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Blackheath market report B65 8, Rowley Regis
The standing B65 8 (Blackheath) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,042 HM Land Registry entries for B65 8 (Rowley Regis), 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 27 registered 2026 sales put the B65 8 (Rowley Regis) median at £227,000, up 38% on five years earlier, with a mean of £259,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,590 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,042 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B65 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B65 (Rowley Regis). 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.
Where B65 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.
B65 8 sold prices: where the market stands
In the B65 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £227,000, from 27 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £259,500, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in B65 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B65 8 costs about £2,590 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B65 8 20% below the country at large.
A typical B65 8 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £227,000 | £227,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £211,000 | £216,046 | 80 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 74 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 77 |
| 2022 | £195,000 | £228,660 | 109 |
| 2021 | £164,800 | £208,658 | 96 |
| 2020 | £170,000 | £220,579 | 73 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 91 |
| 2018 | £146,200 | £194,887 | 92 |
| 2017 | £150,000 | £204,585 | 97 |
| 2016 | £128,000 | £179,073 | 81 |
| 2015 | £118,500 | £167,441 | 96 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 75 |
| 2013 | £104,500 | £150,365 | 84 |
| 2012 | £119,200 | £175,448 | 72 |
| 2011 | £101,000 | £152,471 | 56 |
| 2010 | £98,000 | £153,689 | 58 |
| 2009 | £108,000 | £173,611 | 97 |
| 2008 | £122,100 | £200,148 | 61 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 168 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 162 |
| 2005 | £112,800 | £200,739 | 96 |
| 2004 | £99,000 | £179,803 | 121 |
| 2003 | £79,000 | £145,537 | 118 |
| 2002 | £63,800 | £120,039 | 110 |
| 2001 | £57,000 | £109,580 | 115 |
| 2000 | £51,500 | £101,069 | 104 |
| 1999 | £47,000 | £93,669 | 112 |
| 1998 | £47,800 | £96,488 | 84 |
| 1997 | £49,800 | £102,130 | 128 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 112 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 116 |
In cash terms the typical B65 8 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £227,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 74%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the B65 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 2004 (+25.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−17.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.6% | +5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.9% | +2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 27 sales completed in B65 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 124 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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.
Reading the B65 8 market
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B65 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.
The rental side of B65 8
The local authority for B65 8 is Sandwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £672 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,388, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sandwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £227,000 median sold price, £940 a month is £11,280 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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.
B65 8 (Blackheath): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in B65 8 (Blackheath)?
Is B65 8 (Blackheath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B65 8 (Blackheath)?
Are B65 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in B65 today
The live side of the market holds 25 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B65 district, not just B65 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Old School Drive, ROWLEY REGIS, West ...
- Harvington Walk, Rowley Regis, West Midlands, B65
- Springfield Lane, Rowley Regis
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 B65 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. 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%) | — |
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.
B area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in B65
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B65, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B65 0 | £220,000 | 20 |
| B65 9 | £208,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full B65 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B65 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in B65 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B65 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B65 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B65 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim B65 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B65 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B65 8 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.