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Hednesford market report WS12 1, Cannock

The standing WS12 1 (Hednesford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,882 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WS12 1 (Cannock) 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.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: the middle 2026 sale in WS12 1 (Cannock) came in at £235,000, out of 27 registered, up 21% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £216,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,870 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,882 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

WS12 1 is one sector of WS12 (Cannock): 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.

Today's WS12 1 prices, from the sold record

In the WS12 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £235,000, from 27 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £216,500, sitting beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.

Price per square metre in WS12 1

The last five years of sales put WS12 1 at roughly £2,870 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.

Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WS12 1 sits 18% below the national market.

In cash terms the typical WS12 1 home went from £43,600 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 148%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 8% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−4.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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.

The turnover behind the prices

Over the last twelve months of data, 27 sales completed in WS12 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 72 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 WS12 1 market

Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WS12 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.

Rents around WS12 1

WS12 1 falls under Cannock Chase, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £848 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £576 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,319 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

£848 a month is £10,176 a year, which against the £235,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.

What people ask about WS12 1 (Hednesford)

What happens to WS12 1 prices now?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 21% 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.

On the market in WS12 today

Bedroom by bedroom: WS prices by size

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the WS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in WS12

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WS12, one report each:

Zoom out to the full WS12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WS12 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in WS12 1: what the record supports

Take it further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WS12 1. Free after a one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual WS12 1 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.

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.