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Dodford market report B61 8, Bromsgrove
The B61 8 (Dodford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,998 registered sales in B61 8 (Bromsgrove) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 40 registered 2026 sales put the B61 8 (Bromsgrove) median at £255,000, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £258,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,090 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,998 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B61 8 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 8 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 buyers actually paid in B61 8
40 sales were registered in B61 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £255,000. The mean works out at £258,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in B61 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B61 8 sales average about £3,090 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, B61 8 sits 11% below the national market.
B61 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 102 |
| 2024 | £257,800 | £274,094 | 76 |
| 2023 | £256,500 | £281,831 | 67 |
| 2022 | £246,000 | £288,463 | 96 |
| 2021 | £237,500 | £300,706 | 108 |
| 2020 | £211,000 | £273,777 | 75 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 83 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 133 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 129 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 96 |
| 2015 | £161,200 | £227,776 | 100 |
| 2014 | £147,500 | £209,255 | 94 |
| 2013 | £143,500 | £206,482 | 85 |
| 2012 | £133,700 | £196,790 | 78 |
| 2011 | £135,500 | £204,553 | 77 |
| 2010 | £153,000 | £239,943 | 65 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 80 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 55 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £262,923 | 109 |
| 2006 | £143,500 | £249,098 | 124 |
| 2005 | £142,000 | £252,703 | 111 |
| 2004 | £138,500 | £251,543 | 110 |
| 2003 | £123,000 | £226,596 | 105 |
| 2002 | £94,200 | £177,236 | 130 |
| 2001 | £86,500 | £166,292 | 101 |
| 2000 | £72,400 | £142,085 | 88 |
| 1999 | £66,500 | £132,531 | 108 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 96 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 99 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 94 |
| 1995 | £52,500 | £114,127 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical B61 8 home went from £52,500 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 123%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B61 8 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 2003 (+30.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B61 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
B61 8 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 110 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How B61 8 trades
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B61 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the B61 district median, B61 8 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around B61 8
B61 8 falls under Bromsgrove, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £255,000 median sold price, £979 a month is £11,748 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: 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.
B61 8 (Dodford): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in B61 8 (Dodford)?
Are property prices falling in B61 8 (Dodford)?
Is B61 8 (Dodford) a good place to buy a house?
Where do B61 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
B61's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 201 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B61 district, not just B61 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the B area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in B61
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B61, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B61 0 | £305,000 | 71 |
| B61 7 | £295,000 | 25 |
| 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.
Selling in B61 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B61 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the B61 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B61 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim B61 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B61 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B61 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.