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Arley market report DY12 2, Bewdley
The DY12 2 (Arley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,181 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DY12 2 (Bewdley) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for DY12 2 (Bewdley) is £283,800, from 34 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £321,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,390 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,181 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DY12 2 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 2 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 DY12 2 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for DY12 2 is £283,800, taken from 34 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £321,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
DY12 2 prices by floor area
A square metre of DY12 2 home has cost about £3,390 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 DY12 2 trades 0% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical DY12 2 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 | £283,800 | £283,800 | 34 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 101 |
| 2024 | £272,500 | £289,723 | 84 |
| 2023 | £270,000 | £296,664 | 71 |
| 2022 | £265,000 | £310,743 | 83 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 116 |
| 2020 | £242,500 | £314,649 | 66 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 96 |
| 2018 | £222,500 | £296,597 | 104 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 97 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 85 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 105 |
| 2014 | £172,500 | £244,721 | 105 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 74 |
| 2012 | £165,200 | £243,154 | 80 |
| 2011 | £163,000 | £246,067 | 61 |
| 2010 | £171,200 | £268,486 | 68 |
| 2009 | £166,000 | £266,846 | 73 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 75 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 123 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 125 |
| 2005 | £162,500 | £289,185 | 106 |
| 2004 | £169,000 | £306,937 | 135 |
| 2003 | £138,000 | £254,229 | 130 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 137 |
| 2001 | £89,500 | £172,059 | 127 |
| 2000 | £82,000 | £160,925 | 105 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 135 |
| 1998 | £71,000 | £143,319 | 114 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 124 |
| 1996 | £64,800 | £136,660 | 134 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical DY12 2 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £283,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 118%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DY12 2 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 (+28.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−12.8%). 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) | −5.4% | −7.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 34 sales completed in DY12 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 124 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 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.
Rents around DY12 2
The local authority for DY12 2 is Wyre Forest, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £821 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £581 a month here against £1,236 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wyre Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £283,800 median sold price, £821 a month is £9,852 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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.
How DY12 2 trades
Only 34 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DY12 2 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.
What people ask about DY12 2 (Arley)
How much did a house sell for in DY12 2 (Arley)?
Are property prices falling in DY12 2 (Arley)?
Is DY12 2 (Arley) a good place to buy a house?
Where do DY12 2 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
42% 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.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every DY12 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: DY prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DY area. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £283,500 | 20 |
| 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 a home in DY12 2? 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 DY12 2'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DY12 2.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DY12 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DY12 2 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.
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.