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Langley market report B68 8, Oldbury
The B68 8 (Langley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,971 HM Land Registry entries for B68 8 (Oldbury), 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 B68 8 (Oldbury) came in at £222,000, out of 33 registered, up 20% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £227,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,600 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,971 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
B68 8 is one sector of B68 (Oldbury): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where B68 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.
What B68 8 homes really sell for
In the B68 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £222,000, from 33 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £227,500, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in B68 8
The last five years of sales put B68 8 at roughly £2,600 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B68 8 runs 22% below it.
B68 8's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £222,000 | £222,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 77 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 81 |
| 2023 | £209,000 | £229,640 | 92 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 110 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 135 |
| 2020 | £168,000 | £217,983 | 103 |
| 2019 | £149,500 | £195,959 | 96 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 116 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 119 |
| 2016 | £117,000 | £163,684 | 124 |
| 2015 | £119,000 | £168,147 | 118 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £191,521 | 159 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 157 |
| 2012 | £112,000 | £164,850 | 109 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 89 |
| 2010 | £108,000 | £169,372 | 74 |
| 2009 | £101,000 | £162,358 | 69 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 73 |
| 2007 | £116,500 | £197,616 | 161 |
| 2006 | £117,000 | £203,097 | 137 |
| 2005 | £101,000 | £179,739 | 164 |
| 2004 | £96,200 | £174,718 | 178 |
| 2003 | £81,000 | £149,222 | 183 |
| 2002 | £69,000 | £129,823 | 188 |
| 2001 | £51,000 | £98,045 | 194 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 160 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 154 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 165 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 132 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 110 |
| 1995 | £40,500 | £88,041 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical B68 8 home went from £40,500 in 1995 to £222,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 152%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B68 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 2002 (+35.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.2%). 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) | −3.5% | −5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.6% | +3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in B68 8
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
B68 8 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 171 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of B68 8
The local authority for B68 8 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 £222,000 median sold price, £940 a month is £11,280 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
What kind of market B68 8 is
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B68 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Common questions on B68 8 (Langley)
Are property prices falling in B68 8 (Langley)?
Is B68 8 (Langley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B68 8 (Langley)?
Are B68 8 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% 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 is for sale in B68 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 58 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B68 district, not just B68 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Castle Road West, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68
- Castle Road West, OLDBURY
- Elm Croft, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68
"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 B68 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
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the B area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in B68
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B68, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B68 0 | £255,000 | 39 |
| B68 9 | £227,000 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full B68 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B68 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in B68 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B68 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B68 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B68 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working B68 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B68 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B68 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual B68 8 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.
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.