20,100 a year) works out at a 3.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the BR5 1 market
Against the BR5 district median, BR5 1 sits 50% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on BR5 1 (Petts Wood)
Is BR5 1 (Petts Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BR5 1 (Petts Wood)?
Are property prices falling in BR5 1 (Petts Wood)?
Where do BR5 1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in BR5 now
Turning to what is actually available: 141 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR5 district, not just BR5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 BR5 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.
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BR5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BR5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR5 2 | £430,000 | 54 |
| BR5 3 | £372,000 | 39 |
| BR5 4 | £410,000 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full BR5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BR5 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BR5 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BR5 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BR5 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BR5 1 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 BR5 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BR5 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BR5 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.
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.