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Ditton Priors market report WV16, Bridgnorth
The WV16 (Ditton Priors) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 8,568 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV16 (Bridgnorth) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 72 registered 2026 sales put the WV16 (Bridgnorth) median at £250,000, down 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £301,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,150 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,568 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WV16 is a postcode district covering Bridgnorth (High Town), Ditton Priors in Bridgnorth. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WV16 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 homes really sell for
72 sales were registered in WV16 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £250,000. The mean works out at £301,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in WV16
The last five years of sales put WV16 at roughly £3,150 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WV16 runs 12% below it.
A typical WV16 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 72 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 219 |
| 2024 | £264,000 | £280,686 | 226 |
| 2023 | £257,000 | £282,380 | 229 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 278 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 327 |
| 2020 | £232,500 | £301,674 | 216 |
| 2019 | £215,500 | £282,469 | 254 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 291 |
| 2017 | £192,000 | £261,869 | 287 |
| 2016 | £193,500 | £270,708 | 296 |
| 2015 | £192,000 | £271,296 | 267 |
| 2014 | £188,000 | £266,711 | 235 |
| 2013 | £182,000 | £261,880 | 211 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 184 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 195 |
| 2010 | £193,500 | £303,458 | 224 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 250 |
| 2008 | £189,500 | £310,631 | 197 |
| 2007 | £188,500 | £319,748 | 311 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 339 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 268 |
| 2004 | £160,200 | £290,954 | 258 |
| 2003 | £150,500 | £277,257 | 318 |
| 2002 | £126,200 | £237,444 | 336 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 393 |
| 2000 | £99,000 | £194,288 | 279 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 347 |
| 1998 | £69,500 | £140,291 | 309 |
| 1997 | £72,200 | £148,068 | 394 |
| 1996 | £65,800 | £138,769 | 299 |
| 1995 | £58,500 | £127,170 | 259 |
In cash terms the typical WV16 home went from £58,500 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 97%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 28% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WV16 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 2000 (+32.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−7.4%). 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) | −7.4% | −9.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.8% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.1% | −1.6% |
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 detached houses dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £410,000 against £107,500 for a flat, 3.8 times the price.
Median by property type, WV16
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 | £410,000 | 21 | 3,301 |
| Semi-detached | £243,000 | 27 | 2,214 |
| Terraced | £233,500 | 14 | 2,242 |
| Flats | £107,500 | 10 | 811 |
How many homes change hands in WV16
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 169 sales completed in WV16. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 313 sales a year before the financial crisis and 205 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 WV16
WV16 falls under Shropshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £813 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £600 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,384 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Shropshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £813 a month (£9,756 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
WV16 (Ditton Priors): the questions that come up
Is WV16 (Ditton Priors) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WV16 (Ditton Priors)?
Are property prices falling in WV16 (Ditton Priors)?
Where do WV16 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WV16 right now
Everything above is what homes in WV16 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 15 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 44% below the WV16 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every WV16 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in WV: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WV area. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WV16 ranks 16 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.
WV area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WV16, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV16 4 | £244,200 | 30 |
| WV16 5 | £298,000 | 15 |
| WV16 6 | £230,000 | 27 |
How WV16 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 (this report) | £250,000 | -4% |
| WV9 | £235,000 | +7% |
| WV11 | £233,000 | +23% |
| WV10 | £230,000 | +30% |
| WV12 | £225,000 | +25% |
| WV14 | £205,000 | +17% |
| WV2 | £195,000 | +26% |
| WV13 | £190,000 | +23% |
| WV1 | £175,000 | +40% |
Selling in WV16? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WV16's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WV16.
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Two maps carry on from here: every WV16 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.