That is the middle of 642 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 5.7 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.
642 homes sold in three years: 111 detached houses, 286 semi-detached houses, 183 terraced houses and 62 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£295K
median sale · 111 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£260K–£335K
Last 12 months
£294K36 sold
Semi-detached houses£203K
median sale · 286 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£235K
Last 12 months
£208K73 sold
Terraced houses£178K
median sale · 183 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£142K–£210K
Last 12 months
£180K51 sold
Flats and maisonettes£105K
median sale · 62 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£85K–£125K
Last 12 months
£113K18 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 45% of sales
Detached houses17%
Semi-detached houses45%
Terraced houses29%
Flats and maisonettes10%
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 Bilston’s homes sold for between £160K and £245K
One sale in ten was under £115K and one in ten over £292K. 76% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £195,000, sits in the £150–200K band
642 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.7 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £35,000 in 1995 to £200,000 in the last 12 months (£143,497 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
178 sales in the last 12 months, against 464 in 2018, the busiest year, and 132 in 2009. Sales fell by 68% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 5%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Bilston costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Bilston, 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
£60K
£89K
£160K
£148K
£185K
£240K
£294K
Semi-detached houses
£37K
£46K
£96K
£93K
£107K
£165K
£208K
Terraced houses
£33K
£37K
£87K
£80K
£100K
£139K
£180K
Flats and maisonettes
£29K
£28K
£78K
£86K
£65K
£75K
£113K
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% of sales in the last 12 months
2,038 new homes have been sold in Bilston since 1995; the share peaked at 40% in 1996.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
11% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.9% sold leasehold in Bilston. 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
Marbury Drive is Bilston’s busiest street, with 13 sales in three years
40 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 7 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
Marbury Drive
WV14
13
£206,000
Mixed
2
Moseley Road
WV14
11
£243,000
Mixed
3
Great Bridge Road
WV14
11
£177,000
Mixed
4
Bunkers Hill Lane
WV14
10
£263,500
Mixed
5
Bay Avenue
WV14
10
£242,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Bradley Lane
WV14
10
£184,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Lowbridge Walk
WV14
10
£120,250
Mostly flats
8
Ambleside Close
WV14
9
£125,000
Mostly terraced houses
9
Mullion Drive
WV14
8
£265,000
Mixed
10
Wolseley Road
WV14
8
£160,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Loxdale Sidings
WV14
8
£120,500
Mostly flats
12
Ambergate Road
WV14
7
£321,500
Mostly detached houses
13
Tangmere Road
WV2
7
£280,000
Mixed
14
Darlaston Lane
WV14
7
£236,000
Mixed
15
Wellington Road
WV14
7
£222,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Weston Drive: £360,000
Bilston median£195K
Weston Drive£360K
Ambergate Road£322K
Constantine Way£282K
Tangmere Road£280K
Montagu Drive£273K
Cheapest streets
Ashley Street: £95,500
Bilston median£195K
Ashley Street£96K
Stowheath Lane£102K
Fraser Street£120K
Lowbridge Walk£120K
Loxdale Sidings£121K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.8 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
Bilston is the 31st most expensive of 35 towns in West Midlands
Bilston is one of West Midlands’s cheapest 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 Bilston
What is the average house price in Bilston?
The median home in Bilston sold for £195,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 642 standard sales (£200,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £295,000, semi-detached houses £202,750, terraced houses £177,500 and flats and maisonettes £105,000.
Are house prices going up in Bilston?
The median was £205,000 in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (£193,000), and £200,000 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 Bilston each year?
178 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 345 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Bilston?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Weston Drive (WV14, £360,000), Ambergate Road (WV14, £321,500) and Constantine Way (WV14, £282,000).
Is Bilston expensive for West Midlands?
Bilston is the 31st 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.