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Pensnett market report DY5, Brierley Hill
The DY5 (Pensnett) 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: 17,104 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DY5 (Brierley Hill) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
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 DY5 (Brierley Hill) is £208,000, from 165 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier; the mean is £213,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,630 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,104 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DY5 is a postcode district covering Brierley Hill (Merry Hill, Pensnett, Brockmoor in Brierley Hill. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where DY5 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 DY5
The 2026 median for DY5 is £208,000, taken from 165 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £213,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in DY5
Per square metre, DY5 homes have averaged around £2,630 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DY5 trades 27% below the country as a whole.
DY5's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £208,000 | £208,000 | 165 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 432 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 446 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 390 |
| 2022 | £177,000 | £207,553 | 534 |
| 2021 | £174,000 | £220,306 | 564 |
| 2020 | £155,800 | £202,154 | 428 |
| 2019 | £148,200 | £194,255 | 518 |
| 2018 | £146,000 | £194,621 | 507 |
| 2017 | £136,500 | £186,172 | 499 |
| 2016 | £124,000 | £173,477 | 706 |
| 2015 | £129,800 | £183,407 | 488 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 442 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 362 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 309 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 325 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 319 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 303 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 388 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 769 |
| 2006 | £119,200 | £206,916 | 798 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 632 |
| 2004 | £107,000 | £194,333 | 801 |
| 2003 | £83,000 | £152,906 | 675 |
| 2002 | £69,000 | £129,823 | 741 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 724 |
| 2000 | £54,000 | £105,975 | 725 |
| 1999 | £54,600 | £108,815 | 680 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 607 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 622 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 653 |
| 1995 | £42,700 | £92,823 | 552 |
In cash terms the typical DY5 home went from £42,700 in 1995 to £208,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 124%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 6% 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 DY5 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 (+28.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−4.5%). 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) | +1.5% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £319,000 against £110,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, DY5
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 | £319,000 | 28 | 3,557 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 77 | 7,488 |
| Terraced | £188,000 | 41 | 4,246 |
| Flats | £110,000 | 19 | 1,813 |
How many homes change hands in DY5
How many homes change hands
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, 344 sales completed in DY5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 733 sales a year before the financial crisis and 393 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of DY5
For renting purposes DY5 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 £208,000 median sold price, £849 a month is £10,188 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
What kind of market DY5 is
By median price DY5 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
DY5 (Pensnett): the questions that come up
Is DY5 (Pensnett) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DY5 (Pensnett)?
Are property prices falling in DY5 (Pensnett)?
Will DY5 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
On the market in DY5 today
Everything above is what homes in DY5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 45 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% above the DY5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 11% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" 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 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.
What another bedroom costs in DY
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DY5 ranks 5 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.
Five-year change in the median, DY area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside DY5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DY5 1 | £183,800 | 30 |
| DY5 2 | £240,000 | 51 |
| DY5 3 | £184,000 | 56 |
| DY5 4 | £217,500 | 28 |
How DY5 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 | £209,500 | +33% |
| DY5 (this report) | £208,000 | +20% |
Thinking of selling in DY5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DY5, open the average prices map and zoom from the DY5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DY5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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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.