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Walsall town centre market report WS1 2, Walsall
The WS1 2 (Walsall town centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,250 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WS1 2 (Walsall) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in WS1 2 (Walsall) sold for £242,800 in 2026, the median of 15 registered sales, up 33% on five years earlier. The mean was £241,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,300 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,250 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WS1 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WS1 (Walsall). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WS1 2 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.
What a home in WS1 2 sells for
The 2026 median for WS1 2 is £242,800, taken from 15 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £241,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in WS1 2
By floor space, homes in WS1 2 have sold for about £2,300 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WS1 2 sits 15% below the national market.
WS1 2'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £242,800 | £242,800 | 15 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 70 |
| 2024 | £183,500 | £195,098 | 66 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 68 |
| 2022 | £176,500 | £206,966 | 90 |
| 2021 | £182,000 | £230,435 | 98 |
| 2020 | £151,000 | £195,926 | 62 |
| 2019 | £142,500 | £186,783 | 87 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 94 |
| 2017 | £144,000 | £196,402 | 81 |
| 2016 | £145,000 | £202,856 | 112 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 97 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 68 |
| 2013 | £105,000 | £151,085 | 75 |
| 2012 | £109,000 | £160,434 | 61 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 65 |
| 2010 | £113,000 | £177,213 | 65 |
| 2009 | £104,000 | £167,181 | 56 |
| 2008 | £121,000 | £198,345 | 77 |
| 2007 | £118,800 | £201,518 | 149 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 132 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 125 |
| 2004 | £132,000 | £239,738 | 205 |
| 2003 | £106,000 | £195,278 | 155 |
| 2002 | £71,100 | £133,774 | 188 |
| 2001 | £67,500 | £129,765 | 169 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 179 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 125 |
| 1998 | £43,500 | £87,808 | 121 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 101 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 105 |
| 1995 | £39,200 | £85,215 | 89 |
In cash terms the typical WS1 2 home went from £39,200 in 1995 to £242,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 185%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the WS1 2 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 2000 (+55.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−20.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WS1 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +38.7% | +35.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.9% | +1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Sales activity in WS1 2
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 15 WS1 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 163 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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.
What kind of market WS1 2 is
This is a thin market: 15 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within WS1, this sector trades 39% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around WS1 2
WS1 2 falls under Walsall, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £242,800 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 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.
Asked and answered: WS1 2 (Walsall town centre)
Is WS1 2 (Walsall town centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WS1 2 (Walsall town centre)?
Are property prices falling in WS1 2 (Walsall town centre)?
Are WS1 2 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WS1 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 48 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WS1 district, not just WS1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every WS1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in WS
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WS area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £275,000 | £370,000 (+35%) | £572,400 (+55%) | £821,400 (+44%) |
| Semi-detached | £196,000 | £215,000 (+10%) | £255,000 (+19%) | £340,000 (+33%) | £400,000 (+18%) |
| Terraced | £175,000 | £183,250 (+5%) | £212,500 (+16%) | £291,500 (+37%) | — |
| Flat | £115,000 | £151,000 (+31%) | £247,500 (+64%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WS area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WS1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WS1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS1 1 | £120,000 | 3 |
| WS1 3 | £170,500 | 28 |
| WS1 4 | £170,200 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full WS1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WS1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WS1 2? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WS1 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WS1 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WS1 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WS1 2.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WS1 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WS1 2 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.