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Walsall market report WS
The WS (Walsall) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 193,316 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in the WS postcode area (Walsall) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical the WS postcode area (Walsall) home changed hands for £240,000 in 2026 (median of 2,250 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £277,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,870 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 193,316 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The figures for WS centred on Walsall run across 15 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where WS sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
WS sold prices: where the market stands
In the WS property market, the 2026 median sale price is £240,000, from 2,250 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £277,000, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in WS
Per square metre, WS homes have averaged around £2,870 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WS 16% below the country at large.
WS's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 2,250 |
| 2025 | £242,000 | £247,787 | 5,909 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 5,241 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 4,845 |
| 2022 | £225,000 | £263,838 | 6,332 |
| 2021 | £211,500 | £267,786 | 7,357 |
| 2020 | £193,000 | £250,421 | 5,384 |
| 2019 | £177,500 | £232,660 | 6,251 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 6,428 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 6,742 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 6,339 |
| 2015 | £147,000 | £207,711 | 5,765 |
| 2014 | £146,000 | £207,127 | 5,762 |
| 2013 | £137,000 | £197,129 | 4,798 |
| 2012 | £134,800 | £198,409 | 3,906 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 4,103 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 3,850 |
| 2009 | £132,000 | £212,191 | 3,702 |
| 2008 | £132,000 | £216,376 | 4,524 |
| 2007 | £136,000 | £230,694 | 8,302 |
| 2006 | £134,500 | £233,475 | 8,411 |
| 2005 | £126,000 | £224,229 | 6,963 |
| 2004 | £119,000 | £216,127 | 8,035 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 8,034 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 8,497 |
| 2001 | £68,000 | £130,727 | 7,533 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 7,226 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 7,045 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 6,353 |
| 1997 | £51,500 | £105,616 | 6,289 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 5,947 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 5,193 |
In cash terms the typical WS home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WS median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−3.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £390,000 against £118,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, WS
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £390,000 | 613 | 52,569 |
| Semi-detached | £230,000 | 879 | 74,589 |
| Terraced | £200,000 | 549 | 48,555 |
| Flats | £118,000 | 209 | 17,603 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −0.8% | −3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.7% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in WS
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WS recorded 4,207 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 7,875 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4,915 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.
Rents around WS
The local authority for WS is Walsall, the local authority covering most of the WS area (parts fall under Lichfield and Cannock Chase, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £908 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £642 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,305 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Walsall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £240,000 median sold price, £908 a month is £10,896 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: WS (Walsall)
Is WS (Walsall) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WS (Walsall)?
Are property prices falling in WS (Walsall)?
Are WS prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in WS today
Everything above is what homes in WS sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 300 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the WS median sold price.
Set against 4,207 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 300 homes on the market here are roughly 4 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
Of everything listed here, 10% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Hobs Road, Lichfield, Staffs, Lichfield
- Chester Road North, Brownhills, Walsall, WS8 7JP, Brownhills
- Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Lichfield
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every WS home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The WS sales calendar
Across the 29,684 sales completed in WS from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (10.8% of the total) and January the quietest (6.6%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,961 | 6.6% |
| February | 2,302 | 7.8% |
| March | 3,192 | 10.8% |
| April | 2,004 | 6.8% |
| May | 2,297 | 7.7% |
| June | 2,870 | 9.7% |
| July | 2,336 | 7.9% |
| August | 2,549 | 8.6% |
| September | 2,817 | 9.5% |
| October | 2,461 | 8.3% |
| November | 2,408 | 8.1% |
| December | 2,487 | 8.4% |
Moving up a bedroom in WS: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WS area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £250,000 | £280,000 (+12%) | £320,000 (+14%) | £405,000 (+27%) | £560,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £195,000 | £205,000 (+5%) | £227,000 (+11%) | £275,000 (+21%) | £335,000 (+22%) |
| Terraced | £170,000 | £182,500 (+7%) | £190,000 (+4%) | £245,000 (+29%) | £310,000 (+27%) |
| Flat | £102,000 | £130,000 (+27%) | £227,250 (+75%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, WS area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every WS district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| WS14 Lichfield (south), Shenstone | £425,000 | +29% | 110 |
| WS13 Lichfield (north and city centre), Fradley | £325,000 | +12% | 209 |
| WS5 Bescot, Tamebridge | £318,800 | +14% | 74 |
| WS9 Aldridge, Walsall Wood (south) | £293,800 | +14% | 152 |
| WS7 Burntwood | £264,500 | +15% | 156 |
| WS6 Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley | £248,500 | +13% | 95 |
| WS15 Rugeley, Brereton | £241,000 | +18% | 230 |
| WS12 Hednesford, Heath Hayes | £230,000 | +11% | 216 |
| WS4 Rushall | £227,100 | +16% | 103 |
| WS11 Cannock, Norton Canes | £220,000 | +10% | 271 |
| WS8 Brownhills, Walsall Wood (north) | £215,000 | +16% | 104 |
| WS10 Wednesbury, Darlaston | £215,000 | +28% | 143 |
| WS3 Bloxwich, Coal Pool | £205,000 | +17% | 217 |
| WS2 Pleck, Bentley | £175,000 | +25% | 99 |
| WS1 Walsall town centre, Caldmore | £173,000 | +26% | 71 |
Selling a home in WS? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WS's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every WS 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.