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Dudley town centre market report DY2, Dudley
The DY2 (Dudley town centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 11,357 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DY2 (Dudley) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for DY2 (Dudley) is £209,500, from 108 registered sales, up 33% on five years earlier; the mean is £202,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,320 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 11,357 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DY2 is the postcode district covering Dudley town centre, Netherton, Woodside in Dudley. 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 DY2 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 DY2
108 sales were registered in DY2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £209,500. The mean works out at £202,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
DY2 prices by floor area
Per square metre, DY2 homes have averaged around £2,320 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DY2 26% below the country at large.
The price of a typical DY2 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £209,500 | £209,500 | 108 |
| 2025 | £193,000 | £197,615 | 287 |
| 2024 | £187,000 | £198,819 | 283 |
| 2023 | £182,500 | £200,523 | 257 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 351 |
| 2021 | £157,000 | £198,782 | 377 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 291 |
| 2019 | £126,000 | £165,156 | 379 |
| 2018 | £113,500 | £151,298 | 397 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 369 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 409 |
| 2015 | £103,000 | £145,539 | 358 |
| 2014 | £108,000 | £153,217 | 348 |
| 2013 | £103,500 | £148,926 | 265 |
| 2012 | £97,000 | £142,772 | 213 |
| 2011 | £97,200 | £146,735 | 268 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 258 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 217 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 370 |
| 2007 | £107,500 | £182,350 | 529 |
| 2006 | £98,000 | £170,115 | 557 |
| 2005 | £94,000 | £167,282 | 475 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 503 |
| 2003 | £71,000 | £130,799 | 463 |
| 2002 | £56,000 | £105,364 | 499 |
| 2001 | £47,500 | £91,316 | 468 |
| 2000 | £44,000 | £86,350 | 398 |
| 1999 | £42,100 | £83,903 | 352 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 329 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 346 |
| 1996 | £41,500 | £87,522 | 355 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 278 |
In cash terms the typical DY2 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £209,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 135%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the DY2 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 (+26.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−9.2%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £286,200 against £100,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, DY2
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 | £286,200 | 16 | 1,335 |
| Semi-detached | £215,000 | 42 | 4,496 |
| Terraced | £188,000 | 39 | 4,650 |
| Flats | £100,000 | 11 | 876 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.5% | +6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.9% | +1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.2% | +2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 220 sales completed in DY2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 487 sales a year before the financial crisis and 257 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.
What kind of market DY2 is
Among the 14 measurable districts of its area, DY2 ranks 13 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What tenants pay around DY2
The local authority for DY2 is Dudley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £849 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £605 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,239 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Dudley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£849 a month is £10,188 a year, which against the £209,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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.
DY2 (Dudley town centre): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in DY2 (Dudley town centre)?
Is DY2 (Dudley town centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DY2 (Dudley town centre)?
Where do DY2 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% 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.
On the market in DY2 today
Everything above is what homes in DY2 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 28 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% above the DY2 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 8% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 DY2 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DY: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DY area, 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 | — | £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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
DY2 ranks 2 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.
Winners and losers across the DY area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside DY2, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DY2 0 | £223,500 | 29 |
| DY2 7 | £192,000 | 21 |
| DY2 8 | £180,000 | 19 |
| DY2 9 | £210,000 | 39 |
How DY2 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 | £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 (this report) | £209,500 | +33% |
| DY5 | £208,000 | +20% |
Selling a home in DY2? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DY2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DY2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DY2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working DY2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DY2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DY2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DY2 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.
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.