B49 — Alcester
Alcester's B49 postcode sits in Stratford-On-Avon. The board behind it is assembled from 5,637 sales over 32 years of actual sales in 8 areas.
Across the recorded period the typical B49 sale went from £60,000 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026 — 5.2× growth. If you could time-travel once, aim for just before 2002 — prices moved +34.1% that year. The one to avoid was 2009: the median moved -14.3%, the roughest year in the local record.
Median sold price in B49
| Year | Median sold price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | £60,000 | 160 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | 195 |
| 2005 | £183,500 | 160 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | 121 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | 191 |
| 2020 | £291,500 | 132 |
| 2025 | £318,000 | 159 |
| 2026 | £310,000 | 28 |
The areas on the board
8 areas make up the board, weighted by sales activity:
- Alcester (B49 5) (41% of local sales) — busiest streets: School Road, Bleachfield Street, Corinthian Court
- Alcester (B49 6) (40% of local sales) — busiest streets: Seymour Road, Kinwarton Road, Smiths Way
- Great Alne (7% of local sales) — busiest streets: Henley Road, Woodland Drive, Nightingale Close
- Cookhill (5% of local sales) — busiest streets: Oak Tree Lane, Lower Cladswell Lane, Church Lane
- Temple Grafton (2% of local sales) — busiest streets: Croft Lane, Church Bank, Court Close
- Ardens Grafton (2% of local sales) — busiest streets: Vauxhall Lane, Bidford Road
- Oversley Green (2% of local sales) — busiest streets: Poplar Close, Mill Lane, Stratford Road
- Wixford (2% of local sales) — busiest streets: Church Fields, Grafton Road, Church Lane
Reading about 2002 is easy; surviving 2009 is the game. Play the B49 board.
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Prices are medians of real Land Registry sales. Street lists show street names only — never individual addresses. New to the game? Start with how to play.