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Pensnett market report DY5 2, Brierley Hill
The DY5 2 (Pensnett) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,573 registered sales in DY5 2 (Brierley Hill) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in DY5 2 (Brierley Hill) sold for £240,000 in 2026, the median of 51 registered sales, up 30% on five years earlier. The mean was £235,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,750 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,573 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DY5 2 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 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.
DY5 2 sold prices: where the market stands
51 sales were registered in DY5 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £240,000. The mean works out at £235,600, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in DY5 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DY5 2 sales average about £2,750 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DY5 2 runs 16% below it.
A typical DY5 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £227,000 | £232,428 | 141 |
| 2024 | £213,000 | £226,463 | 146 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 125 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 193 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 191 |
| 2020 | £171,500 | £222,525 | 150 |
| 2019 | £165,000 | £216,276 | 176 |
| 2018 | £162,000 | £215,949 | 177 |
| 2017 | £155,000 | £211,404 | 185 |
| 2016 | £145,000 | £202,856 | 178 |
| 2015 | £137,000 | £193,581 | 161 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £191,521 | 145 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 131 |
| 2012 | £118,500 | £174,417 | 102 |
| 2011 | £124,000 | £187,192 | 109 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 94 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 87 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 117 |
| 2007 | £134,000 | £227,301 | 266 |
| 2006 | £129,000 | £223,928 | 290 |
| 2005 | £118,100 | £210,170 | 192 |
| 2004 | £115,000 | £208,862 | 227 |
| 2003 | £93,000 | £171,329 | 204 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 238 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 226 |
| 2000 | £59,000 | £115,788 | 253 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 235 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 203 |
| 1997 | £49,500 | £101,515 | 208 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 205 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 167 |
In cash terms the typical DY5 2 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 145%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the DY5 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 2004 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.7% | +3.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.3% | +0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 51 DY5 2 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 237 sales a year before the financial crisis and 131 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.
What kind of market DY5 2 is
Only 51 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DY5 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within DY5, this sector trades 15% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around DY5 2
The local authority for DY5 2 is Dudley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £849 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £605 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,239, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Dudley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £240,000 median purchase price, a rent of £849 a month (£10,188 a year) works out at a 4.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on DY5 2 (Pensnett)
Are property prices falling in DY5 2 (Pensnett)?
Is DY5 2 (Pensnett) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DY5 2 (Pensnett)?
Are DY5 2 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 30% over five years in cash and flat 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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
11% 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.
- Bisell Way, Brierley Hill, DY5 2RY, Brierley Hill
- High Street, Brierley Hill, Dudley, DY5, Dudley
- Landmark, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, DY5, Brierley Hill
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 DY5 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DY
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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DY5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DY5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DY5 1 | £183,800 | 30 |
| 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.
Selling in DY5 2? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DY5 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DY5 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DY5 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working DY5 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DY5 2.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DY5 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DY5 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.
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.