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Hednesford market report WS12 3, Cannock
The WS12 3 (Hednesford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,314 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WS12 3 (Cannock) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 21 registered 2026 sales put the WS12 3 (Cannock) median at £250,000, up 23% on five years earlier, with a mean of £266,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,970 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,314 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WS12 3 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.
Where WS12 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 buyers actually paid in WS12 3
The WS12 3 median stands at £250,000 for 2026, built from 21 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £266,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WS12 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WS12 3 sales average about £2,970 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WS12 3 12% below the national figure.
A typical WS12 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 72 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 55 |
| 2023 | £234,500 | £257,658 | 42 |
| 2022 | £225,000 | £263,838 | 55 |
| 2021 | £204,000 | £258,290 | 70 |
| 2020 | £187,000 | £242,636 | 45 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 69 |
| 2018 | £177,200 | £236,211 | 68 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 60 |
| 2016 | £161,000 | £225,241 | 72 |
| 2015 | £144,000 | £203,472 | 54 |
| 2014 | £153,000 | £217,057 | 65 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 55 |
| 2012 | £141,200 | £207,829 | 46 |
| 2011 | £125,500 | £189,457 | 50 |
| 2010 | £133,500 | £209,362 | 36 |
| 2009 | £128,000 | £205,761 | 40 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 47 |
| 2007 | £133,500 | £226,453 | 135 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 91 |
| 2005 | £130,200 | £231,704 | 66 |
| 2004 | £127,500 | £231,565 | 109 |
| 2003 | £98,500 | £181,461 | 87 |
| 2002 | £84,000 | £158,045 | 101 |
| 2001 | £76,200 | £146,491 | 99 |
| 2000 | £72,800 | £142,870 | 106 |
| 1999 | £62,000 | £123,563 | 129 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 98 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 76 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 103 |
| 1995 | £48,800 | £106,084 | 92 |
In cash terms the typical WS12 3 home went from £48,800 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 136%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 5% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WS12 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 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−11.5%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in WS12 3
How many homes change hands
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.
WS12 3 recorded 21 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 99 sales a year before the financial crisis and 49 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WS12 3
WS12 3 falls under Cannock Chase, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £848 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £576 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,319, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cannock Chase
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £848 a month (£10,176 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
Reading the WS12 3 market
This is a thin market: 21 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. Against the WS12 district median, WS12 3 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about WS12 3 (Hednesford)
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Are WS12 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in WS12 now
The live side of the market holds 81 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WS12 district, not just WS12 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% 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.
- Progress Grove, Huntington, Cannock, ...
- Willows Croft, Hednesford, Cannock, S...
- Wimblebury Road, Heath Hayes, Cannock...
"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 WS12 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. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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 WS12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WS12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS12 0 | £215,000 | 13 |
| WS12 1 | £235,000 | 27 |
| WS12 2 | £245,000 | 33 |
| WS12 4 | £226,500 | 88 |
Zoom out to the full WS12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WS12 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WS12 3? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WS12 3'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WS12 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WS12 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WS12 3 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.