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Do the numbers work? Rents and yields, the HMO planning rules, growth and what owners made, and the council's letting picture.
| Typical private rent in Bromley | A month | A year |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | £1,684 | £20,208 |
| 1 bedroom | £1,312 | £15,744 |
| 2 bedrooms | £1,641 | £19,692 |
| 3 bedrooms | £1,990 | £23,880 |
| 4+ bedrooms | £2,926 | £35,112 |
The council's typical rent against the typical home here (£369k): a gross yield of about 5.5%.
| New Beckenham | Bromley | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing allowance yield (%) | 4.0 | 3.0 | 3.2 |
| Rented privately | 33% | 17% | 20% |
| Homes ever let | 27% | 15% | 18% |
| Residents per home | 1.9 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| Homes owned by companies | 5% | 3% | 4% |
| Homes bought by companies since 2021 | 140 | 44 | 34 |
ONS private rents (council, 2026-08); Local Housing Allowance (VOA). Gross yields are before costs, voids and tax.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Bromley has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team.
| New Beckenham | Bromley | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postcodes under an Article 4 direction | 0% | 0% | 16% |
planning.data.gov.uk (Article 4 directions). Whether one address is inside an HMO area is on its postcode's Investing page. HMO Article 4 map · About HMOs
| New Beckenham | Bromley | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population change, 2021–2024 | +6% | +2% | +4% |
| Homes added, 2021–2024 | +4% | +1% | +3% |
| People added per new home, 2021–2024 | 2.6 | 3.8 | 5.1 |
| Housing pressure vs region | -1.0 | 0.8 | -0.3 |
Like-for-like (repeat-sales) index, HM Land Registry. What owners made when they sold, by area and how long they held.
MHCLG council tax base (England), Ministry of Justice repossessions, ONS short-term lets.
Yields, prices, growth, renting and Article 4 cover, side by side.
| Crystal Palace Park | 4.5 | £400k | +21% | 35% | 0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anerley North & Penge West | 4.2 | £363k | +21% | 25% | 0% |
| St Mary Cray East | 4.2 | £373k | +49% | 15% | 0% |
| New Beckenham (this one) | 4.0 | £369k | +19% | 33% | 0% |
| Mottingham | 3.9 | £412k | +39% | 17% | 0% |
| St Mary Cray North | 3.8 | £421k | +49% | 10% | 0% |
| Biggin Hill West | 3.6 | £445k | +36% | 9% | 0% |
| St Mary Cray South | 3.5 | £466k | +50% | 14% | 0% |
| Bromley North & Sundridge | 3.4 | £440k | +30% | 31% | 0% |
| Beckenham East & Kelsey Park | 3.4 | £471k | +24% | 29% | 0% |
| Shortlands Bromley Road | 3.3 | £469k | +26% | 24% | 0% |
| Orpington East | 3.3 | £459k | +40% | 10% | 0% |
| Bromley South | 3.2 | £468k | +28% | 33% | 0% |
| Orpington West | 3.1 | £489k | +39% | 20% | 0% |
| Anerley South | 3.1 | £492k | +32% | 23% | 0% |
| Plaistow (Bromley) | 3.1 | £537k | +39% | 13% | 0% |
| Bickley West | 3.0 | £530k | +33% | 23% | 0% |
| Widmore | 3.0 | £537k | +33% | 20% | 0% |
| Bromley Common | 3.0 | £555k | +30% | 11% | 0% |
| Biggin Hill East & Cudham | 2.9 | £525k | +35% | 10% | 0% |
| Farnborough | 2.9 | £521k | +31% | 10% | 0% |
| Orpington South | 2.7 | £566k | +42% | 10% | 0% |
| Chislehurst North | 2.7 | £572k | +35% | 16% | 0% |
| Goddington | 2.7 | £558k | +51% | 8% | 0% |
| Chislehurst East & Hoblingwell Wood | 2.6 | £534k | +35% | 9% | 0% |
| Elmers End | 2.5 | £646k | +40% | 16% | 0% |
| Clock House & Cator Park | 2.5 | £602k | +45% | 20% | 0% |
| Crofton | 2.5 | £635k | +46% | 9% | 0% |
| Penge East | 2.5 | £612k | +43% | 22% | 0% |
| Eden Park & Bethlem | 2.4 | £715k | +40% | 10% | 0% |
| Chelsfield & Green Street Green | 2.4 | £637k | +41% | 9% | 0% |
| Hayes North | 2.3 | £749k | +45% | 5% | 0% |
| West Wickham | 2.3 | £704k | +36% | 12% | 0% |
| Keston | 2.2 | £711k | +45% | 10% | 0% |
| Hayes South & Coney Hall | 2.2 | £722k | +39% | 11% | 0% |
| Bickley East | 2.1 | £716k | +41% | 11% | 0% |
| Chislehurst West & Elmstead | 2.1 | £786k | +35% | 15% | 0% |
| Petts Wood | 2.0 | £754k | +47% | 8% | 0% |
| Langley Park | 1.9 | £900k | +33% | 15% | 0% |
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Local Housing Allowance, Outer South East London rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £600 · 1 bed £1,050 · 2 beds £1,300 · 3 beds £1,550 · 4 beds £1,800. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 1-bed rate vs flats 3.6% · 2-bed vs terraced houses 2.31% · 3-bed vs semis 2.36%.