Local market reports › WV area › WV1
Wolverhampton City Centre market report WV1, Wolverhampton
The WV1 (Wolverhampton City Centre) 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: 3,897 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV1 (Wolverhampton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WV1 (Wolverhampton) home changed hands for £175,000 in 2026 (median of 32 registered sales, up 40% on five years earlier), with the mean at £176,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,000 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,897 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district WV1 covering Wolverhampton City Centre, Horseley Fields, East Park sits in Wolverhampton. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WV1 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 WV1 prices, from the sold record
Across 32 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WV1 home went for £175,000. The mean is £176,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in WV1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WV1 costs about £2,000 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WV1 sits 39% below the national market.
WV1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 83 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 78 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 97 |
| 2022 | £141,000 | £165,339 | 114 |
| 2021 | £125,000 | £158,266 | 93 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 95 |
| 2019 | £105,000 | £137,630 | 107 |
| 2018 | £108,500 | £144,633 | 112 |
| 2017 | £105,000 | £143,209 | 109 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 95 |
| 2015 | £89,000 | £125,757 | 94 |
| 2014 | £88,500 | £125,553 | 107 |
| 2013 | £90,000 | £129,501 | 67 |
| 2012 | £87,100 | £128,200 | 56 |
| 2011 | £89,500 | £135,111 | 61 |
| 2010 | £85,000 | £133,302 | 71 |
| 2009 | £85,000 | £136,638 | 63 |
| 2008 | £98,000 | £160,643 | 113 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 251 |
| 2006 | £109,600 | £190,252 | 202 |
| 2005 | £126,000 | £224,229 | 274 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 275 |
| 2003 | £76,500 | £140,932 | 227 |
| 2002 | £59,000 | £111,008 | 207 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 154 |
| 2000 | £39,700 | £77,911 | 138 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 134 |
| 1998 | £34,000 | £68,631 | 109 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 108 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 85 |
| 1995 | £33,200 | £72,172 | 86 |
In cash terms the typical WV1 home went from £33,200 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 142%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WV1 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 (+47.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.3%). 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, 37% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £250,000 against £115,500 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, WV1
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 | £250,000 (2025) | – | 164 |
| Semi-detached | £200,500 | 16 | 1,441 |
| Terraced | £140,000 | 7 | 1,296 |
| Flats | £108,000 | 7 | 959 |
What WV1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.8% | −5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.0% | +2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.8% | +2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WV1
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 75 WV1 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 216 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around WV1
WV1 falls under Wolverhampton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £934 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £666 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,427 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wolverhampton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£934 a month is £11,208 a year, which against the £175,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.4%. 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.
How WV1 trades
This is a thin market: 75 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. By median price WV1 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
WV1 (Wolverhampton City Centre): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WV1 (Wolverhampton City Centre)?
Is WV1 (Wolverhampton City Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WV1 (Wolverhampton City Centre)?
Where do WV1 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 40% over five years in cash and up 11% 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 WV1 now
Everything above is what homes in WV1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 39 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the WV1 median sold price.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Albion Street, Wolverhampton City Centre, Wolverhampton, WV1, West Midlands
- Lower Vauxhall, WOLVERHAMPTON, West M...
- Willenhall Road, East Park, Wolverhampton, WV1, West Midlands
"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 WV1 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.
What another bedroom costs in WV
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WV area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £265,000 | £365,000 (+38%) | £550,000 (+51%) | £820,000 (+49%) |
| Semi-detached | £191,500 | £215,000 (+12%) | £247,750 (+15%) | £315,000 (+27%) | £395,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £170,000 | £180,000 (+6%) | £200,000 (+11%) | £260,000 (+30%) | — |
| Flat | £100,000 | £125,000 (+25%) | £240,750 (+93%) | — | — |
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
WV1 ranks 1 of 16 in the WV 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.
Winners and losers across the WV area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WV1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV1 2 | £185,500 | 26 |
| WV1 3 | £122,000 | 1 |
| WV1 4 | £130,000 | 5 |
How WV1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WV area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WV7 | £330,000 | +16% |
| WV5 | £310,000 | +13% |
| WV15 | £275,000 | +10% |
| WV8 | £272,500 | +2% |
| WV4 | £259,000 | +22% |
| WV6 | £255,000 | +11% |
| WV3 | £250,000 | +16% |
| WV16 | £250,000 | -4% |
| WV9 | £235,000 | +7% |
| WV11 | £233,000 | +23% |
| WV10 | £230,000 | +30% |
| WV12 | £225,000 | +25% |
| WV14 | £205,000 | +17% |
| WV2 | £195,000 | +26% |
| WV13 | £190,000 | +23% |
| WV1 (this report) | £175,000 | +40% |
Before you sell in WV1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WV1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WV1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WV1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WV1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WV1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WV1 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.
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.