Petersham Drive, Orpington house prices are built from 184 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 23 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £159,000. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +101.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +49.0%.
Median price paid
£159,000
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+101.1%
Change in real terms
+49.0%
Median per m²
£2,317
HM Land Registry184 sales54 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Petersham Drive, Orpington prices moved
The chart tracks the median Petersham Drive, Orpington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2023. 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 | £52,500 | £116,575 |
| 2000s | 8 | £142,248 | £259,133 |
| 2010s | 5 | £202,500 | £285,525 |
| 2020s | 2 | £290,000 | £296,304 |
The highest yearly median on record for Petersham Drive, Orpington is £360,000 in 2023; the lowest is £49,998 in 1997. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £53,000 to £360,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £114,969, so the real change over the whole record is +238.3% — about +4.62% 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: +101.1% in cash against +49.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 145 | 23 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £323,500 | £323,500 |
| 112 | 3 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £415,000 | £424,022 |
| 86 | 26 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 37 | 7 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £455,000 | £464,891 |
| 163 | 8 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 62 | 30 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 147 | 24 May 2024 | Terraced | £410,000 | £431,418 |
| 144 | 14 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 67 | 10 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £465,000 | £502,414 |
| 161 | 28 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £307,931 |
| 110 | 30 May 2023 | Terraced | £360,000 | £388,966 |
| 143 | 30 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £307,500 | £332,241 |
| 54 | 30 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £395,000 | £426,782 |
| 139 | 5 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £412,500 | £477,917 |
| 131 | 26 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 104 | 25 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £333,000 | £385,809 |
| 77 | 9 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £355,000 | £411,298 |
| 49c | 10 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £320,000 | £404,301 |
| 50 | 29 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £390,000 | £492,742 |
| 45b | 21 May 2021 | Terraced | £295,000 | £372,715 |
| 1 | 28 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £392,000 | £495,269 |
| 59 | 17 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £187,000 | £242,121 |
| 105 | 24 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £300,000 | £388,430 |
| 47 | 10 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £285,000 | £369,008 |
| 112 | 3 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £327,500 | £424,036 |
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 Petersham Drive, Orpington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 112 Petersham Drive | £172,000 (2009) | £415,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.6% |
| 86 Petersham Drive | £148,000 (2007) | £350,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +1.8% |
| 37 Petersham Drive | £123,250 (2001) | £455,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 163 Petersham Drive | £47,500 (1995) | £280,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 147 Petersham Drive | £300,000 (2018) | £410,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +1.3% |
| 144 Petersham Drive | £56,500 (1999) | £270,000 (2024) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| 67 Petersham Drive | £53,000 (1996) | £465,000 (2023) | +8.4% | +5.6% |
| 161 Petersham Drive | £84,500 (2001) | £285,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 110 Petersham Drive | £105,000 (2001) | £360,000 (2023) | +5.8% | +2.9% |
| 143 Petersham Drive | £55,000 (1996) | £307,500 (2023) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 139 Petersham Drive | £191,000 (2008) | £412,500 (2022) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 131 Petersham Drive | £275,000 (2018) | £375,000 (2022) | +8.1% | +4.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Petersham Drive, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 124 | 67.4% | £172,000 | £43,000 – £465,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 34 | 18.5% | £104,000 | £33,494 – £190,000 |
| Semi-detached | 26 | 14.1% | £144,950 | £48,000 – £455,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Petersham Drive, Orpington
28 of the sales on record are leasehold and 156 freehold — 15.2% 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 £101,000 and the median freehold sale £167,500 — a gap of +65.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 28 | 15.2% | £101,000 |
| Freehold | 156 | 84.8% | £167,500 |
A further 10 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 Petersham Drive, 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 £159,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.66% 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 Petersham Drive, 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 Petersham Drive, Orpington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Petersham Drive, Orpington sits above that national figure — +1.0%.
Within Orpington the street ranks 831 of 931 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £250,000 (-36.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,317 per square metre, across 54 of the 184 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 £33,494 to £465,000. 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.
Petersham Drive, 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
- Dyke Drive£143,350 median
- Crest View Drive£315,000 median
- Gillmans Road£245,000 median
- Kynaston Road£245,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 123 Petersham Drive6 sales
- 57 Petersham Drive6 sales
- 37 Petersham Drive5 sales
- 143 Petersham Drive5 sales
- 61 Petersham Drive5 sales
- 49B Petersham Drive5 sales
- 112 Petersham Drive4 sales
- 144 Petersham Drive4 sales
- 49C Petersham Drive4 sales
- 45B Petersham Drive4 sales
- 105 Petersham Drive4 sales
- 47D Petersham Drive4 sales
- 65 Petersham Drive4 sales
- 129 Petersham Drive4 sales
- 86 Petersham Drive3 sales
- 110 Petersham Drive3 sales
- 139 Petersham Drive3 sales
- 59 Petersham Drive3 sales
- 78 Petersham Drive3 sales
- 45 Petersham Drive3 sales
- 51 Petersham Drive3 sales
- 72 Petersham Drive3 sales
- 140 Petersham Drive3 sales
- 118 Petersham Drive3 sales
Back to Orpington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Petersham Drive, Orpington?
The median price paid in Petersham Drive, Orpington across every sale on the register is £159,000. 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 Petersham Drive, Orpington?
184 sales are on record for Petersham Drive, Orpington, the most recent completing on 23 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Petersham Drive, Orpington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +101.1% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +49.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Petersham Drive, Orpington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £360,000, 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 Petersham Drive, Orpington?
£2,317 per square metre, from the 54 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 23 Feb 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, “Petersham Drive, 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.