Forest Drive, Keston house prices are built from 90 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 20 Jun 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £1,208,558. Across the 13 years from 2002 to 2015 the median moved +239.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +147.9%.
Median price paid
£1,208,558
Change in cash, 2002–2015
+239.1%
Change in real terms
+147.9%
Median per m²
£3,898
HM Land Registry90 sales10 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Jun 2025
Section 01
How Forest Drive, Keston prices moved
The chart tracks the median Forest Drive, Keston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2015. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £375,000 | £832,677 |
| 2000s | 3 | £897,500 | £1,634,981 |
| 2010s | 1 | £1,950,000 | £2,749,500 |
The highest yearly median on record for Forest Drive, Keston is £1,950,000 in 2015; the lowest is £375,000 in 1997. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £375,000 to £1,950,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £795,113, so the real change over the whole record is +245.8% — about +7.14% 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: +239.1% in cash against +147.9% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 20 Jun 2025 | Detached | £1,420,000 | £1,450,870 |
| 51 | 28 Feb 2025 | Detached | £4,999,999 | £5,108,695 |
| 31 | 22 Jan 2024 | Detached | £1,890,000 | £1,988,731 |
| 29 | 8 Dec 2023 | Detached | £1,725,000 | £1,863,793 |
| 38 | 31 Mar 2023 | Detached | £10,000,000 | £10,804,598 |
| 13 | 17 Feb 2023 | Detached | £1,700,000 | £1,836,782 |
| Burnside, 34 | 11 May 2021 | Detached | £4,350,000 | £5,495,968 |
| 7 | 7 Apr 2021 | Detached | £1,695,000 | £2,141,532 |
| 16 | 22 Dec 2020 | Detached | £1,300,000 | £1,683,196 |
| 15 | 18 Sep 2020 | Detached | £1,780,000 | £2,304,683 |
| 10 | 24 Jan 2020 | Detached | £2,300,000 | £2,977,961 |
| 47 | 3 Jun 2019 | Detached | £2,666,000 | £3,487,069 |
| 16 | 3 May 2019 | Detached | £875,000 | £1,144,481 |
| 21 | 19 Jun 2018 | Detached | £3,518,000 | £4,688,450 |
| 33 | 19 Apr 2017 | Detached | £4,000,000 | £5,444,015 |
| The Pines, 27 | 25 Sep 2016 | Detached | £1,300,000 | £1,814,851 |
| 46 | 18 Dec 2015 | Detached | £1,600,000 | £2,256,000 |
| 39 | 8 Sep 2015 | Detached | £2,325,000 | £3,278,250 |
| 20 | 11 Aug 2015 | Detached | £1,950,000 | £2,749,500 |
| 55 | 8 Apr 2015 | Detached | £1,217,116 | £1,716,134 |
| 48 | 2 Mar 2015 | Detached | £1,950,000 | £2,749,500 |
| Wood Lodge, 41 | 20 Jan 2015 | Detached | £4,150,000 | £5,851,500 |
| 33 | 19 Sep 2014 | Detached | £1,950,000 | £2,797,050 |
| Willowbank, 24 | 14 May 2014 | Detached | £1,250,000 | £1,792,981 |
| 51 | 16 Jan 2014 | Detached | £1,327,500 | £1,904,145 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Forest Drive, Keston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 Forest Drive | £465,000 (1995) | £4,999,999 (2025) | +8.2% | +5.5% |
| 38 Forest Drive | £1,600,000 (2007) | £10,000,000 (2023) | +12.1% | +8.9% |
| 16 Forest Drive | £875,000 (2019) | £1,300,000 (2020) | +48.6% | +47.1% |
| 15 Forest Drive | £1,050,000 (2007) | £1,780,000 (2020) | +4.1% | +1.8% |
| 10 Forest Drive | £880,000 (2009) | £2,300,000 (2020) | +9.1% | +6.8% |
| 47 Forest Drive | £642,500 (1999) | £2,666,000 (2019) | +7.4% | +5.0% |
| 21 Forest Drive | £1,650,000 (2012) | £3,518,000 (2018) | +13.4% | +11.3% |
| 33 Forest Drive | £475,000 (1997) | £4,000,000 (2017) | +11.2% | +8.8% |
| 46 Forest Drive | £375,000 (1997) | £1,600,000 (2015) | +8.4% | +6.0% |
| 39 Forest Drive | £1,100,000 (2000) | £2,325,000 (2015) | +5.1% | +2.7% |
| 20 Forest Drive | £730,000 (2009) | £1,950,000 (2015) | +17.8% | +14.8% |
| 48 Forest Drive | £2,870,000 (2007) | £1,950,000 (2015) | -4.7% | -7.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Forest Drive, Keston is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 90 | 100.0% | £1,200,000 | £260,000 – £10,000,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Forest Drive, Keston
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 90 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 90 | 100.0% | £1,208,558 |
A further 3 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.
