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Locksbottom market report BR6 7, Orpington
The BR6 7 (Locksbottom) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,315 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BR6 7 (Orpington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 48 registered 2026 sales put the BR6 7 (Orpington) median at £608,800, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £668,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,820 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,315 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BR6 7 is a single group of streets within BR6 (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 BR6 7 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 BR6 7 prices, from the sold record
48 sales were registered in BR6 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £608,800. The mean works out at £668,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BR6 7
The last five years of sales put BR6 7 at roughly £5,820 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BR6 7 sits 114% above the national market.
A typical BR6 7 home, priced year by year (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 | £608,800 | £608,800 | 48 |
| 2025 | £557,500 | £570,832 | 103 |
| 2024 | £540,000 | £574,131 | 105 |
| 2023 | £587,000 | £644,970 | 93 |
| 2022 | £570,000 | £668,390 | 123 |
| 2021 | £504,000 | £638,129 | 144 |
| 2020 | £536,000 | £695,471 | 130 |
| 2019 | £497,500 | £652,103 | 146 |
| 2018 | £520,000 | £693,170 | 122 |
| 2017 | £460,000 | £627,394 | 134 |
| 2016 | £450,000 | £629,554 | 109 |
| 2015 | £470,000 | £664,110 | 126 |
| 2014 | £392,500 | £556,830 | 138 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 112 |
| 2012 | £325,000 | £478,359 | 87 |
| 2011 | £323,700 | £488,663 | 104 |
| 2010 | £300,000 | £470,477 | 107 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 88 |
| 2008 | £275,000 | £450,783 | 97 |
| 2007 | £290,000 | £491,921 | 170 |
| 2006 | £272,500 | £473,025 | 208 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 151 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 143 |
| 2003 | £245,000 | £451,349 | 155 |
| 2002 | £195,000 | £366,891 | 196 |
| 2001 | £177,200 | £340,658 | 188 |
| 2000 | £152,000 | £298,300 | 140 |
| 1999 | £148,100 | £295,156 | 164 |
| 1998 | £117,500 | £237,182 | 115 |
| 1997 | £105,000 | £215,334 | 201 |
| 1996 | £100,000 | £210,896 | 177 |
| 1995 | £95,000 | £206,515 | 191 |
In cash terms the typical BR6 7 home went from £95,000 in 1995 to £608,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 195%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BR6 7 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 1999 (+26.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BR6 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.2% | +6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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
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 48 BR6 7 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 169 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 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 BR6 7 is
This is a thin market: 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Rents around BR6 7
For renting purposes BR6 7 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.
£1,675 a month is £20,100 a year, which against the £608,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. 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.
Common questions on BR6 7 (Locksbottom)
Is BR6 7 (Locksbottom) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BR6 7 (Locksbottom)?
Are property prices falling in BR6 7 (Locksbottom)?
What happens to BR6 7 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
BR6's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 413 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR6 district, not just BR6 7: 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: BR prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BR area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BR area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BR6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BR6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR6 0 | £607,500 | 48 |
| BR6 6 | £640,000 | 29 |
| 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.
Selling a home in BR6 7? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BR6 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BR6 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BR6 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BR6 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BR6 7.
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Two maps carry on from here: every BR6 7 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.