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Stourbridge town centre market report DY8 4, Stourbridge
The DY8 4 (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 7,590 HM Land Registry entries for DY8 4 (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 middle 2026 sale in DY8 4 (Stourbridge) came in at £240,000, out of 76 registered, up 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £261,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,070 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,590 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like DY8 4 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.
Where DY8 4 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.
The going rate for a home in DY8 4
In the DY8 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £240,000, from 76 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £261,000, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
DY8 4 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put DY8 4 at roughly £3,070 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DY8 4 16% below the national figure.
The price of a typical DY8 4 home, 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 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 76 |
| 2025 | £263,900 | £270,211 | 254 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 259 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 261 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 197 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 267 |
| 2020 | £187,000 | £242,636 | 197 |
| 2019 | £175,000 | £229,383 | 248 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 219 |
| 2017 | £176,800 | £241,137 | 284 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 311 |
| 2015 | £161,000 | £227,493 | 268 |
| 2014 | £145,000 | £205,708 | 249 |
| 2013 | £132,000 | £189,935 | 188 |
| 2012 | £132,200 | £194,582 | 164 |
| 2011 | £138,200 | £208,629 | 178 |
| 2010 | £148,000 | £232,102 | 169 |
| 2009 | £126,800 | £203,832 | 138 |
| 2008 | £138,500 | £227,031 | 169 |
| 2007 | £144,000 | £244,264 | 279 |
| 2006 | £127,000 | £220,456 | 343 |
| 2005 | £127,500 | £226,899 | 227 |
| 2004 | £115,000 | £208,862 | 236 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 206 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 278 |
| 2001 | £72,000 | £138,416 | 272 |
| 2000 | £63,000 | £123,638 | 277 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 307 |
| 1998 | £53,500 | £107,994 | 271 |
| 1997 | £53,500 | £109,718 | 271 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 270 |
| 1995 | £49,500 | £107,605 | 257 |
In cash terms the typical DY8 4 home went from £49,500 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 123%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2025. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DY8 4 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 (+23.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−9.1%). 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) | −9.1% | −11.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in DY8 4
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 76 DY8 4 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 265 sales a year before the financial crisis and 209 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.
Rents around DY8 4
The local authority for DY8 4 is Dudley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £240,000 median sold price, £849 a month is £10,188 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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 4 (Stourbridge town centre): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DY8 4 (Stourbridge town centre)?
Are property prices falling in DY8 4 (Stourbridge town centre)?
Is DY8 4 (Stourbridge town centre) a good place to buy a house?
Where do DY8 4 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in DY8 now
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 4: 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
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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DY prices by size
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 | — | £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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DY area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DY area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 3 | £270,000 | 57 |
| 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 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DY8 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the DY8 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DY8 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DY8 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DY8 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DY8 4 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.
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.