Local market reports › WS area › WS7
Burntwood market report WS7
The standing WS7 (Burntwood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 14,068 registered sales in WS7 (Burntwood) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WS7 (Burntwood) came in at £260,000, out of 135 registered, up 13% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £305,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,010 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 14,068 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WS7 is the postcode district covering Burntwood in Burntwood. 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 WS7 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.
Today's WS7 prices, from the sold record
In the WS7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £260,000, from 135 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £305,900, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in WS7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WS7 sales average about £3,010 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, WS7 runs 9% below it.
The price of a typical WS7 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 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 135 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 455 |
| 2024 | £243,000 | £258,359 | 367 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 326 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 458 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 598 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 395 |
| 2019 | £192,500 | £252,321 | 393 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 522 |
| 2017 | £192,200 | £262,142 | 518 |
| 2016 | £169,000 | £236,433 | 529 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 437 |
| 2014 | £155,000 | £219,895 | 438 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 359 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 256 |
| 2011 | £136,000 | £205,308 | 277 |
| 2010 | £141,500 | £221,908 | 256 |
| 2009 | £136,800 | £219,907 | 242 |
| 2008 | £147,000 | £240,964 | 261 |
| 2007 | £151,000 | £256,138 | 521 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 577 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 468 |
| 2004 | £126,800 | £230,294 | 564 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 587 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 647 |
| 2001 | £74,400 | £143,030 | 546 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £129,525 | 590 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 519 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 415 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 479 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 455 |
| 1995 | £51,500 | £111,953 | 478 |
In cash terms the typical WS7 home went from £51,500 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 132%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WS7 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 (+35.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.9%). 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) | +2.0% | −0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £392,500 against £142,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, WS7
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 | £392,500 | 48 | 4,386 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 40 | 5,707 |
| Terraced | £212,500 | 34 | 3,303 |
| Flats | £142,000 | 13 | 668 |
How many homes change hands in WS7
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.
WS7 recorded 336 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 563 sales a year before the financial crisis and 348 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.
What homes rent for around WS7
WS7 falls under Lichfield, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £260,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,096 a month (£13,152 a year) works out at a 5.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about WS7 (Burntwood)
How much did a house sell for in WS7 (Burntwood)?
Are property prices falling in WS7 (Burntwood)?
Is WS7 (Burntwood) a good place to buy a house?
Will WS7 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WS7's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WS7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 25 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the WS7 median sold price.
16% 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.
- Telford Close, Burntwood, Staffordshi...
- Hazelmere Drive, Burntwood, Staffords...
- Manor Rise, Burntwood, Burntwood
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every WS7 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%) | — | — |
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
WS7 ranks 11 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.
WS area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WS7, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS7 0 | £300,000 | 21 |
| WS7 1 | £300,000 | 19 |
| WS7 2 | £254,000 | 18 |
| WS7 3 | £240,000 | 21 |
| WS7 4 | £210,000 | 27 |
| WS7 9 | £300,000 | 29 |
How WS7 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 (this report) | £260,000 | +13% |
| WS6 | £252,500 | +15% |
| WS15 | £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% |
Thinking of selling in WS7? 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 WS7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WS7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WS7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WS7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WS7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WS7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WS7 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.
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.