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Old Hill market report B64 7, Cradley Heath
The B64 7 (Old Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,171 HM Land Registry entries for B64 7 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 20 registered 2026 sales put the B64 7 (Cradley Heath) median at £263,000, up 17% on five years earlier, with a mean of £273,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,171 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like B64 7 is a single group of streets within B64 (Cradley Heath), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where B64 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.
The going rate for a home in B64 7
The B64 7 median stands at £263,000 for 2026, built from 20 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £273,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in B64 7
By floor space, homes in B64 7 have sold for about £2,800 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 B64 7 trades 8% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical B64 7 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £263,000 | £263,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £256,500 | £262,634 | 64 |
| 2024 | £239,200 | £254,319 | 70 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 57 |
| 2022 | £227,500 | £266,770 | 82 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 97 |
| 2020 | £210,000 | £272,479 | 72 |
| 2019 | £167,000 | £218,897 | 63 |
| 2018 | £174,000 | £231,945 | 69 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 71 |
| 2016 | £138,200 | £193,343 | 98 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 53 |
| 2014 | £158,000 | £224,151 | 75 |
| 2013 | £128,200 | £184,467 | 48 |
| 2012 | £137,200 | £201,941 | 60 |
| 2011 | £129,500 | £195,495 | 46 |
| 2010 | £127,500 | £199,953 | 49 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 40 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 41 |
| 2007 | £130,000 | £220,516 | 107 |
| 2006 | £137,500 | £238,682 | 82 |
| 2005 | £112,700 | £200,561 | 68 |
| 2004 | £123,500 | £224,300 | 73 |
| 2003 | £89,000 | £163,960 | 66 |
| 2002 | £91,200 | £171,592 | 93 |
| 2001 | £76,000 | £146,106 | 106 |
| 2000 | £68,800 | £135,020 | 92 |
| 1999 | £64,500 | £128,545 | 81 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 79 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 51 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 51 |
| 1995 | £56,500 | £122,822 | 47 |
In cash terms the typical B64 7 home went from £56,500 in 1995 to £263,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 114%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 8% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B64 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 2004 (+38.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−19.2%). 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) | +2.5% | +0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.6% | +3.1% |
| 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
The year-by-year sales count
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.
B64 7 recorded 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 86 sales a year before the financial crisis and 59 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.
How B64 7 trades
This is a thin market: 20 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. Within B64, this sector trades 25% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of B64 7
The local authority for B64 7 is Sandwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Sandwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £263,000 median sold price, £940 a month is £11,280 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Asked and answered: B64 7 (Old Hill)
Is B64 7 (Old Hill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B64 7 (Old Hill)?
Are property prices falling in B64 7 (Old Hill)?
Where do B64 7 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
On the market in B64 today
The live side of the market holds 13 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B64 district, not just B64 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every B64 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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in B64
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B64, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B64 5 | £188,000 | 18 |
| B64 6 | £197,000 | 27 |
Zoom out to the full B64 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B64 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in B64 7: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B64 7's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working B64 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B64 7.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B64 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B64 7 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.