Local market reports › BR area › BR5 › BR5 3
Petts Wood market report BR5 3, Orpington
The BR5 3 (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: 4,663 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BR5 3 (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 3 (Orpington) sold for £372,000 in 2026, the median of 39 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £370,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,950 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,663 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like BR5 3 is a single group of streets within BR5 (Orpington), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BR5 3 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 3 prices, from the sold record
39 sales were registered in BR5 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £372,000. The mean works out at £370,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in BR5 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BR5 3 costs about £4,950 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BR5 3 31% above the national figure.
The price of a typical BR5 3 home, 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 | £372,000 | £372,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £408,000 | £417,757 | 81 |
| 2024 | £356,500 | £379,033 | 98 |
| 2023 | £355,000 | £390,058 | 94 |
| 2022 | £345,000 | £404,552 | 97 |
| 2021 | £345,000 | £436,815 | 149 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 94 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 121 |
| 2018 | £297,500 | £396,573 | 119 |
| 2017 | £315,500 | £430,310 | 138 |
| 2016 | £305,000 | £426,698 | 180 |
| 2015 | £255,000 | £360,315 | 177 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 201 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 147 |
| 2012 | £182,000 | £267,881 | 109 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 79 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 80 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 90 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 92 |
| 2007 | £186,800 | £316,865 | 254 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 216 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 144 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 181 |
| 2003 | £149,000 | £274,494 | 235 |
| 2002 | £119,000 | £223,897 | 204 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 213 |
| 2000 | £96,800 | £189,970 | 194 |
| 1999 | £79,500 | £158,439 | 166 |
| 1998 | £70,500 | £142,309 | 140 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 187 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 201 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 143 |
In cash terms the typical BR5 3 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £372,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 200%: 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 15% 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 3 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 2003 (+25.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.8% | −11.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 39 BR5 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 205 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 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.
How BR5 3 trades
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BR5 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within BR5, this sector trades 17% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around BR5 3
BR5 3 falls under Bromley, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,675 a month is £20,100 a year, which against the £372,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.4%. 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.
BR5 3 (Petts Wood): the questions that come up
Is BR5 3 (Petts Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BR5 3 (Petts Wood)?
Are property prices falling in BR5 3 (Petts Wood)?
Are BR5 3 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in BR: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BR area. 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. 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BR5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BR5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR5 1 | £672,500 | 64 |
| BR5 2 | £430,000 | 54 |
| 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.
Selling a home in BR5 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BR5 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the BR5 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BR5 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BR5 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BR5 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BR5 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BR5 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.