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Petts Wood market report BR5, Orpington
The BR5 (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: 21,655 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BR5 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in BR5 (Orpington) sold for £447,000 in 2026, the median of 207 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £496,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,580 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 21,655 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BR5 is a postcode district covering Petts Wood, St Mary Cray, St Paul's Cray in Orpington. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BR5 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 BR5 homes really sell for
207 sales were registered in BR5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £447,000. The mean works out at £496,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BR5
The last five years of sales put BR5 at roughly £5,580 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 trades 57% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BR5 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 | £447,000 | £447,000 | 207 |
| 2025 | £460,000 | £471,000 | 525 |
| 2024 | £417,200 | £443,569 | 483 |
| 2023 | £435,000 | £477,959 | 454 |
| 2022 | £442,000 | £518,295 | 519 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 751 |
| 2020 | £390,000 | £506,033 | 540 |
| 2019 | £355,000 | £465,320 | 612 |
| 2018 | £352,000 | £469,223 | 595 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 571 |
| 2016 | £345,000 | £482,658 | 669 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 761 |
| 2014 | £260,000 | £368,855 | 741 |
| 2013 | £237,500 | £341,739 | 661 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 578 |
| 2011 | £236,800 | £357,477 | 472 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 459 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 482 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 453 |
| 2007 | £219,000 | £371,485 | 1,034 |
| 2006 | £192,200 | £333,635 | 1,052 |
| 2005 | £192,000 | £341,683 | 663 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 822 |
| 2003 | £166,000 | £305,812 | 901 |
| 2002 | £143,000 | £269,053 | 1,031 |
| 2001 | £124,000 | £238,384 | 914 |
| 2000 | £116,000 | £227,650 | 767 |
| 1999 | £95,500 | £190,327 | 773 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 722 |
| 1997 | £79,700 | £163,449 | 954 |
| 1996 | £71,500 | £150,790 | 848 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 641 |
In cash terms the typical BR5 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £447,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 202%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BR5 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 (+21.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BR5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.8% | −5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 47% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £665,000 against £276,500 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BR5
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £665,000 | 17 | 2,527 |
| Semi-detached | £518,500 | 104 | 10,211 |
| Terraced | £381,000 | 60 | 5,698 |
| Flats | £276,500 | 26 | 3,219 |
How many homes change hands in BR5
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 428 sales completed in BR5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 898 sales a year before the financial crisis and 438 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.
How BR5 trades
Among the 8 measurable districts of its area, BR5 ranks 7 by median price: towards the affordable end.
The rental side of BR5
BR5 falls under Bromley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,675 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,304 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,915 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £447,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.
What people ask about BR5 (Petts Wood)
How much did a house sell for in BR5 (Petts Wood)?
Are property prices falling in BR5 (Petts Wood)?
Is BR5 (Petts Wood) a good place to buy a house?
Are BR5 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
BR5's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BR5 sold for. The live side of the market holds 141 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% above the BR5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in BR: the cost
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%) | — |
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
BR5 ranks 7 of 8 in the BR area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside BR5, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR5 1 | £672,500 | 64 |
| BR5 2 | £430,000 | 54 |
| BR5 3 | £372,000 | 39 |
| BR5 4 | £410,000 | 50 |
How BR5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BR4 | £675,000 | +6% |
| BR7 | £600,000 | +2% |
| BR6 | £591,200 | +12% |
| BR2 | £555,000 | +11% |
| BR3 | £550,000 | +10% |
| BR1 | £465,000 | +6% |
| BR5 (this report) | £447,000 | +5% |
| BR8 | £411,800 | +10% |
Thinking of selling in BR5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BR5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BR5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BR5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
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The live map plots every individual BR5 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.