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Coventry market report CV

The standing CV (Coventry) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 445,790 registered sales in the CV postcode area (Coventry) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: the middle 2026 sale in the CV postcode area (Coventry) came in at £270,000, out of 4,226 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £317,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,300 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 445,790 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

CV is the postcode area centred on Coventry, taking in 24 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.

What CV homes really sell for

The CV median stands at £270,000 for 2026, built from 4,226 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £317,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

Price per square metre in CV

Measured by floor area, the last five years of CV sales average about £3,300 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CV trades 5% below the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical CV home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 144%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+20.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−4.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.

Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one

A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £435,000 against £157,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.

Transaction volumes

CV recorded 9,366 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 18,268 sales a year before the financial crisis and 11,108 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.

The shape of the CV market

CV is a liquid market by any standard, with 9,366 sales in the last twelve months of data. Figures built on that many transactions move because the market moves, and for no other reason.

What tenants pay around CV

CV falls under Coventry, the local authority covering most of the CV area (parts fall under Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,017 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £757 a month here against £1,452 for four or more bedrooms.

Against the £270,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,017 a month (£12,204 a year) works out at a 4.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.

Common questions on CV (Coventry)

What happens to CV prices now?

No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.

On the market in CV today

Moving up a bedroom in CV: the cost

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the CV area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

District by district

The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every CV district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.

Before you sell in CV: what the record supports

Keep digging

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CV. Free after a one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every CV sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.

Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.