About £560,000, and that's the middle of the market. Flats come in well under it. Terraces sit well above it. Detached houses run to seven figures. The median is the price of a house that hardly anyone in Beckenham is buying.
The Land Registry recorded 525 sales in Beckenham in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £560,000. The 238 flats sold at a median of about £370,000 and the 147 terraces at about £650,000. The 90 semis went for about £790,000 and the 50 detached houses for about £1,200,000. In most of England the semi is the sensible middle option. In Beckenham it costs nearly £800,000.
The house-price index for the area moved 0.2% over the twelve months to May 2026, with an average price of about £525,000. On the same index, flats were down 1.8%. A fifth of a percent is the market standing still. The only part of it that went backwards is the part first-time buyers can reach, which counts as good news if you're one of them.
Band D is the most common council-tax band, and only 9% of homes are in bands A or B. A band D bill comes to about £2,140 a year, which is the figure to set against what you pay now. A cheap band in Beckenham is something you mostly hear about secondhand.
Bromley borough's typical private rent was about £1,670 a month in April 2026, up about 3% on the year. That is a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index across the whole borough, so Beckenham's own rents are mixed in with everywhere else in Bromley. By size, the borough averages are about £1,300 for one bedroom, £1,630 for two, £1,980 for three and £2,910 for four or more. There's no published figure for studios or rooms.
The Office for National Statistics models average household income across Beckenham at about £88,000 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. That's a high income by most standards. A £560,000 median is still a stretch on it, and most buyers bridge the gap with a large deposit, a second salary or a parent with savings.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 63% of them, the median price was about £6,390 per square metre, on a typical floor area of 107 square metres. The energy certificate is the one place a home's floor area has been measured by someone with nothing to sell, so check the property's own certificate against the particulars.
At the 2021 census, about 17% of Beckenham's homes had one bedroom, 27% had two, 29% had three and 27% had four or more. There are as many four-bedroom homes as two-bedroom ones, which is the Victorian villa refusing to be outnumbered by the flats built after it.
On price, Beckenham is middling and leans expensive. A good salary will buy a flat, but anything with a garden of its own costs serious money.