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Brereton market report WS15, Rugeley
The WS15 (Brereton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 18,502 HM Land Registry entries for WS15 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in WS15 (Rugeley) sold for £236,500 in 2026, the median of 178 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier. The mean was £277,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,790 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 18,502 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WS15 is a postcode district covering Rugeley, Brereton, Armitage in Rugeley. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WS15 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
178 sales were registered in WS15 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £236,500. The mean works out at £277,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in WS15
The last five years of sales put WS15 at roughly £2,790 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WS15 runs 17% below it.
WS15's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £236,500 | £236,500 | 178 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 580 |
| 2024 | £223,000 | £237,095 | 458 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 436 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 570 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 708 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 535 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 598 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 629 |
| 2017 | £178,000 | £242,774 | 639 |
| 2016 | £162,500 | £227,339 | 640 |
| 2015 | £158,500 | £223,961 | 610 |
| 2014 | £147,000 | £208,545 | 607 |
| 2013 | £147,000 | £211,518 | 558 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 444 |
| 2011 | £139,000 | £209,837 | 482 |
| 2010 | £152,500 | £239,159 | 325 |
| 2009 | £137,500 | £221,032 | 290 |
| 2008 | £147,000 | £240,964 | 383 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 711 |
| 2006 | £138,000 | £239,550 | 701 |
| 2005 | £127,000 | £226,009 | 615 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 782 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 862 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 869 |
| 2001 | £68,500 | £131,688 | 678 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 678 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 651 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 621 |
| 1997 | £51,500 | £105,616 | 615 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 603 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 446 |
In cash terms the typical WS15 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £236,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 137%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WS15 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 (+28.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−8.9%). 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, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £385,000 against £115,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, WS15
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 | £385,000 | 49 | 6,380 |
| Semi-detached | £227,200 | 64 | 6,741 |
| Terraced | £195,000 | 56 | 4,407 |
| Flats | £115,000 | 9 | 974 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.6% | −1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 424 sales completed in WS15. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 737 sales a year before the financial crisis and 444 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WS15
WS15 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 £236,500 median sold price, £848 a month is £10,176 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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 (Brereton)
Are property prices falling in WS15 (Brereton)?
Is WS15 (Brereton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WS15 (Brereton)?
Are WS15 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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 WS15 now
Everything above is what homes in WS15 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 25 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 44% above the WS15 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Bagnall Way, Hawksyard, Rugeley, Rugeley
- 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WS prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the WS area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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
WS15 ranks 7 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WS15, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS15 1 | £205,000 | 61 |
| WS15 2 | £228,000 | 69 |
| WS15 3 | £425,000 | 17 |
| WS15 4 | £280,000 | 31 |
How WS15 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 (this report) | £236,500 | +15% |
| WS12 | £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% |
Before you sell in WS15: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WS15'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WS15.
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See every individual WS15 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.