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Essex Road, DY2

Sold prices, £/m² and street profile from HM Land Registry records.

Median sold price
£90,000
all recorded sales
£ per m²
£1,582
from EPC floor areas
Recorded sales
9
Distinct homes
7
Price range
£65,000£205,000
Sales recorded
2003 → 2023
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Essex Road is almost entirely semi-detached houses. Homes here typically change hands around £90,000 — roughly 44% below the DY2 norm. On floor area that works out near £1,582 per square metre, below the district's £2,048. Recent sales are too thin to call a trend for the street itself; DY2 prices as a whole have been rising. HM Land Registry records 9 sales across 7 homes since 2003 — homes here come up rarely.

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Essex Road prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 9 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianDY2 district trend
£50k£100k£150k£200k£250k200520102015202020252003: £72,950 median · 1 sale2012: £92,500 median · 2 sales2018: £103,500 median · 2 sales2019: £90,000 median · 1 sale2020: £125,000 median · 1 sale2022: £205,000 median · 1 sale2023: £90,000 median · 1 sale

Median sold price by year vs the DY2 district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Essex Road compares

Essex Road against the DY2 district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

Oakham Road£306k · 32
Saltwells Road£174k · 35
Wellspring Gardens£165k · 35
Cradley Road£163k · 57
Chichester Avenue£161k · 32
Cascade Way£161k · 36
Purlin Wharf£120k · 57
Park Road£100k · 41
Essex Road£90k · 9*
The Minories£90k · 106

Median sold price and sale count over the last 8years for the district's busiest streets. *This street's figures cover all recorded sales (fewer than 3 in the last 8 years).

This street
£90,000
median · all recorded sales
DY2 district
£160,000
median · last 8 years · street -44%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Essex Road's £90,000 median sits about 44% below DY2's £160,000; on floor space it runs £1,582/m² against the district's £2,048/m² (-23%).

Street and DY2 figures are medians of HM Land Registry sales; the England figures are the UK House Price Index mix-adjusted average — a different basis, so compare direction rather than levels between the two.

Every recorded sale on Essex Road

Individual transactions as recorded by HM Land Registry, newest first.

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
8 Feb 20232 · DY2 0TYSemi-detached£90,000
9 May 202221 · DY2 0TZSemi-detached£205,000
27 Mar 20208 · DY2 0TYSemi-detached£125,000
29 Mar 201921 · DY2 0TZSemi-detached£90,000
12 Oct 201810 · DY2 0TYSemi-detached£142,000
7 Sept 201822 · DY2 0TZSemi-detached£65,000
2 Apr 201222 · DY2 0TZSemi-detached£87,000
18 Jan 201218 · DY2 0TYSemi-detached£98,000
31 Oct 20034 · DY2 0TYSemi-detached£72,950
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More streets in DY2

Sold-price profiles for nearby streets, and the wider DY2 area guide.

Cradley RoadPurlin WharfThe MinoriesPark RoadIvanhoe StreetDudley Wood RoadChichester AvenueSaltwells RoadCascade WayHalesowen RoadRacemeadow CrescentNew Rowley Road
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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, including the UK House Price Index. EPC data © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures summarise recorded sales on the street and are not a valuation of any individual home.