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Stourbridge town centre market report DY8 2, Stourbridge
The DY8 2 (Stourbridge town centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,004 HM Land Registry entries for DY8 2 (Stourbridge), 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 DY8 2 (Stourbridge) sold for £482,500 in 2026, the median of 24 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier. The mean was £498,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,780 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,004 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DY8 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DY8 (Stourbridge). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where DY8 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.
What a home in DY8 2 sells for
Across 24 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DY8 2 home went for £482,500. The mean is £498,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in DY8 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DY8 2 costs about £3,780 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DY8 2 69% above the country at large.
The price of a typical DY8 2 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £482,500 | £482,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £402,500 | £412,125 | 65 |
| 2024 | £486,200 | £516,930 | 56 |
| 2023 | £420,000 | £461,477 | 71 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 76 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 101 |
| 2020 | £388,800 | £504,476 | 74 |
| 2019 | £381,000 | £499,400 | 86 |
| 2018 | £348,000 | £463,891 | 82 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 97 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 109 |
| 2015 | £310,000 | £438,030 | 91 |
| 2014 | £264,000 | £374,530 | 95 |
| 2013 | £298,800 | £429,943 | 99 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 78 |
| 2011 | £275,000 | £415,144 | 83 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 85 |
| 2009 | £240,000 | £385,802 | 77 |
| 2008 | £258,800 | £424,228 | 74 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 137 |
| 2006 | £236,500 | £410,534 | 111 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 109 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 93 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 115 |
| 2002 | £192,500 | £362,187 | 127 |
| 2001 | £155,000 | £297,980 | 111 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 85 |
| 1999 | £133,000 | £265,062 | 130 |
| 1998 | £119,600 | £241,421 | 151 |
| 1997 | £100,000 | £205,080 | 113 |
| 1996 | £100,000 | £210,896 | 109 |
| 1995 | £75,500 | £164,125 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical DY8 2 home went from £75,500 in 1995 to £482,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 194%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2024. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DY8 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 1996 (+32.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−17.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +19.9% | +17.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in DY8 2
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.
DY8 2 recorded 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 111 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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 shape of the DY8 2 market
This is a thin market: 24 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. Against the DY8 district median, DY8 2 sits 95% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of DY8 2
The local authority for DY8 2 is Dudley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £482,500 median sold price, £849 a month is £10,188 a year, a gross yield of 2.1%: 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.
DY8 2 (Stourbridge town centre): the questions that come up
Is DY8 2 (Stourbridge town centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DY8 2 (Stourbridge town centre)?
Are property prices falling in DY8 2 (Stourbridge town centre)?
Where do DY8 2 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
DY8's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 123 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DY8 district, not just DY8 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- The Brake, Hagley, Stourbridge, DY8 2XJ, Stourbridge
- Bowling Green Road, Stourbridge, DY8 3TT, Stourbridge
- Oak Tree Gardens, Stourbridge, DY8 5YF, Stourbridge
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 DY8 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%) | — | — |
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DY8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DY8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DY8 1 | £215,000 | 35 |
| DY8 3 | £270,000 | 57 |
| DY8 4 | £240,000 | 76 |
| DY8 5 | £242,500 | 68 |
Zoom out to the full DY8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DY8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DY8 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 DY8 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DY8 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DY8 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DY8 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DY8 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DY8 2 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.
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.