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Brereton market report WS15 2, Rugeley
The WS15 2 (Brereton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,842 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WS15 2 (Rugeley) 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 69 registered 2026 sales put the WS15 2 (Rugeley) median at £228,000, up 17% on five years earlier, with a mean of £252,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,720 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,842 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WS15 2 is a single group of streets within WS15 (Rugeley), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WS15 2 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.
The going rate for a home in WS15 2
Across 69 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WS15 2 home went for £228,000. The mean is £252,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
WS15 2 prices by floor area
A square metre of WS15 2 home has cost about £2,720 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WS15 2 20% below the national figure.
WS15 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £228,000 | £228,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £227,500 | £232,940 | 216 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 173 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 160 |
| 2022 | £201,000 | £235,695 | 209 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 230 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 201 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 211 |
| 2018 | £165,000 | £219,948 | 214 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 205 |
| 2016 | £152,000 | £212,650 | 217 |
| 2015 | £143,100 | £202,200 | 202 |
| 2014 | £135,800 | £192,656 | 174 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 180 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 145 |
| 2011 | £131,000 | £197,760 | 167 |
| 2010 | £139,400 | £218,615 | 98 |
| 2009 | £127,700 | £205,279 | 127 |
| 2008 | £137,500 | £225,392 | 128 |
| 2007 | £136,400 | £231,372 | 290 |
| 2006 | £132,800 | £230,524 | 284 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 285 |
| 2004 | £115,800 | £210,315 | 304 |
| 2003 | £97,700 | £179,987 | 342 |
| 2002 | £78,000 | £146,756 | 306 |
| 2001 | £64,000 | £123,037 | 248 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 262 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 263 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 231 |
| 1997 | £50,500 | £103,565 | 254 |
| 1996 | £49,600 | £104,604 | 254 |
| 1995 | £43,500 | £94,562 | 193 |
In cash terms the typical WS15 2 home went from £43,500 in 1995 to £228,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 141%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 8% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WS15 2 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 2003 (+25.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−10.7%). 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
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.2% | −2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 69 WS15 2 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 290 sales a year before the financial crisis and 165 a year over the last five. 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 WS15 2
WS15 2 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.
Set against the £228,000 median sold price, £848 a month is £10,176 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
Common questions on WS15 2 (Brereton)
Is WS15 2 (Brereton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WS15 2 (Brereton)?
Are property prices falling in WS15 2 (Brereton)?
What happens to WS15 2 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% 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 is for sale in WS15 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 25 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WS15 district, not just WS15 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Chadwick Crescent, Hill Ridware, Ruge...
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every WS15 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in WS
Real sold prices by size across the WS area, straight 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 1 | £205,000 | 61 |
| 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.
Selling in WS15 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WS15 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the WS15 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WS15 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WS15 2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WS15 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WS15 2 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.