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Locksbottom market report BR6 6, Orpington
The BR6 6 (Locksbottom) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,255 registered sales in BR6 6 (Orpington) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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: 29 registered 2026 sales put the BR6 6 (Orpington) median at £640,000, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £756,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,740 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,255 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BR6 6 is one sector of BR6 (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 BR6 6 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.
BR6 6 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 29 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BR6 6 home went for £640,000. The mean is £756,000, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in BR6 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BR6 6 costs about £5,740 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BR6 6 sits 125% above the national market.
A typical BR6 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £640,000 | £640,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £580,000 | £593,870 | 91 |
| 2024 | £655,000 | £696,400 | 76 |
| 2023 | £570,000 | £626,291 | 66 |
| 2022 | £580,000 | £680,116 | 104 |
| 2021 | £531,000 | £672,315 | 130 |
| 2020 | £520,000 | £674,711 | 75 |
| 2019 | £496,200 | £650,399 | 74 |
| 2018 | £573,800 | £764,886 | 82 |
| 2017 | £505,000 | £688,769 | 86 |
| 2016 | £470,000 | £657,535 | 85 |
| 2015 | £475,000 | £671,175 | 114 |
| 2014 | £450,000 | £638,404 | 103 |
| 2013 | £365,000 | £525,199 | 95 |
| 2012 | £327,500 | £482,039 | 108 |
| 2011 | £365,000 | £551,010 | 77 |
| 2010 | £298,000 | £467,341 | 79 |
| 2009 | £272,500 | £438,046 | 70 |
| 2008 | £280,000 | £458,979 | 48 |
| 2007 | £288,200 | £488,867 | 148 |
| 2006 | £302,000 | £524,233 | 144 |
| 2005 | £298,000 | £530,320 | 109 |
| 2004 | £275,000 | £499,454 | 148 |
| 2003 | £239,500 | £441,217 | 118 |
| 2002 | £225,000 | £423,336 | 145 |
| 2001 | £193,500 | £371,994 | 122 |
| 2000 | £160,000 | £314,000 | 95 |
| 1999 | £149,200 | £297,348 | 110 |
| 1998 | £134,000 | £270,489 | 100 |
| 1997 | £126,200 | £258,811 | 174 |
| 1996 | £118,000 | £248,857 | 157 |
| 1995 | £104,800 | £227,819 | 93 |
In cash terms the typical BR6 6 home went from £104,800 in 1995 to £640,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 181%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BR6 6 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, 2019 (−13.5%). 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) | +10.3% | +7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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
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 29 BR6 6 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 129 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Reading the BR6 6 market
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BR6 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the BR6 district median, BR6 6 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around BR6 6
For renting purposes BR6 6 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 £640,000 median sold price, £1,675 a month is £20,100 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
Common questions on BR6 6 (Locksbottom)
How much did a house sell for in BR6 6 (Locksbottom)?
Are property prices falling in BR6 6 (Locksbottom)?
Is BR6 6 (Locksbottom) a good place to buy a house?
Are BR6 6 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
BR6's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 413 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR6 district, not just BR6 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 BR6 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BR
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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
Five-year change in the median, BR area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BR6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BR6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR6 0 | £607,500 | 48 |
| BR6 7 | £608,800 | 48 |
| BR6 8 | £635,000 | 44 |
| BR6 9 | £562,500 | 75 |
Zoom out to the full BR6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BR6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BR6 6: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BR6 6'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 BR6 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BR6 6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BR6 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BR6 6 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.