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Brownhills market report WS8 6, Walsall
The WS8 6 (Brownhills) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,475 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WS8 6 (Walsall) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WS8 6 (Walsall) sold for £210,000 in 2026, the median of 32 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier. The mean was £223,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,490 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,475 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like WS8 6 is a single group of streets within WS8 (Walsall), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WS8 6 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.
WS8 6 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for WS8 6 is £210,000, taken from 32 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £223,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WS8 6
Per square metre, WS8 6 homes have averaged around £2,490 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WS8 6 runs 26% below it.
The price of a typical WS8 6 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £210,000 | £210,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £214,200 | £219,322 | 58 |
| 2024 | £191,200 | £203,285 | 70 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 72 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 72 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 97 |
| 2020 | £153,000 | £198,521 | 59 |
| 2019 | £148,000 | £193,993 | 93 |
| 2018 | £155,000 | £206,618 | 97 |
| 2017 | £141,000 | £192,310 | 129 |
| 2016 | £126,000 | £176,275 | 84 |
| 2015 | £133,000 | £187,929 | 80 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £191,521 | 81 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 70 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 46 |
| 2011 | £108,400 | £163,642 | 56 |
| 2010 | £112,000 | £175,645 | 45 |
| 2009 | £117,000 | £188,078 | 38 |
| 2008 | £127,000 | £208,180 | 42 |
| 2007 | £124,700 | £211,526 | 110 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 96 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 92 |
| 2004 | £117,800 | £213,948 | 150 |
| 2003 | £114,000 | £210,016 | 154 |
| 2002 | £97,000 | £182,505 | 141 |
| 2001 | £56,900 | £109,387 | 66 |
| 2000 | £54,100 | £106,171 | 64 |
| 1999 | £57,000 | £113,598 | 89 |
| 1998 | £50,500 | £101,938 | 80 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 47 |
| 1996 | £40,400 | £85,202 | 34 |
| 1995 | £45,300 | £98,475 | 31 |
In cash terms the typical WS8 6 home went from £45,300 in 1995 to £210,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 113%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2025; the current median sits about 4% below that. Someone who bought at the 2025 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WS8 6 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 (+70.5% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−10.8%). 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) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.9% | +0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in WS8 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 109 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 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.
Rents around WS8 6
For renting purposes WS8 6 sits in Walsall. The ONS average private rent there is £908 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £642 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,305, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Walsall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £210,000 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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 kind of market WS8 6 is
This is a thin market: 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Real searches this page gets asked
People often arrive here having searched an exact postcode, such as WS8 6HH. No public median exists at that scale (a full postcode is only a dozen-odd homes), but every registered sale at those addresses is plotted on the live map, with this page as the wider context.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
What people ask about WS8 6 (Brownhills)
How much did a house sell for in WS8 6 (Brownhills)?
Are property prices falling in WS8 6 (Brownhills)?
Is WS8 6 (Brownhills) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to WS8 6 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in WS8 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 23 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WS8 district, not just WS8 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Simmonds Way, Walsall, WS8, Walsall
- Barnetts Lane, Brownhills, ., WS8
- Adams Road, Walsall, West Midlands, WS8
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 WS8 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
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.
WS area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WS8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WS8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WS8 7 | £234,000 | 57 |
Zoom out to the full WS8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WS8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WS8 6? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WS8 6'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.
Estate agents working WS8 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WS8 6.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WS8 6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WS8 6 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.
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.