Local market reports › BR area › BR5 › BR5 4
Petts Wood market report BR5 4, Orpington
The standing BR5 4 (Petts Wood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,733 HM Land Registry entries for BR5 4 (Orpington), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BR5 4 (Orpington) is £410,000, from 50 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £426,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,240 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,733 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BR5 4 is one sector of BR5 (Orpington): 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 BR5 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.
What a home in BR5 4 sells for
Take the 50 registered 2026 sales in BR5 4 and the middle price, the median, is £410,000. The mean lands at £426,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in BR5 4
A square metre of BR5 4 home has cost about £5,240 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BR5 4 sits 44% above the national market.
The price of a typical BR5 4 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 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 50 |
| 2025 | £418,800 | £428,815 | 122 |
| 2024 | £390,000 | £414,650 | 122 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 95 |
| 2022 | £438,000 | £513,605 | 107 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 154 |
| 2020 | £358,000 | £464,512 | 114 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 143 |
| 2018 | £338,000 | £450,560 | 135 |
| 2017 | £335,000 | £456,906 | 151 |
| 2016 | £325,000 | £454,678 | 132 |
| 2015 | £288,500 | £407,651 | 170 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 145 |
| 2013 | £228,000 | £328,069 | 141 |
| 2012 | £228,200 | £335,882 | 144 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 107 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 95 |
| 2009 | £189,800 | £305,105 | 96 |
| 2008 | £214,000 | £350,791 | 89 |
| 2007 | £207,000 | £351,130 | 231 |
| 2006 | £176,000 | £305,514 | 247 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 137 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 185 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 196 |
| 2002 | £137,000 | £257,764 | 209 |
| 2001 | £121,000 | £232,616 | 199 |
| 2000 | £104,000 | £204,100 | 147 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 188 |
| 1998 | £83,000 | £167,541 | 160 |
| 1997 | £75,400 | £154,630 | 208 |
| 1996 | £69,000 | £145,518 | 182 |
| 1995 | £65,200 | £141,735 | 132 |
In cash terms the typical BR5 4 home went from £65,200 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 189%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BR5 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 2007 (+17.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BR5 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 50 BR5 4 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 194 sales a year before the financial crisis and 99 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.
The shape of the BR5 4 market
Only 50 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BR5 4 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 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around BR5 4
For renting purposes BR5 4 sits in Bromley. The ONS average private rent there is £1,675 a month (May 2026). 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 £410,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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.
Asked and answered: BR5 4 (Petts Wood)
Is BR5 4 (Petts Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BR5 4 (Petts Wood)?
Are property prices falling in BR5 4 (Petts Wood)?
What happens to BR5 4 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.
On the market in BR5 today
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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.
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.
Five-year change in the median, BR area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £430,000 | 54 |
| BR5 3 | £372,000 | 39 |
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 4? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BR5 4'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.
Estate agents working BR5 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BR5 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BR5 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BR5 4 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.
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.