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Stourbridge town centre market report DY8 3, Stourbridge
The standing DY8 3 (Stourbridge town centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,066 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DY8 3 (Stourbridge) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical DY8 3 (Stourbridge) home changed hands for £270,000 in 2026 (median of 57 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £290,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,170 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,066 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DY8 3 is one sector of DY8 (Stourbridge): 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 DY8 3 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 3 sells for
57 sales were registered in DY8 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £270,000. The mean works out at £290,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in DY8 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DY8 3 sales average about £3,170 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DY8 3 trades 5% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical DY8 3 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 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £297,500 | £304,614 | 178 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 173 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 127 |
| 2022 | £286,500 | £335,954 | 206 |
| 2021 | £270,500 | £342,488 | 260 |
| 2020 | £245,000 | £317,893 | 166 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 200 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 186 |
| 2017 | £217,500 | £296,648 | 163 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 208 |
| 2015 | £178,000 | £251,514 | 196 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 208 |
| 2013 | £167,000 | £240,296 | 154 |
| 2012 | £172,000 | £253,163 | 121 |
| 2011 | £156,000 | £235,500 | 134 |
| 2010 | £172,500 | £270,524 | 161 |
| 2009 | £158,500 | £254,790 | 152 |
| 2008 | £158,200 | £259,323 | 114 |
| 2007 | £164,000 | £278,190 | 220 |
| 2006 | £162,600 | £282,253 | 222 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 202 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 221 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 205 |
| 2002 | £118,800 | £223,521 | 254 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 234 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 207 |
| 1999 | £69,500 | £138,510 | 242 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 234 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 215 |
| 1996 | £57,200 | £120,632 | 242 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 204 |
In cash terms the typical DY8 3 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 111%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DY8 3 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 2002 (+32.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.6%). 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) | −9.2% | −11.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DY8 3
The year-by-year sales count
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 57 DY8 3 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 221 sales a year before the financial crisis and 148 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the DY8 3 market
Only 57 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DY8 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within DY8, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around DY8 3
DY8 3 falls under Dudley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £849 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £605 a month here against £1,239 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Dudley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£849 a month is £10,188 a year, which against the £270,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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.
Common questions on DY8 3 (Stourbridge town centre)
Are property prices falling in DY8 3 (Stourbridge town centre)?
Is DY8 3 (Stourbridge town centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DY8 3 (Stourbridge town centre)?
Are DY8 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in DY8 now
Turning to what is actually available: 123 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DY8 district, not just DY8 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- The Brake, Hagley, Stourbridge, DY8 2XJ, Stourbridge
- Bowling Green Road, Stourbridge, DY8 3TT, Stourbridge
- Oak Tree Gardens, Stourbridge, DY8 5YF, Stourbridge
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DY prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DY area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
Five-year change in the median, DY area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DY8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DY8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DY8 1 | £215,000 | 35 |
| DY8 2 | £482,500 | 24 |
| 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 a home in DY8 3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DY8 3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DY8 3.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual DY8 3 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.
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.