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Hednesford market report WS12, Cannock
The WS12 (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: 19,278 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WS12 (Cannock) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WS12 (Cannock) is £232,000, from 182 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £244,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,870 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 19,278 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WS12 is the postcode district covering Hednesford, Heath Hayes, Wimblebury in Cannock. 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 WS12 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 WS12 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for WS12 is £232,000, taken from 182 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £244,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
WS12 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WS12 costs about £2,870 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WS12 19% below the national figure.
A typical WS12 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 | £232,000 | £232,000 | 182 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 578 |
| 2024 | £222,000 | £236,032 | 542 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 465 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 657 |
| 2021 | £208,000 | £263,355 | 745 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 581 |
| 2019 | £183,000 | £239,869 | 698 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 671 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 742 |
| 2016 | £162,000 | £226,640 | 720 |
| 2015 | £140,500 | £198,527 | 490 |
| 2014 | £131,200 | £186,130 | 508 |
| 2013 | £133,000 | £191,374 | 421 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 360 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 339 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 330 |
| 2009 | £128,000 | £205,761 | 341 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 370 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 799 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 684 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 556 |
| 2004 | £115,000 | £208,862 | 788 |
| 2003 | £93,000 | £171,329 | 741 |
| 2002 | £77,000 | £144,875 | 825 |
| 2001 | £67,000 | £128,804 | 849 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 860 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 873 |
| 1998 | £54,500 | £110,012 | 839 |
| 1997 | £48,500 | £99,464 | 595 |
| 1996 | £45,500 | £95,957 | 615 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 514 |
In cash terms the typical WS12 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £232,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 137%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WS12 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 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £325,000 against £105,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, WS12
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 | £325,000 | 61 | 6,323 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 78 | 8,548 |
| Terraced | £184,500 | 32 | 3,131 |
| Flats | £105,000 | 11 | 1,276 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.3% | −3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 423 WS12 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 763 sales a year before the financial crisis and 485 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of WS12
For renting purposes WS12 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Cannock Chase
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£848 a month is £10,176 a year, which against the £232,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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 (Hednesford)
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What happens to WS12 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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
Everything above is what homes in WS12 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 81 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the WS12 median sold price.
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" 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 WS12 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in WS: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WS area, 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WS12 ranks 14 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WS12, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WS12 0 | £215,000 | 13 |
| WS12 1 | £235,000 | 27 |
| WS12 2 | £245,000 | 33 |
| WS12 3 | £250,000 | 21 |
| WS12 4 | £226,500 | 88 |
How WS12 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 (this report) | £232,000 | +12% |
| WS4 | £225,000 | +15% |
| WS8 | £220,000 | +19% |
| WS11 | £220,000 | +10% |
| WS10 | £215,000 | +28% |
| WS3 | £205,000 | +17% |
| WS1 | £175,000 | +27% |
| WS2 | £175,000 | +25% |
Thinking of selling in WS12? 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'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.
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Two maps carry on from here: every WS12 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.
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.