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Lyng market report B70, West Bromwich
The standing B70 (Lyng) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,039 HM Land Registry entries for B70 (West Bromwich), 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in B70 (West Bromwich) sold for £240,000 in 2026, the median of 54 registered sales, up 42% on five years earlier. The mean was £233,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,410 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,039 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
B70 is a postcode district covering West Bromwich, Lyng, Swan Village in West Bromwich. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where B70 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 B70
The 2026 median for B70 is £240,000, taken from 54 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £233,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in B70
The last five years of sales put B70 at roughly £2,410 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B70 16% below the national figure.
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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 54 |
| 2025 | £204,000 | £208,878 | 153 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 163 |
| 2023 | £192,000 | £210,961 | 169 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 246 |
| 2021 | £169,000 | £213,976 | 311 |
| 2020 | £152,000 | £197,223 | 175 |
| 2019 | £157,000 | £205,789 | 253 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 280 |
| 2017 | £146,000 | £199,129 | 317 |
| 2016 | £137,000 | £191,664 | 317 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 267 |
| 2014 | £116,500 | £165,276 | 210 |
| 2013 | £104,000 | £149,646 | 166 |
| 2012 | £105,000 | £154,547 | 148 |
| 2011 | £92,500 | £139,639 | 163 |
| 2010 | £95,000 | £148,984 | 166 |
| 2009 | £93,000 | £149,498 | 181 |
| 2008 | £113,000 | £185,231 | 261 |
| 2007 | £118,000 | £200,161 | 497 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 381 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 360 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 354 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 324 |
| 2002 | £52,500 | £98,778 | 353 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 335 |
| 2000 | £39,000 | £76,538 | 286 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 264 |
| 1998 | £37,000 | £74,687 | 233 |
| 1997 | £36,500 | £74,854 | 222 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 214 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 216 |
In cash terms the typical B70 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 215%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
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.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +17.6% | +14.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.3% | +2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.8% | +2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 49% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £340,000 against £105,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, B70
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 | £340,000 | 7 | 712 |
| Semi-detached | £247,000 | 25 | 2,671 |
| Terraced | £200,000 | 17 | 3,940 |
| Flats | £105,000 | 5 | 712 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 127 B70 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 361 sales a year before the financial crisis and 157 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.
Reading the B70 market
This is a thin market: 127 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.
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). 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.
Set against the £240,000 median sold price, £940 a month is £11,280 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
Common questions on B70 (Lyng)
Are property prices falling in B70 (Lyng)?
Is B70 (Lyng) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B70 (Lyng)?
Will B70 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 42% over five years in cash and up 12% 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.
On the market in B70 today
Everything above is what homes in B70 sold for. The live side of the market holds 10 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% below the B70 median sold price.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every B70 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
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%) | — |
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
B70 ranks 1 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 B70, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B70 0 | £250,000 | 22 |
| B70 6 | £255,000 | 9 |
| B70 7 | £248,500 | 6 |
| B70 8 | £235,000 | 5 |
| B70 9 | £166,500 | 12 |
How B70 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B70 itself, which ranks 41 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% |
| B70 (this report) | £240,000 | +42% |
Before you sell in B70: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B70, open the average prices map and zoom from the B70 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B70 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim B70.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B70 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B70 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.