Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,901 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B70 (West Bromwich) 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.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
B70 is the postcode district covering West Bromwich, Lyng, Swan Village in West Bromwich. 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 B70 sits
Click the map to open B70 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£220,000median sold price, 2026
+32%five-year change (cash)
183sales in the last 12 months
5.1%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in B70 sells for
The 2026 median in B70 is £220,000, from 51 registered sales; the mean, £249,800, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so B70 trades 20% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical B70 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£220,000
£220,000
51
2025
£202,800
£202,800
224
2024
£197,500
£205,079
245
2023
£190,000
£203,888
234
2022
£179,000
£204,996
340
2021
£167,000
£206,505
432
2020
£150,000
£190,083
248
2019
£155,000
£198,423
334
2018
£146,000
£190,075
347
2017
£145,500
£193,813
366
2016
£136,000
£185,822
381
2015
£129,000
£178,020
323
2014
£112,000
£155,181
237
2013
£104,000
£146,151
175
2012
£105,000
£150,938
148
2011
£90,000
£132,692
169
2010
£95,000
£145,505
166
2009
£93,000
£146,007
181
2008
£113,000
£180,905
261
2007
£118,000
£195,486
497
2006
£100,000
£169,533
381
2005
£95,000
£165,113
360
2004
£90,000
£159,640
354
2003
£70,000
£125,945
324
2002
£52,500
£96,471
353
2001
£42,000
£78,857
335
2000
£39,000
£74,750
286
1999
£40,000
£77,856
264
1998
£37,000
£72,943
233
1997
£36,500
£73,106
222
1996
£35,000
£72,090
214
1995
£35,000
£74,308
216
In cash terms the typical B70 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 196%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the B70 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 2003 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.7%). 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)
+8.5%
+8.5%
5 years (since 2021)
+5.7%
+1.3%
10 years (since 2016)
+4.9%
+1.7%
20 years (since 2006)
+4.0%
+1.3%
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
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
B70 recorded 183 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 361 sales a year before the financial crisis and 219 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.
What homes rent for around B70
B70 falls under Sandwell, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £672 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,388, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sandwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £220,000 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.
Will B70 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 7% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
B70 ranks 3 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside B70, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.