Local market reports › WS area › WS1
Walsall town centre market report WS1, Walsall
The WS1 (Walsall town centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 8,766 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WS1 (Walsall) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WS1 (Walsall) sold for £175,000 in 2026, the median of 60 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier. The mean was £209,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,140 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,766 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WS1 is the postcode district covering Walsall town centre, Caldmore in Walsall. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WS1 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 WS1 homes really sell for
60 sales were registered in WS1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £175,000. The mean works out at £209,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in WS1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WS1 sales average about £2,140 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 WS1 trades 39% below the country as a whole.
WS1's median sold price, 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 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 60 |
| 2025 | £169,000 | £173,041 | 172 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 166 |
| 2023 | £152,500 | £167,560 | 168 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 205 |
| 2021 | £137,800 | £174,473 | 236 |
| 2020 | £110,000 | £142,727 | 254 |
| 2019 | £123,200 | £161,486 | 260 |
| 2018 | £120,000 | £159,962 | 206 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 225 |
| 2016 | £122,000 | £170,679 | 261 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 246 |
| 2014 | £109,000 | £154,636 | 160 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 158 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 161 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 158 |
| 2010 | £101,000 | £158,394 | 179 |
| 2009 | £107,800 | £173,289 | 172 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 267 |
| 2007 | £118,900 | £201,688 | 429 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 404 |
| 2005 | £113,500 | £201,984 | 429 |
| 2004 | £111,200 | £201,961 | 517 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 417 |
| 2002 | £63,000 | £118,534 | 455 |
| 2001 | £53,000 | £101,890 | 465 |
| 2000 | £49,500 | £97,144 | 396 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 316 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 311 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 294 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 302 |
| 1995 | £36,500 | £79,345 | 317 |
In cash terms the typical WS1 home went from £36,500 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 121%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WS1 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 (+39.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.9%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £479,000 against £70,000 for a flat, 6.8 times the price.
Median by property type, WS1
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 | £479,000 | 7 | 1,087 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 15 | 1,919 |
| Terraced | £166,000 | 29 | 3,892 |
| Flats | £70,000 | 9 | 1,868 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.6% | +1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.9% | +0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.4% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in WS1
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WS1 recorded 127 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 439 sales a year before the financial crisis and 154 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.
Reading the WS1 market
This is a thin market: 127 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Among the 15 measurable districts of its area, WS1 ranks 14 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What homes rent for around WS1
The local authority for WS1 is Walsall, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £908 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £642 a month here against £1,305 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Walsall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £175,000 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 a year) works out at a 6.2% 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.
What people ask about WS1 (Walsall town centre)
How much did a house sell for in WS1 (Walsall town centre)?
Are property prices falling in WS1 (Walsall town centre)?
Is WS1 (Walsall town centre) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to WS1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat 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.
What you could buy in WS1 now
Everything above is what homes in WS1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 48 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the WS1 median sold price.
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.
- Arboretum Road, Walsall, West Midland...
- Hatherton Road, WALSALL, West Midland...
- Highgate Road, WALSALL, West Midlands...
"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 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.
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WS1 ranks 3 of 15 in the WS area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, WS area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WS1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS1 1 | £120,000 | 3 |
| WS1 2 | £242,800 | 15 |
| WS1 3 | £170,500 | 28 |
| WS1 4 | £170,200 | 14 |
How WS1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WS14 | £424,000 | +28% |
| WS13 | £325,000 | +12% |
| WS5 | £312,500 | +12% |
| WS9 | £295,000 | +15% |
| WS7 | £260,000 | +13% |
| WS6 | £252,500 | +15% |
| WS15 | £236,500 | +15% |
| WS12 | £232,000 | +12% |
| WS4 | £225,000 | +15% |
| WS8 | £220,000 | +19% |
| WS11 | £220,000 | +10% |
| WS10 | £215,000 | +28% |
| WS3 | £205,000 | +17% |
| WS1 (this report) | £175,000 | +27% |
| WS2 | £175,000 | +25% |
Thinking of selling in WS1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WS1, open the average prices map and zoom from the WS1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WS1 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: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WS1.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WS1. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WS1 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.