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1 The Bays, Orpington is described in the public record as a mid-century apartment with 495 ft2 of internal area.
Locally, apartments of this size normally have 2 bedrooms.
Our estimate of the sale value of 1 The Bays, Orpington is £201,818 and its rental estimate is £1,137 per month, given the available information and assuming reasonable condition.
The Bays, Main Road is a residential building on Main Road, Orpington, BR5 and falls within the BR5 postal district and the borough of Bromley.
1 The Bays, Orpington has no records in the the Land Registry and a single entry in the EPC database dated April 2024.
We combine this information with public data of neighbouring properties to estimate the property attributes and values.
The local information is scored as 3 out of 5 and is considered of medium accuracy.
The condition of a property plays an important role in determining its value, with the degree of impact varying by property type, size and location.
For 1 The Bays, Orpington, we estimate a market value of £211,909 and a rental value of £1,194 per month when presented in very good decorative order. Should the property require extensive cosmetic improvement, those figures would reduce to £187,691 and £1,057 per month respectively.
Over the last year, 1 The Bays, Orpington has seen its estimated sale value decrease by £595 (0.3%) and its estimated rental value grow by £36 per month (3.2%). This results in an estimated gross rental yield of 6.8%.
1 The Bays, Orpington has an Energy Performance Rating (EPC) of C. This is based on the most recent assessment, dated 27 Apr 2024.
The property is connected to mains gas and has fully double glazed windows. It is heated using Boiler and radiators, mains gas.
Over the past 2 years 3 properties similar to 1 The Bays, Orpington have sold within a radius of 530 metres, per the Land Registry and our network of Estate Agents.
The latest, on the 31st July 2024, was Flat 3, Tanglewood Court 1, Brantwood Way, Orpington, BR5 3WA, a leasehold flat which sold for £156,500.
Read more about house prices in BR5.
•Nearby is defined as the radius comprising the nearest 2,000 addresses.
Of the 116 addresses on Main Road, Orpington, BR5, 1 The Bays, Orpington comes out as the 100th largest and the 103rd most expensive in our analysis of the public data.
It is also £280k less expensive than the average property across the BR5 district.
From 1 The Bays, Orpington, the nearest station is St Mary Cray, 700 metres away.
Broadband here reaches superfast speeds, based on recent Ofcom data.
According to recent data from Ofcom, Superfast broadband is available in the area.
The flood risk here is rated very low, based on Environment Agency data.
The recent census recorded whether a resident owned or rented their home.
In the area around 1 The Bays, Orpington, 36.9% of property is socially rented and 31.2% is privately owned with a mortgage.
The graph below shows how this compares to Greater London and the rest of England & Wales.
The recent census recorded the highest level of education achieved by residents in the local area.
In the area around 1 The Bays, Orpington, 27.4% of residents are recorded as possessing school level qualifications and 28.1% as possessing degree level qualifications.
The graph below shows how this compares to Greater London and the rest of England & Wales.
The most recent census in 2021 recorded the age of all UK residents.
In the area around 1 The Bays, Orpington, the average age was 36.4 and the most common age was 7.
The graph below shows how this compares to Greater London and the rest of England & Wales
The recent census recorded whether a property was a primary or secondary home for the resident.
In the area around 1 The Bays, Orpington, 0.0% of property was a second home.
Comparison figures for Greater London and the rest of England & Wales are listed below.
The recent census recorded the number of cars registered in each household.
In the area around 1 The Bays, Orpington, there are an average of 1.0 cars per household.
See below for how this compares to Greater London and the rest of England & Wales.