Farnborough Common, Orpington house prices

Farnborough Common, Orpington house prices are built from 223 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £156,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +19.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -12.4%.

HM Land Registry223 sales73 with floor areaLatest sale 15 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Farnborough Common, 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Farnborough Common, Orpington is £265,000 in 2021; the lowest is £51,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £52,500 to £215,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £116,575, so the real change over the whole record is +94.1% — about +2.31% 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: +19.4% in cash against -12.4% 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 Farnborough Common, Orpington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

192 of the sales on record are leasehold and 31 freehold — 86.1% 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 £150,000 and the median freehold sale £270,000 — a gap of +80.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 6 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 £156,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.91% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Farnborough Common, Orpington sits below that national figure — -1.0%.

Within Orpington the street ranks 842 of 931 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £250,000 (-37.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,845 per square metre, across 73 of the 223 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 £44,500 to £1,550,000. 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.

Farnborough Common, 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.

Streets nearby

• High Street£211,000 median
• Court Road£290,000 median
• Crofton Road£325,000 median
• Chislehurst Road£332,000 median
• Sevenoaks Road£250,000 median
• Repton Road£299,950 median
• Worlds End Lane£376,750 median
• Warren Road£346,500 median
• Chelsfield Lane£288,750 median
• Park Avenue£527,500 median
• Charterhouse Road£333,500 median
• Lancing Road£315,000 median
• Knoll Rise£265,000 median
• Perry Hall Road£174,995 median
• Felstead Road£320,000 median
• Windsor Drive£235,800 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 53, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common6 sales
• FLAT 26, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common6 sales
• FLAT 29, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common5 sales
• FLAT 9, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common5 sales
• FLAT 47, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common5 sales
• 3 Farnborough Common5 sales
• FLAT 44, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 6, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 25, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 12, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 39, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 56, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 46, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 42, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• 3, FLEETWOOD COURT Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 32, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 37, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 40, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 49, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 2, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common4 sales
• FLAT 3, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common3 sales
• 5, FLEETWOOD COURT Farnborough Common3 sales
• FLAT 22, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common3 sales
• FLAT 31, SUMMERLANDS LODGE Farnborough Common3 sales

Back to Orpington house prices.

What is the average house price in Farnborough Common, Orpington?

The median price paid in Farnborough Common, Orpington across every sale on the register is £156,000. 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 Farnborough Common, Orpington?

223 sales are on record for Farnborough Common, Orpington, the most recent completing on 15 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Farnborough Common, Orpington house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +19.4% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -12.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Farnborough Common, Orpington house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £265,000, set in 2021. 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 Farnborough Common, Orpington?

£2,845 per square metre, from the 73 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 15 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, “Farnborough Common, 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.