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Darlaston market report WS10 8, Wednesbury
The standing WS10 8 (Darlaston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,784 registered sales in WS10 8 (Wednesbury) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WS10 8 (Wednesbury) came in at £187,000, out of 41 registered, up 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £200,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,140 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,784 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like WS10 8 is a single group of streets within WS10 (Wednesbury), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WS10 8 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.
The going rate for a home in WS10 8
The WS10 8 median stands at £187,000 for 2026, built from 41 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £200,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WS10 8
Per square metre, WS10 8 homes have averaged around £2,140 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WS10 8 runs 34% below it.
A typical WS10 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £187,000 | £187,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £184,000 | £188,400 | 82 |
| 2024 | £173,500 | £184,466 | 78 |
| 2023 | £163,800 | £179,976 | 102 |
| 2022 | £157,000 | £184,100 | 97 |
| 2021 | £158,100 | £200,175 | 122 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 131 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 140 |
| 2018 | £111,800 | £149,032 | 104 |
| 2017 | £109,000 | £148,665 | 108 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 95 |
| 2015 | £94,000 | £132,822 | 111 |
| 2014 | £92,800 | £131,653 | 76 |
| 2013 | £88,000 | £126,623 | 69 |
| 2012 | £93,200 | £137,179 | 76 |
| 2011 | £77,500 | £116,995 | 74 |
| 2010 | £95,000 | £148,984 | 82 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 84 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 143 |
| 2007 | £99,000 | £167,932 | 175 |
| 2006 | £95,500 | £165,776 | 192 |
| 2005 | £98,500 | £175,290 | 197 |
| 2004 | £82,000 | £148,928 | 173 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 186 |
| 2002 | £51,200 | £96,332 | 150 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 150 |
| 2000 | £41,000 | £80,463 | 189 |
| 1999 | £38,000 | £75,732 | 157 |
| 1998 | £36,000 | £72,669 | 110 |
| 1997 | £36,000 | £73,829 | 90 |
| 1996 | £36,200 | £76,344 | 94 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical WS10 8 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £187,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 139%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WS10 8 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 2002 (+28.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−18.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.6% | −0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
WS10 8 recorded 41 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 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 WS10 8 market
This is a thin market: 41 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. Against the WS10 district median, WS10 8 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of WS10 8
WS10 8 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.
Set against the £187,000 median sold price, £908 a month is £10,896 a year, a gross yield of 5.8%: 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.
WS10 8 (Darlaston): the questions that come up
Is WS10 8 (Darlaston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WS10 8 (Darlaston)?
Are property prices falling in WS10 8 (Darlaston)?
Are WS10 8 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
WS10's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 65 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WS10 district, not just WS10 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Centenary Lane, Wednesbury, WS10, Wednesbury
- Sycamore Road, Wednesbury, Wednesbury, WS10, Wednesbury
- Beech Road, Wednesbury, WS10, Wednesbury
"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 WS10 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WS prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the WS area, straight 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 | — | £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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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.
Other sectors in WS10
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WS10, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS10 0 | £245,000 | 26 |
| WS10 7 | £215,000 | 25 |
| WS10 9 | £214,000 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full WS10 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WS10 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WS10 8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WS10 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the WS10 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WS10 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WS10 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WS10 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WS10 8 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.
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.