Renting in Bromley, in numbers.
Here's what the Bromley market says about what a home costs, how that changes with a bedroom, and what you get for the money.
Median rent
£1,850
a month, 26% below the London median
Typical two-bed
£1,900
the most common home here
Typical size
699 sq ft
where floor area is given
What a bedroom costs in Bromley.
Median asking rent, with the middle half of the market shown as a bar. Only sizes with enough listings to be worth a number appear.
Middle half of the marketMedian
What a budget reaches here
A median says what a size costs. This says how much of Bromley a figure actually reaches, measured against the same listings.
What Bromley asked, month by month.
Each listing counts once, in the month we first saw it, at the price it first asked. The latest month runs to 5 October 2026.
All sizesTwo-bed
| Month | Median rent, all sizes | Median rent, two-bed | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £1,750 | £1,900 | 70 |
| July 2026 | £1,850 | £1,825 | 82 |
| August 2026 | £1,850 | £1,900 | 44 |
| September 2026 | £1,750 | £1,900 | 103 |
| October 2026 | £1,913 | £1,900 | 70 |
Between 44 and 103 listings a month, inside the same price band as every other figure here.
When the price moves, it usually moves down.
Of the price changes we've recorded in Bromley, 78% were reductions. Asking rents here soften after listing more often than they firm up, which is worth remembering before you treat the number in the ad as final.
When one does fall in Bromley, it typically drops 4.2%, or about £100 a month, usually within 44 days of us first seeing the listing. Across London the typical fall is 5.7% and takes about 31 days, so Bromley runs shallower than the London typical. Based on 36 reductions of 1% or more.
Bromley rents around these neighbourhoods.
The neighbourhoods around the stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a Bromley listing.
- Beckenham
Also known as Beckenham Junction, Eden Park, Avenue Road, Beckenham Road, Birkbeck and Clock House. Postcode BR3.
- Plaistow
Also known as Sundridge Park, Bromley North, Bromley South, Bromley Town and Bickley & Sundridge. Postcode BR1.
- Penge
Also known as Anerley, New Beckenham, Penge East, Penge West, Penge & Cator and Crystal Palace & Anerley. Postcode SE20.
- Orpington
Also known as St Mary Cray, Chelsfield, St Paul’s Cray, Knockholt and Farnborough & Crofton. Postcodes BR6 and BR5.
These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: Bromley listings gathered from estate agents across London between 8 March to 5 October 2026. Snapshot taken 5 October 2026.
It's what agents are marketing, not a census. It skews toward flats and toward the agents whose sites we watch, so it describes the market you'd actually meet while searching, not every home in Bromley. Medians throughout, because a handful of prime listings pull an average upward and tell you nothing about your search.
Rents below £500 or above £15,000 a month are set aside as data errors or ultra-prime outliers. Where a figure would rest on too few listings to trust, we leave it blank rather than guess.
Closest to Bromley.
The boroughs whose listings sit nearest Bromley, closest first. Worth a look if your search is really about somewhere rather than exactly here.
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