The Straits, Dudley house prices are built from 183 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +41.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.7%.
Median price paid
£158,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+41.7%
Change in real terms
+2.7%
Median per m²
£2,292
HM Land Registry183 sales39 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Feb 2026
Section 01
How The Straits, Dudley prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Straits, Dudley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 3 | £50,750 | £112,689 |
| 2000s | 7 | £137,000 | £249,574 |
| 2010s | 9 | £173,750 | £244,988 |
| 2020s | 2 | £233,500 | £238,576 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Straits, Dudley is £255,000 in 2025; the lowest is £49,900 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £88,000 to £255,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £195,402, so the real change over the whole record is +33.3% — about +0.96% 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: +41.7% in cash against +2.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 125a | 27 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £218,000 | £218,000 |
| 51 | 6 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 82b | 16 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £217,500 | £217,500 |
| 77 | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 145 | 16 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £243,500 | £248,793 |
| 99 | 25 Jul 2025 | Detached | £342,500 | £349,946 |
| 71 | 1 May 2025 | Terraced | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 72 | 23 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| 18 | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £338,000 | £345,348 |
| 115 | 7 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 26 | 23 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £258,000 | £271,478 |
| 101b | 23 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £203,000 | £213,604 |
| 2 | 10 May 2024 | Detached | £347,500 | £365,653 |
| 19 | 22 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £207,000 | £223,655 |
| 5 | 24 Apr 2023 | Detached | £294,950 | £318,682 |
| 126 | 7 Oct 2022 | Detached | £330,000 | £382,334 |
| 100 | 22 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| 71 | 16 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| 69 | 18 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £221,102 |
| 144 | 22 Oct 2021 | Detached | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 51 | 22 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £167,500 | £211,626 |
| 46 | 28 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £232,000 | £293,118 |
| 38 | 3 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £261,500 | £330,390 |
| 175 | 9 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £303,226 |
| 82b | 25 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £176,000 | £222,366 |
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 Straits, Dudley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 the Straits | £48,500 (1999) | £225,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 82B the Straits | £131,950 (2010) | £217,500 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.2% |
| 77 the Straits | £82,000 (2004) | £255,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.6% |
| 99 the Straits | £270,000 (2019) | £342,500 (2025) | +4.0% | -0.2% |
| 71 the Straits | £54,000 (2001) | £210,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 72 the Straits | £160,000 (2008) | £290,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.6% |
| 18 the Straits | £220,000 (2010) | £338,000 (2025) | +2.9% | -0.1% |
| 101B the Straits | £125,500 (2005) | £203,000 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
| 26 the Straits | £130,000 (2014) | £258,000 (2024) | +7.1% | +3.8% |
| 2 the Straits | £215,000 (2018) | £347,500 (2024) | +8.3% | +4.1% |
| 19 the Straits | £46,000 (1996) | £207,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 69 the Straits | £117,500 (2016) | £175,000 (2021) | +8.3% | +6.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Straits, Dudley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 81 | 44.3% | £137,000 | £42,200 – £290,000 |
| Detached | 59 | 32.2% | £220,000 | £51,000 – £435,000 |
| Terraced | 43 | 23.5% | £130,000 | £15,500 – £261,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Straits, Dudley
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 183 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 183 | 100.0% | £158,500 |
| New build | 7 | 3.8% | £131,950 |
| Existing home | 176 | 96.2% | £159,225 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -17.1%. 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 4 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 Straits, Dudley
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 357 | 0.2% |
| B | 9,337 | 6.5% |
| C | 46,274 | 32.0% |
| D | 62,082 | 43.0% |
| E | 20,870 | 14.4% |
| F | 4,301 | 3.0% |
| G | 1,312 | 0.9% |
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 £158,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.45% 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 DY3, 153 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 74 violent, 5 burglary, 15 vehicle-related and 4 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 323,486 residents the 2021 census counted in Dudley, that is 0.47 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 Straits, Dudley
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.
11 state and independent schools have a DY3 postcode: 8 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dormston School | Secondary | Community school | 1,128 |
| Beacon Hill Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,117 |
| Ellowes Hall Sports College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,038 |
| Roberts Primary School | Primary | Community school | 626 |
| Queen Victoria Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 449 |
| Red Hall Primary School | Primary | Community school | 429 |
| Cotwall End Primary School | Primary | Community school | 415 |
| Straits Primary School | Primary | Community school | 410 |
| Alder Coppice Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 351 |
| St Chad's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 238 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Coseley Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Dudley Castle (West Midlands Metro) | Metro or underground | 4.2 km |
| Dudley Interchange (West Midlands Metro) | Metro or underground | 4.2 km |
| Flood Street (West Midlands Metro) | Metro or underground | 4.2 km |
Section 09
How The Straits, Dudley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Straits, Dudley sits above that national figure — +0.6%.
Within Dudley the street ranks 235 of 1013 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £113,000 (+40.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,292 per square metre, across 39 of the 183 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 £15,500 to £435,000. 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.
The Straits, Dudley 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Park Road£82,500 median
- Himley Road£137,750 median
- Northway£167,500 median
- Goodrich Mews£136,000 median
- Wolverhampton Road£161,500 median
- Tipton Road£146,000 median
- Brook Street£112,950 median
- Dudley Road£145,500 median
- Sandyfields Road£216,500 median
- Bath Street£124,000 median
- Kings Road£99,975 median
- Brownswall Road£159,500 median
- New Street£80,000 median
- Longfellow Road£168,000 median
- Gospel End Road£180,000 median
- Grosvenor Road£77,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 57 the Straits6 sales
- 51 the Straits4 sales
- 82B the Straits4 sales
- 77 the Straits4 sales
- 71 the Straits4 sales
- 19 the Straits4 sales
- 53 the Straits4 sales
- 101B the Straits3 sales
- 49 the Straits3 sales
- 139 the Straits3 sales
- 70 the Straits3 sales
- 81 the Straits3 sales
- 137 the Straits3 sales
- 80 the Straits3 sales
- 21 the Straits3 sales
- 17 the Straits3 sales
- 18A the Straits3 sales
- 78 the Straits3 sales
- 151 the Straits3 sales
- 101A the Straits3 sales
- 82 the Straits3 sales
- 99 the Straits2 sales
- 72 the Straits2 sales
- 18 the Straits2 sales
Back to Dudley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Straits, Dudley?
The median price paid in The Straits, Dudley across every sale on the register is £158,500. 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 Straits, Dudley?
183 sales are on record for The Straits, Dudley, the most recent completing on 27 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Straits, Dudley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +41.7% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Straits, Dudley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £255,000, 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 The Straits, Dudley?
£2,292 per square metre, from the 39 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 27 Feb 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 Straits, Dudley 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.