Bearwood Road, Smethwick house prices are built from 207 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 1 Oct 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £95,000. Across the 10 years from 1999 to 2009 the median moved +268.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +196.8%.
Median price paid
£95,000
Change in cash, 1999–2009
+268.0%
Change in real terms
+196.8%
Median per m²
£853
HM Land Registry207 sales40 with floor areaLatest sale 1 Oct 2024
Section 01
How Bearwood Road, Smethwick prices moved
The chart tracks the median Bearwood Road, Smethwick house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2009. 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 | 5 | £41,000 | £91,039 |
| 2000s | 10 | £115,000 | £209,496 |
The highest yearly median on record for Bearwood Road, Smethwick is £140,000 in 2005; the lowest is £25,000 in 1995. Across the full 15-year record the cash median has moved from £25,000 to £115,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £55,512, so the real change over the whole record is +240.4% — about +9.14% 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: +268.0% in cash against +196.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 406a | 1 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| 8 | 28 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £176,000 | £185,194 |
| 459a | 25 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 246 | 15 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £165,000 | £191,167 |
| 28 | 26 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £164,500 | £190,588 |
| 237 | 23 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £222,000 | £280,484 |
| 287 | 11 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £170,000 | £220,110 |
| 255 | 13 Jan 2020 | Terraced | £153,000 | £198,099 |
| 451 | 29 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £135,000 | £176,577 |
| 206 | 8 Aug 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £79,500 | £105,950 |
| 32 | 3 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £155,000 | £210,956 |
| 262 | 10 Feb 2017 | Terraced | £108,700 | £147,941 |
| 227 | 11 Oct 2016 | Terraced | £133,000 | £185,673 |
| 459a | 8 Apr 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £174,505 |
| 187 | 30 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £120,000 | £169,200 |
| 248 | 30 Jul 2014 | Semi-detached | £93,000 | £133,398 |
| 22 | 28 May 2014 | Terraced | £82,394 | £118,185 |
| 266 | 24 Jan 2014 | Terraced | £95,000 | £136,267 |
| 259 | 20 Nov 2013 | Terraced | £97,500 | £142,166 |
| 305a | 11 Jul 2013 | Terraced | £220,000 | £320,786 |
| 400a | 23 Apr 2013 | Flat or maisonette | £37,000 | £53,950 |
| 419a | 28 Mar 2013 | Terraced | £137,500 | £200,491 |
| 249 | 20 Dec 2012 | Terraced | £130,000 | £194,174 |
| 189 | 24 Feb 2012 | Terraced | £50,000 | £74,682 |
| 115 | 14 Feb 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £57,000 | £85,138 |
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 Bearwood Road, Smethwick values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 406A Bearwood Road | £113,000 (2007) | £110,000 (2024) | -0.2% | -3.1% |
| 8 Bearwood Road | £86,000 (2004) | £176,000 (2024) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| 459A Bearwood Road | £125,000 (2016) | £120,000 (2022) | -0.7% | -3.7% |
| 246 Bearwood Road | £32,000 (1996) | £165,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
| 237 Bearwood Road | £48,000 (2000) | £222,000 (2021) | +7.6% | +5.2% |
| 287 Bearwood Road | £26,000 (1999) | £170,000 (2020) | +9.4% | +7.0% |
| 255 Bearwood Road | £120,000 (2004) | £153,000 (2020) | +1.5% | -0.7% |
| 451 Bearwood Road | £130,000 (2009) | £135,000 (2019) | +0.4% | -1.9% |
| 32 Bearwood Road | £57,500 (2002) | £155,000 (2017) | +6.8% | +4.4% |
| 227 Bearwood Road | £40,000 (1999) | £133,000 (2016) | +7.3% | +5.0% |
| 248 Bearwood Road | £35,000 (1996) | £93,000 (2014) | +5.6% | +3.2% |
| 266 Bearwood Road | £65,000 (2001) | £95,000 (2014) | +3.0% | +0.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bearwood Road, Smethwick 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 | 156 | 75.4% | £94,950 | £8,000 – £280,000 |
| Semi-detached | 34 | 16.4% | £93,000 | £25,000 – £385,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 9 | 4.3% | £37,000 | £24,500 – £125,000 |
| Detached | 8 | 3.9% | £155,000 | £50,000 – £300,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Bearwood Road, Smethwick
16 of the sales on record are leasehold and 191 freehold — 7.7% 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 £44,000 and the median freehold sale £95,000 — a gap of +115.9%. 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 | 16 | 7.7% | £44,000 |
| Freehold | 191 | 92.3% | £95,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.0% | £74,500 |
| Existing home | 205 | 99.0% | £95,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -21.6%. 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 148 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 09
How Bearwood Road, Smethwick compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bearwood Road, Smethwick sits below that national figure — -39.7%.
Within Smethwick the street ranks 170 of 306 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £100,000 (-5.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £853 per square metre, across 40 of the 207 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 £8,000 to £385,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Merrivale Road£107,000 median
- St Pauls Road£90,000 median
- Montague Road£91,950 median
- Doulton Drive£114,475 median
- Cape Hill£95,000 median
- Linden Road£109,275 median
- Marlborough Road£102,500 median
- Woodlands Street£65,000 median
- Salisbury Road£83,500 median
- Crocketts Lane£138,000 median
- Waterloo Road£83,000 median
- Kimberley Road£72,250 median
- Talbot Road£99,000 median
- Sandon Road£65,239 median
- Gilbert Road£86,500 median
- Edith Road£81,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 246 Bearwood Road4 sales
- 248 Bearwood Road4 sales
- 217 Bearwood Road4 sales
- 302 Bearwood Road4 sales
- 346 Bearwood Road4 sales
- 287 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 32 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 266 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 259 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 249 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 4 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 113 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 103 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 159 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 465 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 422 Bearwood Road3 sales
- 406A Bearwood Road2 sales
- 8 Bearwood Road2 sales
- 459A Bearwood Road2 sales
- 237 Bearwood Road2 sales
- 255 Bearwood Road2 sales
- 451 Bearwood Road2 sales
- 227 Bearwood Road2 sales
- 400A Bearwood Road2 sales
Back to Smethwick house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Bearwood Road, Smethwick?
The median price paid in Bearwood Road, Smethwick across every sale on the register is £95,000. 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 Bearwood Road, Smethwick?
207 sales are on record for Bearwood Road, Smethwick, the most recent completing on 1 Oct 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Bearwood Road, Smethwick house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +268.0% between 1999 and 2009. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +196.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Bearwood Road, Smethwick house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £140,000, set in 2005. 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 Bearwood Road, Smethwick?
£853 per square metre, from the 40 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 1 Oct 2024. 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, “Bearwood Road, Smethwick 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.