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 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.
Half of Brownhills’s sales are semi-detached houses
642 homes sold in three years: 164 detached houses, 296 semi-detached houses, 119 terraced houses and 63 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.6 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£320K
median sale · 164 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£260K–£395K
Last 12 months
£335K61 sold
Semi-detached houses£210K
median sale · 296 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£185K–£243K
Last 12 months
£218K99 sold
Terraced houses£199K
median sale · 119 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£227K
Last 12 months
£198K33 sold
Flats and maisonettes£125K
median sale · 63 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£110K–£140K
Last 12 months
£132K18 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 46% of sales
Detached houses26%
Semi-detached houses46%
Terraced houses19%
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 Brownhills’s homes sold for between £180K and £265K
One sale in ten was under £134K and one in ten over £350K. 67% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £218,250, sits in the £200–250K 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 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 £47,250 in 1995 to £222,000 in the last 12 months (£158,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
211 sales in the last 12 months, against 450 in 2004, the busiest year, and 158 in 2008. Sales fell by 52% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 27% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Brownhills costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Brownhills, 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
£70K
£97K
£199K
£203K
£187K
£245K
£335K
Semi-detached houses
£45K
£57K
£120K
£114K
£125K
£170K
£218K
Terraced houses
£41K
£53K
£117K
£113K
£119K
£161K
£198K
Flats and maisonettes
£33K
£40K
£118K
£90K
£92K
£103K
£132K
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
1,001 new homes have been sold in Brownhills since 1995; the share peaked at 28% in 2000.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
14% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 4.3% sold leasehold in Brownhills. 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
Lichfield Road (WS9) is Brownhills’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
47 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
Lichfield Road (WS9)
WS9
14
£287,500
Mixed
2
Friezland Lane
WS8
13
£258,000
Mixed
3
Leasowe Road
WS9
12
£255,250
Mixed
4
Chester Road (WS8)
WS8
12
£232,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Whitehorse Road
WS8
12
£206,500
Mixed
6
Barrow Close
WS9
12
£156,750
Mixed
7
Pelsall Road
WS8
11
£250,000
Mixed
8
Salters Road
WS9
11
£240,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
Lichfield Road (WS8)
WS8
11
£210,000
Mixed
10
Hednesford Road
WS8
11
£200,000
Mixed
11
Coppice Road
WS9
11
£137,000
Mixed
12
Great Charles Street
WS8
10
£211,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Blithfield Road
WS8
10
£197,475
Mixed
14
Barnetts Lane
WS8
10
£195,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Watling Street
WS8
10
£194,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Gwendoline Way: £450,000
Brownhills median£218K
Gwendoline Way£450K
Bluebell Road£412K
Seeds Court£410K
Curlew Drive£405K
Shire Ridge£385K
Cheapest streets
High Street (WS8): £100,000
Brownhills median£218K
High Street (WS8)£100K
Moorhen Close£115K
Bridgeside Close£129K
Lindon Close£130K
Coppice Road£137K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.5 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
Brownhills is the 22nd most expensive of 35 towns in West Midlands
Brownhills is in the middle of West Midlands’s 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 Brownhills
What is the average house price in Brownhills?
The median home in Brownhills sold for £218,250 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 642 standard sales (£222,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £320,000, semi-detached houses £210,000, terraced houses £199,000 and flats and maisonettes £125,000.
Are house prices going up in Brownhills?
The median was £220,000 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£211,000), and £222,000 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 Brownhills each year?
211 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 262 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Brownhills?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Gwendoline Way (WS9, £450,000), Bluebell Road (WS9, £411,500) and Seeds Court (WS8, £410,000).
Is Brownhills expensive for West Midlands?
Brownhills is the 22nd 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.