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Stourbridge town centre market report DY8 1, Stourbridge

The DY8 1 (Stourbridge town centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,511 registered sales in DY8 1 (Stourbridge) 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: a typical DY8 1 (Stourbridge) home changed hands for £215,000 in 2026 (median of 35 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier), with the mean at £247,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,780 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,511 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.

A postcode sector like DY8 1 is a single group of streets within DY8 (Stourbridge), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

Today's DY8 1 prices, from the sold record

The 2026 median for DY8 1 is £215,000, taken from 35 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £247,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

House prices per square metre in DY8 1

The last five years of sales put DY8 1 at roughly £2,780 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.

Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DY8 1 runs 25% below it.

In cash terms the typical DY8 1 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 102%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+20.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−11.8%). 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

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

DY8 1 recorded 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 143 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 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.

How DY8 1 trades

This is a thin market: 35 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within DY8, this sector trades 13% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.

The rental side of DY8 1

For renting purposes DY8 1 sits in Dudley. The ONS average private rent there is £849 a month (May 2026). 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.

£849 a month is £10,188 a year, which against the £215,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. 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.

Asked and answered: DY8 1 (Stourbridge town centre)

Are DY8 1 prices heading up or down?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.

On the market in DY8 today

Bedroom by bedroom: DY prices by size

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the DY area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in DY8

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DY8, one report each:

Zoom out to the full DY8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DY8 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in DY8 1: what the record supports

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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.