That is the middle of 1,387 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 4.9 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.
1,387 homes sold in three years: 244 detached houses, 623 semi-detached houses, 410 terraced houses and 110 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£300K
median sale · 244 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£253K–£346K
Last 12 months
£323K66 sold
New build
£285K
Semi-detached houses£198K
median sale · 623 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£172K–£233K
Last 12 months
£210K174 sold
Terraced houses£180K
median sale · 410 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£148K–£208K
Last 12 months
£190K117 sold
Flats and maisonettes£120K
median sale · 110 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£92K–£135K
Last 12 months
£125K30 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 45% of sales
Detached houses18%
Semi-detached houses45%
Terraced houses30%
Flats and maisonettes8%
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 Dudley’s homes sold for between £160K and £242K
One sale in ten was under £121K and one in ten over £300K. 78% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £195,000, sits in the £150–200K band
1,387 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.9 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £43,000 in 1995 to £210,000 in the last 12 months (£135,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
387 sales in the last 12 months, against 1,003 in 2007, the busiest year, and 359 in 2009. Sales fell by 64% 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
Dudley costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Dudley, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£69K
£97K
£183K
£177K
£196K
£247K
£323K
Semi-detached houses
£45K
£52K
£101K
£110K
£115K
£150K
£210K
Terraced houses
£39K
£41K
£87K
£90K
£100K
£125K
£190K
Flats and maisonettes
£28K
£25K
£87K
£105K
£75K
£93K
£125K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 25% in 2018
2,142 new homes have been sold in Dudley since 1995; the share peaked at 25% in 2018.
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 £285,000
against £193,000 for a home sold on, 48% 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.
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.8% sold leasehold in Dudley. 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
Cradley Road is Dudley’s busiest street, with 24 sales in three years
80 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 20 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
Cradley Road
DY2
24
£216,500
Mixed
2
The Broadway
DY1
23
£250,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Chichester Avenue
DY2
20
£196,500
Mostly terraced houses
4
Ashenhurst Road
DY1
17
£193,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Attingham Drive
DY1
16
£253,500
Mixed
6
St James's Road
DY1
16
£138,250
Mostly flats
7
Park Road
DY2
16
£136,000
Mostly terraced houses
8
Purlin Wharf
DY2
15
£142,000
Mostly flats
9
Saltwells Road
DY2
13
£206,200
Mostly terraced houses
10
Crabourne Road
DY2
13
£205,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Stourbridge Road (DY1)
DY1
13
£190,000
Mixed
12
Lynbrook Close
DY2
12
£210,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Cascade Way
DY2
12
£178,500
Mostly terraced houses
14
Dudley Wood Road
DY2
11
£188,500
Mixed
15
Russells Hall Road
DY1
11
£180,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
King Edmund Street: £337,500
Dudley median£195K
King Edmund Street£338K
Kinloch Drive£338K
Hockley Lane£315K
March Drive£310K
Messiter Way£290K
Cheapest streets
Moncrieffe Close: £59,500
Dudley median£195K
Moncrieffe Close£60K
Southgate Way£109K
View Drive£110K
Cochrane Road£110K
Donnington Court£127K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5.7 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
Dudley is the 32nd most expensive of 35 towns in West Midlands
Dudley 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 Dudley
What is the average house price in Dudley?
The median home in Dudley sold for £195,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,387 standard sales (£210,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £300,000, semi-detached houses £198,000, terraced houses £180,000 and flats and maisonettes £120,000.
Are house prices going up in Dudley?
The median was £199,500 in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (£189,000), and £210,000 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 Dudley each year?
387 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 597 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Dudley?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: King Edmund Street (DY1, £337,500), Kinloch Drive (DY1, £337,500) and Hockley Lane (DY2, £315,000).
How much does a new build cost in Dudley?
New homes sold for a median £285,000 over three years, against £193,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 0.9% of sales.
Is Dudley expensive for West Midlands?
Dudley 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.