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Langley market report B68, Oldbury
The B68 (Langley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 12,131 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B68 (Oldbury) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for B68 (Oldbury) is £234,000, from 105 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier; the mean is £241,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,700 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 12,131 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B68 is the postcode district covering Langley, Brandhall, Quinton in Oldbury. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where B68 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 B68 prices, from the sold record
105 sales were registered in B68 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £234,000. The mean works out at £241,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in B68
A square metre of B68 home has cost about £2,700 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B68 trades 18% below the country as a whole.
A typical B68 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £234,000 | £234,000 | 105 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 321 |
| 2024 | £226,000 | £240,284 | 291 |
| 2023 | £215,000 | £236,233 | 257 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 354 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 403 |
| 2020 | £173,500 | £225,120 | 292 |
| 2019 | £165,000 | £216,276 | 350 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 384 |
| 2017 | £146,000 | £199,129 | 389 |
| 2016 | £138,000 | £193,063 | 359 |
| 2015 | £131,000 | £185,103 | 375 |
| 2014 | £129,500 | £183,718 | 422 |
| 2013 | £121,800 | £175,258 | 374 |
| 2012 | £116,500 | £171,473 | 287 |
| 2011 | £115,500 | £174,361 | 278 |
| 2010 | £116,500 | £182,702 | 259 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 253 |
| 2008 | £122,500 | £200,803 | 283 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 549 |
| 2006 | £121,200 | £210,388 | 554 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 475 |
| 2004 | £107,500 | £195,241 | 489 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 488 |
| 2002 | £77,500 | £145,816 | 569 |
| 2001 | £59,500 | £114,386 | 509 |
| 2000 | £54,600 | £107,153 | 465 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 451 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 432 |
| 1997 | £48,500 | £99,464 | 430 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 358 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 326 |
In cash terms the typical B68 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £234,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 145%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B68 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 (+30.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.4% | −2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 52% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £285,500 against £90,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, B68
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £285,500 | 10 | 904 |
| Semi-detached | £255,000 | 61 | 6,357 |
| Terraced | £185,000 | 29 | 4,073 |
| Flats | £90,000 | 5 | 797 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 229 B68 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 512 sales a year before the financial crisis and 266 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.
The rental side of B68
B68 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 £234,000 median purchase price, a rent of £940 a month (£11,280 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
Common questions on B68 (Langley)
How much did a house sell for in B68 (Langley)?
Are property prices falling in B68 (Langley)?
Is B68 (Langley) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to B68 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in B68 right now
Everything above is what homes in B68 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 58 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% above the B68 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 17% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Castle Road West, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68
- Castle Road West, OLDBURY
- Elm Croft, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68
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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight 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
B68 ranks 22 of 76 in the B area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside B68, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B68 0 | £255,000 | 39 |
| B68 8 | £222,000 | 33 |
| B68 9 | £227,000 | 33 |
How B68 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B68 itself, which ranks 45 of 76 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| B94 | £615,000 | +7% |
| B93 | £560,000 | +11% |
| B91 | £490,000 | +14% |
| B95 | £442,500 | +11% |
| B72 | £400,000 | +17% |
| B74 | £397,500 | +5% |
| B47 | £373,000 | +10% |
| B75 | £363,800 | +4% |
| B73 | £350,000 | +1% |
| B76 | £350,000 | +17% |
| B80 | £347,500 | +24% |
| B17 | £347,000 | +7% |
| B96 | £347,000 | -4% |
| B48 | £340,000 | -9% |
| B60 | £340,000 | +6% |
| B90 | £335,000 | +4% |
| B50 | £325,000 | -1% |
| B49 | £312,500 | -5% |
| B92 | £310,000 | +11% |
| B28 | £300,000 | +12% |
| B61 | £295,000 | +13% |
| B62 | £285,000 | +15% |
| B46 | £279,500 | +4% |
| B68 (this report) | £234,000 | +20% |
Selling a home in B68? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B68's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B68.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual B68 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.