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Elmstead market report BR7 5, Chislehurst
The BR7 5 (Elmstead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,164 HM Land Registry entries for BR7 5 (Chislehurst), 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BR7 5 (Chislehurst) came in at £600,000, out of 51 registered, down 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £780,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,400 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,164 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BR7 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BR7 (Chislehurst). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BR7 5 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 BR7 5 sells for
The 2026 median for BR7 5 is £600,000, taken from 51 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £780,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in BR7 5
The last five years of sales put BR7 5 at roughly £6,400 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 BR7 5 trades 111% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BR7 5 home, 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 | £600,000 | £600,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £742,500 | £760,255 | 133 |
| 2024 | £605,000 | £643,239 | 123 |
| 2023 | £597,500 | £656,507 | 112 |
| 2022 | £647,500 | £759,268 | 156 |
| 2021 | £722,500 | £914,778 | 212 |
| 2020 | £650,000 | £843,388 | 131 |
| 2019 | £630,000 | £825,779 | 141 |
| 2018 | £596,000 | £794,479 | 154 |
| 2017 | £629,000 | £857,893 | 125 |
| 2016 | £550,000 | £769,455 | 169 |
| 2015 | £550,000 | £777,150 | 169 |
| 2014 | £421,000 | £597,262 | 181 |
| 2013 | £365,000 | £525,199 | 229 |
| 2012 | £442,500 | £651,305 | 194 |
| 2011 | £435,000 | £656,683 | 141 |
| 2010 | £440,000 | £690,033 | 145 |
| 2009 | £489,000 | £786,072 | 109 |
| 2008 | £395,000 | £647,488 | 89 |
| 2007 | £438,000 | £742,970 | 205 |
| 2006 | £355,000 | £616,235 | 221 |
| 2005 | £359,500 | £639,765 | 139 |
| 2004 | £305,500 | £554,848 | 184 |
| 2003 | £293,800 | £541,251 | 190 |
| 2002 | £245,000 | £460,965 | 201 |
| 2001 | £232,500 | £446,969 | 210 |
| 2000 | £213,500 | £418,994 | 180 |
| 1999 | £210,000 | £418,519 | 187 |
| 1998 | £142,200 | £287,041 | 146 |
| 1997 | £131,000 | £268,655 | 215 |
| 1996 | £142,500 | £300,526 | 203 |
| 1995 | £105,500 | £229,341 | 119 |
In cash terms the typical BR7 5 home went from £105,500 in 1995 to £600,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 162%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 34% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BR7 5 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 (+47.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−19.2%). 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) | −19.2% | −21.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.6% | −8.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 51 sales completed in BR7 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 191 sales a year before the financial crisis and 115 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.
The rental side of BR7 5
The local authority for BR7 5 is Bromley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £600,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,675 a month (£20,100 a year) works out at a 3.4% 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.
How BR7 5 trades
Only 51 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BR7 5 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.
Asked and answered: BR7 5 (Elmstead)
Is BR7 5 (Elmstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BR7 5 (Elmstead)?
Are property prices falling in BR7 5 (Elmstead)?
Where do BR7 5 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 17% over five years in cash but down 34% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in BR7 right now
The live side of the market holds 71 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BR7 district, not just BR7 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 BR7 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BR
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%) | — |
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.
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 BR7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BR7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR7 6 | £586,600 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full BR7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BR7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BR7 5: 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 BR7 5'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BR7 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BR7 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BR7 5 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.