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Dodford market report B61 7, Bromsgrove
The B61 7 (Dodford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,088 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B61 7 (Bromsgrove) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for B61 7 (Bromsgrove) is £295,000, from 25 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier; the mean is £312,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,260 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,088 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B61 7 is one sector of B61 (Bromsgrove): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where B61 7 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What a home in B61 7 sells for
The 2026 median for B61 7 is £295,000, taken from 25 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £312,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in B61 7
By floor space, homes in B61 7 have sold for about £3,260 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B61 7 4% above the national figure.
B61 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £268,800 | £275,228 | 60 |
| 2024 | £278,800 | £296,422 | 60 |
| 2023 | £245,500 | £269,745 | 58 |
| 2022 | £279,000 | £327,159 | 76 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 111 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 71 |
| 2019 | £205,000 | £268,706 | 84 |
| 2018 | £216,500 | £288,599 | 92 |
| 2017 | £244,500 | £333,473 | 99 |
| 2016 | £182,000 | £254,620 | 82 |
| 2015 | £181,200 | £256,036 | 80 |
| 2014 | £175,000 | £248,268 | 115 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 65 |
| 2012 | £146,500 | £215,630 | 66 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 88 |
| 2010 | £165,500 | £259,547 | 60 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 57 |
| 2008 | £156,000 | £255,717 | 63 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 112 |
| 2006 | £142,200 | £246,841 | 122 |
| 2005 | £136,500 | £242,915 | 106 |
| 2004 | £141,200 | £256,447 | 120 |
| 2003 | £127,200 | £234,333 | 148 |
| 2002 | £108,000 | £203,201 | 175 |
| 2001 | £91,000 | £174,943 | 134 |
| 2000 | £89,500 | £175,644 | 133 |
| 1999 | £74,500 | £148,475 | 142 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 109 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 123 |
| 1996 | £80,000 | £168,716 | 141 |
| 1995 | £73,500 | £159,778 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical B61 7 home went from £73,500 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 85%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B61 7 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2017 (+34.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−25.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.7% | +7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in B61 7
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 25 B61 7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 131 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the B61 7 market
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B61 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
The rental side of B61 7
The local authority for B61 7 is Bromsgrove, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £979 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £708 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,585 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bromsgrove
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £295,000 median sold price, £979 a month is £11,748 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on B61 7 (Dodford)
Are property prices falling in B61 7 (Dodford)?
Is B61 7 (Dodford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B61 7 (Dodford)?
Where do B61 7 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in B61 right now
The live side of the market holds 201 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B61 district, not just B61 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Kidderminster Road, Dodford, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
- Westfields, Catshill, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B61
- Malvern Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every B61 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £306,000 | £425,000 (+39%) | £665,000 (+56%) | £950,000 (+43%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £240,000 (+14%) | £300,000 (+25%) | £418,250 (+39%) | £535,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £187,500 | £200,000 (+7%) | £235,000 (+18%) | £315,000 (+34%) | £397,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £130,000 | £179,500 (+38%) | £299,000 (+67%) | £500,000 (+67%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
B area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in B61
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B61, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B61 0 | £305,000 | 71 |
| B61 8 | £255,000 | 40 |
| B61 9 | £417,500 | 11 |
Zoom out to the full B61 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B61 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B61 7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B61 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the B61 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B61 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B61 7.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B61 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual B61 7 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.