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Langley market report B68 9, Oldbury
The B68 9 (Langley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,057 registered sales in B68 9 (Oldbury) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical B68 9 (Oldbury) home changed hands for £227,000 in 2026 (median of 33 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £235,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,760 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,057 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
B68 9 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 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.
What buyers actually paid in B68 9
33 sales were registered in B68 9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £227,000. The mean works out at £235,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
B68 9 prices by floor area
Per square metre, B68 9 homes have averaged around £2,760 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B68 9 20% below the national figure.
The price of a typical B68 9 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £227,000 | £227,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £234,200 | £239,800 | 116 |
| 2024 | £232,500 | £247,195 | 110 |
| 2023 | £215,000 | £236,233 | 77 |
| 2022 | £211,000 | £247,422 | 113 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 136 |
| 2020 | £166,400 | £215,907 | 106 |
| 2019 | £164,000 | £214,965 | 130 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 114 |
| 2017 | £140,500 | £191,628 | 132 |
| 2016 | £145,000 | £202,856 | 108 |
| 2015 | £128,200 | £181,147 | 114 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 129 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 94 |
| 2012 | £115,800 | £170,443 | 78 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 89 |
| 2010 | £118,200 | £185,368 | 90 |
| 2009 | £116,800 | £187,757 | 80 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 117 |
| 2007 | £124,400 | £211,017 | 204 |
| 2006 | £122,000 | £211,776 | 201 |
| 2005 | £119,000 | £211,772 | 171 |
| 2004 | £112,000 | £203,414 | 169 |
| 2003 | £92,000 | £169,486 | 157 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 211 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 151 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 150 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 145 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 149 |
| 1997 | £47,200 | £96,798 | 154 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 121 |
| 1995 | £43,900 | £95,432 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical B68 9 home went from £43,900 in 1995 to £227,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 138%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. 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 B68 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 2002 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−11.2%). 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) | −3.1% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
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 B68 9
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 33 sales completed in B68 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 90 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.
Rents around B68 9
The local authority for B68 9 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.
Against the £227,000 median purchase price, a rent of £940 a month (£11,280 a year) works out at a 5.0% 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.
Reading the B68 9 market
This is a thin market: 33 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. 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 9 (Langley)
Is B68 9 (Langley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B68 9 (Langley)?
Are property prices falling in B68 9 (Langley)?
Where do B68 9 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
B68's current homes for sale
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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%) | — |
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 B68
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B68's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B68 0 | £255,000 | 39 |
| B68 8 | £222,000 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full B68 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B68 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B68 9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B68 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the B68 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B68 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B68 9.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B68 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B68 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.