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Locksbottom market report BR6, Orpington
The standing BR6 (Locksbottom) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 24,618 HM Land Registry entries for BR6 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BR6 (Orpington) is £591,200, from 244 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £651,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,890 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 24,618 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BR6 is a postcode district covering Orpington, Locksbottom, Farnborough 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 BR6 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 sells for
Take the 244 registered 2026 sales in BR6 and the middle price, the median, is £591,200. The mean lands at £651,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BR6
A square metre of BR6 home has cost about £5,890 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, BR6 sits 107% above the national market.
A typical BR6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £591,200 | £591,200 | 244 |
| 2025 | £570,000 | £583,630 | 640 |
| 2024 | £575,000 | £611,343 | 625 |
| 2023 | £565,000 | £620,797 | 537 |
| 2022 | £570,000 | £668,390 | 772 |
| 2021 | £530,000 | £671,048 | 892 |
| 2020 | £500,000 | £648,760 | 676 |
| 2019 | £480,000 | £629,165 | 658 |
| 2018 | £490,000 | £653,179 | 703 |
| 2017 | £468,500 | £638,987 | 722 |
| 2016 | £445,000 | £622,559 | 743 |
| 2015 | £430,000 | £607,590 | 800 |
| 2014 | £390,000 | £553,283 | 798 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 736 |
| 2012 | £300,000 | £441,563 | 607 |
| 2011 | £300,000 | £452,885 | 567 |
| 2010 | £285,000 | £446,953 | 721 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 557 |
| 2008 | £280,000 | £458,979 | 498 |
| 2007 | £300,000 | £508,884 | 978 |
| 2006 | £270,000 | £468,686 | 1,117 |
| 2005 | £251,200 | £447,035 | 922 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 981 |
| 2003 | £230,000 | £423,716 | 906 |
| 2002 | £205,000 | £385,706 | 1,079 |
| 2001 | £182,000 | £349,886 | 1,008 |
| 2000 | £165,000 | £323,813 | 820 |
| 1999 | £142,000 | £282,999 | 880 |
| 1998 | £122,000 | £246,266 | 675 |
| 1997 | £107,100 | £219,640 | 1,100 |
| 1996 | £97,500 | £205,623 | 917 |
| 1995 | £93,000 | £202,168 | 739 |
In cash terms the typical BR6 home went from £93,000 in 1995 to £591,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 192%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BR6 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 (+20.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £785,000 against £312,800 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, BR6
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 | £785,000 | 79 | 7,209 |
| Semi-detached | £610,000 | 86 | 8,837 |
| Terraced | £490,000 | 49 | 5,352 |
| Flats | £312,800 | 30 | 3,220 |
What BR6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.7% | +1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
Sales activity in BR6
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 525 BR6 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 976 sales a year before the financial crisis and 564 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.
What kind of market BR6 is
BR6 sits 3 of 8 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
The rental side of BR6
The local authority for BR6 is Bromley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,675 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £591,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. 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 BR6 (Locksbottom)
Is BR6 (Locksbottom) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BR6 (Locksbottom)?
Are property prices falling in BR6 (Locksbottom)?
Will BR6 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in BR6 now
Everything above is what homes in BR6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 413 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the BR6 median sold price.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 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.
What another bedroom costs in BR
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BR area, 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BR6 ranks 1 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.
BR area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BR6, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BR6 0 | £607,500 | 48 |
| BR6 6 | £640,000 | 29 |
| BR6 7 | £608,800 | 48 |
| BR6 8 | £635,000 | 44 |
| BR6 9 | £562,500 | 75 |
How BR6 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 (this report) | £591,200 | +12% |
| BR2 | £555,000 | +11% |
| BR3 | £550,000 | +10% |
| BR1 | £465,000 | +6% |
| BR5 | £447,000 | +5% |
| BR8 | £411,800 | +10% |
Before you sell in BR6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BR6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BR6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BR6 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.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual BR6 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.
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.