Section 07
Living in Forest Drive, Keston
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 282 | 0.2% |
| B | 12,223 | 8.2% |
| C | 47,871 | 32.0% |
| D | 59,759 | 39.9% |
| E | 24,098 | 16.1% |
| F | 4,451 | 3.0% |
| G | 1,092 | 0.7% |
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 £1,208,558 here, that rent is a gross yield of 1.67% 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 BR2, 166 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 60 violent, 6 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 34 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 329,992 residents the 2021 census counted in Bromley, that is 0.50 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Forest Drive, Keston
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.
15 state and independent schools have a BR2 postcode: 10 primary, 4 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayes School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,770 |
| Ravens Wood School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,598 |
| The Ravensbourne School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,504 |
| Bishop Justus CofE School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,016 |
| Hayes Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 573 |
| Raglan Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 451 |
| Valley Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 449 |
| St Mark's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 401 |
| Southborough Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 386 |
| Harris Primary Academy Shortlands | Primary | Free schools | 383 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hayes (Kent) Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Bickley Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Bromley North Rail Station | Rail | 2.4 km |
| Shortlands Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
Section 09
How Forest Drive, Keston compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Forest Drive, Keston sits above that national figure — +667.3%.
Within Keston the street ranks 4 of 42 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £523,000 (+131.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,898 per square metre, across 10 of the 90 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 £260,000 to £10,000,000. 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.
Forest Drive, Keston 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Westmoreland Road£192,750 median
- Homesdale Road£185,000 median
- Southlands Road£247,750 median
- Fair Acres£133,000 median
- Beckenham Grove£201,500 median
- Bromley Road£165,000 median
- Shortlands Road£249,950 median
- Durham Avenue£170,000 median
- Southborough Lane£295,000 median
- Durham Road£211,000 median
- Park Hill Road£192,000 median
- Hayes Lane£430,000 median
- Mead Way£290,000 median
- Queen Anne Avenue£245,000 median
- Cumberland Road£223,250 median
- Beckenham Lane£180,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 33 Forest Drive6 sales
- 51 Forest Drive4 sales
- 47 Forest Drive4 sales
- 20 Forest Drive4 sales
- 11 Forest Drive4 sales
- 25 Forest Drive4 sales
- 15 Forest Drive3 sales
- 39 Forest Drive3 sales
- 44 Forest Drive3 sales
- 4 Forest Drive3 sales
- 30 Forest Drive3 sales
- 45 Forest Drive3 sales
- 17 Forest Drive3 sales
- 23 Forest Drive3 sales
- 38 Forest Drive2 sales
- 16 Forest Drive2 sales
- 10 Forest Drive2 sales
- 21 Forest Drive2 sales
- 46 Forest Drive2 sales
- 48 Forest Drive2 sales
- WOOD LODGE, 41 Forest Drive2 sales
- 19 Forest Drive2 sales
- 22 Forest Drive2 sales
- 1 Forest Drive2 sales
Back to Keston house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Forest Drive, Keston?
The median price paid in Forest Drive, Keston across every sale on the register is £1,208,558. 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 Forest Drive, Keston?
90 sales are on record for Forest Drive, Keston, the most recent completing on 20 Jun 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Forest Drive, Keston house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +239.1% between 2002 and 2015. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +147.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Forest Drive, Keston house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £1,950,000, set in 2015. 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 Forest Drive, Keston?
£3,898 per square metre, from the 10 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 20 Jun 2025. 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, “Forest Drive, Keston 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.