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Bearwood market report B67 5, Smethwick
The B67 5 (Bearwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,890 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B67 5 (Smethwick) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in B67 5 (Smethwick) sold for £209,500 in 2026, the median of 38 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £234,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,700 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,890 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like B67 5 is a single group of streets within B67 (Smethwick), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where B67 5 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 buyers actually paid in B67 5
Across 38 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B67 5 home went for £209,500. The mean is £234,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in B67 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B67 5 sales average about £2,700 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B67 5 26% below the national figure.
The price of a typical B67 5 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £209,500 | £209,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £233,600 | £239,186 | 140 |
| 2024 | £239,000 | £254,106 | 107 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 104 |
| 2022 | £237,500 | £278,496 | 128 |
| 2021 | £217,200 | £275,003 | 166 |
| 2020 | £187,500 | £243,285 | 105 |
| 2019 | £192,500 | £252,321 | 157 |
| 2018 | £186,000 | £247,942 | 139 |
| 2017 | £171,000 | £233,227 | 180 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 190 |
| 2015 | £142,800 | £201,776 | 174 |
| 2014 | £135,500 | £192,230 | 182 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 129 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 119 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 147 |
| 2010 | £144,000 | £225,829 | 96 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 131 |
| 2008 | £137,200 | £224,900 | 128 |
| 2007 | £142,000 | £240,872 | 261 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 268 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 240 |
| 2004 | £128,800 | £233,926 | 282 |
| 2003 | £112,000 | £206,331 | 274 |
| 2002 | £91,000 | £171,216 | 291 |
| 2001 | £72,500 | £139,378 | 267 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 301 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 247 |
| 1998 | £50,500 | £101,938 | 247 |
| 1997 | £48,400 | £99,259 | 254 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 217 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 181 |
In cash terms the typical B67 5 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £209,500 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. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B67 5 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 2002 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−10.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B67 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.3% | −12.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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.
B67 5 recorded 38 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 273 sales a year before the financial crisis and 103 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.
The rental side of B67 5
The local authority for B67 5 is Sandwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£940 a month is £11,280 a year, which against the £209,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.4%. 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.
Reading the B67 5 market
This is a thin market: 38 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.
Asked and answered: B67 5 (Bearwood)
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Where do B67 5 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in B67 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 107 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B67 district, not just B67 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 12% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 B67 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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in B67
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B67, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B67 6 | £209,500 | 20 |
| B67 7 | £180,000 | 21 |
Zoom out to the full B67 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B67 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B67 5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B67 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B67 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B67 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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See every individual B67 5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.