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Wombourne market report WV5 8, Wolverhampton
The standing WV5 8 (Wombourne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,106 registered sales in WV5 8 (Wolverhampton) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WV5 8 (Wolverhampton) home changed hands for £310,000 in 2026 (median of 25 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier), with the mean at £346,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,680 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,106 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WV5 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WV5 (Wolverhampton). 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 WV5 8 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 WV5 8 prices, from the sold record
The WV5 8 median stands at £310,000 for 2026, built from 25 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £346,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WV5 8
The last five years of sales put WV5 8 at roughly £3,680 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WV5 8 9% above the country at large.
A typical WV5 8 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 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £333,000 | £340,963 | 54 |
| 2024 | £291,200 | £309,605 | 54 |
| 2023 | £255,000 | £280,183 | 46 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 59 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 77 |
| 2020 | £234,000 | £303,620 | 49 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 61 |
| 2018 | £258,000 | £343,919 | 56 |
| 2017 | £201,500 | £274,826 | 58 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 54 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 60 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 61 |
| 2013 | £165,200 | £237,706 | 46 |
| 2012 | £167,500 | £246,539 | 30 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 37 |
| 2010 | £233,800 | £366,659 | 42 |
| 2009 | £178,500 | £286,940 | 34 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 41 |
| 2007 | £178,000 | £301,938 | 77 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 63 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 63 |
| 2004 | £178,000 | £323,283 | 73 |
| 2003 | £196,000 | £361,080 | 111 |
| 2002 | £177,800 | £334,529 | 150 |
| 2001 | £114,000 | £219,159 | 76 |
| 2000 | £85,500 | £167,794 | 90 |
| 1999 | £88,200 | £175,778 | 76 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 100 |
| 1997 | £68,200 | £139,864 | 106 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 91 |
| 1995 | £79,500 | £172,821 | 86 |
In cash terms the typical WV5 8 home went from £79,500 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 79%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WV5 8 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 (+56.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−25.6%). 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) | −6.9% | −9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 25 WV5 8 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 88 sales a year before the financial crisis and 48 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.
The rental side of WV5 8
For renting purposes WV5 8 sits in South Staffordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £945 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £657 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,517 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, South Staffordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £310,000 median purchase price, a rent of £945 a month (£11,340 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
The shape of the WV5 8 market
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WV5 8 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.
Asked and answered: WV5 8 (Wombourne)
Are property prices falling in WV5 8 (Wombourne)?
Is WV5 8 (Wombourne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WV5 8 (Wombourne)?
Will WV5 8 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in WV5 now
Turning to what is actually available: 12 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WV5 district, not just WV5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Common Road, Wombourne, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton
- Westbrook Way, Wombourne, WV5 0EA, Wombourne
- Forge Valley Way, Wombourne, Wolverhampton, WV5, Staffordshire
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every WV5 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.
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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
WV area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WV5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WV5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV5 0 | £280,000 | 25 |
| WV5 7 | £425,000 | 14 |
| WV5 9 | £320,000 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full WV5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WV5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WV5 8? 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 WV5 8'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 WV5 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WV5 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WV5 8 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.
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.