A typical home in Petts Wood sells for about £450,000, but most buyers here are after something pricier. Semis go for over half a million. Flats are the cheap way in. Prices have hardly moved in a year. The median is mostly what you pay for a house you weren't looking for.
The Land Registry recorded 390 sales in the year to late May 2026, with a median price of £450,000. Property type makes a big difference. The 47 flats sold went for a median of about £265,000, the 96 terraces about £400,000, the 201 semis about £510,000 and the 46 detached houses about £850,000. The semi is the house most buyers here come for, and it costs noticeably more than the headline number suggests.
The official house price index for the area moved 0.2% in the year to May 2026, a change too small to mean much. Flats were the exception, down 1.8% over the same period. The flats are the only part of the market that moved, and they moved in the direction their sellers least wanted.
Band D is the most common council-tax band, and in Bromley it costs about £2,140 a year. Only about 8% of homes are in bands A or B. The cheap bands are scarce here for the same reason the cheap houses are.
Bromley's typical private rent is about £1,670 a month as of April 2026, up about 3% on the year. The borough averages break down as one-beds at about £1,300, two-beds about £1,630, three-beds about £1,975 and four-beds or bigger around £2,910. These are mean rents from the Office for National Statistics index, covering the whole borough. Petts Wood's own streets could come in above or below them.
The Office for National Statistics models typical gross household income here at about £84,000 for the financial year to March 2023, and about £54,000 after tax. A median house at £450,000 is a stretch on one salary and manageable on two decent ones. The difference between gross and net is the gap between what you can afford in theory and what a mortgage lender will actually let you borrow, and both figures are three years out of date.
Across the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, about 93% of the year's total, the median price was about £5,700 per square metre, for a typical floor area of about 85 square metres. Measure a house before agreeing to a price, because the floor area in the particulars and the one on the energy certificate don't always match, and every square metre here costs thousands.
The 2021 census gives the bedroom mix as about 44% three-bedroom homes, 28% two-bedroom, 19% four or more and 9% one-bedroom. Three bedrooms is what Petts Wood was built for. A one-bed buyer has the smallest choice in the area.
On price, Petts Wood is middling and a little on the costly side. Expect to pay what this end of Bromley charges, plus extra for the semi that most buyers want.