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Brereton market report WS15 3, Rugeley
The standing WS15 3 (Brereton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 1,996 HM Land Registry entries for WS15 3 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WS15 3 (Rugeley) is £425,000, from 17 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier; the mean is £423,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,300 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,996 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WS15 3 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 3 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 3
Across 17 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WS15 3 home went for £425,000. The mean is £423,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
WS15 3 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WS15 3 sales average about £3,300 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WS15 3 49% above the national figure.
WS15 3'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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £339,200 | £347,311 | 68 |
| 2024 | £370,000 | £393,386 | 41 |
| 2023 | £337,500 | £370,830 | 44 |
| 2022 | £447,500 | £524,745 | 60 |
| 2021 | £337,500 | £427,319 | 80 |
| 2020 | £317,500 | £411,963 | 65 |
| 2019 | £304,800 | £399,520 | 80 |
| 2018 | £334,500 | £445,895 | 90 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 90 |
| 2016 | £345,000 | £482,658 | 73 |
| 2015 | £281,200 | £397,336 | 64 |
| 2014 | £257,300 | £365,025 | 57 |
| 2013 | £235,000 | £338,142 | 59 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 49 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 55 |
| 2010 | £262,500 | £411,668 | 50 |
| 2009 | £213,500 | £343,203 | 38 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 42 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 85 |
| 2006 | £270,000 | £468,686 | 55 |
| 2005 | £226,000 | £402,189 | 53 |
| 2004 | £207,000 | £375,952 | 65 |
| 2003 | £198,200 | £365,132 | 68 |
| 2002 | £177,000 | £333,024 | 79 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 78 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 59 |
| 1999 | £109,000 | £217,231 | 74 |
| 1998 | £86,500 | £174,606 | 71 |
| 1997 | £79,000 | £162,013 | 55 |
| 1996 | £89,000 | £187,697 | 80 |
| 1995 | £87,500 | £190,212 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical WS15 3 home went from £87,500 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 123%, 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 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WS15 3 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 (+60.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−24.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WS15 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +25.3% | +22.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.7% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
WS15 3 recorded 17 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 68 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 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.
How WS15 3 trades
Only 17 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WS15 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the WS15 district median, WS15 3 sits 80% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of WS15 3
The local authority for WS15 3 is Lichfield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,096 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £737 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,690, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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.
WS15 3 (Brereton): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WS15 3 (Brereton)?
Is WS15 3 (Brereton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WS15 3 (Brereton)?
Will WS15 3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 26% 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.
What is for sale in WS15 right now
The live side of the market holds 25 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WS15 district, not just WS15 3: 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.
- Lysways Lane, Longdon Green, Lichfield, Staffordshire
- Bagnall Way, Hawksyard, Rugeley, Rugeley
- Chadwick Crescent, Hill Ridware, Ruge...
"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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WS prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WS area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WS15
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WS15, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS15 1 | £205,000 | 61 |
| WS15 2 | £228,000 | 69 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WS15 3? 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 WS15 3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WS15 3.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WS15 3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WS15 3 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.
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.