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Short Heath market report WV12, Willenhall
The WV12 (Short Heath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,707 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WV12 (Willenhall) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for WV12 (Willenhall) is £225,000, from 89 registered sales, up 25% on five years earlier; the mean is £220,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,590 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,707 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district WV12 covering Short Heath, Lodge Farm sits in Willenhall. 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 WV12 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
89 sales were registered in WV12 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £225,000. The mean works out at £220,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in WV12
Per square metre, WV12 homes have averaged around £2,590 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WV12 runs 21% below it.
WV12'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 89 |
| 2025 | £216,800 | £221,984 | 282 |
| 2024 | £202,000 | £214,767 | 241 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 261 |
| 2022 | £196,000 | £229,832 | 291 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 363 |
| 2020 | £162,000 | £210,198 | 282 |
| 2019 | £154,000 | £201,857 | 353 |
| 2018 | £148,000 | £197,287 | 309 |
| 2017 | £147,500 | £201,175 | 279 |
| 2016 | £132,500 | £185,369 | 297 |
| 2015 | £134,000 | £189,342 | 330 |
| 2014 | £131,800 | £186,981 | 298 |
| 2013 | £124,000 | £178,424 | 203 |
| 2012 | £117,000 | £172,209 | 202 |
| 2011 | £118,000 | £178,135 | 228 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 206 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 225 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 244 |
| 2007 | £127,000 | £215,427 | 427 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 422 |
| 2005 | £119,000 | £211,772 | 352 |
| 2004 | £113,000 | £205,230 | 378 |
| 2003 | £87,500 | £161,196 | 398 |
| 2002 | £75,500 | £142,053 | 345 |
| 2001 | £61,500 | £118,231 | 383 |
| 2000 | £57,500 | £112,844 | 384 |
| 1999 | £54,000 | £107,619 | 324 |
| 1998 | £53,100 | £107,186 | 310 |
| 1997 | £49,500 | £101,515 | 407 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 335 |
| 1995 | £47,500 | £103,258 | 259 |
In cash terms the typical WV12 home went from £47,500 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 118%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the WV12 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 (+29.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.0%). 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) | +3.8% | +1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
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, 47% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £262,500 against £122,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, WV12
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 | £262,500 | 18 | 1,868 |
| Semi-detached | £235,000 | 43 | 4,584 |
| Terraced | £177,500 | 22 | 2,555 |
| Flats | £122,000 | 6 | 700 |
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 209 sales completed in WV12. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 386 sales a year before the financial crisis and 233 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
WV12 falls under Walsall, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £908 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £225,000 median purchase price, a rent of £908 a month (£10,896 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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 (Short Heath)
How much did a house sell for in WV12 (Short Heath)?
Are property prices falling in WV12 (Short Heath)?
Is WV12 (Short Heath) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WV12 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 25% 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 is for sale in WV12 right now
Everything above is what homes in WV12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 58 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% above the WV12 median sold price.
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.
- 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: WV prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WV area. 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%) | — | — |
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
WV12 ranks 4 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WV12, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV12 4 | £220,000 | 42 |
| WV12 5 | £233,000 | 47 |
How WV12 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 (this report) | £225,000 | +25% |
| WV14 | £205,000 | +17% |
| WV2 | £195,000 | +26% |
| WV13 | £190,000 | +23% |
| WV1 | £175,000 | +40% |
Before you sell in WV12: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WV12, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WV12's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WV12 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 WV12.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual WV12 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.