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Wolverhampton market report WV
The WV (Wolverhampton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 150,878 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the WV postcode area (Wolverhampton) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical the WV postcode area (Wolverhampton) home changed hands for £240,000 in 2026 (median of 1,676 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier), with the mean at £264,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,740 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 150,878 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WV is the postcode area centred on Wolverhampton, taking in 16 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where WV 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 buyers actually paid in WV
Across 1,676 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WV home went for £240,000. The mean is £264,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in WV
Per square metre, WV homes have averaged around £2,740 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WV sits 16% below the national market.
A typical WV home, priced year by year (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 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 1,676 |
| 2025 | £235,500 | £241,132 | 4,170 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 3,944 |
| 2023 | £218,800 | £240,408 | 3,706 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 4,665 |
| 2021 | £198,000 | £250,694 | 5,574 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 4,117 |
| 2019 | £165,000 | £216,276 | 4,682 |
| 2018 | £162,000 | £215,949 | 4,900 |
| 2017 | £153,000 | £208,677 | 5,035 |
| 2016 | £145,000 | £202,856 | 5,039 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 4,681 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £191,521 | 4,345 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 3,855 |
| 2012 | £129,000 | £189,872 | 3,302 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 3,258 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 3,013 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 3,011 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 3,485 |
| 2007 | £131,000 | £222,212 | 6,281 |
| 2006 | £128,000 | £222,192 | 6,462 |
| 2005 | £122,000 | £217,111 | 5,689 |
| 2004 | £115,800 | £210,315 | 6,280 |
| 2003 | £93,400 | £172,065 | 6,263 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 6,444 |
| 2001 | £66,500 | £127,843 | 6,046 |
| 2000 | £59,000 | £115,788 | 5,395 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 5,516 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 5,140 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 5,684 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 4,956 |
| 1995 | £47,500 | £103,258 | 4,264 |
In cash terms the typical WV home went from £47,500 in 1995 to £240,000 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 2022; the current median sits about 5% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WV 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 2004 (+24.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−3.8%). 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, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £360,000 against £119,800 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, WV
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 | £360,000 | 432 | 36,818 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | 726 | 63,939 |
| Terraced | £197,800 | 376 | 36,588 |
| Flats | £119,800 | 142 | 13,533 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +1.9% | −0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +4.9% | +0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in WV
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 3,068 WV sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 6,108 sales a year before the financial crisis and 3,632 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 WV
For renting purposes WV sits in Wolverhampton, the local authority covering most of the WV area (parts fall under Shropshire and South Staffordshire, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £934 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £666 a month here against £1,427 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wolverhampton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £240,000 median purchase price, a rent of £934 a month (£11,208 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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 WV (Wolverhampton)
How much did a house sell for in WV (Wolverhampton)?
Are property prices falling in WV (Wolverhampton)?
Is WV (Wolverhampton) a good place to buy a house?
Will WV prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in WV now
Everything above is what homes in WV sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 384 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the WV median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (3,068 in WV), the 384 homes listed here amount to about 7 weeks of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
10% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Featherstone, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Wolverhampton
- Wolverhampton
- The Lindens, Newbridge Crescent, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6, Wolverhampton
"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 WV 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.
Month by month: when WV sells
March is when WV changes hands most (10.4% of the 22,059 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.8%. With so little between the busiest and quietest months, WV sells year round; the calendar is a weaker lever than price.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,505 | 6.8% |
| February | 1,698 | 7.7% |
| March | 2,303 | 10.4% |
| April | 1,516 | 6.9% |
| May | 1,614 | 7.3% |
| June | 2,075 | 9.4% |
| July | 1,774 | 8.0% |
| August | 1,919 | 8.7% |
| September | 2,056 | 9.3% |
| October | 1,922 | 8.7% |
| November | 1,958 | 8.9% |
| December | 1,719 | 7.8% |
Bedroom by bedroom: WV prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WV area, 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 | £248,000 | £270,000 (+9%) | £317,000 (+17%) | £395,995 (+25%) | £530,000 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £192,500 | £210,000 (+9%) | £228,000 (+9%) | £265,000 (+16%) | £317,500 (+20%) |
| Terraced | £169,125 | £178,000 (+5%) | £188,000 (+6%) | £230,000 (+22%) | £289,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £90,200 | £116,000 (+29%) | £155,000 (+34%) | — | — |
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 WV area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WV area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable WV district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| WV7 Albrighton | £330,000 | +16% | 32 |
| WV5 Wombourne, Claverley | £315,000 | +15% | 93 |
| WV15 Bridgnorth (Low Town) | £288,500 | +15% | 54 |
| WV8 Codsall, Rakegate | £264,500 | -1% | 86 |
| WV3 Finchfield, Compton | £260,000 | +21% | 143 |
| WV6 Whitmore Reans, Perton | £258,500 | +12% | 232 |
| WV4 Penn, Warstones | £255,000 | +20% | 135 |
| WV16 Bridgnorth (High Town), Ditton Priors | £250,000 | -4% | 97 |
| WV11 Wednesfield, Ashmore Park | £232,000 | +22% | 172 |
| WV10 Low Hill, Bushbury | £230,000 | +30% | 211 |
| WV12 Short Heath, Lodge Farm | £227,000 | +26% | 97 |
| WV9 Aldersley, Pendeford | £221,200 | +1% | 30 |
| WV14 Bradley, Bilston Town | £205,000 | +17% | 148 |
| WV2 All Saints, Blakenhall | £200,000 | +29% | 37 |
| WV13 Willenhall Town, Shepwell Green | £195,000 | +26% | 73 |
| WV1 Wolverhampton City Centre, Horseley Fields | £175,000 | +40% | 36 |
Before you sell in WV: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WV, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WV's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WV sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WV. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WV 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.
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.