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Ashwood market report DY6, Kingswinford
The standing DY6 (Ashwood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 13,322 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DY6 (Kingswinford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DY6 (Kingswinford) came in at £272,500, out of 161 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £289,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,260 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 13,322 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DY6 is the postcode district covering Kingswinford, Ashwood, Wall Heath in Kingswinford. 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 DY6 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.
DY6 sold prices: where the market stands
In the DY6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £272,500, from 161 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £289,400, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in DY6
Per square metre, DY6 homes have averaged around £3,260 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DY6 runs 4% below it.
DY6'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £272,500 | £272,500 | 161 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 443 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 390 |
| 2023 | £256,500 | £281,831 | 303 |
| 2022 | £266,500 | £312,502 | 388 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 655 |
| 2020 | £225,800 | £292,980 | 442 |
| 2019 | £215,000 | £281,814 | 379 |
| 2018 | £197,500 | £263,271 | 448 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 505 |
| 2016 | £185,000 | £258,817 | 438 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 436 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 407 |
| 2013 | £159,000 | £228,785 | 372 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 305 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 251 |
| 2010 | £154,800 | £242,766 | 284 |
| 2009 | £151,000 | £242,734 | 257 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 237 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 502 |
| 2006 | £157,500 | £273,400 | 571 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 501 |
| 2004 | £142,000 | £257,900 | 458 |
| 2003 | £127,000 | £233,965 | 461 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 504 |
| 2001 | £85,500 | £164,369 | 461 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 495 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 460 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 463 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 512 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 447 |
| 1995 | £56,800 | £123,474 | 386 |
In cash terms the typical DY6 home went from £56,800 in 1995 to £272,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 121%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DY6 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 (+27.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.5%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £392,200 against £140,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, DY6
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 | £392,200 | 52 | 4,158 |
| Semi-detached | £256,000 | 79 | 5,938 |
| Terraced | £208,000 | 21 | 2,468 |
| Flats | £140,000 | 9 | 758 |
What DY6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.7% | −5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.2% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
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.
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, 306 sales completed in DY6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 494 sales a year before the financial crisis and 337 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.
The rental side of DY6
DY6 falls under Dudley, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £272,500 median purchase price, a rent of £849 a month (£10,188 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
DY6 (Ashwood): the questions that come up
Is DY6 (Ashwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DY6 (Ashwood)?
Are property prices falling in DY6 (Ashwood)?
What happens to DY6 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in DY6 today
Everything above is what homes in DY6 sold for. The live side of the market holds 53 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 16% above the DY6 median sold price.
DY6 registered 306 sales in the last twelve months; the 53 homes listed now would take about 2 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
Of everything listed here, 12% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Blaze Hill Road, Kingswinford, DY6 0LA, Kingswinford
- Denleigh Road, Kingswinford, DY6 8QB, Kingswinford
- Dubarry Avenue, Kingswinford, DY6 9BP, Kingswinford
"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 DY6 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.
The DY6 sales calendar
March is when DY6 changes hands most (11.2% of the 2,179 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.2%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 135 | 6.2% |
| February | 172 | 7.9% |
| March | 243 | 11.2% |
| April | 140 | 6.4% |
| May | 153 | 7.0% |
| June | 213 | 9.8% |
| July | 168 | 7.7% |
| August | 206 | 9.5% |
| September | 231 | 10.6% |
| October | 181 | 8.3% |
| November | 176 | 8.1% |
| December | 161 | 7.4% |
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 | £248,000 | £270,000 (+9%) | £328,847 (+22%) | £428,997 (+30%) | £610,000 (+42%) |
| Semi-detached | £196,000 | £210,000 (+7%) | £239,950 (+14%) | £280,000 (+17%) | £345,000 (+23%) |
| Terraced | £140,000 | £185,000 (+32%) | £204,000 (+10%) | £240,000 (+18%) | £279,000 (+16%) |
| Flat | £96,000 | £135,000 (+41%) | £176,450 (+31%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
DY6 ranks 10 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside DY6, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
How DY6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DY area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DY7 | £392,500 | +11% |
| DY14 | £362,500 | +12% |
| DY9 | £330,000 | +18% |
| DY12 | £283,500 | +6% |
| DY6 (this report) | £272,500 | +11% |
| DY13 | £259,000 | +15% |
| DY8 | £250,000 | +9% |
| DY10 | £244,500 | +16% |
| DY3 | £244,200 | +14% |
| DY11 | £240,000 | +10% |
| DY1 | £216,800 | +24% |
| DY2 | £215,000 | +37% |
| DY4 | £215,000 | +34% |
| DY5 | £210,000 | +21% |
Selling in DY6? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DY6's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DY6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DY6 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.