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Brereton market report WS15 1, Rugeley
The standing WS15 1 (Brereton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,957 HM Land Registry entries for WS15 1 (Rugeley), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WS15 1 (Rugeley) sold for £205,000 in 2026, the median of 61 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £256,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,530 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,957 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WS15 1 is one sector of WS15 (Rugeley): 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 WS15 1 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 WS15 1 sells for
In the WS15 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £205,000, from 61 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £256,700, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in WS15 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WS15 1 sales average about £2,530 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WS15 1 runs 28% below it.
The price of a typical WS15 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £205,000 | £205,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 178 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 150 |
| 2023 | £190,000 | £208,764 | 139 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 173 |
| 2021 | £183,000 | £231,702 | 257 |
| 2020 | £167,500 | £217,335 | 188 |
| 2019 | £158,200 | £207,362 | 208 |
| 2018 | £168,000 | £223,947 | 241 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 241 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 241 |
| 2015 | £154,500 | £218,309 | 232 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 258 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 223 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 161 |
| 2011 | £126,500 | £190,966 | 177 |
| 2010 | £126,200 | £197,914 | 112 |
| 2009 | £114,000 | £183,256 | 72 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 139 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 193 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 216 |
| 2005 | £115,500 | £205,543 | 174 |
| 2004 | £108,000 | £196,149 | 273 |
| 2003 | £97,000 | £178,698 | 313 |
| 2002 | £87,000 | £163,690 | 298 |
| 2001 | £57,000 | £109,580 | 187 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 163 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 157 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 157 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 141 |
| 1996 | £44,500 | £93,849 | 140 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 94 |
In cash terms the typical WS15 1 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £205,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 145%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WS15 1 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 (+52.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−10.3%). 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) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 61 sales completed in WS15 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 227 sales a year before the financial crisis and 140 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.
What kind of market WS15 1 is
Against the WS15 district median, WS15 1 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around WS15 1
For renting purposes WS15 1 sits in Cannock Chase. The ONS average private rent there is £848 a month (May 2026). 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Cannock Chase
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £205,000 median sold price, £848 a month is £10,176 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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.
What people ask about WS15 1 (Brereton)
Is WS15 1 (Brereton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WS15 1 (Brereton)?
Are property prices falling in WS15 1 (Brereton)?
Will WS15 1 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
WS15's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 25 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WS15 district, not just WS15 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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 WS15 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.
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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in WS15
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WS15, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS15 2 | £228,000 | 69 |
| WS15 3 | £425,000 | 17 |
| WS15 4 | £280,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full WS15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WS15 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WS15 1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WS15 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the WS15 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WS15 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WS15 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WS15 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WS15 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WS15 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.