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Stourbridge town centre market report DY8 5, Stourbridge
The DY8 5 (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 6,310 HM Land Registry entries for DY8 5 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DY8 5 (Stourbridge) came in at £242,500, out of 68 registered, up 19% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £240,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,930 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,310 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DY8 5 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 5 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.
Today's DY8 5 prices, from the sold record
In the DY8 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £242,500, from 68 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £240,700, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in DY8 5
Per square metre, DY8 5 homes have averaged around £2,930 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, DY8 5 runs 15% below it.
The price of a typical DY8 5 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £242,500 | £242,500 | 68 |
| 2025 | £247,000 | £252,907 | 185 |
| 2024 | £238,600 | £253,681 | 179 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 150 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 221 |
| 2021 | £203,000 | £257,024 | 253 |
| 2020 | £187,800 | £243,674 | 176 |
| 2019 | £174,000 | £228,072 | 222 |
| 2018 | £168,000 | £223,947 | 217 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 223 |
| 2016 | £141,000 | £197,260 | 210 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 193 |
| 2014 | £136,100 | £193,082 | 238 |
| 2013 | £134,500 | £193,532 | 194 |
| 2012 | £138,000 | £203,119 | 161 |
| 2011 | £127,000 | £191,721 | 193 |
| 2010 | £133,500 | £209,362 | 178 |
| 2009 | £135,500 | £217,817 | 172 |
| 2008 | £135,500 | £222,113 | 121 |
| 2007 | £137,000 | £232,390 | 238 |
| 2006 | £133,200 | £231,218 | 264 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 217 |
| 2004 | £122,500 | £222,484 | 190 |
| 2003 | £106,500 | £196,199 | 204 |
| 2002 | £83,500 | £157,105 | 226 |
| 2001 | £74,200 | £142,646 | 224 |
| 2000 | £62,700 | £123,049 | 182 |
| 1999 | £59,500 | £118,580 | 241 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 186 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 234 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 171 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 179 |
In cash terms the typical DY8 5 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £242,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 123%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 6% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DY8 5 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 (+27.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−4.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.8% | −4.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 68 DY8 5 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 218 sales a year before the financial crisis and 161 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 DY8 5
DY8 5 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.
Set against the £242,500 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.
Asked and answered: DY8 5 (Stourbridge town centre)
Are property prices falling in DY8 5 (Stourbridge town centre)?
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What happens to DY8 5 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in DY8 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 123 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DY8 district, not just DY8 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
What another bedroom costs in DY
Real sold prices by size across the DY area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
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 3 | £270,000 | 57 |
| DY8 4 | £240,000 | 76 |
Zoom out to the full DY8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DY8 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DY8 5? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DY8 5'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.
Estate agents working DY8 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DY8 5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DY8 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DY8 5 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.
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.