The median home in Dickens Heath sells for £235,000
That is the middle of 295 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 up 48% as in 1997. 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 Dickens Heath’s sales are flats and maisonettes
295 homes sold in three years: 60 detached houses, 43 semi-detached houses, 34 terraced houses and 158 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£658K
median sale · 60 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£545K–£775K
Last 12 months
£675K19 sold
Semi-detached houses£328K
median sale · 43 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£305K–£390K
Last 12 months
£342K13 sold
Terraced houses£336K
median sale · 34 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£265K–£395K
Last 12 months
£339K8 sold
Flats and maisonettes£176K
median sale · 158 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£160K–£203K
Last 12 months
£171K46 sold
The mix
A flat market: half of homes sold are flats
Detached houses20%
Semi-detached houses15%
Terraced houses12%
Flats and maisonettes54%
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 Dickens Heath’s homes sold for between £173K and £398K
One sale in ten was under £150K and one in ten over £666K. 52% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £235,000, sits in the £200–250K band
295 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1997
The typical home costs up 48% as in 1997, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £154,500 in 1997 to £229,000 in the last 12 months (£225,000 in 2019).
30 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
86 sales in the last 12 months, against 307 in 2005, the busiest year, and 94 in 2020. Sales fell by 48% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 41%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 66% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Dickens Heath costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Dickens Heath, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1997
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£225K
£366K
£357K
£466K
£510K
£675K
Semi-detached houses
£130K
£211K
£235K
£276K
£310K
£342K
Terraced houses
£123K
£215K
£213K
£264K
£329K
£339K
Flats and maisonettes
£120K
£150K
£145K
£170K
£175K
£171K
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
1,731 new homes have been sold in Dickens Heath since 1995; the share peaked at 93% in 1998.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
64% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 23% sold leasehold in Dickens Heath. 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
Main Street is Dickens Heath’s busiest street, with 33 sales in three years
18 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 8 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
Main Street
B90
33
£165,000
Mostly flats
2
Rumbush Lane
B90
31
£189,950
Mostly flats
3
Dickens Heath Road
B90
20
£199,500
Mostly flats
4
Ascote Lane
B90
20
£178,500
Mostly flats
5
Waterside
B90
19
£208,000
Mostly flats
6
Tythe Barn Lane
B90
12
£420,000
Mixed
7
Old Dickens Heath Road
B90
12
£261,000
Mixed
8
Calcutt Way
B90
10
£263,750
Mostly terraced houses
9
Birchy Close
B90
8
£793,750
Mostly detached houses
10
Gorcott Lane
B90
8
£162,500
Mostly flats
11
Ledwell
B90
7
£173,500
Mixed
12
Beech Lane
B90
6
£602,500
Mostly detached houses
13
Buckridge Lane
B90
6
£288,500
Mixed
14
Trundalls Lane
B90
6
£258,750
Mixed
15
New Meadow Close
B90
6
£202,250
Mixed
Dearest streets
Birchy Close: £793,750
Dickens Heath median£235K
Birchy Close£794K
Whitchurch Lane£629K
Beech Lane£603K
Tythe Barn Lane£420K
Aldershaws£352K
Cheapest streets
Hensborough: £137,500
Dickens Heath median£235K
Hensborough£138K
Gorcott Lane£163K
Main Street£165K
Ledwell£174K
Ascote Lane£179K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5.8 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
Dickens Heath is the 14th most expensive of 35 towns in West Midlands
Dickens Heath 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 Dickens Heath
What is the average house price in Dickens Heath?
The median home in Dickens Heath sold for £235,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 295 standard sales (£229,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £657,999, semi-detached houses £328,000, terraced houses £335,625 and flats and maisonettes £175,500.
Are house prices going up in Dickens Heath?
The median was £300,000 in 2025, up 45% on 2024 (£206,500), and £229,000 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 Dickens Heath each year?
86 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 145 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Dickens Heath?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Birchy Close (B90, £793,750), Whitchurch Lane (B90, £628,500) and Beech Lane (B90, £602,500).
Is Dickens Heath expensive for West Midlands?
Dickens Heath is the 14th 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.