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Arley market report DY12, Bewdley
The standing DY12 (Arley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,694 registered sales in DY12 (Bewdley) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for DY12 (Bewdley) is £285,000, from 55 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £327,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,370 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,694 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DY12 is the postcode district covering Bewdley, Arley, Kinlet in Bewdley. 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 DY12 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 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for DY12 is £285,000, taken from 55 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £327,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in DY12
By floor space, homes in DY12 have sold for about £3,370 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DY12 runs 0% above it.
DY12's median sold price, 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 | £285,000 | £285,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £310,000 | £317,413 | 205 |
| 2024 | £282,000 | £299,824 | 139 |
| 2023 | £272,000 | £298,862 | 136 |
| 2022 | £258,300 | £302,886 | 148 |
| 2021 | £266,500 | £337,423 | 208 |
| 2020 | £238,200 | £309,069 | 132 |
| 2019 | £212,200 | £278,143 | 160 |
| 2018 | £218,000 | £290,598 | 177 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 174 |
| 2016 | £198,000 | £277,004 | 156 |
| 2015 | £187,100 | £264,372 | 190 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 162 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 149 |
| 2012 | £174,000 | £256,106 | 133 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 122 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 111 |
| 2009 | £173,800 | £279,385 | 114 |
| 2008 | £192,500 | £315,548 | 114 |
| 2007 | £195,900 | £332,301 | 236 |
| 2006 | £167,000 | £289,891 | 209 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 192 |
| 2004 | £167,500 | £304,213 | 251 |
| 2003 | £144,500 | £266,204 | 227 |
| 2002 | £124,500 | £234,246 | 276 |
| 2001 | £99,000 | £190,322 | 269 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 209 |
| 1999 | £81,000 | £161,429 | 229 |
| 1998 | £74,000 | £149,374 | 189 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 221 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 231 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 170 |
In cash terms the typical DY12 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 119%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DY12 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 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DY12 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.1% | −10.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 detached houses dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £393,800 against £170,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, DY12
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 | £393,800 | 20 | 2,194 |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | 17 | 1,609 |
| Terraced | £265,000 | 11 | 1,275 |
| Flats | £170,000 | 7 | 616 |
Sales activity in DY12
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 127 sales completed in DY12. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 234 sales a year before the financial crisis and 137 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.
Reading the DY12 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Among the 14 measurable districts of its area, DY12 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Rents around DY12
For renting purposes DY12 sits in Wyre Forest. The ONS average private rent there is £821 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £581 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,236 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £285,000 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 people ask about DY12 (Arley)
Are property prices falling in DY12 (Arley)?
Is DY12 (Arley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DY12 (Arley)?
Will DY12 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
What you could buy in DY12 now
Everything above is what homes in DY12 sold for. The live side of the market holds 27 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the DY12 median sold price.
42% 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.
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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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DY prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the DY area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DY12 ranks 13 of 14 in the DY 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.
DY area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside DY12, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DY12 1 | £283,500 | 20 |
| DY12 2 | £283,800 | 34 |
| DY12 3 | £690,000 | 1 |
How DY12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DY area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DY7 | £405,000 | +14% |
| DY9 | £345,000 | +23% |
| DY14 | £345,000 | +6% |
| DY12 (this report) | £285,000 | +7% |
| DY6 | £270,400 | +10% |
| DY13 | £250,000 | +11% |
| DY8 | £247,000 | +7% |
| DY10 | £245,000 | +17% |
| DY3 | £240,000 | +12% |
| DY11 | £235,000 | +8% |
| DY1 | £218,500 | +25% |
| DY4 | £215,000 | +34% |
| DY2 | £209,500 | +33% |
| DY5 | £208,000 | +20% |
Before you sell in DY12: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DY12, open the average prices map and zoom from the DY12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DY12 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DY12.
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The live map plots every individual DY12 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.