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Petts Wood market report BR5 2, Orpington
The BR5 2 (Petts Wood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,992 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BR5 2 (Orpington) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in BR5 2 (Orpington) sold for £430,000 in 2026, the median of 54 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £421,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,090 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,992 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BR5 2 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 2 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.
Today's BR5 2 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for BR5 2 is £430,000, taken from 54 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £421,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
BR5 2 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BR5 2 homes have averaged around £5,090 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BR5 2 sits 51% above the national market.
The price of a typical BR5 2 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £430,000 | £430,000 | 54 |
| 2025 | £435,000 | £445,402 | 142 |
| 2024 | £425,000 | £451,862 | 139 |
| 2023 | £415,000 | £455,984 | 135 |
| 2022 | £422,000 | £494,843 | 141 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 207 |
| 2020 | £367,000 | £476,190 | 163 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 168 |
| 2018 | £355,000 | £473,222 | 179 |
| 2017 | £332,000 | £452,815 | 133 |
| 2016 | £327,500 | £458,176 | 195 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 202 |
| 2014 | £265,200 | £376,233 | 200 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 156 |
| 2012 | £207,000 | £304,678 | 135 |
| 2011 | £213,000 | £321,548 | 105 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 124 |
| 2009 | £183,000 | £294,174 | 131 |
| 2008 | £204,000 | £334,399 | 146 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 289 |
| 2006 | £183,000 | £317,665 | 288 |
| 2005 | £182,800 | £325,310 | 178 |
| 2004 | £178,200 | £323,646 | 240 |
| 2003 | £162,500 | £299,364 | 241 |
| 2002 | £136,000 | £255,883 | 318 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 268 |
| 2000 | £108,200 | £212,343 | 224 |
| 1999 | £89,700 | £178,767 | 208 |
| 1998 | £86,000 | £173,597 | 195 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 292 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 221 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 175 |
In cash terms the typical BR5 2 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £430,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 214%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BR5 2 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 2014 (+23.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.3%). 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) | −1.1% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
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
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, 54 sales completed in BR5 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 256 sales a year before the financial crisis and 122 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.
What kind of market BR5 2 is
Only 54 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BR5 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around BR5 2
For renting purposes BR5 2 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.
Set against the £430,000 median sold price, £1,675 a month is £20,100 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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 BR5 2 (Petts Wood)
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What happens to BR5 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
BR5's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 141 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR5 district, not just BR5 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BR prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BR area. 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, BR area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BR5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BR5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR5 1 | £672,500 | 64 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in BR5 2? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BR5 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BR5 2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BR5 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BR5 2 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.
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.