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Brownhills market report WS8 7, Walsall
The standing WS8 7 (Brownhills) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,466 HM Land Registry entries for WS8 7 (Walsall), 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 57 registered 2026 sales put the WS8 7 (Walsall) median at £234,000, up 16% on five years earlier, with a mean of £233,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,710 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,466 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WS8 7 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 7 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.
What a home in WS8 7 sells for
Across 57 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WS8 7 home went for £234,000. The mean is £233,600, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in WS8 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WS8 7 costs about £2,710 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WS8 7 runs 18% below it.
WS8 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £234,000 | £234,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £223,000 | £228,333 | 127 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 102 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 93 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 112 |
| 2021 | £202,200 | £256,011 | 132 |
| 2020 | £168,800 | £219,021 | 114 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 142 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 129 |
| 2017 | £146,000 | £199,129 | 123 |
| 2016 | £152,700 | £213,629 | 140 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 131 |
| 2014 | £133,000 | £188,684 | 126 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 98 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 67 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 83 |
| 2010 | £123,000 | £192,896 | 79 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 63 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 83 |
| 2007 | £139,400 | £236,461 | 172 |
| 2006 | £132,500 | £230,003 | 154 |
| 2005 | £130,500 | £232,237 | 178 |
| 2004 | £124,500 | £226,116 | 187 |
| 2003 | £109,000 | £200,804 | 161 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 185 |
| 2001 | £73,000 | £140,339 | 182 |
| 2000 | £69,000 | £135,413 | 268 |
| 1999 | £63,000 | £125,556 | 278 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 194 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 255 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 154 |
| 1995 | £47,500 | £103,258 | 97 |
In cash terms the typical WS8 7 home went from £47,500 in 1995 to £234,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 127%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WS8 7 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 (+23.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−8.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.9% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
WS8 7 recorded 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 98 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.
The rental side of WS8 7
For renting purposes WS8 7 sits in Walsall. The ONS average private rent there is £908 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £642 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,305 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Walsall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£908 a month is £10,896 a year, which against the £234,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the WS8 7 market
This is a thin market: 57 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
These are the recorded searches for the wider WS8 report family, answered with this page's own figures.
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, WS8 7JH among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
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 7 (Brownhills)
How much did a house sell for in WS8 7 (Brownhills)?
Are property prices falling in WS8 7 (Brownhills)?
Is WS8 7 (Brownhills) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to WS8 7 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
WS8's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 23 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WS8 district, not just WS8 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Simmonds Way, Walsall, WS8, Walsall
- Barnetts Lane, Brownhills, ., WS8
- Adams Road, Walsall, West Midlands, WS8
"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 WS8 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WS: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WS area, 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
The spread across the WS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WS area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 6 | £210,000 | 32 |
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 7? 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 7'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 WS8 7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WS8 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WS8 7 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.