Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster house prices are built from 154 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 2 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £78,250. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved -0.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -33.6%.
Median price paid
£78,250
Change in cash, 2007–2022
-0.4%
Change in real terms
-33.6%
Median per m²
£1,756
HM Land Registry154 sales42 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster prices moved
The chart tracks the median Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2022. 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 | 4 | £39,000 | £86,598 |
| 2000s | 7 | £100,000 | £182,171 |
| 2010s | 2 | £101,500 | £143,115 |
| 2020s | 1 | £126,750 | £129,505 |
The highest yearly median on record for Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster is £127,250 in 2007; the lowest is £38,000 in 1998. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £39,000 to £126,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £84,600, so the real change over the whole record is +73.6% — about +2.14% 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: -0.4% in cash against -33.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 85 | 22 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £93,000 | £97,858 |
| 1 | 5 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £253,908 |
| 54 | 15 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £177,500 | £205,649 |
| 41 | 4 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £78,500 | £90,949 |
| 73 | 17 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £90,370 |
| 48 | 24 May 2022 | Terraced | £175,000 | £202,753 |
| 37 | 14 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £61,000 | £70,674 |
| 34 | 8 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £224,500 | £260,103 |
| 63 | 4 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £207,000 | £261,532 |
| 79 | 13 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £98,548 |
| 22 | 3 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £208,468 |
| 77 | 30 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £83,000 | £104,866 |
| 40 | 26 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £252,479 |
| 77 | 8 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £98,098 |
| 73 | 18 Feb 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £67,000 | £87,635 |
| 57 | 4 Feb 2019 | Terraced | £133,000 | £173,961 |
| 11 | 14 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £129,000 | £171,919 |
| 14 | 20 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £135,750 | £180,914 |
| 43 | 27 Jul 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £68,000 | £90,624 |
| 79 | 30 Jan 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £65,000 | £86,626 |
| 75 | 31 Aug 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £62,500 | £85,063 |
| 22 | 28 Jul 2017 | Semi-detached | £130,500 | £177,611 |
| 15 | 27 Jan 2017 | Terraced | £133,500 | £181,694 |
| 31 | 15 Dec 2016 | Terraced | £96,000 | £134,020 |
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 Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Barn Owl Place | £105,000 (2013) | £240,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +4.0% |
| 85 Barn Owl Place | £42,800 (2001) | £93,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| 1 Barn Owl Place | £110,000 (2004) | £235,000 (2023) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
| 54 Barn Owl Place | £49,000 (1997) | £177,500 (2022) | +5.3% | +2.8% |
| 41 Barn Owl Place | £59,000 (2003) | £78,500 (2022) | +1.5% | -1.1% |
| 73 Barn Owl Place | £30,250 (1998) | £78,000 (2022) | +4.0% | +1.5% |
| 34 Barn Owl Place | £122,000 (2004) | £224,500 (2022) | +3.4% | +0.8% |
| 63 Barn Owl Place | £59,500 (1995) | £207,000 (2021) | +4.9% | +2.7% |
| 79 Barn Owl Place | £31,000 (2001) | £78,000 (2021) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
| 22 Barn Owl Place | £53,750 (1999) | £165,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +3.0% |
| 77 Barn Owl Place | £28,500 (1998) | £83,000 (2021) | +4.8% | +2.5% |
| 40 Barn Owl Place | £89,950 (2002) | £195,000 (2020) | +4.4% | +2.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 64 | 41.6% | £96,000 | £39,000 – £175,000 |
| Semi-detached | 47 | 30.5% | £122,000 | £36,000 – £240,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 43 | 27.9% | £59,950 | £27,500 – £93,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster
43 of the sales on record are leasehold and 111 freehold — 27.9% 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 £59,950 and the median freehold sale £102,000 — a gap of +70.1%. 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 | 43 | 27.9% | £59,950 |
| Freehold | 111 | 72.1% | £102,000 |
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 Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster
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 £78,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.06% 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 DY10, 141 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 55 violent, 5 burglary, 28 vehicle-related and 11 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.
Against the 99,183 residents the 2021 census counted in Bromsgrove, that is 1.42 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 Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster
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.
12 state and independent schools have a DY10 postcode: 10 primary, 1 secondary, 1 all-through. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| King Charles I School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,140 |
| Holy Trinity School | All-through | Free schools | 723 |
| Heronswood Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 485 |
| Comberton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 376 |
| Offmore Primary School | Primary | Community school | 372 |
| Chaddesley Corbett Endowed Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 249 |
| Cookley Sebright Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 230 |
| St George's CofE School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 223 |
| St Mary's CofE (VA) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 212 |
| St Ambrose Catholic Primary | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Kidderminster Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Blakedown Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Hagley Rail Station | Rail | 6.6 km |
| Stourbridge Junction Rail Station | Rail | 9.1 km |
Section 09
How Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster sits below that national figure — -50.3%.
Within Kidderminster the street ranks 821 of 843 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £137,000 (-42.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,756 per square metre, across 42 of the 154 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 £27,500 to £240,000. 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.
Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster 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£120,000 median
- Chester Road North£150,000 median
- Hurcott Road£110,325 median
- Linnet Rise£92,400 median
- Birmingham Road£180,000 median
- Offmore Road£90,000 median
- St Cecilia Close£31,750 median
- Austcliffe Lane£87,500 median
- Lea Street£95,000 median
- Lorne Street£95,000 median
- Whinchat Grove£114,000 median
- Comberton Road£109,500 median
- Dunlin Drive£82,500 median
- Chester Road South£220,000 median
- Oldnall Road£140,000 median
- Chaffinch Drive£148,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 11 Barn Owl Place7 sales
- 73 Barn Owl Place6 sales
- 38 Barn Owl Place6 sales
- 1 Barn Owl Place5 sales
- 34 Barn Owl Place5 sales
- 77 Barn Owl Place5 sales
- 9 Barn Owl Place5 sales
- 41 Barn Owl Place4 sales
- 79 Barn Owl Place4 sales
- 22 Barn Owl Place4 sales
- 57 Barn Owl Place4 sales
- 31 Barn Owl Place4 sales
- 29 Barn Owl Place4 sales
- 32 Barn Owl Place4 sales
- 85 Barn Owl Place3 sales
- 40 Barn Owl Place3 sales
- 14 Barn Owl Place3 sales
- 43 Barn Owl Place3 sales
- 75 Barn Owl Place3 sales
- 15 Barn Owl Place3 sales
- 39 Barn Owl Place3 sales
- 30 Barn Owl Place3 sales
- 36 Barn Owl Place3 sales
- 50 Barn Owl Place3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster?
The median price paid in Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster across every sale on the register is £78,250. 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 Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster?
154 sales are on record for Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster, the most recent completing on 2 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -0.4% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -33.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £127,250, set in 2007. 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 Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster?
£1,756 per square metre, from the 42 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 2 Dec 2025. 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, “Barn Owl Place, Kidderminster 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.