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Dudley market report DY
The standing DY (Dudley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 181,620 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in the DY postcode area (Dudley) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for the DY postcode area (Dudley) is £243,000, from 2,101 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier; the mean is £271,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,900 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 181,620 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DY is the postcode area centred on Dudley, taking in 14 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where DY 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 DY homes really sell for
The DY median stands at £243,000 for 2026, built from 2,101 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £271,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
DY prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DY sales average about £2,900 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DY 15% below the country at large.
A typical DY home, priced year by year (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 | £243,000 | £243,000 | 2,101 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 5,419 |
| 2024 | £236,000 | £250,916 | 4,871 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 4,307 |
| 2022 | £225,000 | £263,838 | 5,503 |
| 2021 | £212,000 | £268,419 | 6,677 |
| 2020 | £192,700 | £250,032 | 4,716 |
| 2019 | £177,000 | £232,005 | 5,526 |
| 2018 | £171,000 | £227,946 | 5,986 |
| 2017 | £165,300 | £225,453 | 6,046 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 6,096 |
| 2015 | £152,500 | £215,483 | 5,661 |
| 2014 | £148,000 | £209,964 | 5,539 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 4,532 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 3,960 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 3,966 |
| 2010 | £142,000 | £222,693 | 3,835 |
| 2009 | £138,500 | £222,640 | 3,448 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 4,044 |
| 2007 | £140,800 | £238,836 | 7,530 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 8,096 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 6,776 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 7,372 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 7,083 |
| 2002 | £86,000 | £161,808 | 7,927 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 6,981 |
| 2000 | £65,500 | £128,544 | 6,641 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 6,735 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 6,282 |
| 1997 | £55,500 | £113,819 | 6,668 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 6,220 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 5,076 |
In cash terms the typical DY home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £243,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 124%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DY 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 (+22.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−4.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £369,000 against £124,500 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, DY
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 | £369,000 | 542 | 48,342 |
| Semi-detached | £240,500 | 864 | 70,527 |
| Terraced | £205,000 | 492 | 45,690 |
| Flats | £124,500 | 203 | 17,061 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.8% | −5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.9% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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 3,890 DY 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 7,301 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4,440 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 DY
DY falls under Dudley, the local authority covering most of the DY area (parts fall under Wyre Forest and Sandwell, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £849 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £605 a month here against £1,239 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Dudley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £243,000 median purchase price, a rent of £849 a month (£10,188 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
DY (Dudley): the questions that come up
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What happens to DY prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in DY right now
Everything above is what homes in DY sold for. The live side of the market holds 396 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 30% above the DY median sold price.
Set against 3,890 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 396 homes on the market here are roughly 5 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
10% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Shepherds Brook Road, Stourbridge, DY9 7DX, Stourbridge
- Calder Road, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire
- Balmoral Road, Wordsley, DY8 5HR, Wordsley
"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 DY 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.
Month by month: when DY sells
Take the 26,777 DY sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.7% of the total, January trails with 6.6%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,759 | 6.6% |
| February | 2,043 | 7.6% |
| March | 2,864 | 10.7% |
| April | 1,769 | 6.6% |
| May | 1,969 | 7.4% |
| June | 2,496 | 9.3% |
| July | 2,134 | 8.0% |
| August | 2,444 | 9.1% |
| September | 2,676 | 10.0% |
| October | 2,325 | 8.7% |
| November | 2,169 | 8.1% |
| December | 2,129 | 8.0% |
Moving up a bedroom in DY: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the DY area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | £248,000 | £270,000 (+9%) | £328,847 (+22%) | £428,997 (+30%) | £610,000 (+42%) |
| Semi-detached | £196,000 | £210,000 (+7%) | £239,950 (+14%) | £280,000 (+17%) | £345,000 (+23%) |
| Terraced | £140,000 | £185,000 (+32%) | £204,000 (+10%) | £240,000 (+18%) | £279,000 (+16%) |
| Flat | £96,000 | £135,000 (+41%) | £176,450 (+31%) | — | — |
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 DY area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, DY area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The spread inside DY matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| DY7 Enville, Kinver | £392,500 | +11% | 43 |
| DY14 Cleobury Mortimer, Rock | £362,500 | +12% | 42 |
| DY9 Hagley (part of), Lye | £330,000 | +18% | 137 |
| DY12 Bewdley, Arley | £283,500 | +6% | 68 |
| DY6 Kingswinford, Ashwood | £272,500 | +11% | 161 |
| DY13 Stourport-on-Severn, Areley Kings | £259,000 | +15% | 166 |
| DY8 Stourbridge town centre, Amblecote | £250,000 | +9% | 317 |
| DY10 Kidderminster (east), Chaddesley Corbett | £244,500 | +16% | 224 |
| DY3 Gornal, Himley | £244,200 | +14% | 166 |
| DY11 Kidderminster (west), Hartlebury | £240,000 | +10% | 182 |
| DY1 Dudley, Woodsetton (part of) | £216,800 | +24% | 126 |
| DY2 Dudley town centre, Netherton | £215,000 | +37% | 129 |
| DY4 Tipton, Coseley (part of) | £215,000 | +34% | 144 |
| DY5 Brierley Hill (Merry Hill, Pensnett | £210,000 | +21% | 196 |
Before you sell in DY: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DY, open the average prices map and zoom from the DY shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DY sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
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See every individual DY 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.