Brookside, Wednesbury house prices

Brookside, Wednesbury house prices are built from 60 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2008 and the most recent on 31 Oct 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £85,480.

HM Land Registry60 sales14 with floor areaLatest sale 31 Oct 2024

The chart tracks the median Brookside, Wednesbury house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2008 to 2010. 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 Brookside, Wednesbury is £97,475 in 2009; the lowest is £64,333 in 2008. Across the full 3-year record the cash median has moved from £64,333 to £85,950.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £107,988, so the real change over the whole record is +27.1% — about +12.74% 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.

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 Brookside, Wednesbury values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Brookside, Wednesbury is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

56 of the sales on record are leasehold and 4 freehold — 93.3% 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 £85,459 and the median freehold sale £172,500 — a gap of +101.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -2.9%. 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 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 £85,480 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.25% 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 WS10, 325 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 124 violent, 16 burglary, 31 vehicle-related and 12 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.

Against the 341,832 residents the 2021 census counted in Sandwell, that is 0.95 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.

21 state and independent schools have a WS10 postcode: 16 primary, 4 secondary, 1 nursery. 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. Brookside, Wednesbury sits below that national figure — -45.7%.

Within Wednesbury the street ranks 277 of 405 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £99,950 (-14.5%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £954 per square metre, across 14 of the 60 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 £43,208 to £225,000. 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.

Brookside, Wednesbury 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 nearby

• Park Lane£130,000 median
• Brunswick Park Road£98,000 median
• Crankhall Lane£95,000 median
• Franchise Street£105,000 median
• Woden Road East£133,500 median
• Vicarage Road£95,000 median
• Centenary Lane£185,995 median
• Kent Road£102,000 median
• Dorsett Road£92,000 median
• Wolverhampton Street£64,000 median
• Corporation Street£87,500 median
• Willenhall Street£87,000 median
• Darby Road£106,125 median
• Holyhead Road£88,500 median
• Hydes Road£130,000 median
• Old Park Road£94,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 11 Brookside3 sales
• 16 Brookside3 sales
• 19 Brookside3 sales
• 17 Brookside3 sales
• 26 Brookside2 sales
• 44 Brookside2 sales
• 10 Brookside2 sales
• 12 Brookside2 sales
• 1 Brookside2 sales
• 31 Brookside2 sales
• 3 Brookside2 sales
• 4 Brookside2 sales

Back to Wednesbury house prices.

What is the average house price in Brookside, Wednesbury?

The median price paid in Brookside, Wednesbury across every sale on the register is £85,480. 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 Brookside, Wednesbury?

60 sales are on record for Brookside, Wednesbury, the most recent completing on 31 Oct 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

When were Brookside, Wednesbury house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £97,475, set in 2009. 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 Brookside, Wednesbury?

£954 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 31 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, “Brookside, Wednesbury 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.