Princess Road, Oldbury house prices are built from 105 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £105,000. Across the 13 years from 2007 to 2020 the median moved +38.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.8%.
Median price paid
£105,000
Change in cash, 2007–2020
+38.1%
Change in real terms
+2.8%
Median per m²
£1,708
HM Land Registry105 sales31 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Princess Road, Oldbury prices moved
The chart tracks the median Princess Road, Oldbury house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 to 2020. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | £69,000 | £125,698 |
| 2010s | 2 | £98,000 | £138,180 |
| 2020s | 1 | £146,000 | £149,174 |
The highest yearly median on record for Princess Road, Oldbury is £146,000 in 2020; the lowest is £40,475 in 2000. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £40,475 to £146,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £80,950, so the real change over the whole record is +133.5% — about +4.33% 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: +38.1% in cash against +2.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 108 | 4 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 50 | 30 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 57 | 30 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 80 | 28 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 12 | 26 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 129 | 4 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 20 | 3 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| 8 | 10 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| 39 | 30 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £221,494 |
| 162 | 20 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £223,500 | £241,483 |
| 57 | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 65 | 20 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| 17 | 7 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £175,000 | £202,753 |
| 84 | 10 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £194,000 | £245,108 |
| 82 | 23 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| 22 | 2 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £151,000 | £195,510 |
| 64 | 10 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £151,500 | £196,157 |
| 106 | 11 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £66,000 | £85,455 |
| 74 | 13 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £146,000 | £189,036 |
| 65 | 10 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £131,500 | £170,262 |
| 77 | 20 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £149,000 | £194,889 |
| 85 | 28 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £123,000 | £160,881 |
| 75 | 29 May 2019 | Terraced | £143,000 | £187,041 |
| 117 | 5 Dec 2018 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £219,896 |
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 Princess 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 Princess Road | £90,500 (2007) | £185,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
| 108 Princess Road | £105,000 (2007) | £205,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.6% |
| 50 Princess Road | £109,000 (2016) | £200,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +3.3% |
| 57 Princess Road | £210,000 (2022) | £235,000 (2025) | +3.8% | -0.4% |
| 129 Princess Road | £114,500 (2006) | £210,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| 20 Princess Road | £99,950 (2004) | £225,000 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| 8 Princess Road | £49,000 (2002) | £200,000 (2023) | +6.9% | +4.0% |
| 162 Princess Road | £39,000 (2000) | £223,500 (2023) | +7.9% | +5.0% |
| 65 Princess Road | £131,500 (2020) | £180,000 (2022) | +17.0% | +10.7% |
| 17 Princess Road | £98,000 (2013) | £175,000 (2022) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 82 Princess Road | £119,000 (2013) | £180,000 (2021) | +5.3% | +3.4% |
| 22 Princess Road | £75,000 (2002) | £151,000 (2020) | +4.0% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Princess 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 | 58 | 55.2% | £100,000 | £21,000 – £225,000 |
| Terraced | 45 | 42.9% | £110,000 | £41,950 – £240,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 1.9% | £105,000 | £105,000 – £105,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Princess Road, Oldbury
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 105 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 | 105 | 100.0% | £105,000 |
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 Princess 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 £105,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.79% 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 Princess 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 Princess Road, Oldbury compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Princess Road, Oldbury sits below that national figure — -33.3%.
Within Oldbury the street ranks 267 of 500 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £110,000 (-4.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,708 per square metre, across 31 of the 105 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 £21,000 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.
Princess 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
- 64 Princess Road5 sales
- 20 Princess Road4 sales
- 40 Princess Road4 sales
- 53 Princess Road4 sales
- 8 Princess Road3 sales
- 162 Princess Road3 sales
- 22 Princess Road3 sales
- 18 Princess Road3 sales
- 89 Princess Road3 sales
- 133 Princess Road3 sales
- 107 Princess Road3 sales
- 118 Princess Road3 sales
- 63 Princess Road2 sales
- 108 Princess Road2 sales
- 50 Princess Road2 sales
- 57 Princess Road2 sales
- 129 Princess Road2 sales
- 65 Princess Road2 sales
- 17 Princess Road2 sales
- 82 Princess Road2 sales
- 75 Princess Road2 sales
- 101 Princess Road2 sales
- 123 Princess Road2 sales
- 33 Princess Road2 sales
Back to Oldbury house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Princess Road, Oldbury?
The median price paid in Princess Road, Oldbury across every sale on the register is £105,000. 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 Princess Road, Oldbury?
105 sales are on record for Princess Road, Oldbury, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Princess Road, Oldbury house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +38.1% between 2007 and 2020. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Princess Road, Oldbury house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £146,000, set in 2020. 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 Princess Road, Oldbury?
£1,708 per square metre, from the 31 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 5 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, “Princess 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.