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Shenstone market report WS14, Lichfield
The standing WS14 (Shenstone) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,881 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WS14 (Lichfield) 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.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 110 registered 2026 sales put the WS14 (Lichfield) median at £425,000, up 29% on five years earlier, with a mean of £464,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,880 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 9,881 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WS14 is the postcode district covering Lichfield (south), Shenstone, Whittington in Lichfield. 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 WS14 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 a home in WS14 sells for
110 sales were registered in WS14 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £425,000. The mean works out at £464,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WS14
A square metre of WS14 home has cost about £3,880 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WS14 runs 49% above it.
A typical WS14 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 110 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 321 |
| 2024 | £370,500 | £393,918 | 348 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 295 |
| 2022 | £353,500 | £414,519 | 422 |
| 2021 | £330,000 | £417,823 | 419 |
| 2020 | £320,000 | £415,207 | 236 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 284 |
| 2018 | £288,800 | £384,976 | 258 |
| 2017 | £294,800 | £402,078 | 308 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 308 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 314 |
| 2014 | £236,000 | £334,807 | 341 |
| 2013 | £235,000 | £338,142 | 257 |
| 2012 | £236,000 | £347,363 | 220 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 195 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 245 |
| 2009 | £184,500 | £296,585 | 256 |
| 2008 | £203,500 | £333,579 | 286 |
| 2007 | £226,000 | £383,359 | 497 |
| 2006 | £218,000 | £378,420 | 375 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 270 |
| 2004 | £196,000 | £355,974 | 286 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 274 |
| 2002 | £147,200 | £276,956 | 372 |
| 2001 | £111,000 | £213,392 | 327 |
| 2000 | £107,000 | £209,988 | 324 |
| 1999 | £103,200 | £205,672 | 426 |
| 1998 | £86,900 | £175,414 | 322 |
| 1997 | £82,200 | £168,576 | 340 |
| 1996 | £76,000 | £160,281 | 348 |
| 1995 | £75,500 | £164,125 | 297 |
In cash terms the typical WS14 home went from £75,500 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 159%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the WS14 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 2002 (+32.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +10.4% | +7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +4.8% | +0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.2% |
| 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £610,000 against £177,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, WS14
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 | £610,000 | 51 | 4,416 |
| Semi-detached | £329,000 | 32 | 2,934 |
| Terraced | £273,000 | 17 | 1,503 |
| Flats | £177,000 | 10 | 1,028 |
Sales activity in WS14
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 211 sales completed in WS14. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 299 sales a year recently, against 341 a year before 2008. 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 WS14
For renting purposes WS14 sits in Lichfield. The ONS average private rent there is £1,096 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £737 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,690 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Lichfield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £425,000 median sold price, £1,096 a month is £13,152 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the WS14 market
Detached homes made up 46% of last year's sales, an unusually house-heavy mix that keeps the median well above what a flat or terrace here goes for. WS14 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Asked and answered: WS14 (Shenstone)
Are property prices falling in WS14 (Shenstone)?
Is WS14 (Shenstone) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WS14 (Shenstone)?
What happens to WS14 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
WS14's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WS14 sold for. The live side of the market holds 16 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% below the WS14 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (211 in WS14), the 16 homes listed here amount to about 4 weeks of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher. Supply that short favours the seller; a sensibly priced home here does not sit for long.
19% 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.
- Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Lichfield
- Richard Cooper Road, Lichfield, Lichfield
- Livingstone Drive, Lichfield, Lichfield
"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 WS14 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.
Month by month: when WS14 sells
Across the 1,805 sales completed in WS14 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (10.8% of the total) and April the quietest (5.8%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 113 | 6.3% |
| February | 145 | 8.0% |
| March | 195 | 10.8% |
| April | 104 | 5.8% |
| May | 106 | 5.9% |
| June | 191 | 10.6% |
| July | 122 | 6.8% |
| August | 142 | 7.9% |
| September | 181 | 10.0% |
| October | 164 | 9.1% |
| November | 149 | 8.3% |
| December | 193 | 10.7% |
The price of an extra bedroom in WS
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 | £250,000 | £280,000 (+12%) | £320,000 (+14%) | £405,000 (+27%) | £560,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £195,000 | £205,000 (+5%) | £227,000 (+11%) | £275,000 (+21%) | £335,000 (+22%) |
| Terraced | £170,000 | £182,500 (+7%) | £190,000 (+4%) | £245,000 (+29%) | £310,000 (+27%) |
| Flat | £102,000 | £130,000 (+27%) | £227,250 (+75%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WS14 ranks 1 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.
Winners and losers across the WS area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WS14, 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.
How WS14 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WS14 (this report) | £425,000 | +29% |
| WS13 | £325,000 | +12% |
| WS5 | £318,800 | +14% |
| WS9 | £293,800 | +14% |
| WS7 | £264,500 | +15% |
| WS6 | £248,500 | +13% |
| WS15 | £241,000 | +18% |
| WS12 | £230,000 | +11% |
| WS4 | £227,100 | +16% |
| WS11 | £220,000 | +10% |
| WS8 | £215,000 | +16% |
| WS10 | £215,000 | +28% |
| WS3 | £205,000 | +17% |
| WS2 | £175,000 | +25% |
| WS1 | £173,000 | +26% |
Thinking of selling in WS14? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WS14, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WS14's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WS14 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every WS14 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.