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Pensnett market report DY5 1, Brierley Hill
The standing DY5 1 (Pensnett) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,284 HM Land Registry entries for DY5 1 (Brierley Hill), 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in DY5 1 (Brierley Hill) sold for £183,800 in 2026, the median of 30 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier. The mean was £180,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,284 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DY5 1 is one sector of DY5 (Brierley Hill): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where DY5 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.
Today's DY5 1 prices, from the sold record
The DY5 1 median stands at £183,800 for 2026, built from 30 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £180,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
DY5 1 prices by floor area
A square metre of DY5 1 home has cost about £2,380 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DY5 1 sits 36% below the national market.
The price of a typical DY5 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 | £183,800 | £183,800 | 30 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 63 |
| 2024 | £177,500 | £188,719 | 62 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 67 |
| 2022 | £135,000 | £158,303 | 107 |
| 2021 | £151,000 | £191,185 | 81 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 57 |
| 2019 | £122,500 | £160,568 | 73 |
| 2018 | £125,700 | £167,560 | 60 |
| 2017 | £122,000 | £166,396 | 69 |
| 2016 | £99,000 | £138,502 | 237 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 51 |
| 2014 | £106,800 | £151,514 | 50 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 42 |
| 2012 | £92,800 | £136,590 | 40 |
| 2011 | £96,500 | £145,678 | 38 |
| 2010 | £105,500 | £165,451 | 42 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 41 |
| 2008 | £118,000 | £193,427 | 33 |
| 2007 | £116,500 | £197,616 | 119 |
| 2006 | £109,500 | £190,078 | 85 |
| 2005 | £107,000 | £190,417 | 107 |
| 2004 | £111,200 | £201,961 | 147 |
| 2003 | £77,500 | £142,774 | 64 |
| 2002 | £67,500 | £127,001 | 90 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 71 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 65 |
| 1999 | £45,200 | £90,081 | 48 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 85 |
| 1997 | £41,000 | £84,083 | 50 |
| 1996 | £40,500 | £85,413 | 63 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 47 |
In cash terms the typical DY5 1 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £183,800 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 92%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2004, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2004 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DY5 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 2004 (+43.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−19.5%). 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) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.4% | +2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DY5 1
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, 30 sales completed in DY5 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 94 sales a year before the financial crisis and 66 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 DY5 1 market
This is a thin market: 30 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. Within DY5, this sector trades 12% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around DY5 1
For renting purposes DY5 1 sits in Dudley. The ONS average private rent there is £849 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £183,800 median sold price, £849 a month is £10,188 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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.
Common questions on DY5 1 (Pensnett)
Is DY5 1 (Pensnett) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DY5 1 (Pensnett)?
Are property prices falling in DY5 1 (Pensnett)?
Are DY5 1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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 DY5 today
The live side of the market holds 45 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DY5 district, not just DY5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
11% 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.
- Bisell Way, Brierley Hill, DY5 2RY, Brierley Hill
- High Street, Brierley Hill, Dudley, DY5, Dudley
- Landmark, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, DY5, Brierley Hill
"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 DY5 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the DY area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the DY area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DY5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DY5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DY5 2 | £240,000 | 51 |
| DY5 3 | £184,000 | 56 |
| DY5 4 | £217,500 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full DY5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DY5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DY5 1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DY5 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the DY5 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DY5 1 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 DY5 1.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DY5 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DY5 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.