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Albrighton market report WV7, Wolverhampton
The WV7 (Albrighton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,350 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WV7 (Wolverhampton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WV7 (Wolverhampton) came in at £330,000, out of 27 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £349,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,260 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,350 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WV7 is the postcode district covering Albrighton in Wolverhampton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WV7 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 buyers actually paid in WV7
Take the 27 registered 2026 sales in WV7 and the middle price, the median, is £330,000. The mean lands at £349,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WV7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WV7 costs about £3,260 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WV7 trades 16% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WV7 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £312,000 | £319,461 | 101 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 111 |
| 2023 | £304,000 | £334,022 | 74 |
| 2022 | £288,000 | £337,713 | 93 |
| 2021 | £285,700 | £361,733 | 113 |
| 2020 | £265,500 | £344,492 | 90 |
| 2019 | £237,500 | £311,306 | 64 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 71 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 76 |
| 2016 | £192,000 | £268,610 | 72 |
| 2015 | £199,000 | £281,187 | 53 |
| 2014 | £206,200 | £292,531 | 72 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 53 |
| 2012 | £182,500 | £268,617 | 44 |
| 2011 | £169,000 | £255,125 | 40 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 49 |
| 2009 | £160,500 | £258,005 | 36 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 40 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 85 |
| 2006 | £182,000 | £315,929 | 71 |
| 2005 | £164,000 | £291,854 | 77 |
| 2004 | £159,500 | £289,683 | 74 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 84 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 87 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 99 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 108 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 70 |
| 1998 | £83,000 | £167,541 | 65 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 94 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 89 |
| 1995 | £73,500 | £159,778 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical WV7 home went from £73,500 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 107%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WV7 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 2003 (+30.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.7%). 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) | +5.8% | +3.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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, 40% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £420,000 against £184,500 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, WV7
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 | £387,500 | 12 | 905 |
| Semi-detached | £318,800 | 12 | 860 |
| Terraced | £270,000 (2025) | – | 461 |
| Flats | £184,500 (2025) | – | 63 |
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 73 sales completed in WV7. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 81 sales a year recently, against 86 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.
Reading the WV7 market
This is a thin market: 73 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. WV7 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Rents around WV7
WV7 falls under Shropshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £813 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £600 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,384, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Shropshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£813 a month is £9,756 a year, which against the £330,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: WV7 (Albrighton)
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What happens to WV7 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WV7 ranks 10 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.
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.
Inside WV7, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV7 3 | £330,000 | 27 |
How WV7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WV area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WV7 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Before you sell in WV7: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WV7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WV7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WV7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WV7.
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About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.