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Short Heath market report WV12 5, Willenhall
The WV12 5 (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: 5,901 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV12 5 (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: a typical WV12 5 (Willenhall) home changed hands for £233,000 in 2026 (median of 47 registered sales, up 29% on five years earlier), with the mean at £228,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,630 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,901 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WV12 5 is a single group of streets within WV12 (Willenhall), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WV12 5 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 WV12 5 prices, from the sold record
In the WV12 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £233,000, from 47 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £228,200, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in WV12 5
A square metre of WV12 5 home has cost about £2,630 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WV12 5 18% below the country at large.
WV12 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £233,000 | £233,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £217,000 | £222,189 | 159 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 139 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 151 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 169 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 200 |
| 2020 | £162,000 | £210,198 | 160 |
| 2019 | £151,000 | £197,925 | 209 |
| 2018 | £146,500 | £195,287 | 170 |
| 2017 | £143,000 | £195,038 | 169 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 173 |
| 2015 | £132,200 | £186,799 | 158 |
| 2014 | £132,000 | £187,265 | 165 |
| 2013 | £121,000 | £174,107 | 135 |
| 2012 | £117,500 | £172,945 | 118 |
| 2011 | £115,500 | £174,361 | 128 |
| 2010 | £113,000 | £177,213 | 129 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 160 |
| 2008 | £129,000 | £211,458 | 148 |
| 2007 | £126,500 | £214,579 | 270 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 260 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 197 |
| 2004 | £112,900 | £205,048 | 228 |
| 2003 | £89,000 | £163,960 | 253 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 220 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 222 |
| 2000 | £57,500 | £112,844 | 260 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 212 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 205 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 303 |
| 1996 | £48,700 | £102,706 | 212 |
| 1995 | £47,700 | £103,692 | 172 |
In cash terms the typical WV12 5 home went from £47,700 in 1995 to £233,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 125%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the WV12 5 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.4% | +4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.3% | +0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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 5
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 47 WV12 5 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 239 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.
Reading the WV12 5 market
Only 47 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WV12 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around WV12 5
For renting purposes WV12 5 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.
Against the £233,000 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 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.
Common questions on WV12 5 (Short Heath)
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What happens to WV12 5 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat 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 WV12 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 58 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WV12 district, not just WV12 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% 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.
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"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.
Moving up a bedroom in WV: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WV area, straight 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WV area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, WV area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WV12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WV12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV12 4 | £220,000 | 42 |
Zoom out to the full WV12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WV12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WV12 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WV12 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WV12 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WV12 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WV12 5.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WV12 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WV12 5 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.