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UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/region/west-midlands

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House prices in the West Midlands

Homes in the West Midlands sold for a median of £255,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 130,833 standard sales.

That makes the West Midlands the fifth most expensive of the nine English regions and Wales, 14% below the £295,000 median across England and Wales.

Median sale price£255,000130,833 standard sales
Middle half of prices£190,000 to £350,000
Change since 2016+50%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 50%, from £170,000 in 2016 to £255,000 in 2025, more than the 35% rise across England and Wales as a whole.

From 2016 to 2025, the median rose most in Sandwell, up 72%, and least in Stratford-on-Avon, up 28%, among council areas with at least 50 sales in both years.

Council areas ranked by median price

The dearest council area was Stratford-on-Avon, at £370,000, and the cheapest was Stoke-on-Trent, at £160,000. The dearest median is 2.3 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were Warwick and Bromsgrove, and the next cheapest Newcastle-under-Lyme and Sandwell.

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Each dot is a council area, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The ranked list below gives the same figures.

16 of the 30 council areas had a median above £255,000, the figure for the West Midlands as a whole. The most sales were in Birmingham (17,579), Shropshire (8,557), Dudley (6,845), Coventry (6,522) and Stoke-on-Trent (5,350).

Council areas with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. Stratford-on-Avon4,527 sales£370,000£3,942+2%
  2. Warwick4,479 sales£360,000£4,2810%
  3. Bromsgrove2,588 sales£340,000£3,741+3%
  4. Solihull5,349 sales£332,500£3,744+2%
  5. Malvern Hills2,378 sales£330,000£3,537+3%
  6. Wychavon3,501 sales£327,500£3,430−2%
  7. Lichfield3,157 sales£312,500£3,451+1%
  8. Rugby3,370 sales£297,000£3,358+4%
  9. Herefordshire4,871 sales£295,000£3,241−2%
  10. South Staffordshire2,710 sales£290,000£3,444+5%
  11. Shropshire8,557 sales£275,500£3,1150%
  12. North Warwickshire1,767 sales£265,000£3,161+3%
  13. Redditch2,029 sales£260,000£3,116+5%
  14. Stafford3,851 sales£260,000£3,055+5%
  15. Worcester2,749 sales£258,000£3,184+2%
  16. Wyre Forest2,843 sales£257,000£3,158+4%
  17. Tamworth2,091 sales£248,000£3,077+4%
  18. Nuneaton and Bedworth3,470 sales£244,000£2,990+3%
  19. Birmingham17,579 sales£240,000£3,046+4%
  20. Dudley6,845 sales£240,000£3,042+7%
  21. East Staffordshire3,483 sales£240,000£2,973+7%
  22. Telford and Wrekin4,461 sales£235,000£2,909+1%
  23. Coventry6,522 sales£230,000£2,903+3%
  24. Staffordshire Moorlands2,697 sales£228,500£2,841+2%
  25. Cannock Chase2,625 sales£227,000£2,799+5%
  26. Walsall5,051 sales£227,000£2,699+6%
  27. Wolverhampton4,095 sales£223,000£2,806+6%
  28. Sandwell4,685 sales£220,000£2,696+5%
  29. Newcastle-under-Lyme3,153 sales£200,000£2,544+7%
  30. Stoke-on-Trent5,350 sales£160,000£2,019+7%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in the West Midlands, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached36,401£392,000£315,000 to £516,000£3,486/m²from 1,457 sales
Semi-detached47,532£250,000£205,000 to £305,000£3,072/m²from 1,963 sales
Terraced33,771£206,000£168,000 to £255,000£2,706/m²from 1,215 sales
Flats and maisonettes13,129£141,500£110,000 to £190,000£2,500/m²from 395 sales

Semi-detached houses were the most common type sold in the West Midlands, at 36% of sales, ahead of detached houses at 28%.

Leasehold is less common here: 13% of sales were leasehold, against 21% across England and Wales.

Postcode areas in the West Midlands

About these figures

The 130,833 standard sales behind these figures are placed in the West Midlands by each home's postcode, and 5,030 of them have a floor area for the price per m² (our methodology).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.