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Whitmore Reans market report WV6 8, Wolverhampton
The WV6 8 (Whitmore Reans) 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: 5,884 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV6 8 (Wolverhampton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WV6 8 (Wolverhampton) home changed hands for £275,000 in 2026 (median of 55 registered sales, down 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £354,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,190 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,884 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WV6 8 is one sector of WV6 (Wolverhampton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WV6 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 WV6 8 prices, from the sold record
Take the 55 registered 2026 sales in WV6 8 and the middle price, the median, is £275,000. The mean lands at £354,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in WV6 8
A square metre of WV6 8 home has cost about £3,190 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WV6 8 4% below the country at large.
WV6 8's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £275,000 | £275,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 191 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 161 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 135 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 168 |
| 2021 | £309,000 | £391,234 | 206 |
| 2020 | £273,500 | £354,872 | 178 |
| 2019 | £246,000 | £322,447 | 177 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 203 |
| 2017 | £258,000 | £351,886 | 198 |
| 2016 | £245,000 | £342,757 | 242 |
| 2015 | £267,500 | £377,978 | 213 |
| 2014 | £232,500 | £329,842 | 200 |
| 2013 | £207,000 | £297,852 | 159 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 115 |
| 2011 | £174,000 | £262,673 | 130 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 100 |
| 2009 | £172,500 | £277,295 | 138 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 121 |
| 2007 | £221,200 | £375,217 | 198 |
| 2006 | £186,300 | £323,393 | 218 |
| 2005 | £207,000 | £368,377 | 185 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 219 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 231 |
| 2002 | £140,800 | £264,914 | 226 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 233 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 209 |
| 1999 | £95,200 | £189,729 | 248 |
| 1998 | £90,500 | £182,681 | 219 |
| 1997 | £90,000 | £184,572 | 224 |
| 1996 | £80,000 | £168,716 | 213 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 171 |
In cash terms the typical WV6 8 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £275,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 58%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WV6 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 (+22.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−18.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.3% | −10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.3% | −6.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
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.
WV6 8 recorded 55 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 215 sales a year before the financial crisis and 142 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.
What kind of market WV6 8 is
This is a thin market: 55 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within WV6, this sector trades 8% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around WV6 8
For renting purposes WV6 8 sits in Wolverhampton. The ONS average private rent there is £934 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £666 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,427, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wolverhampton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £275,000 median sold price, £934 a month is £11,208 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
WV6 8 (Whitmore Reans): the questions that come up
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What happens to WV6 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 11% over five years in cash but down 30% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in WV6 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 80 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WV6 district, not just WV6 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Belvedere Gardens, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, WV6, West Midlands
- The Lindens, Newbridge Crescent, Wolverhampton, WV6, West Midlands
- Woodfield Heights, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, WV6, Wolverhampton
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 WV6 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
Real sold prices by size across the WV area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, WV area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WV6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WV6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV6 0 | £177,500 | 30 |
| WV6 7 | £272,500 | 71 |
| WV6 9 | £265,500 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full WV6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WV6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WV6 8? 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 WV6 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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WV6 8.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WV6 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WV6 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.
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.