Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,538 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV1 (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 May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
WV1 is the postcode district covering Wolverhampton City Centre, Horseley Fields, East Park in Wolverhampton. 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 WV1 sits
Click the map to open WV1 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£160,000median sold price, 2026
+19%five-year change (cash)
128sales in the last 12 months
7.0%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in WV1 sells for
The 2026 median in WV1 is £160,000, from 39 registered sales; the mean, £188,200, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so WV1 trades 42% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WV1 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£160,000
£160,000
39
2025
£173,000
£173,000
165
2024
£173,500
£180,158
144
2023
£154,500
£165,793
150
2022
£150,000
£171,784
168
2021
£135,000
£166,935
169
2020
£121,100
£153,460
136
2019
£111,000
£142,096
170
2018
£109,000
£141,906
159
2017
£110,000
£146,525
160
2016
£107,000
£146,198
143
2015
£90,000
£124,200
121
2014
£89,000
£123,313
125
2013
£88,800
£124,790
75
2012
£87,100
£125,206
56
2011
£89,500
£131,955
61
2010
£85,000
£130,189
71
2009
£85,000
£133,447
63
2008
£98,000
£156,891
113
2007
£110,000
£182,233
251
2006
£109,600
£185,808
202
2005
£126,000
£218,992
274
2004
£95,000
£168,509
275
2003
£76,500
£137,640
227
2002
£59,000
£108,415
207
2001
£40,000
£75,102
154
2000
£39,700
£76,092
138
1999
£35,000
£68,124
134
1998
£34,000
£67,029
109
1997
£35,000
£70,102
108
1996
£34,000
£70,030
85
1995
£33,200
£70,486
86
In cash terms the typical WV1 home went from £33,200 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 127%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
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.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
−7.5%
−7.5%
5 years (since 2021)
+3.5%
−0.8%
10 years (since 2016)
+4.1%
+0.9%
20 years (since 2006)
+1.9%
−0.7%
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.
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WV1 recorded 128 sales in the last 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 133 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 WV1
WV1 falls under Wolverhampton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £934 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £666 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,427, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wolverhampton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £160,000 median sold price, £934 a month is £11,208 a year, a gross yield of 7.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Will WV1 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 4% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
WV1 ranks 5 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.
Five-year change in the median, WV area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WV1, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.