Houses in Bexley cost about £525,000 at the middle of the market, which is London money for a place that still answers to "the village". The semi is the going currency. A detached house costs far more. Flats are the only cheap way in, and hardly any of them come up. The borough around it is cheaper, and the village has never once offered to explain why.
The Land Registry recorded 213 sales in Bexley in the year to mid-May 2026, at a median of about £525,000. Semis were the bulk of it, with 90 sales at a median of around £548,000. Detached houses went for about £730,000 across 43 sales, terraces about £448,000 across 54, and flats about £268,000 across only 26. That is a whole year of flats in a number most streets could fit on one bus, so the cheap end of Bexley is less a price bracket and more a waiting list.
Prices have barely moved. The house price index for the Bexley area put the average up 2.2% over the twelve months to May 2026, and flats were down 0.5% over the same period. Neither is a number anyone should build a strategy on. The index average for the wider area was about £409,000 in May 2026, a long way under what the village itself sold for, which is the cost of living somewhere that adds "Old" to its own name.
Council tax lands higher up the ladder. Band E is the most common band in Bexley, and only about 5% of homes are in Bands A or B. Bexley Council charges about £2,370 a year at Band D, so the typical bill here starts above that and climbs with the band. A modest-looking semi can still carry a band that remembers what the house next to it sold for.
Renting is priced across the whole borough. For the London Borough of Bexley, the Office for National Statistics index gives a typical private rent of about £1,520 a month as of April 2026, 7% higher than a year earlier. By size, the same borough-wide averages run to about £1,220 for a one-bed, £1,520 for a two-bed, £1,850 for a three-bed and £2,410 for four bedrooms or more. These are means from the index, so a few large houses pull them about, and no figure exists for studios or single rooms.
Against income, the price is a stretch. The Office for National Statistics models gross household income across the area at about £77,400 a year for the financial year to March 2023, before tax, and about £50,600 once tax is taken off. A £525,000 house is a lot of either number, and it is the smaller one the mortgage gets paid from. Plenty of buyers here are spending equity from a previous sale, which is how a median like that holds up at all.
The price per square metre is the fairer way to compare two houses. Of the sales the Land Registry and the energy certificates let us match, 197 of the 213, the median was about £5,370 per square metre, on a typical floor area of about 97 square metres. Ask for the floor area on the energy certificate of any house you view and set the asking price against that figure, because a loft conversion photographs larger than it measures.
The stock is built for families. At the 2021 census, about 45% of households here had three bedrooms and 32% had four or more, against 19% with two and 4% with one. A one-bed in Bexley is close to a collector's item, and the three-bed semi on around 97 square metres is the house most buyers end up looking at, whatever they came in hoping for.
Bexley is middling on cost, and the middle here is set by families with equity. A buyer arriving with a deposit and a salary alone will find the semis comfortable to look at and harder to reach.