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Walsall town centre market report WS1 3, Walsall
The WS1 3 (Walsall town centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,505 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WS1 3 (Walsall) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WS1 3 (Walsall) sold for £170,500 in 2026, the median of 28 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier. The mean was £216,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,170 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,505 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WS1 3 is one sector of WS1 (Walsall): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WS1 3 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 3 sells for
28 sales were registered in WS1 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £170,500. The mean works out at £216,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in WS1 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WS1 3 sales average about £2,170 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WS1 3 sits 40% below the national market.
A typical WS1 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £170,500 | £170,500 | 28 |
| 2025 | £242,000 | £247,787 | 41 |
| 2024 | £192,000 | £204,135 | 48 |
| 2023 | £172,000 | £188,986 | 49 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 56 |
| 2021 | £142,000 | £179,790 | 80 |
| 2020 | £142,500 | £184,897 | 45 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 63 |
| 2018 | £127,500 | £169,960 | 58 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 69 |
| 2016 | £124,800 | £174,596 | 80 |
| 2015 | £115,000 | £162,495 | 81 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 39 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 43 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 51 |
| 2011 | £101,000 | £152,471 | 53 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 58 |
| 2009 | £125,200 | £201,260 | 52 |
| 2008 | £152,500 | £249,980 | 84 |
| 2007 | £129,500 | £219,668 | 122 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 111 |
| 2005 | £116,800 | £207,857 | 104 |
| 2004 | £107,200 | £194,696 | 114 |
| 2003 | £82,000 | £151,064 | 108 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 123 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 131 |
| 2000 | £46,400 | £91,060 | 102 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 101 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 103 |
| 1997 | £54,200 | £111,153 | 104 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 106 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 98 |
In cash terms the typical WS1 3 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £170,500 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 63%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 32% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WS1 3 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 2004 (+30.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−32.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −29.5% | −31.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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.
WS1 3 recorded 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 114 sales a year before the financial crisis and 44 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around WS1 3
The local authority for WS1 3 is Walsall, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £908 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £642 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,305, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Walsall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £170,500 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 a year) works out at a 6.4% 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.
The shape of the WS1 3 market
This is a thin market: 28 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.
What people ask about WS1 3 (Walsall town centre)
How much did a house sell for in WS1 3 (Walsall town centre)?
Are property prices falling in WS1 3 (Walsall town centre)?
Is WS1 3 (Walsall town centre) a good place to buy a house?
Will WS1 3 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WS1's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 48 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WS1 district, not just WS1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in WS: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WS area. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WS1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WS1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS1 1 | £120,000 | 3 |
| WS1 2 | £242,800 | 15 |
| 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 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WS1 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the WS1 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WS1 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WS1 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WS1 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WS1 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WS1 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.