A typical home in Bromley sells for about £460,000, which in practice buys a terrace. Flats are the cheapest way in. A semi is a big step up. Detached houses go for just short of seven figures. Prices have barely moved in a year. For London that is ordinary money, and for anywhere else it is a lot.
The Land Registry recorded 441 sales in the year to May 2026, with a typical price of about £460,000. Split by type, there were 143 flat sales at a median of about £325,000, 166 terraces at about £450,000, 72 semis at about £620,000 and 60 detached houses at about £998,000. Only 60 detached sales in a year means most buyers are choosing between a flat and a terrace. The semi with a drive that people picture when they think of Bromley comes up far less often than the terrace they end up buying.
The house-price index for the area recorded a change of about 0.2% over the twelve months to May 2026, which is as close to flat as an index gets. Flats did worse, down about 1.8% over the same year. Over five years the index is up about 11%. The houses have held their value, while the flat market has been slower, and a buyer of a one-bed has slightly more room to negotiate than the seller's asking price suggests. The Land Registry's own sales record for the street will show what nearby flats really fetched, which is the useful check before agreeing a figure.
Band C is the most common council-tax band in Bromley, and only about 11% of homes are in bands A or B. A band D bill here comes to about £2,140 a year, so most households in Bromley pay somewhere close to that.
The Office for National Statistics' private rent index put typical rent for Bromley borough at about £1,670 a month in April 2026, up about 3% on the year. That is a mean across the whole borough, so it includes Beckenham, Orpington and everywhere else in Bromley alongside the town itself. By size, the borough averages about £1,300 for a one-bed, £1,630 for a two-bed, £1,975 for a three-bed and £2,913 for four bedrooms or more. Flat prices dipped while rents went up, and landlords have noticed.
Average gross household income here, before tax, was modelled at about £83,000 for the financial year to March 2023, or about £54,000 after tax. That is an older, modelled figure and wages have moved since. At that income a flat is within reach for a couple with a deposit and a terrace is a stretch. A semi usually means family money or a sale elsewhere to fund it.
Of the sales in the last twelve months that could be matched to an energy certificate, about 72% of them, the median price was about £5,700 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is about 89 square metres. That covers a fair share of sales but not all of them, and the unmatched ones are often the homes that have not changed hands in years.
At the 2021 census about 13% of homes had one bedroom, 31% had two, 33% had three and 23% had four or more. Two and three bedrooms make up almost two thirds of the stock. Anyone hunting for a fourth bedroom on a terrace budget will spend their weekends at viewings in a loft conversion.
Houses in Bromley are middling value: the cost is fair for London and the market is steady, and nothing here is cheap.