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Arley market report DY12 1, Bewdley
The DY12 1 (Arley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,284 HM Land Registry entries for DY12 1 (Bewdley), 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DY12 1 (Bewdley) came in at £283,500, out of 20 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £319,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,320 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,284 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DY12 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DY12 (Bewdley). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where DY12 1 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.
The going rate for a home in DY12 1
20 sales were registered in DY12 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £283,500. The mean works out at £319,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in DY12 1
The last five years of sales put DY12 1 at roughly £3,320 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DY12 1 runs 1% below it.
The price of a typical DY12 1 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £283,500 | £283,500 | 20 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 97 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 47 |
| 2023 | £272,500 | £299,411 | 56 |
| 2022 | £255,000 | £299,017 | 61 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 85 |
| 2020 | £226,000 | £293,240 | 63 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 57 |
| 2018 | £199,500 | £265,937 | 66 |
| 2017 | £198,600 | £270,870 | 66 |
| 2016 | £223,800 | £313,098 | 60 |
| 2015 | £187,500 | £264,938 | 80 |
| 2014 | £185,200 | £262,739 | 50 |
| 2013 | £177,500 | £255,405 | 65 |
| 2012 | £190,200 | £279,951 | 48 |
| 2011 | £156,500 | £236,255 | 56 |
| 2010 | £167,500 | £262,683 | 40 |
| 2009 | £177,500 | £285,333 | 37 |
| 2008 | £217,000 | £355,709 | 37 |
| 2007 | £190,800 | £323,650 | 102 |
| 2006 | £183,000 | £317,665 | 76 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 79 |
| 2004 | £164,400 | £298,583 | 107 |
| 2003 | £153,000 | £281,863 | 90 |
| 2002 | £128,500 | £241,772 | 126 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 133 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 91 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 85 |
| 1998 | £74,500 | £150,384 | 70 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 87 |
| 1996 | £62,200 | £131,177 | 90 |
| 1995 | £59,400 | £129,126 | 57 |
In cash terms the typical DY12 1 home went from £59,400 in 1995 to £283,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 120%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DY12 1 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 2001 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.2%). 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) | −10.0% | −12.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 register shows 20 DY12 1 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 101 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around DY12 1
For renting purposes DY12 1 sits in Wyre Forest. The ONS average private rent there is £821 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £581 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,236, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wyre Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£821 a month is £9,852 a year, which against the £283,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market DY12 1 is
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DY12 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
DY12 1 (Arley): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DY12 1 (Arley)?
Are property prices falling in DY12 1 (Arley)?
Is DY12 1 (Arley) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to DY12 1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
DY12's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 27 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DY12 district, not just DY12 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
42% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 DY12 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.
What another bedroom costs in DY
Real sold prices by size across the DY area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £279,950 | £366,000 (+31%) | £580,000 (+58%) | £811,057 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £196,000 | £220,000 (+12%) | £260,000 (+18%) | £348,000 (+34%) | £467,500 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £171,000 | £193,000 (+13%) | £222,000 (+15%) | £270,000 (+22%) | £400,000 (+48%) |
| Flat | £110,000 | £147,350 (+34%) | £223,750 (+52%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the DY area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DY area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DY12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DY12's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DY12 2 | £283,800 | 34 |
| DY12 3 | £690,000 | 1 |
Zoom out to the full DY12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DY12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DY12 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DY12 1'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 DY12 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DY12 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DY12 1 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.