That is the middle of 676 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.7 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
676 homes sold in three years: 134 detached houses, 274 semi-detached houses, 116 terraced houses and 152 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£400K
median sale · 134 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£520K
Last 12 months
£410K47 sold
Semi-detached houses£301K
median sale · 274 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£265K–£347K
Last 12 months
£320K61 sold
Terraced houses£247K
median sale · 116 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£216K–£295K
Last 12 months
£242K36 sold
Flats and maisonettes£150K
median sale · 152 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£119K–£173K
Last 12 months
£150K35 sold
New build
£337K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 41% of sales
Detached houses20%
Semi-detached houses41%
Terraced houses17%
Flats and maisonettes22%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Aldridge’s homes sold for between £206K and £350K
One sale in ten was under £140K and one in ten over £445K. 38% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £281,000, sits in the £250–300K band
676 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.7 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £62,250 in 1995 to £295,000 in the last 12 months (£220,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
179 sales in the last 12 months, against 385 in 2003, the busiest year, and 155 in 2009. Sales fell by 53% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 41% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Aldridge costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Aldridge, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£84K
£127K
£250K
£235K
£263K
£328K
£410K
Semi-detached houses
£60K
£81K
£179K
£163K
£180K
£241K
£320K
Terraced houses
£55K
£77K
£134K
£140K
£170K
£232K
£242K
Flats and maisonettes
£45K
£58K
£137K
£111K
£110K
£138K
£150K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0.6% of sales in the last 12 months
673 new homes have been sold in Aldridge since 1995; the share peaked at 35% in 2003.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £337,475
against £280,000 for a home sold on, 21% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
27% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 6.3% sold leasehold in Aldridge. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Leighswood Road is Aldridge’s busiest street, with 29 sales in three years
46 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 16 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Leighswood Road
WS9
29
£130,000
Mostly flats
2
Northgate
WS9
26
£104,500
Mostly flats
3
Walsall Wood Road
WS9
25
£246,000
Mixed
4
Whetstone Lane
WS9
20
£412,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
The Briars
WS9
19
£161,000
Mostly flats
6
Redhouse Lane
WS9
18
£257,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Walsall Road
WS9
15
£338,500
Mixed
8
Lazy Hill Road
WS9
13
£425,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
Leighswood Avenue
WS9
13
£272,500
Mixed
10
Kingshayes Road
WS9
12
£371,500
Mixed
11
The Green
WS9
12
£337,475
Mostly flats · new builds
12
Bosty Lane
WS9
11
£304,000
Mixed
13
Norfolk Crescent
WS9
10
£321,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Westbrook Avenue
WS9
10
£230,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Westfield Drive
WS9
10
£227,250
Mostly flats
Dearest streets
Longwood Road: £645,000
Aldridge median£281K
Longwood Road£645K
Stonnall Road£525K
Erdington Road£442K
Lazy Hill Road£425K
Whetstone Lane£413K
Cheapest streets
Northgate: £104,500
Aldridge median£281K
Northgate£105K
Leighswood Road£130K
Parkhouse Grove£144K
Noddy Park Road£153K
Portland Road£161K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 6.2 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across West Midlands
Aldridge is the 7th most expensive of 35 towns in West Midlands
Aldridge is one of West Midlands’s dearest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Aldridge
What is the average house price in Aldridge?
The median home in Aldridge sold for £281,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 676 standard sales (£295,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £399,500, semi-detached houses £301,250, terraced houses £247,250 and flats and maisonettes £150,000.
Are house prices going up in Aldridge?
The median was £295,000 in 2025, up 9% on 2024 (£270,000), and £295,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Aldridge each year?
179 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 258 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Aldridge?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Longwood Road (WS9, £645,000), Stonnall Road (WS9, £525,000) and Erdington Road (WS9, £442,000).
How much does a new build cost in Aldridge?
New homes sold for a median £337,475 over three years, against £280,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 1.8% of sales.
Is Aldridge expensive for West Midlands?
Aldridge is the 7th most expensive of 35 towns of 2,500 or more in West Midlands by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.