Bilston house prices

Bilston house prices are built from 15,507 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £100,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +82.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +30.5%.

HM Land Registry15,507 sales3,134 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Bilston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Bilston is £205,000 in 2025; the lowest is £41,950 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £41,950 to £205,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £93,149, so the real change over the whole record is +120.1% — about +2.58% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +82.2% in cash against +30.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Bilston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bilston is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 5,718 certificates cover Bilston, and their median floor area is 71 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -6.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

1,756 of the sales on record are leasehold and 13,751 freehold — 11.3% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £69,973 and the median freehold sale £105,000 — a gap of +50.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +23.1%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 1,191 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Dudley, 38.7% of 144,533 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Dudley at £852 a month as of Jun 2026 — £607 for a one-bedroom home and £935 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £100,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.22% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of WV14, 319 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 122 violent, 18 burglary, 35 vehicle-related and 7 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.

Against the 323,486 residents the 2021 census counted in Dudley, that is 0.99 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 323,486 residents in Dudley across 137,069 households. 66.9% of those households own their home and 32.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

19 state and independent schools have a WV14 postcode: 14 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bilston sits below that national figure — -36.5%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,420 per square metre, across 3,134 of the 15,507 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £750 to £1,920,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Bilston sits in Dudley, in the West Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Dudley at 6.8 times median local earnings of £35,281 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Bilston

• Julie Croft188 sales
• Moseley Road184 sales
• Birmingham New Road176 sales
• Clifton Street176 sales
• Constantine Way173 sales
• Weston Drive158 sales
• Ivyhouse Lane154 sales
• Steven Drive153 sales
• Wellington Road151 sales
• Ambleside Close142 sales
• Loxdale Sidings140 sales
• Bunkers Hill Lane137 sales
• Great Bridge Road137 sales
• Marbury Drive126 sales
• Bradley Lane121 sales
• Ashley Street118 sales
• Lowbridge Walk118 sales
• Bickley Road114 sales
• Berrington Drive113 sales
• Bay Avenue111 sales
• Fraser Street109 sales
• Upper Ettingshall Road109 sales
• Himley Close102 sales
• Bridgewater Drive100 sales
• Strathern Drive95 sales
• Barn Farm Close94 sales
• Green Lanes93 sales
• Mullion Drive93 sales
• Andersleigh Drive91 sales
• Ambergate Road89 sales
• Willenhall Road89 sales
• Ettingshall Road88 sales
• Morville Croft85 sales
• Greenway Road83 sales
• Rounds Hill Road82 sales
• Meldon Drive81 sales
• Hadley Road79 sales
• Dimmocks Avenue77 sales
• Beckett Street76 sales
• Chorley Gardens75 sales
• Anvil Crescent71 sales
• Hall Park Street71 sales
• Mount Pleasant70 sales
• Summerhill Road68 sales
• Wallace Road68 sales
• Skidmore Road67 sales
• Wrenbury Drive66 sales
• Elmdale Road65 sales
• Paul Street65 sales
• Broadmoor Road63 sales
• Evergreen Close63 sales
• Painters Croft63 sales
• Woodcross Street62 sales
• Horace Street61 sales
• Eliot Croft60 sales
• Lawnside Green60 sales
• Hall Lane59 sales
• Mount Pleasant Street59 sales
• Park Meadow Avenue59 sales
• The Paddock59 sales

Postcode districts covering Bilston

• WV14£100,000 median

What is the average house price in Bilston?

The median price paid in Bilston across every sale on the register is £100,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Bilston?

15,507 sales are on record for Bilston, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Bilston house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +82.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +30.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Bilston house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £205,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Bilston?

£1,420 per square metre, from the 3,134 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 19 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Bilston house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.