That is the middle of 979 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 4.5 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.
979 homes sold in three years: 114 detached houses, 401 semi-detached houses, 283 terraced houses and 181 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£285K
median sale · 114 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£245K–£330K
Last 12 months
£293K26 sold
Semi-detached houses£215K
median sale · 401 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£182K–£243K
Last 12 months
£221K118 sold
New build
£233K
Terraced houses£190K
median sale · 283 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£165K–£220K
Last 12 months
£200K77 sold
Flats and maisonettes£95K
median sale · 181 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£83K–£115K
Last 12 months
£104K38 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 41% of sales
Detached houses12%
Semi-detached houses41%
Terraced houses29%
Flats and maisonettes18%
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 Tipton’s homes sold for between £145K and £240K
One sale in ten was under £93K and one in ten over £277K. 80% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £200,000, sits in the £200–250K band
979 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.5 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £45,950 in 1995 to £208,000 in the last 12 months (£137,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
259 sales in the last 12 months, against 914 in 2004, the busiest year, and 234 in 2009. Sales fell by 71% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 37% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Tipton costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Tipton, 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
£68K
£77K
£180K
£174K
£175K
£236K
£293K
Semi-detached houses
£46K
£50K
£110K
£108K
£119K
£155K
£221K
Terraced houses
£38K
£40K
£100K
£115K
£105K
£140K
£200K
Flats and maisonettes
£31K
£25K
£88K
£70K
£57K
£84K
£104K
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: 0.8% of sales in the last 12 months
3,356 new homes have been sold in Tipton since 1995; the share peaked at 59% 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
A new home sold for a median £232,500
against £200,000 for a home sold on, 16% 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.
22% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 4.6% sold leasehold in Tipton. 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
Thunderbolt Way is Tipton’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
67 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 12 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
Thunderbolt Way
DY4
14
£183,000
Mixed
2
Tudor Court
DY4
14
£45,500
Mostly flats
3
Powis Avenue
DY4
13
£225,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Anchor Drive
DY4
12
£184,775
Mixed
5
Highfield Road
DY4
12
£182,500
Mostly terraced houses
6
Alexandra Road
DY4
11
£230,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
7
Gospel Oak Road
DY4
11
£210,000
Mixed
8
Monins Avenue
DY4
11
£115,000
Mixed
9
Upper Church Lane
DY4
10
£208,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
10
Davis Avenue
DY4
10
£194,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Bonneville Close
DY4
10
£96,750
Mostly flats
12
Carnegie Avenue
DY4
10
£41,999
Mostly flats
13
Oval Road
DY4
9
£200,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Leasowe Road
DY4
9
£161,000
Mixed
15
Bell Street
DY4
9
£160,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Charter Road: £342,500
Tipton median£200K
Charter Road£343K
Lissimore Drive£300K
Farmer Way£270K
Wake Green Road£270K
Horseley Road£261K
Cheapest streets
Carnegie Avenue: £41,999
Tipton median£200K
Carnegie Avenue£42K
Tudor Court£46K
Gough Drive£93K
Bonneville Close£97K
Rugeley Close£105K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 8.2 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
Tipton is the 29th most expensive of 35 towns in West Midlands
Tipton 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 Tipton
What is the average house price in Tipton?
The median home in Tipton sold for £200,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 979 standard sales (£208,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £285,000, semi-detached houses £215,000, terraced houses £190,000 and flats and maisonettes £95,000.
Are house prices going up in Tipton?
The median was £205,000 in 2025, up 11% on 2024 (£185,000), and £208,000 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 Tipton each year?
259 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 417 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Tipton?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Charter Road (DY4, £342,500), Lissimore Drive (DY4, £300,000) and Farmer Way (DY4, £270,000).
How much does a new build cost in Tipton?
New homes sold for a median £232,500 over three years, against £200,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 0.6% of sales.
Is Tipton expensive for West Midlands?
Tipton is the 28th 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.