Kingsway, Orpington house prices are built from 155 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 7 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £500,000. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +77.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +26.4%.
Median price paid
£500,000
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+77.4%
Change in real terms
+26.4%
HM Land Registry155 salesLatest sale 7 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Kingsway, Orpington prices moved
The chart tracks the median Kingsway, Orpington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 4 | £166,500 | £369,709 |
| 2000s | 7 | £411,750 | £750,087 |
| 2010s | 5 | £606,060 | £854,545 |
| 2020s | 2 | £985,000 | £1,006,413 |
The highest yearly median on record for Kingsway, Orpington is £1,100,000 in 2025; the lowest is £156,500 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £156,500 to £1,100,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £347,504, so the real change over the whole record is +223.4% — about +3.99% 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: +77.4% in cash against +26.4% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 114 | 7 Nov 2025 | Detached | £1,100,000 | £1,123,913 |
| 11 | 17 Oct 2025 | Detached | £1,175,000 | £1,200,543 |
| 62 | 29 Aug 2025 | Detached | £975,000 | £996,196 |
| 34 | 20 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £700,000 | £715,217 |
| 23 | 1 May 2025 | Detached | £1,100,000 | £1,123,913 |
| 82 | 17 Feb 2025 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,226,087 |
| 72 | 29 Nov 2024 | Detached | £955,000 | £1,004,888 |
| 46 | 27 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £790,000 | £831,269 |
| 45 | 13 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £850,000 | £894,403 |
| 137 | 16 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £846,500 | £890,720 |
| 85 | 18 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £1,152,500 | £1,245,230 |
| 161 | 10 Oct 2023 | Detached | £1,505,000 | £1,626,092 |
| 30 | 31 Oct 2022 | Detached | £1,050,000 | £1,216,516 |
| 150 | 25 Jul 2022 | Detached | £1,450,000 | £1,679,951 |
| 117 | 19 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £942,000 | £1,091,389 |
| 144 | 12 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £990,000 | £1,147,001 |
| 124 | 16 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £780,150 | £985,673 |
| 61 | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £1,310,000 | £1,655,108 |
| 105 | 26 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £993,750 | £1,255,544 |
| 165 | 29 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £705,000 | £890,726 |
| 2 | 17 Jun 2021 | Detached | £985,000 | £1,244,489 |
| 53 | 20 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £919,000 | £1,161,102 |
| 111 | 1 Apr 2021 | Detached | £1,045,000 | £1,320,296 |
| 149 | 22 Mar 2021 | Detached | £1,066,000 | £1,346,828 |
| 118 | 19 Feb 2021 | Detached | £918,000 | £1,159,839 |
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 Kingsway, Orpington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Kingsway | £235,000 (1997) | £1,175,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 34 Kingsway | £249,950 (2001) | £700,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 82 Kingsway | £413,500 (2003) | £1,200,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.1% |
| 46 Kingsway | £138,000 (1997) | £790,000 (2024) | +6.7% | +3.9% |
| 85 Kingsway | £378,000 (2005) | £1,152,500 (2023) | +6.4% | +3.3% |
| 161 Kingsway | £245,000 (1998) | £1,505,000 (2023) | +7.5% | +4.8% |
| 150 Kingsway | £305,000 (2001) | £1,450,000 (2022) | +7.7% | +5.0% |
| 144 Kingsway | £380,000 (2003) | £990,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 61 Kingsway | £700,000 (2011) | £1,310,000 (2021) | +6.5% | +4.4% |
| 105 Kingsway | £620,000 (2014) | £993,750 (2021) | +7.0% | +5.1% |
| 53 Kingsway | £395,000 (2005) | £919,000 (2021) | +5.4% | +3.0% |
| 111 Kingsway | £505,000 (2011) | £1,045,000 (2021) | +7.5% | +5.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Kingsway, Orpington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 81 | 52.3% | £465,000 | £138,000 – £1,152,500 |
| Detached | 74 | 47.7% | £575,000 | £169,000 – £1,815,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Kingsway, Orpington
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 155 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 | 155 | 100.0% | £500,000 |
A further 1 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 Kingsway, 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 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 £500,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.03% 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 BR5, 349 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 94 violent, 14 burglary, 56 vehicle-related and 76 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.1 times busier.
Against the 329,992 residents the 2021 census counted in Bromley, that is 1.06 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 Kingsway, 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.
14 state and independent schools have a BR5 postcode: 13 primary, 1 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crofton Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 717 |
| Crofton Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 590 |
| Harris Academy Orpington | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 499 |
| Midfield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 481 |
| Poverest Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 433 |
| Gray's Farm Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 420 |
| Leesons Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 281 |
| Harris Primary Academy Orpington | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 269 |
| St. Mary Cray Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 233 |
| St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 222 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| St Mary Cray Rail Station | Rail | 0.4 km |
| Petts Wood Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Orpington Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Chislehurst Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
Section 09
How Kingsway, Orpington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Kingsway, Orpington sits above that national figure — +217.5%.
Within Orpington the street ranks 96 of 931 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £250,000 (+100.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £138,000 to £1,815,000. 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.
Kingsway, 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
- Crescent Drive£317,500 median
- Oakdene Road£184,500 median
- Sandpiper Way£119,995 median
- Petts Wood Road£380,000 median
- Amherst Drive£200,000 median
- Clareville Road£183,000 median
- Crofton Lane£442,498 median
- Station Road£216,500 median
- Poverest Road£246,500 median
- Brantwood Way£110,000 median
- Doveney Close£125,725 median
- Star Lane£157,000 median
- Petersham Drive£159,000 median
- Dyke Drive£143,350 median
- Crest View Drive£315,000 median
- Gillmans Road£245,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 24 Kingsway5 sales
- 34 Kingsway4 sales
- 115 Kingsway4 sales
- 85 Kingsway3 sales
- 53 Kingsway3 sales
- 58 Kingsway3 sales
- 63 Kingsway3 sales
- 4 Kingsway3 sales
- 113 Kingsway3 sales
- 133 Kingsway3 sales
- 101 Kingsway3 sales
- 109 Kingsway3 sales
- 11 Kingsway2 sales
- 82 Kingsway2 sales
- 46 Kingsway2 sales
- 161 Kingsway2 sales
- 150 Kingsway2 sales
- 144 Kingsway2 sales
- 61 Kingsway2 sales
- 105 Kingsway2 sales
- 111 Kingsway2 sales
- 149 Kingsway2 sales
- 118 Kingsway2 sales
- 43 Kingsway2 sales
Back to Orpington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Kingsway, Orpington?
The median price paid in Kingsway, Orpington across every sale on the register is £500,000. 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 Kingsway, Orpington?
155 sales are on record for Kingsway, Orpington, the most recent completing on 7 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Kingsway, Orpington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +77.4% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +26.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Kingsway, Orpington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £1,100,000, set in 2025. 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 Kingsway, Orpington?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 7 Nov 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, “Kingsway, 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.