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Old Hill market report B64 5, Cradley Heath

The B64 5 (Old Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,143 HM Land Registry entries for B64 5 (Cradley Heath), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.

Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: the middle 2026 sale in B64 5 (Cradley Heath) came in at £188,000, out of 18 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £213,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,690 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,143 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

B64 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B64 (Cradley Heath). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.

Today's B64 5 prices, from the sold record

The B64 5 median stands at £188,000 for 2026, built from 18 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £213,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

Price per square metre in B64 5

By floor space, homes in B64 5 have sold for about £2,690 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.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B64 5 34% below the country at large.

In cash terms the typical B64 5 home went from £45,400 in 1995 to £188,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 90%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 37% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2018 (+45.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−35.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.

Sales activity in B64 5

B64 5 recorded 18 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 100 sales a year before the financial crisis and 44 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.

How B64 5 trades

This is a thin market: 18 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. 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. Against the B64 district median, B64 5 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.

What tenants pay around B64 5

B64 5 falls under Sandwell, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £672 a month here against £1,388 for four or more bedrooms.

£940 a month is £11,280 a year, which against the £188,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.0%. 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.

What people ask about B64 5 (Old Hill)

What happens to B64 5 prices now?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 you could buy in B64 now

Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in B64

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B64's other sectors, each with its own report:

Zoom out to the full B64 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B64 compares with its neighbours.

Selling a home in B64 5? Price it on the evidence

Dig further

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Two maps carry on from here: every B64 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.