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Hednesford market report WS12 4, Cannock

The standing WS12 4 (Hednesford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 8,772 registered sales in WS12 4 (Cannock) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: a typical WS12 4 (Cannock) home changed hands for £226,500 in 2026 (median of 88 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £248,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,860 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 8,772 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.

A postcode sector like WS12 4 is a single group of streets within WS12 (Cannock), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

What a home in WS12 4 sells for

Take the 88 registered 2026 sales in WS12 4 and the middle price, the median, is £226,500. The mean lands at £248,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.

House prices per square metre in WS12 4

The last five years of sales put WS12 4 at roughly £2,860 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.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WS12 4 21% below the national figure.

In cash terms the typical WS12 4 home went from £43,500 in 1995 to £226,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2016 (+32.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.0%). 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

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.

Sales activity in WS12 4

Over the last twelve months of data, 88 sales completed in WS12 4. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 260 sales a year recently, against 298 a year before 2008. 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.

Rents around WS12 4

For renting purposes WS12 4 sits in Cannock Chase. The ONS average private rent there is £848 a month (May 2026). 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.

£848 a month is £10,176 a year, which against the £226,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.

The shape of the WS12 4 market

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.

Asked and answered: WS12 4 (Hednesford)

What happens to WS12 4 prices now?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 you could buy in WS12 now

The price of an extra bedroom in WS

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

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WS12's other sectors, each with its own report:

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

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Dig further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WS12 4. Free after a one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every WS12 4 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.

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.