Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,426 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV7 (Wolverhampton) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
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
Click the map to open WV7 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£285,000median sold price, 2026
+0%five-year change (cash)
84sales in the last 12 months
3.4%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in WV7 sells for
The 2026 median in WV7 is £285,000, from 23 registered sales; the mean, £315,600, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so WV7 trades 4% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WV7 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£285,000
£285,000
23
2025
£288,500
£288,500
98
2024
£310,000
£321,896
119
2023
£303,000
£325,148
80
2022
£285,000
£326,390
101
2021
£285,400
£352,914
120
2020
£265,500
£336,446
100
2019
£237,500
£304,035
74
2018
£225,000
£292,925
79
2017
£226,200
£301,309
82
2016
£192,000
£262,337
78
2015
£196,500
£271,170
59
2014
£206,200
£285,699
80
2013
£165,000
£231,874
53
2012
£182,500
£262,344
44
2011
£169,000
£249,167
40
2010
£180,000
£275,694
49
2009
£160,500
£251,980
36
2008
£195,000
£312,181
40
2007
£210,000
£347,899
85
2006
£182,000
£308,550
71
2005
£164,000
£285,038
77
2004
£159,500
£282,918
74
2003
£150,000
£269,883
84
2002
£115,000
£211,318
87
2001
£95,000
£178,367
99
2000
£85,000
£162,917
108
1999
£75,000
£145,980
70
1998
£83,000
£163,629
65
1997
£67,000
£134,194
94
1996
£65,000
£133,881
89
1995
£73,500
£156,046
68
In cash terms the typical WV7 home went from £73,500 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 83%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% 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 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)
−1.2%
−1.2%
5 years (since 2021)
0.0%
−4.2%
10 years (since 2016)
+4.0%
+0.8%
20 years (since 2006)
+2.3%
−0.4%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WV7 recorded 84 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 84 sales a year recently, against 86 a year before 2008. 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 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.
Set against the £285,000 median sold price, £813 a month is £9,756 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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.
Will WV7 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
WV7 ranks 14 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WV7, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.