UK Property Check

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

Council areaWest Midlands, England

House prices in Sandwell

Homes in Sandwell sold for a median of £220,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 4,685 standard sales.

That makes it the third cheapest of the 30 council areas in the West Midlands with at least 300 sales. The median across the region was £255,000.

Median sale price£220,0004,685 standard sales
Middle half of prices£177,000 to £265,000
Change since 2016+72%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 72%, from £128,000 in 2016 to £220,000 in 2025, the biggest rise of the 30 council areas in the West Midlands.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in Sandwell, 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
Detached561£320,000£270,000 to £380,000£3,454/m²from 21 sales
Semi-detached2,100£235,000£201,000 to £268,000£2,825/m²from 65 sales
Terraced1,538£200,000£173,000 to £235,000£2,524/m²from 58 sales
Flats and maisonettes486£112,000£90,000 to £128,000Too few

Semi-detached houses were the most common type sold in Sandwell, at 45% of sales, ahead of terraced houses at 33%.

Flats and maisonettes stand out against the West Midlands as a whole: a median of £112,000 here, 21% less than the £141,500 across the region.

Measured by floor area, homes here sold for a median of £2,696 per m², 13% below the £3,091 across the West Midlands as a whole.

Postcode districts in Sandwell

The dearest district was B43 (Birmingham), at £255,000, and the cheapest was B66 (Smethwick), at £180,000.

The next dearest were B68 (Oldbury) and B71 (West Bromwich), and the next cheapest WS10 (Wednesbury) and B65 (Rowley Regis).

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Each dot is a postcode district in Sandwell, placed at the centre of its postcodes and labelled with the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The list below gives the same figures.

Post towns in Sandwell, by number of sales: Oldbury (B68, B69), West Bromwich (B70, B71), Tipton (DY4), Birmingham (B43), Wednesbury (WS10), Smethwick (B66, B67), Rowley Regis (B65), Cradley Heath (B64).

Districts with at least 100 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. B43Birmingham, 689 sales£255,000+2%
  2. B68Oldbury, 552 sales£235,000+4%
  3. B71West Bromwich, 486 sales£232,000+4%
  4. B67Smethwick, 424 sales£220,000+5%
  5. B69Oldbury, 495 sales£215,000+5%
  6. B64Cradley Heath, 338 sales£212,500+14%
  7. DY4Tipton, 715 sales£212,500+9%
  8. B70West Bromwich, 286 sales£211,5000%
  9. B65Rowley Regis, 411 sales£210,000+4%
  10. WS10Wednesbury, 634 sales£207,000+6%
  11. B66Smethwick, 181 sales£180,000Too few

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.

From 2024 to 2025, the median held or rose in every district with enough sales to compare, most in B64 (Cradley Heath), up 14%.

Streets with the most standard sales in the districts listed above, September 2024 to August 2026:

  • Queslett Road, Great Barr (B43)36 sales
  • Tufail Drive, Oldbury (B69)27 sales
  • Horseshoe Crescent, Birmingham (B43)24 sales
  • The Parade, West Bromwich (B71)24 sales
  • Sundowner Grove, Tipton (DY4)24 sales
  • Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury (B68)21 sales
  • Appleton Avenue, Great Barr (B43)20 sales
  • Park Road, Smethwick (B67)18 sales

Of the streets with at least 10 sales, the dearest by median price were Pear Tree Road, Great Barr (B43, £426,500), Sir Galahad Walk, Tipton (DY4, £368,000) and The Parade, West Bromwich (B71, detached houses, £330,000).

The cheapest were Hagley Road West, Oldbury (B68, £68,500), Elbow Street, Cradley Heath (B64, flats, £99,500) and Titford Road, Oldbury (B69, £152,000).

Living in Sandwell

Crime

103 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to August 2026

Higher than 83 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 84.

The rate counts every crime recorded in an area against the people who live there, so shops, stations and nightlife push it up.

Gigabit broadband

97% of homes can get it

Higher than 86 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 89%.

Radon

74% of postcodes are in a 1 km square that includes a radon Affected Area

Higher than 72 in 100 council areas.

In a radon Affected Area, UKHSA recommends a radon test. A UKradon report gives the result for an exact address.

Council tax

Band D is £2,244 a year in Sandwell for 2026 to 2027

Lower than 88 in 100 council areas. England: £2,392.

Band D includes every charge on the bill, such as police, fire and any county, parish or town council.

The free check gives these for a single home, with the nearest schools and road and rail noise (how we work them out).

Crime: data.police.uk, with Census 2021 population from the Office for National Statistics. Broadband: Ofcom Connected Nations, January 2026. Radon: the British Geological Survey and UKHSA. Council tax: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Council areas in the West Midlands

Median sale price of the 30 council areas in the West Midlands with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026, dearest first. Sandwell and the 14 council areas nearest it in the ranking are shown.

  1. Wyre Forest£257,000
  2. Tamworth£248,000
  3. Nuneaton and Bedworth£244,000
  4. Birmingham£240,000
  5. Dudley£240,000
  6. East Staffordshire£240,000
  7. Telford and Wrekin£235,000
  8. Coventry£230,000
  9. Staffordshire Moorlands£228,500
  10. Cannock Chase£227,000
  11. Walsall£227,000
  12. Wolverhampton£223,000
  13. Sandwell£220,000
  14. Newcastle-under-Lyme£200,000
  15. Stoke-on-Trent£160,000
All 30 council areas in the West Midlands, ranked

About these figures

Sandwell's figures come from 4,685 standard sales, each placed in the council area by its own postcode. The 11 districts listed are those with most of their postcodes in Sandwell, so their sales add up to 5,211 instead (how we build council pages).

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.