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Locksbottom market report BR6 9, Orpington
The BR6 9 (Locksbottom) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 7,522 registered sales in BR6 9 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical BR6 9 (Orpington) home changed hands for £562,500 in 2026 (median of 75 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £569,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,020 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,522 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BR6 9 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 9 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 BR6 9 sells for
The BR6 9 median stands at £562,500 for 2026, built from 75 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £569,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in BR6 9
The last five years of sales put BR6 9 at roughly £6,020 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BR6 9 97% above the country at large.
A typical BR6 9 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £562,500 | £562,500 | 75 |
| 2025 | £582,500 | £596,429 | 196 |
| 2024 | £580,000 | £616,659 | 199 |
| 2023 | £600,000 | £659,253 | 151 |
| 2022 | £582,500 | £683,048 | 232 |
| 2021 | £537,500 | £680,544 | 295 |
| 2020 | £490,000 | £635,785 | 198 |
| 2019 | £478,500 | £627,199 | 194 |
| 2018 | £514,000 | £685,172 | 190 |
| 2017 | £495,000 | £675,130 | 204 |
| 2016 | £455,000 | £636,550 | 223 |
| 2015 | £425,000 | £600,525 | 215 |
| 2014 | £395,000 | £560,377 | 243 |
| 2013 | £321,000 | £461,887 | 239 |
| 2012 | £295,000 | £434,203 | 201 |
| 2011 | £290,000 | £437,788 | 181 |
| 2010 | £290,000 | £454,795 | 248 |
| 2009 | £270,000 | £434,027 | 175 |
| 2008 | £290,000 | £475,371 | 165 |
| 2007 | £304,000 | £515,669 | 296 |
| 2006 | £265,000 | £460,006 | 364 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 314 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 309 |
| 2003 | £226,000 | £416,347 | 282 |
| 2002 | £215,000 | £404,521 | 326 |
| 2001 | £199,000 | £382,567 | 341 |
| 2000 | £170,000 | £333,625 | 278 |
| 1999 | £140,000 | £279,013 | 263 |
| 1998 | £121,000 | £244,247 | 177 |
| 1997 | £105,500 | £216,359 | 290 |
| 1996 | £90,000 | £189,806 | 258 |
| 1995 | £94,000 | £204,342 | 200 |
In cash terms the typical BR6 9 home went from £94,000 in 1995 to £562,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 175%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BR6 9 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 (+23.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−6.9%). 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) | −3.4% | −5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.2% |
| 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
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 75 sales completed in BR6 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 314 sales a year before the financial crisis and 171 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 homes rent for around BR6 9
BR6 9 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.
Against the £562,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,675 a month (£20,100 a year) works out at a 3.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: BR6 9 (Locksbottom)
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Real searches this page gets asked
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, BR6 9SX among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
What happens to BR6 9 prices now?
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.
What you could buy in BR6 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 413 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR6 district, not just BR6 9: 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 →
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BR area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
Winners and losers across the BR area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 6 | £640,000 | 29 |
| BR6 7 | £608,800 | 48 |
| BR6 8 | £635,000 | 44 |
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 9: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BR6 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the BR6 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BR6 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BR6 9.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BR6 9. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BR6 9 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.