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Blackheath market report B65 9, Rowley Regis
The B65 9 (Blackheath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,300 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B65 9 (Rowley Regis) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B65 9 (Rowley Regis) came in at £208,000, out of 23 registered, up 10% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £214,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,750 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,300 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 B65 9 is a single group of streets within B65 (Rowley Regis), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where B65 9 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.
Today's B65 9 prices, from the sold record
Across 23 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B65 9 home went for £208,000. The mean is £214,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in B65 9
Per square metre, B65 9 homes have averaged around £2,750 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B65 9 27% below the country at large.
B65 9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £208,000 | £208,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £212,400 | £217,479 | 97 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 83 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 81 |
| 2022 | £209,000 | £245,076 | 124 |
| 2021 | £188,500 | £238,665 | 138 |
| 2020 | £157,600 | £204,489 | 92 |
| 2019 | £149,400 | £195,828 | 112 |
| 2018 | £165,800 | £221,015 | 146 |
| 2017 | £142,400 | £194,219 | 152 |
| 2016 | £124,000 | £173,477 | 111 |
| 2015 | £116,500 | £164,615 | 88 |
| 2014 | £106,000 | £150,380 | 91 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 76 |
| 2012 | £102,000 | £150,131 | 70 |
| 2011 | £112,000 | £169,077 | 77 |
| 2010 | £118,000 | £185,054 | 83 |
| 2009 | £96,500 | £155,125 | 48 |
| 2008 | £115,200 | £188,837 | 90 |
| 2007 | £114,500 | £194,224 | 152 |
| 2006 | £108,500 | £188,342 | 139 |
| 2005 | £107,000 | £190,417 | 117 |
| 2004 | £94,200 | £171,086 | 114 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 120 |
| 2002 | £67,500 | £127,001 | 125 |
| 2001 | £59,000 | £113,424 | 131 |
| 2000 | £51,200 | £100,480 | 130 |
| 1999 | £46,000 | £91,676 | 119 |
| 1998 | £45,500 | £91,845 | 87 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 114 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 97 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 73 |
In cash terms the typical B65 9 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £208,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 139%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. 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 B65 9 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 2010 (+22.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in B65 9
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
B65 9 recorded 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 129 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 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.
Reading the B65 9 market
This is a thin market: 23 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.
What homes rent for around B65 9
B65 9 falls under Sandwell, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £672 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,388 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Sandwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £208,000 median purchase price, a rent of £940 a month (£11,280 a year) works out at a 5.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about B65 9 (Blackheath)
Are property prices falling in B65 9 (Blackheath)?
Is B65 9 (Blackheath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B65 9 (Blackheath)?
What happens to B65 9 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% 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.
B65's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 25 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B65 district, not just B65 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Old School Drive, ROWLEY REGIS, West ...
- Harvington Walk, Rowley Regis, West Midlands, B65
- Springfield Lane, Rowley Regis
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every B65 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in B65
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B65's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B65 0 | £220,000 | 20 |
| B65 8 | £227,000 | 27 |
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 9: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B65 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the B65 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B65 9 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 B65 9.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B65 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B65 9 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.