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Darlaston market report WS10, Wednesbury
The standing WS10 (Darlaston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 13,838 registered sales in WS10 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for WS10 (Wednesbury) is £215,000, from 121 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier; the mean is £217,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,360 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 13,838 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WS10 is the postcode district covering Wednesbury, Darlaston in Wednesbury. 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 WS10 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 WS10 homes really sell for
The WS10 median stands at £215,000 for 2026, built from 121 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £217,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in WS10
A square metre of WS10 home has cost about £2,360 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WS10 25% below the country at large.
A typical WS10 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 121 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 347 |
| 2024 | £192,800 | £204,986 | 342 |
| 2023 | £182,500 | £200,523 | 365 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 408 |
| 2021 | £168,000 | £212,710 | 494 |
| 2020 | £146,900 | £190,606 | 346 |
| 2019 | £141,500 | £185,473 | 514 |
| 2018 | £136,000 | £181,291 | 531 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 489 |
| 2016 | £111,800 | £156,409 | 364 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 381 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 318 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 299 |
| 2012 | £96,000 | £141,300 | 313 |
| 2011 | £93,800 | £141,602 | 366 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 316 |
| 2009 | £104,000 | £167,181 | 290 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 524 |
| 2007 | £112,000 | £189,983 | 716 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 776 |
| 2005 | £100,500 | £178,849 | 662 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 599 |
| 2003 | £72,000 | £132,641 | 515 |
| 2002 | £56,500 | £106,304 | 538 |
| 2001 | £45,500 | £87,471 | 497 |
| 2000 | £44,000 | £86,350 | 530 |
| 1999 | £42,000 | £83,704 | 463 |
| 1998 | £41,500 | £83,771 | 401 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 349 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 343 |
| 1995 | £36,500 | £79,345 | 321 |
In cash terms the typical WS10 home went from £36,500 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 171%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the WS10 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 (+27.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.9% | +2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.8% | +3.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
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, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £291,000 against £115,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, WS10
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 | £291,000 | 16 | 1,489 |
| Semi-detached | £228,800 | 52 | 6,422 |
| Terraced | £203,000 | 40 | 4,618 |
| Flats | £115,000 | 13 | 1,309 |
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 269 WS10 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 604 sales a year before the financial crisis and 317 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.
The rental side of WS10
The local authority for WS10 is Sandwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £672 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,388 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Sandwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £215,000 median purchase price, a rent of £940 a month (£11,280 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
Asked and answered: WS10 (Darlaston)
Are property prices falling in WS10 (Darlaston)?
Is WS10 (Darlaston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WS10 (Darlaston)?
Are WS10 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat 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.
What is for sale in WS10 right now
Everything above is what homes in WS10 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 65 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% above the WS10 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Centenary Lane, Wednesbury, WS10, Wednesbury
- Sycamore Road, Wednesbury, Wednesbury, WS10, Wednesbury
- Beech Road, Wednesbury, WS10, Wednesbury
"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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WS
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WS area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
WS10 ranks 2 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 WS10, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS10 0 | £245,000 | 26 |
| WS10 7 | £215,000 | 25 |
| WS10 8 | £187,000 | 41 |
| WS10 9 | £214,000 | 29 |
How WS10 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 (this report) | £215,000 | +28% |
| WS3 | £205,000 | +17% |
| WS1 | £175,000 | +27% |
| WS2 | £175,000 | +25% |
Before you sell in WS10: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WS10'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.
Estate agents working WS10: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WS10.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WS10 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WS10 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.