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Elmstead market report BR7, Chislehurst
The BR7 (Elmstead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 11,140 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BR7 (Chislehurst) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BR7 (Chislehurst) home changed hands for £600,000 in 2026 (median of 101 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £698,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,280 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 11,140 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BR7 is a postcode district covering Chislehurst, Elmstead in Chislehurst. 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 BR7 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.
BR7 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 101 registered 2026 sales in BR7 and the middle price, the median, is £600,000. The mean lands at £698,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in BR7
A square metre of BR7 home has cost about £6,280 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BR7 runs 111% above it.
A typical BR7 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 | £600,000 | £600,000 | 101 |
| 2025 | £652,500 | £668,103 | 294 |
| 2024 | £600,000 | £637,923 | 248 |
| 2023 | £580,000 | £637,278 | 239 |
| 2022 | £635,000 | £744,610 | 315 |
| 2021 | £587,500 | £743,851 | 434 |
| 2020 | £545,000 | £707,149 | 282 |
| 2019 | £537,500 | £704,534 | 311 |
| 2018 | £527,200 | £702,768 | 294 |
| 2017 | £545,000 | £743,325 | 292 |
| 2016 | £500,000 | £699,505 | 330 |
| 2015 | £470,000 | £664,110 | 413 |
| 2014 | £396,200 | £562,079 | 366 |
| 2013 | £350,000 | £503,615 | 419 |
| 2012 | £354,000 | £521,044 | 359 |
| 2011 | £336,000 | £507,231 | 288 |
| 2010 | £320,000 | £501,842 | 310 |
| 2009 | £326,200 | £524,369 | 238 |
| 2008 | £305,000 | £499,959 | 204 |
| 2007 | £320,000 | £542,809 | 483 |
| 2006 | £282,000 | £489,516 | 480 |
| 2005 | £264,000 | £469,814 | 362 |
| 2004 | £265,000 | £481,292 | 436 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 412 |
| 2002 | £210,000 | £395,113 | 494 |
| 2001 | £182,800 | £351,424 | 462 |
| 2000 | £172,500 | £338,531 | 389 |
| 1999 | £148,500 | £295,953 | 386 |
| 1998 | £125,000 | £252,321 | 327 |
| 1997 | £107,500 | £220,461 | 474 |
| 1996 | £97,000 | £204,569 | 431 |
| 1995 | £92,500 | £201,081 | 267 |
In cash terms the typical BR7 home went from £92,500 in 1995 to £600,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 198%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BR7 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 2003 (+19.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−8.7%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 28% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £1,225,000 against £393,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, BR7
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 | £1,225,000 | 23 | 3,104 |
| Semi-detached | £610,000 | 25 | 2,234 |
| Terraced | £545,000 | 24 | 2,876 |
| Flats | £393,000 | 29 | 2,926 |
What BR7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.0% | −10.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 216 sales completed in BR7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 440 sales a year before the financial crisis and 239 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.
What kind of market BR7 is
BR7 sits 2 of 8 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What homes rent for around BR7
BR7 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.
Set against the £600,000 median sold price, £1,675 a month is £20,100 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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.
Asked and answered: BR7 (Elmstead)
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Where do BR7 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in BR7 today
Everything above is what homes in BR7 sold for. The live side of the market holds 71 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% above the BR7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 BR7 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BR
Real sold prices by size across the BR area, straight 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%) | — |
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
BR7 ranks 8 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 BR7, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BR7 5 | £600,000 | 51 |
| BR7 6 | £586,600 | 50 |
How BR7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BR4 | £675,000 | +6% |
| BR7 (this report) | £600,000 | +2% |
| BR6 | £591,200 | +12% |
| BR2 | £555,000 | +11% |
| BR3 | £550,000 | +10% |
| BR1 | £465,000 | +6% |
| BR5 | £447,000 | +5% |
| BR8 | £411,800 | +10% |
Selling a home in BR7? 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 BR7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BR7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BR7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual BR7 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.