That is the middle of 978 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 4.8 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.
978 homes sold in three years: 256 detached houses, 426 semi-detached houses, 228 terraced houses and 68 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£339K
median sale · 256 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£280K–£394K
Last 12 months
£345K66 sold
Semi-detached houses£237K
median sale · 426 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£203K–£273K
Last 12 months
£240K127 sold
Terraced houses£205K
median sale · 228 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£178K–£238K
Last 12 months
£210K78 sold
Flats and maisonettes£127K
median sale · 68 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£95K–£140K
Last 12 months
£125K19 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 44% of sales
Detached houses26%
Semi-detached houses44%
Terraced houses23%
Flats and maisonettes7%
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 Sedgley’s homes sold for between £192K and £295K
One sale in ten was under £150K and one in ten over £360K. 56% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £239,975, sits in the £200–250K band
978 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.8 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £49,725 in 1995 to £240,000 in the last 12 months (£170,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
290 sales in the last 12 months, against 602 in 1998, the busiest year, and 279 in 2009. Sales fell by 44% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 60% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Sedgley costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Sedgley, 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
£78K
£107K
£190K
£204K
£220K
£272K
£345K
Semi-detached houses
£49K
£60K
£122K
£136K
£141K
£192K
£240K
Terraced houses
£44K
£52K
£107K
£122K
£122K
£145K
£210K
Flats and maisonettes
£30K
£78K
£75K
£100K
£93K
£103K
£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
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
1,235 new homes have been sold in Sedgley since 1995; the share peaked at 38% 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
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.4% sold leasehold in Sedgley. 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
Bath Street is Sedgley’s busiest street, with 18 sales in three years
66 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
Bath Street
DY3
18
£222,500
Mixed
2
Charles Hayward Drive
WV4
15
£143,000
Mostly flats
3
The Straits
DY3
14
£234,250
Mixed
4
Sandyfields Road
DY3
13
£362,500
Mostly detached houses
5
Longfellow Road
DY3
13
£285,000
Mixed
6
Northway
DY3
12
£251,750
Mixed
7
Goodrich Mews
DY3
12
£200,000
Mixed
8
Himley Road
DY3
11
£300,000
Mixed
9
Milton Crescent
DY3
11
£277,000
Mixed
10
Haslingden Crescent
DY3
11
£262,000
Mixed
11
High Park Crescent
DY3
10
£357,500
Mostly detached houses
12
Longmeadow Drive
DY3
10
£316,000
Mostly detached houses
13
Thornleigh
DY3
10
£221,725
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Bilston Street
DY3
10
£218,250
Mostly terraced houses
15
The Ridgeway
DY3
10
£210,500
Mixed
Dearest streets
Catholic Lane: £475,000
Sedgley median£240K
Catholic Lane£475K
Brick Kiln Lane£420K
Hopyard Lane£420K
Cotwall End Road£388K
Sandyfields Road£363K
Cheapest streets
Charles Hayward Drive: £143,000
Sedgley median£240K
Charles Hayward Drive£143K
Clarence Street£150K
New Street£155K
Garrick Close£156K
Ripley Grove£158K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.3 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
Sedgley is the 13th most expensive of 35 towns in West Midlands
Sedgley 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 Sedgley
What is the average house price in Sedgley?
The median home in Sedgley sold for £239,975 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 978 standard sales (£240,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £339,000, semi-detached houses £237,250, terraced houses £205,000 and flats and maisonettes £127,000.
Are house prices going up in Sedgley?
The median was £247,000 in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (£232,500), and £240,000 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 Sedgley each year?
290 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 408 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Sedgley?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Catholic Lane (DY3, £475,000), Brick Kiln Lane (DY3, £420,000) and Hopyard Lane (DY3, £420,000).
Is Sedgley expensive for West Midlands?
Sedgley is the 13th 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.
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