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Ditton Priors market report WV16 5, Bridgnorth
The standing WV16 5 (Ditton Priors) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 1,787 registered sales in WV16 5 (Bridgnorth) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WV16 5 (Bridgnorth) came in at £298,000, out of 15 registered, down 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £422,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,310 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,787 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like WV16 5 is a single group of streets within WV16 (Bridgnorth), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WV16 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.
What WV16 5 homes really sell for
In the WV16 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £298,000, from 15 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £422,000, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
WV16 5 prices by floor area
Per square metre, WV16 5 homes have averaged around £3,310 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WV16 5 sits 5% above the national market.
A typical WV16 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £298,000 | £298,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £327,500 | £335,332 | 43 |
| 2024 | £299,000 | £317,898 | 58 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 43 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 55 |
| 2021 | £346,200 | £438,334 | 72 |
| 2020 | £291,500 | £378,227 | 49 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 55 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 58 |
| 2017 | £216,200 | £294,875 | 58 |
| 2016 | £256,000 | £358,147 | 73 |
| 2015 | £194,400 | £274,687 | 76 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 54 |
| 2013 | £212,500 | £305,766 | 60 |
| 2012 | £223,500 | £328,964 | 56 |
| 2011 | £222,500 | £335,889 | 58 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 75 |
| 2009 | £218,200 | £350,758 | 100 |
| 2008 | £238,000 | £390,132 | 35 |
| 2007 | £272,500 | £462,236 | 47 |
| 2006 | £282,000 | £489,516 | 53 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 35 |
| 2004 | £255,000 | £463,130 | 39 |
| 2003 | £216,800 | £399,398 | 68 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 61 |
| 2001 | £134,000 | £257,608 | 63 |
| 2000 | £137,500 | £269,844 | 50 |
| 1999 | £127,000 | £253,104 | 48 |
| 1998 | £127,000 | £256,359 | 39 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 100 |
| 1996 | £97,600 | £205,834 | 54 |
| 1995 | £88,000 | £191,298 | 37 |
In cash terms the typical WV16 5 home went from £88,000 in 1995 to £298,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 56%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 39% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WV16 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 1998 (+58.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−18.0%). 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) | −9.0% | −11.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.0% | −7.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.3% | −2.5% |
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 WV16 5
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 15 sales completed in WV16 5. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 43 sales a year recently, against 52 a year before 2008. 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.
What kind of market WV16 5 is
Only 15 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WV16 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the WV16 district median, WV16 5 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around WV16 5
WV16 5 falls under Shropshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £813 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £600 a month here against £1,384 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Shropshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £298,000 median sold price, £813 a month is £9,756 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.
What people ask about WV16 5 (Ditton Priors)
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What happens to WV16 5 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 14% over five years in cash but down 32% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WV16's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 15 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WV16 district, not just WV16 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every WV16 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. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 WV16
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WV16, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV16 4 | £244,200 | 30 |
| WV16 6 | £230,000 | 27 |
Zoom out to the full WV16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WV16 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WV16 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WV16 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WV16 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WV16 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WV16 5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WV16 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WV16 5 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.
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.