Oldbury house prices

Oldbury house prices are built from 23,665 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £110,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +76.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +26.7%.

HM Land Registry23,665 sales4,283 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Oldbury 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 Oldbury is £230,000 in 2026; the lowest is £42,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £42,500 to £230,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £94,370, so the real change over the whole record is +143.7% — about +2.92% 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: +76.9% in cash against +26.7% 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.

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 Oldbury values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Oldbury 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. 8,340 certificates cover Oldbury, and their median floor area is 73 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -3.9%. 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.

3,321 of the sales on record are leasehold and 20,344 freehold — 14.0% 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 £79,950 and the median freehold sale £115,000 — a gap of +43.8%. 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 — +34.3%. 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 1,570 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 Sandwell, 41.4% of 153,524 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.8% 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 Sandwell at £944 a month as of Jun 2026 — £674 for a one-bedroom home and £1,004 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £110,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.30% 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 B68, 264 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 128 violent, 9 burglary, 18 vehicle-related and 13 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.

Against the 341,832 residents the 2021 census counted in Sandwell, that is 0.77 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 341,832 residents in Sandwell across 130,246 households. 54.2% of those households own their home and 45.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

13 state and independent schools have a B68 postcode: 9 primary, 4 secondary. 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. Oldbury sits below that national figure — -30.2%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,554 per square metre, across 4,283 of the 23,665 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 £1,000 to £727,500. 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.

Oldbury sits in Sandwell, in the West Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Sandwell at 6.5 times median local earnings of £33,636 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 Oldbury

• Wolverhampton Road433 sales
• Hagley Road West371 sales
• Titford Road310 sales
• Farm Road238 sales
• Moat Road210 sales
• Causeway Green Road202 sales
• Vicarage Street193 sales
• Elm Terrace192 sales
• Waterways Drive191 sales
• Perry Hill Road178 sales
• Regent Road176 sales
• Bristnall Hall Road174 sales
• Tower Road174 sales
• Newbury Lane171 sales
• City Road167 sales
• Grafton Road163 sales
• Kingsway162 sales
• Apsley Road158 sales
• Birmingham Road155 sales
• Pel Crescent153 sales
• Bhullar Way148 sales
• Wellesley Road147 sales
• Birch Crescent139 sales
• Harborne Road135 sales
• Pottery Road134 sales
• Oakthorpe Gardens133 sales
• Ashes Road129 sales
• Castle Road West127 sales
• Mallard Drive127 sales
• Barker Street125 sales
• Ashtree Road122 sales
• Dudley Road East122 sales
• New Birmingham Road122 sales
• Swan Crescent120 sales
• Alexandra Way116 sales
• Forest Road116 sales
• Old College Avenue116 sales
• Wakeman Drive115 sales
• Bleakhouse Road112 sales
• Summerton Road112 sales
• Ascot Close111 sales
• Aston Road111 sales
• Red Lion Close110 sales
• Salop Road110 sales
• Temple Way110 sales
• Dog Kennel Lane109 sales
• Macdonald Close109 sales
• Oakham Road109 sales
• Birch Road107 sales
• Birchfield Lane107 sales
• Barston Road105 sales
• Princess Road105 sales
• Pound Road104 sales
• Parkfield Road102 sales
• Barnford Crescent101 sales
• Chestnut Road101 sales
• Penncricket Lane100 sales
• Vicarage Road100 sales
• Landswood Road98 sales
• Oldacre Road96 sales

Postcode districts covering Oldbury

• B68£115,000 median
• B69£105,000 median

What is the average house price in Oldbury?

The median price paid in Oldbury across every sale on the register is £110,000. 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 Oldbury?

23,665 sales are on record for Oldbury, the most recent completing on 24 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Oldbury house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +76.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +26.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Oldbury house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £230,000, set in 2026. 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 Oldbury?

£1,554 per square metre, from the 4,283 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 24 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, “Oldbury 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.