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Short Heath market report WV12 4, Willenhall
The WV12 4 (Short Heath) 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: 3,806 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV12 4 (Willenhall) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WV12 4 (Willenhall) came in at £220,000, out of 42 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £211,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,540 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,806 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WV12 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WV12 (Willenhall). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WV12 4 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 WV12 4
In the WV12 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £220,000, from 42 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £211,600, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in WV12 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WV12 4 costs about £2,540 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WV12 4 23% below the national figure.
WV12 4's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 123 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 102 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 110 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 122 |
| 2021 | £181,000 | £229,169 | 163 |
| 2020 | £161,800 | £209,939 | 122 |
| 2019 | £158,000 | £207,100 | 144 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 139 |
| 2017 | £150,000 | £204,585 | 110 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 124 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 172 |
| 2014 | £131,500 | £186,556 | 133 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 68 |
| 2012 | £114,500 | £168,530 | 84 |
| 2011 | £118,500 | £178,889 | 100 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 77 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 65 |
| 2008 | £124,500 | £204,082 | 96 |
| 2007 | £127,000 | £215,427 | 157 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 162 |
| 2005 | £118,000 | £209,992 | 155 |
| 2004 | £113,000 | £205,230 | 150 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 145 |
| 2002 | £69,000 | £129,823 | 125 |
| 2001 | £64,000 | £123,037 | 161 |
| 2000 | £56,500 | £110,881 | 124 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 112 |
| 1998 | £52,600 | £106,177 | 105 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 104 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 123 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 87 |
In cash terms the typical WV12 4 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 120%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 6% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WV12 4 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 (+32.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.6%). 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) | +2.3% | −0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in WV12 4
How many homes change hands
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.
WV12 4 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 147 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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 WV12 4
The local authority for WV12 4 is Walsall, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £908 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £642 a month here against £1,305 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Walsall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £220,000 median sold price, £908 a month is £10,896 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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.
The shape of the WV12 4 market
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WV12 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
WV12 4 (Short Heath): the questions that come up
Is WV12 4 (Short Heath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WV12 4 (Short Heath)?
Are property prices falling in WV12 4 (Short Heath)?
Are WV12 4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
WV12's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 58 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WV12 district, not just WV12 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% 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.
- Oakridge Drive, Willenhall, West Midl...
- Elter Close, Willenhall, WV12
- Birch Coppice Gardens, Willenhall, Wolverhampton, WV12, 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 WV12 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WV
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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WV area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WV area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WV12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WV12's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV12 5 | £233,000 | 47 |
Zoom out to the full WV12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WV12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WV12 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WV12 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the WV12 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WV12 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WV12 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WV12 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WV12 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WV12 4 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.