Beckenham house prices

Beckenham house prices are built from 32,048 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £256,880. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +26.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -9.6%.

HM Land Registry32,048 sales8,238 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Beckenham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Beckenham is £555,000 in 2026; the lowest is £74,125 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £74,125 to £555,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £164,593, so the real change over the whole record is +237.2% — about +4.00% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +26.1% in cash against -9.6% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Beckenham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Beckenham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 6,555 certificates cover Beckenham, and their median floor area is 74 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -2.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

15,268 of the sales on record are leasehold and 16,780 freehold — 47.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £195,000 and the median freehold sale £357,000 — a gap of +83.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +20.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 996 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bromley, 40.3% of 149,776 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bromley at £1,678 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,306 for a one-bedroom home and £1,982 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £256,880 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.84% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of BR3, 306 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 86 violent, 12 burglary, 48 vehicle-related and 62 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times busier.

Against the 329,992 residents the 2021 census counted in Bromley, that is 0.93 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 329,992 residents in Bromley across 135,828 households. 69.3% of those households own their home and 30.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

16 state and independent schools have a BR3 postcode: 11 primary, 5 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Beckenham sits above that national figure — +63.1%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,347 per square metre, across 8,238 of the 32,048 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £976 to £3,700,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Beckenham sits in Bromley, in London.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bromley at 12.1 times median local earnings of £43,474 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Beckenham

• Albemarle Road1,453 sales
• The Avenue1,156 sales
• Copers Cope Road1,147 sales
• Blandford Road767 sales
• Croydon Road729 sales
• Wickham Road641 sales
• Birkbeck Road553 sales
• Upper Elmers End Road545 sales
• Park Road544 sales
• Bromley Road526 sales
• Ravenscroft Road480 sales
• Brackley Road474 sales
• Mackenzie Road436 sales
• Beckenham Road435 sales
• Foxgrove Road417 sales
• Clock House Road404 sales
• Eden Park Avenue393 sales
• Hayne Road350 sales
• Porchester Mead348 sales
• Manor Road336 sales
• Southend Road332 sales
• Rectory Road326 sales
• Court Downs Road301 sales
• Kings Hall Road284 sales
• Westgate Road246 sales
• Kent House Road237 sales
• Village Way225 sales
• Churchfields Road223 sales
• Eden Way219 sales
• Overbury Avenue215 sales
• Aylesford Avenue211 sales
• Crescent Road207 sales
• St Martins Lane191 sales
• Oakwood Avenue184 sales
• Beck Lane179 sales
• Abbey Park176 sales
• Durban Road175 sales
• The Drive164 sales
• Aviemore Way163 sales
• Eden Road162 sales
• Wickham Way162 sales
• Elmers End Road161 sales
• The Knoll160 sales
• Pelham Road144 sales
• Hayes Way143 sales
• Albemarle Park141 sales
• Avenue Road139 sales
• Hayes Lane138 sales
• Shirley Crescent138 sales
• Belmont Road137 sales
• Merlin Grove134 sales
• Turners Meadow Way134 sales
• Forster Road132 sales
• Allen Road127 sales
• Blakeney Road125 sales
• Kemerton Road124 sales
• Lennard Road124 sales
• Arrol Road123 sales
• Elwill Way123 sales
• High Street118 sales

Postcode districts covering Beckenham

• BR3£256,760 median

What is the average house price in Beckenham?

The median price paid in Beckenham across every sale on the register is £256,880. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Beckenham?

32,048 sales are on record for Beckenham, the most recent completing on 24 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Beckenham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +26.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -9.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Beckenham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £555,000, set in 2026. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Beckenham?

£3,347 per square metre, from the 8,238 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 24 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Beckenham house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.