Forest Road, Oldbury house prices are built from 116 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 17 Apr 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £170,000. Across the 21 years from 2003 to 2024 the median moved +80.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.5%.
Median price paid
£170,000
Change in cash, 2003–2024
+80.5%
Change in real terms
+0.5%
Median per m²
£1,468
HM Land Registry116 sales11 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Apr 2025
Section 01
How Forest Road, Oldbury prices moved
The chart tracks the median Forest Road, Oldbury house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | 3 | £69,000 | £153,213 |
| 2000s | 3 | £119,950 | £218,514 |
| 2010s | 3 | £210,000 | £296,100 |
| 2020s | 1 | £300,000 | £306,522 |
The highest yearly median on record for Forest Road, Oldbury is £300,000 in 2024; the lowest is £60,000 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £60,000 to £300,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £130,154, so the real change over the whole record is +142.5% — about +3.21% 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: +80.5% in cash against +0.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 17 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 38 | 19 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £305,000 | £320,933 |
| 90 | 28 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 97 | 31 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| The Bungalow, 1a | 26 Jan 2024 | Detached | £310,000 | £326,194 |
| 22 | 17 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £253,000 | £266,216 |
| 99 | 2 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £432,184 |
| 42 | 28 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £276,000 | £298,207 |
| 93 | 22 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £300,000 | £347,576 |
| 64 | 15 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £294,000 | £340,624 |
| 101 | 25 Jan 2022 | Detached | £420,000 | £486,606 |
| 24 | 3 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £208,000 | £262,796 |
| 46 | 20 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £229,000 | £296,501 |
| 22 | 26 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £258,953 |
| 50 | 13 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £216,000 | £279,669 |
| 43 | 8 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £300,835 |
| 72 | 5 Aug 2019 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £340,074 |
| 91 | 10 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £232,000 | £303,451 |
| 99 | 7 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £438,173 |
| 95 | 12 Dec 2018 | Semi-detached | £242,500 | £323,181 |
| 1 | 16 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £339,839 |
| 75 | 29 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £230,000 | £306,522 |
| 4 | 20 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £170,000 | £226,560 |
| 4 | 11 Apr 2018 | Terraced | £110,000 | £146,597 |
| 8 | 24 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £208,000 | £283,089 |
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 Forest Road, Oldbury values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Forest Road | £57,000 (1997) | £295,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 22 Forest Road | £125,000 (2010) | £253,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.1% |
| 99 Forest Road | £335,000 (2019) | £400,000 (2023) | +4.5% | -0.3% |
| 93 Forest Road | £119,950 (2002) | £300,000 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.1% |
| 46 Forest Road | £50,000 (2003) | £229,000 (2020) | +9.4% | +7.0% |
| 50 Forest Road | £105,000 (2007) | £216,000 (2020) | +5.7% | +3.3% |
| 72 Forest Road | £82,000 (1997) | £260,000 (2019) | +5.4% | +3.1% |
| 91 Forest Road | £63,500 (1999) | £232,000 (2019) | +6.7% | +4.4% |
| 95 Forest Road | £162,500 (2008) | £242,500 (2018) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
| 75 Forest Road | £180,000 (2016) | £230,000 (2018) | +13.0% | +10.4% |
| 4 Forest Road | £110,000 (2018) | £170,000 (2018) | +54.5% | +54.5% |
| 104 Forest Road | £67,500 (1997) | £185,000 (2017) | +5.2% | +2.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Forest Road, Oldbury 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 | 76 | 65.5% | £169,000 | £50,000 – £400,000 |
| Terraced | 35 | 30.2% | £170,000 | £51,000 – £305,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 4.3% | £185,000 | £67,500 – £420,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Forest Road, Oldbury
6 of the sales on record are leasehold and 110 freehold — 5.2% 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 £146,250 and the median freehold sale £171,250 — a gap of +17.1%. 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 | 6 | 5.2% | £146,250 |
| Freehold | 110 | 94.8% | £171,250 |
| New build | 1 | 0.9% | £67,500 |
| Existing home | 115 | 99.1% | £170,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -60.3%. 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 3 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 Forest Road, Oldbury
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 334 | 0.2% |
| B | 10,700 | 7.0% |
| C | 52,460 | 34.2% |
| D | 62,786 | 40.9% |
| E | 21,437 | 14.0% |
| F | 4,375 | 2.8% |
| G | 1,432 | 0.9% |
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 £170,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.66% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Forest Road, Oldbury
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 Academy Langley | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,490 |
| Oldbury Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,193 |
| Bristnall Hall Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,088 |
| Perryfields Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 682 |
| Moat Farm Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 477 |
| Bleakhouse Primary School | Primary | Community school | 432 |
| Brandhall Primary School | Primary | Community school | 431 |
| Rood End Primary School | Primary | Community school | 428 |
| Causeway Green Primary School | Primary | Community school | 427 |
| Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 415 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Langley Green Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Rowley Regis Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Smethwick Rolfe Street Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Smethwick Galton Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
Section 09
How Forest Road, Oldbury compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Forest Road, Oldbury sits above that national figure — +7.9%.
Within Oldbury the street ranks 58 of 500 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £110,000 (+54.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,468 per square metre, across 11 of the 116 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 £50,000 to £420,000. 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.
Forest Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Wolverhampton Road£130,000 median
- Hagley Road West£74,500 median
- Farm Road£89,975 median
- Moat Road£122,000 median
- Causeway Green Road£81,100 median
- Vicarage Street£87,000 median
- Perry Hill Road£120,000 median
- Bristnall Hall Road£118,500 median
- Grafton Road£120,000 median
- Kingsway£148,500 median
- Apsley Road£142,500 median
- Pel Crescent£154,000 median
- Wellesley Road£69,000 median
- Harborne Road£155,500 median
- Pottery Road£124,000 median
- Castle Road West£150,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 46 Forest Road8 sales
- 37 Forest Road5 sales
- 22 Forest Road4 sales
- 93 Forest Road3 sales
- 50 Forest Road3 sales
- 72 Forest Road3 sales
- 95 Forest Road3 sales
- 104 Forest Road3 sales
- 78 Forest Road3 sales
- 44 Forest Road3 sales
- 96 Forest Road3 sales
- 9 Forest Road3 sales
- 94 Forest Road3 sales
- 30 Forest Road2 sales
- 99 Forest Road2 sales
- 91 Forest Road2 sales
- 75 Forest Road2 sales
- 4 Forest Road2 sales
- 35 Forest Road2 sales
- 17 Forest Road2 sales
- 51 Forest Road2 sales
- 49 Forest Road2 sales
- 77 Forest Road2 sales
- 71 Forest Road2 sales
Back to Oldbury house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Forest Road, Oldbury?
The median price paid in Forest Road, Oldbury across every sale on the register is £170,000. 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 Forest Road, Oldbury?
116 sales are on record for Forest Road, Oldbury, the most recent completing on 17 Apr 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Forest Road, Oldbury house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +80.5% between 2003 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Forest Road, Oldbury house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £300,000, 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 Forest Road, Oldbury?
£1,468 per square metre, from the 11 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 17 Apr 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, “Forest Road, 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.