The Strand, Bromsgrove house prices are built from 100 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 8 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £73,250. Across the 11 years from 2013 to 2024 the median moved +38.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -0.1%.
Median price paid
£73,250
Change in cash, 2013–2024
+38.5%
Change in real terms
-0.1%
Median per m²
£1,667
HM Land Registry100 sales50 with floor areaLatest sale 8 May 2026
Section 01
How The Strand, Bromsgrove prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Strand, Bromsgrove house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £34,500 | £76,606 |
| 2010s | 2 | £65,000 | £91,650 |
| 2020s | 2 | £75,000 | £76,630 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Strand, Bromsgrove is £90,000 in 2024; the lowest is £34,500 in 1995. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £34,500 to £90,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £76,606, so the real change over the whole record is +23.6% — about +0.73% 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: +38.5% in cash against -0.1% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 10 St. James Court, 30 | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £72,500 | £72,500 |
| Flat 21 St. James Court, 30 | 22 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| Flat 29 St. James Court, 30 | 17 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £86,848 |
| Flat 15 St. James Court, 30 | 8 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £95,950 | £100,962 |
| Flat 10 St. James Court, 30 | 15 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £65,000 | £68,396 |
| Flat 21 St. James Court, 30 | 5 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| Flat 14 St. James Court, 30 | 14 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £78,918 |
| Flat 1 St. James Court, 30 | 28 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £94,701 |
| Flat 6 St. James Court, 30 | 27 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £130,250 | £140,730 |
| Flat 36 St. James Court, 30 | 2 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £135,057 |
| Flat 23 St. James Court, 30 | 31 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £73,500 | £79,414 |
| Flat 24 St. James Court, 30 | 6 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £86,000 | £99,638 |
| Flat 22 St. James Court, 30 | 2 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £77,000 | £89,211 |
| Flat 24 St. James Court, 30 | 24 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £73,500 | £85,156 |
| Flat 12 St. James Court, 30 | 16 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £81,500 | £94,425 |
| Flat 18 St. James Court, 30 | 4 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £73,000 | £84,577 |
| Flat 35 St. James Court, 30 | 31 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £72,500 | £83,998 |
| Flat 17 St. James Court, 30 | 28 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £86,894 |
| Flat 10 St. James Court, 30 | 22 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £94,758 |
| Flat 11 St. James Court, 30 | 21 Feb 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £72,500 | £93,871 |
| Flat 9 St. James Court, 30 | 10 Dec 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £79,950 | £104,573 |
| Flat 7 St. James Court, 30 | 23 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £119,950 | £156,892 |
| Flat 2 St. James Court, 30 | 29 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £98,098 |
| Flat 19 St. James Court, 30 | 8 Feb 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £112,500 | £147,147 |
| Flat 27 St. James Court, 30 | 18 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £87,950 | £117,211 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 The Strand, Bromsgrove values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 10 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £63,000 (2015) | £72,500 (2026) | +1.3% | -1.8% |
| FLAT 21 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £96,000 (2011) | £120,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| FLAT 29 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £30,000 (1995) | £85,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.9% |
| FLAT 15 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £39,000 (1997) | £95,950 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| FLAT 1 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £80,000 (2009) | £90,000 (2024) | +0.8% | -2.2% |
| FLAT 23 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £39,250 (1997) | £73,500 (2023) | +2.4% | -0.2% |
| FLAT 24 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £73,500 (2022) | £86,000 (2022) | +17.0% | +17.0% |
| FLAT 22 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £36,000 (1995) | £77,000 (2022) | +2.9% | +0.4% |
| FLAT 12 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £88,000 (2010) | £81,500 (2022) | -0.6% | -3.3% |
| FLAT 18 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £34,950 (1996) | £73,000 (2022) | +2.9% | +0.4% |
| FLAT 35 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £85,000 (2017) | £72,500 (2022) | -3.1% | -6.2% |
| FLAT 17 ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand | £37,000 (1996) | £75,000 (2022) | +2.8% | +0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Strand, Bromsgrove is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 97 | 97.0% | £73,000 | £30,000 – £130,250 |
| Detached | 1 | 1.0% | £85,000 | £85,000 – £85,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1 | 1.0% | £115,000 | £115,000 – £115,000 |
| Terraced | 1 | 1.0% | £266,050 | £266,050 – £266,050 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Strand, Bromsgrove
97 of the sales on record are leasehold and 3 freehold — 97.0% 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 £73,000 and the median freehold sale £115,000 — a gap of +57.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 97 | 97.0% | £73,000 |
| Freehold | 3 | 3.0% | £115,000 |
A further 6 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.
