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Wombourne market report WV5, Wolverhampton
The standing WV5 (Wombourne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 6,732 registered sales in WV5 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical WV5 (Wolverhampton) home changed hands for £310,000 in 2026 (median of 77 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £343,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,530 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,732 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district WV5 covering Wombourne, Claverley sits in Wolverhampton. 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 WV5 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 a home in WV5 sells for
The 2026 median for WV5 is £310,000, taken from 77 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £343,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
WV5 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in WV5 have sold for about £3,530 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WV5 trades 9% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WV5 home, 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 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 77 |
| 2025 | £326,800 | £334,615 | 218 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 215 |
| 2023 | £300,800 | £330,506 | 164 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 220 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 293 |
| 2020 | £248,000 | £321,785 | 211 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 195 |
| 2018 | £235,000 | £313,259 | 215 |
| 2017 | £229,500 | £313,015 | 230 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 221 |
| 2015 | £189,800 | £268,187 | 216 |
| 2014 | £194,500 | £275,932 | 181 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 182 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 147 |
| 2011 | £178,000 | £268,712 | 157 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 157 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 143 |
| 2008 | £187,500 | £307,352 | 157 |
| 2007 | £195,800 | £332,131 | 242 |
| 2006 | £187,000 | £324,608 | 253 |
| 2005 | £168,500 | £299,862 | 189 |
| 2004 | £172,500 | £313,294 | 229 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 263 |
| 2002 | £132,200 | £248,733 | 324 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 209 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 235 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 227 |
| 1998 | £75,500 | £152,402 | 231 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 274 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 245 |
| 1995 | £72,200 | £156,952 | 212 |
In cash terms the typical WV5 home went from £72,200 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 98%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WV5 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 (+25.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−7.3%). 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) | −5.1% | −7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £470,000 against £148,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, WV5
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 | £470,000 | 28 | 2,781 |
| Semi-detached | £270,000 | 30 | 2,608 |
| Terraced | £266,800 | 14 | 888 |
| Flats | £148,000 | 5 | 453 |
How many homes change hands in WV5
Sales per year, counted
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.
WV5 recorded 181 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 243 sales a year before the financial crisis and 179 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around WV5
For renting purposes WV5 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.
Set against the £310,000 median sold price, £945 a month is £11,340 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
Reading the WV5 market
WV5 sits 2 of 16 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: WV5 (Wombourne)
Are property prices falling in WV5 (Wombourne)?
Is WV5 (Wombourne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WV5 (Wombourne)?
Will WV5 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in WV5 now
Everything above is what homes in WV5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 12 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% below the WV5 median sold price.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WV: the cost
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WV5 ranks 11 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.
Winners and losers across the WV area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WV5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WV5 0 | £280,000 | 25 |
| WV5 7 | £425,000 | 14 |
| WV5 8 | £310,000 | 25 |
| WV5 9 | £320,000 | 13 |
How WV5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WV area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WV7 | £330,000 | +16% |
| WV5 (this report) | £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 | £225,000 | +25% |
| WV14 | £205,000 | +17% |
| WV2 | £195,000 | +26% |
| WV13 | £190,000 | +23% |
| WV1 | £175,000 | +40% |
Selling a home in WV5? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WV5'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.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual WV5 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.