Leswell Lane, Kidderminster house prices are built from 123 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 11 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £88,000. Across the 13 years from 2006 to 2019 the median moved +39.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.2%.
Median price paid
£88,000
Change in cash, 2006–2019
+39.1%
Change in real terms
+2.2%
Median per m²
£926
HM Land Registry123 sales14 with floor areaLatest sale 11 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Leswell Lane, Kidderminster prices moved
The chart tracks the median Leswell Lane, Kidderminster house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2019. 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 | £38,000 | £84,378 |
| 2000s | 7 | £74,000 | £134,806 |
| 2010s | 2 | £96,500 | £136,065 |
The highest yearly median on record for Leswell Lane, Kidderminster is £160,000 in 2019; the lowest is £38,000 in 1997. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £38,000 to £160,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £80,571, so the real change over the whole record is +159.7% — about +4.43% 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: +39.1% in cash against +2.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | 11 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £157,500 | £160,924 |
| 7 | 25 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £144,000 | £147,130 |
| 1 Clovelly Court | 22 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £89,440 |
| 31 | 2 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| Flat 2 55 | 4 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £98,000 | £105,885 |
| 8 | 15 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £135,000 | £156,409 |
| 33 | 21 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £180,000 | £233,058 |
| 7 | 24 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £119,000 | £154,077 |
| 60 | 31 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £125,000 | £161,846 |
| 33 | 20 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £160,000 | £209,276 |
| 17 | 6 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £150,000 | £196,197 |
| 38 | 8 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £281,215 |
| 23 | 12 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £160,000 | £209,276 |
| 38 | 18 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £102,500 | £134,068 |
| 41 | 29 Mar 2019 | Detached | £165,000 | £215,816 |
| 44 | 28 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £161,000 | £214,565 |
| 35 | 18 May 2018 | Semi-detached | £161,000 | £214,565 |
| Flat 3 28 | 9 Feb 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £93,289 |
| 34 | 26 Jan 2018 | Terraced | £163,000 | £217,231 |
| 43 | 28 Jun 2017 | Semi-detached | £120,500 | £164,001 |
| 24 | 9 Jun 2017 | Detached | £155,000 | £210,956 |
| 16 | 7 Dec 2016 | Terraced | £100,000 | £139,604 |
| 46 | 25 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £147,250 | £205,567 |
| 33 | 4 Oct 2016 | Terraced | £86,000 | £120,059 |
| 8 | 30 Aug 2016 | Terraced | £98,000 | £136,812 |
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 Leswell Lane, Kidderminster values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58 Leswell Lane | £43,500 (1999) | £157,500 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 7 Leswell Lane | £93,000 (2005) | £144,000 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| 1 CLOVELLY COURT Leswell Lane | £49,000 (2002) | £85,000 (2024) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| FLAT 2 55 Leswell Lane | £38,500 (2001) | £98,000 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 8 Leswell Lane | £98,000 (2016) | £135,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +2.3% |
| 33 Leswell Lane | £86,000 (2016) | £180,000 (2020) | +20.3% | +18.0% |
| 60 Leswell Lane | £55,000 (2002) | £125,000 (2020) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
| 17 Leswell Lane | £84,200 (2002) | £150,000 (2019) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
| 38 Leswell Lane | £102,500 (2019) | £215,000 (2019) | +109.8% | +109.8% |
| 41 Leswell Lane | £50,000 (1995) | £165,000 (2019) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| 44 Leswell Lane | £52,000 (1999) | £161,000 (2018) | +6.1% | +3.8% |
| 35 Leswell Lane | £50,000 (2003) | £161,000 (2018) | +8.1% | +5.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Leswell Lane, 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 | 73 | 59.3% | £96,500 | £33,000 – £180,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 30 | 24.4% | £74,000 | £26,000 – £108,500 |
| Semi-detached | 13 | 10.6% | £102,500 | £50,000 – £215,000 |
| Detached | 7 | 5.7% | £82,000 | £50,000 – £165,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Leswell Lane, Kidderminster
29 of the sales on record are leasehold and 94 freehold — 23.6% 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 £74,000 and the median freehold sale £96,750 — a gap of +30.7%. 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 | 29 | 23.6% | £74,000 |
| Freehold | 94 | 76.4% | £96,750 |
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 Leswell Lane, 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 £88,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.39% 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 Leswell Lane, 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 Leswell Lane, Kidderminster compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Leswell Lane, Kidderminster sits below that national figure — -44.1%.
Within Kidderminster the street ranks 788 of 843 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £137,000 (-35.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £926 per square metre, across 14 of the 123 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 £26,000 to £215,000. 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.
Leswell Lane, 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
- 44 Leswell Lane5 sales
- FLAT 1, 55 Leswell Lane5 sales
- 7 Leswell Lane4 sales
- 17 Leswell Lane4 sales
- 24 Leswell Lane4 sales
- 19 Leswell Lane4 sales
- 15 Leswell Lane4 sales
- 2, 20 Leswell Lane4 sales
- 58 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 1, CLOVELLY COURT Leswell Lane3 sales
- FLAT 2, 55 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 33 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 60 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 35 Leswell Lane3 sales
- FLAT 3, 28 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 16 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 46 Leswell Lane3 sales
- CLOVELLY, 50 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 57 Leswell Lane3 sales
- FLAT 1, 20 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 39 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 14 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 18 Leswell Lane3 sales
- 5 Leswell Lane3 sales
Back to Kidderminster house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Leswell Lane, Kidderminster?
The median price paid in Leswell Lane, Kidderminster across every sale on the register is £88,000. 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 Leswell Lane, Kidderminster?
123 sales are on record for Leswell Lane, Kidderminster, the most recent completing on 11 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Leswell Lane, Kidderminster house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +39.1% between 2006 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Leswell Lane, Kidderminster house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £160,000, set in 2019. 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 Leswell Lane, Kidderminster?
£926 per square metre, from the 14 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 11 Aug 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, “Leswell Lane, 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.