Section 07
Living in The Strand, Bromsgrove
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bromsgrove, 40.9% of 40,126 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 332 | 0.8% |
| B | 4,448 | 11.1% |
| C | 11,626 | 29.0% |
| D | 15,498 | 38.6% |
| E | 6,259 | 15.6% |
| F | 1,551 | 3.9% |
| G | 412 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bromsgrove at £982 a month as of Jun 2026 — £709 for a one-bedroom home and £1,079 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £73,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.09% 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 B61, 89 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 43 violent, 4 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 14 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times quieter.
Against the 99,183 residents the 2021 census counted in Bromsgrove, that is 0.90 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around The Strand, Bromsgrove
The 2021 census counted 99,183 residents in Bromsgrove across 41,264 households. 78.6% of those households own their home and 21.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a B61 postcode: 7 primary, 3 middle deemed secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| St John's Church of England Middle School Academy | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 658 |
| Parkside Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Community school | 593 |
| Catshill Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 424 |
| Catshill First School | Primary | Academy converter | 315 |
| Millfields First School | Primary | Community school | 257 |
| The Orchards School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 230 |
| St Peter's Catholic First School | Primary | Academy converter | 219 |
| Fairfield First School | Primary | Academy converter | 145 |
| Dodford First School | Primary | Community school | 65 |
| Meadows First School | Primary | Academy converter | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bromsgrove Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
| Barnt Green Rail Station | Rail | 5.4 km |
| Alvechurch Rail Station | Rail | 6.9 km |
| Longbridge Rail Station | Rail | 8.1 km |
Section 09
How The Strand, Bromsgrove compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Strand, Bromsgrove sits below that national figure — -53.5%.
Within Bromsgrove the street ranks 627 of 631 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £173,500 (-57.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,667 per square metre, across 50 of the 100 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 £30,000 to £266,050. 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.
The Strand, Bromsgrove sits in Bromsgrove, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bromsgrove at 10.0 times median local earnings of £34,019 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Stourbridge Road£176,125 median
- Birmingham Road£183,800 median
- Pennine Road£101,818 median
- Mayfield Close£96,000 median
- Appletrees Crescent£225,000 median
- Golden Cross Lane£165,000 median
- Worcester Road£130,550 median
- St Peters Close£125,000 median
- Broad Street£140,000 median
- Rock Hill£121,000 median
- Wildmoor Lane£190,000 median
- Highfield Road£145,000 median
- All Saints Road£146,000 median
- Crabtree Lane£167,500 median
- Barley Mow Lane£175,000 median
- Bewell Head£136,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 23, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand6 sales
- FLAT 10, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand5 sales
- FLAT 17, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand5 sales
- FLAT 15, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand4 sales
- FLAT 22, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand4 sales
- FLAT 7, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand4 sales
- FLAT 28, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand4 sales
- FLAT 21, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 29, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 1, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 18, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 11, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 9, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 27, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 5, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 25, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 16, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 30, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 34, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 20, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 3, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand3 sales
- FLAT 24, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand2 sales
- FLAT 12, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand2 sales
- FLAT 35, ST. JAMES COURT, 30 the Strand2 sales
Back to Bromsgrove house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Strand, Bromsgrove?
The median price paid in The Strand, Bromsgrove across every sale on the register is £73,250. 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 The Strand, Bromsgrove?
100 sales are on record for The Strand, Bromsgrove, the most recent completing on 8 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Strand, Bromsgrove house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +38.5% between 2013 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -0.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Strand, Bromsgrove house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £90,000, set in 2024. 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 The Strand, Bromsgrove?
£1,667 per square metre, from the 50 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 8 May 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, “The Strand, Bromsgrove 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.