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Romsley market report B62 8, Halesowen
The standing B62 8 (Romsley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,679 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B62 8 (Halesowen) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B62 8 (Halesowen) came in at £256,800, out of 24 registered, up 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £251,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,960 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,679 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like B62 8 is a single group of streets within B62 (Halesowen), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where B62 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 a home in B62 8 sells for
In the B62 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £256,800, from 24 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £251,700, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in B62 8
By floor space, homes in B62 8 have sold for about £2,960 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B62 8 trades 10% below the country as a whole.
B62 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £256,800 | £256,800 | 24 |
| 2025 | £287,000 | £293,863 | 124 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 79 |
| 2023 | £232,000 | £254,911 | 71 |
| 2022 | £245,000 | £287,290 | 109 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 129 |
| 2020 | £199,000 | £258,207 | 89 |
| 2019 | £174,000 | £228,072 | 110 |
| 2018 | £176,800 | £235,678 | 108 |
| 2017 | £171,000 | £233,227 | 100 |
| 2016 | £172,500 | £241,329 | 124 |
| 2015 | £164,000 | £231,732 | 114 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 119 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 115 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 68 |
| 2011 | £146,500 | £221,159 | 72 |
| 2010 | £151,500 | £237,591 | 79 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 49 |
| 2008 | £152,500 | £249,980 | 78 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 159 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 160 |
| 2005 | £132,000 | £234,907 | 119 |
| 2004 | £127,000 | £230,657 | 151 |
| 2003 | £115,400 | £212,595 | 134 |
| 2002 | £85,500 | £160,868 | 161 |
| 2001 | £78,200 | £150,336 | 145 |
| 2000 | £76,200 | £149,543 | 172 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 161 |
| 1998 | £63,200 | £127,574 | 141 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 153 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 150 |
| 1995 | £52,500 | £114,127 | 112 |
In cash terms the typical B62 8 home went from £52,500 in 1995 to £256,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 125%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2025, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2025 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B62 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 (+35.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−14.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.5% | −12.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in B62 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 150 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 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.
What kind of market B62 8 is
This is a thin market: 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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 B62 district median, B62 8 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around B62 8
B62 8 falls under Dudley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £849 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £605 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,239 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Dudley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£849 a month is £10,188 a year, which against the £256,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
B62 8 (Romsley): the questions that come up
Is B62 8 (Romsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B62 8 (Romsley)?
Are property prices falling in B62 8 (Romsley)?
Will B62 8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in B62 today
Turning to what is actually available: 24 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B62 district, not just B62 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Olive Hill Road, Halesowen, West Midlands
- Greenhill Road, Halesowen, West Midlands, B62 8HA
- Long Lane, HALESOWEN, West Midlands, B62
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 B62 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in B
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in B62
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B62, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B62 0 | £432,500 | 27 |
| B62 9 | £261,500 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full B62 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B62 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in B62 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B62 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B62 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B62 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working B62 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B62 8.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about B62 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B62 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.
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.