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Stourbridge town centre market report DY8, Stourbridge
The standing DY8 (Stourbridge town centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 26,481 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DY8 (Stourbridge) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical DY8 (Stourbridge) home changed hands for £247,000 in 2026 (median of 260 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £282,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,080 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 26,481 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district DY8 covering Stourbridge town centre, Amblecote, Hagley (part of) sits in Stourbridge. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where DY8 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 DY8 homes really sell for
260 sales were registered in DY8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £247,000. The mean works out at £282,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in DY8
By floor space, homes in DY8 have sold for about £3,080 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DY8 13% below the national figure.
The price of a typical DY8 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £247,000 | £247,000 | 260 |
| 2025 | £264,600 | £270,927 | 786 |
| 2024 | £259,000 | £275,370 | 772 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 695 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 811 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 1,023 |
| 2020 | £208,000 | £269,884 | 717 |
| 2019 | £191,000 | £250,355 | 856 |
| 2018 | £187,500 | £249,941 | 808 |
| 2017 | £184,000 | £250,958 | 867 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 934 |
| 2015 | £166,800 | £235,688 | 851 |
| 2014 | £155,000 | £219,895 | 926 |
| 2013 | £151,000 | £217,274 | 726 |
| 2012 | £152,000 | £223,725 | 588 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 677 |
| 2010 | £158,000 | £247,785 | 655 |
| 2009 | £147,800 | £237,590 | 616 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 553 |
| 2007 | £154,000 | £261,227 | 1,012 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 1,107 |
| 2005 | £139,400 | £248,076 | 886 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 855 |
| 2003 | £122,500 | £225,675 | 861 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 1,045 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 994 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 900 |
| 1999 | £62,700 | £124,958 | 1,034 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 959 |
| 1997 | £55,500 | £113,819 | 969 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 906 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 832 |
In cash terms the typical DY8 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £247,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 114%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DY8 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 (+28.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−8.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £425,500 against £146,500 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, DY8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £425,500 | 58 | 6,268 |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | 102 | 10,769 |
| Terraced | £220,500 | 62 | 6,472 |
| Flats | £146,500 | 38 | 2,972 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.7% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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
How many homes change hands
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
DY8 recorded 571 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 958 sales a year before the financial crisis and 665 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
DY8 falls under Dudley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £849 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Dudley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £247,000 median sold price, £849 a month is £10,188 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
Common questions on DY8 (Stourbridge town centre)
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What happens to DY8 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in DY8 right now
Everything above is what homes in DY8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 123 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 21% above the DY8 median sold price.
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" 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
DY8 ranks 12 of 14 in the DY area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the DY area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside DY8, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| DY8 5 | £242,500 | 68 |
How DY8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DY area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DY7 | £405,000 | +14% |
| DY9 | £345,000 | +23% |
| DY14 | £345,000 | +6% |
| DY12 | £285,000 | +7% |
| DY6 | £270,400 | +10% |
| DY13 | £250,000 | +11% |
| DY8 (this report) | £247,000 | +7% |
| DY10 | £245,000 | +17% |
| DY3 | £240,000 | +12% |
| DY11 | £235,000 | +8% |
| DY1 | £218,500 | +25% |
| DY4 | £215,000 | +34% |
| DY2 | £209,500 | +33% |
| DY5 | £208,000 | +20% |
Before you sell in DY8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DY8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DY8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DY8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DY8.
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See every individual DY8 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.