Sold Price History


Chelsfield Lane, Orpington house prices

Chelsfield Lane, Orpington house prices are built from 224 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 8 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £288,750. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +86.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +36.9%.

Median price paid

£288,750

Change in cash, 2014–2024

+86.7%

Change in real terms

+36.9%

Median per m²

£2,749

HM Land Registry224 sales66 with floor areaLatest sale 8 May 2026

Section 01

How Chelsfield Lane, Orpington prices moved

The chart tracks the median Chelsfield Lane, Orpington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

Chelsfield Lane, Orpington house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2024
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£123,000£273,118
2000s8£226,000£411,705
2010s7£317,500£447,675
2020s4£536,000£547,652
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Chelsfield Lane, Orpington is £745,000 in 2023; the lowest is £79,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £150,000 to £560,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £333,071, so the real change over the whole record is +76.9% — about +1.99% 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: +86.7% in cash against +36.9% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
688 May 2026Semi-detached£385,000£385,000
4827 Nov 2025Semi-detached£625,000£638,587
Aysgarth21 Nov 2025Detached£425,000£434,239
Halcyon Lodge8 Apr 2025Detached£680,000£694,783
3519 Mar 2025Semi-detached£395,000£403,587
3222 Nov 2024Semi-detached£470,000£494,552
Pately26 Sep 2024Detached£1,000,000£1,052,239
Egremont12 Sep 2024Detached£650,000£683,955
5130 Aug 2024Semi-detached£375,000£394,590
Highbury30 Apr 2024Semi-detached£700,000£736,567
1228 Mar 2024Semi-detached£375,000£394,590
Berwick10 Nov 2023Detached£755,000£815,747
3514 Sep 2023Semi-detached£435,000£470,000
Phoenix Cottage20 Jul 2023Detached£760,000£821,149
Lihou6 Jul 2023Detached£720,000£777,931
Rothsey29 Jun 2023Semi-detached£870,000£940,000
Wansbeck29 Jun 2023Semi-detached£675,000£729,310
St Margarets31 Mar 2023Detached£1,050,000£1,134,483
582 Mar 2023Detached£735,000£794,138
Rosenda23 Feb 2023Terraced£825,000£891,379
8010 Feb 2023Semi-detached£457,500£494,310
2629 Nov 2022Semi-detached£475,000£550,329
Ballantrae18 Nov 2022Detached£785,000£909,491
1716 Sep 2022Semi-detached£535,000£619,844
Harmony4 Jul 2022Semi-detached£537,000£622,161
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Chelsfield Lane, Orpington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
48 Chelsfield Lane£250,000 (2006)£625,000 (2025)+4.9%+1.9%
HALCYON LODGE Chelsfield Lane£248,000 (2003)£680,000 (2025)+4.7%+1.8%
35 Chelsfield Lane£435,000 (2023)£395,000 (2025)-4.7%-7.3%
32 Chelsfield Lane£225,000 (2007)£470,000 (2024)+4.4%+1.4%
PATELY Chelsfield Lane£465,000 (2003)£1,000,000 (2024)+3.7%+0.9%
EGREMONT Chelsfield Lane£245,000 (2000)£650,000 (2024)+4.1%+1.4%
HIGHBURY Chelsfield Lane£285,000 (2005)£700,000 (2024)+4.8%+1.9%
122 Chelsfield Lane£205,000 (2014)£375,000 (2024)+6.2%+3.0%
PHOENIX COTTAGE Chelsfield Lane£425,000 (2014)£760,000 (2023)+6.7%+3.4%
LIHOU Chelsfield Lane£540,000 (2020)£720,000 (2023)+10.1%+3.6%
WANSBECK Chelsfield Lane£290,000 (2014)£675,000 (2023)+9.8%+6.4%
ROTHSEY Chelsfield Lane£187,500 (1999)£870,000 (2023)+6.6%+3.8%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Semi-detached12656.3%£220,000£44,000 – £870,000
Detached8537.9%£460,000£118,000 – £1,050,000
Terraced135.8%£289,000£77,000 – £825,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Chelsfield Lane, Orpington

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 224 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.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold00.0%
Freehold224100.0%£288,750
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

A further 12 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 Chelsfield Lane, Orpington

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 bandCertificatesShare
A2820.2%
B12,2238.2%
C47,87132.0%
D59,75939.9%
E24,09816.1%
F4,4513.0%
G1,0920.7%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Bromley.

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 £288,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.97% 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 BR6, 160 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 31 violent, 10 burglary, 19 vehicle-related and 29 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 0.48 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 Chelsfield Lane, Orpington

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 BR6 postcode: 13 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Darrick Wood SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,698
Newstead Wood SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,347
St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar SchoolSecondaryVoluntary aided school1,084
Warren Road Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter838
Tubbenden Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter647
Green Street Green Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter433
Perry Hall Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter432
Darrick Wood Junior SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter374
Darrick Wood Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter314
Holy Innocents Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter285
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Orpington Rail StationRail0.9 km
Chelsfield Rail StationRail1.6 km
Petts Wood Rail StationRail2.9 km
St Mary Cray Rail StationRail3.5 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Chelsfield Lane, Orpington compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Chelsfield Lane, Orpington sits above that national figure — +83.3%.

Within Orpington the street ranks 430 of 931 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £250,000 (+15.5%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,749 per square metre, across 66 of the 224 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 £44,000 to £1,050,000. 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.

Chelsfield Lane, Orpington 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Orpington house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Chelsfield Lane, Orpington?

The median price paid in Chelsfield Lane, Orpington across every sale on the register is £288,750. 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 Chelsfield Lane, Orpington?

224 sales are on record for Chelsfield Lane, Orpington, the most recent completing on 8 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Chelsfield Lane, Orpington house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +86.7% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +36.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Chelsfield Lane, Orpington house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £745,000, set in 2023. 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 Chelsfield Lane, Orpington?

£2,749 per square metre, from the 66 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 8 May 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, “Chelsfield Lane, Orpington 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.