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Codsall market report WV8 1, Wolverhampton
The WV8 1 (Codsall) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,151 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV8 1 (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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 51 registered 2026 sales put the WV8 1 (Wolverhampton) median at £258,000, up 14% on five years earlier, with a mean of £274,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,010 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,151 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WV8 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WV8 (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 WV8 1 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 WV8 1 sells for
In the WV8 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £258,000, from 51 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £274,800, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in WV8 1
The last five years of sales put WV8 1 at roughly £3,010 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WV8 1 sits 9% below the national market.
The price of a typical WV8 1 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £258,000 | £258,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 118 |
| 2024 | £253,000 | £268,991 | 121 |
| 2023 | £247,000 | £271,393 | 129 |
| 2022 | £248,800 | £291,746 | 148 |
| 2021 | £227,000 | £287,411 | 197 |
| 2020 | £218,000 | £282,860 | 115 |
| 2019 | £214,400 | £281,027 | 182 |
| 2018 | £195,000 | £259,939 | 173 |
| 2017 | £198,000 | £270,052 | 140 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 127 |
| 2015 | £178,000 | £251,514 | 126 |
| 2014 | £148,500 | £210,673 | 104 |
| 2013 | £146,800 | £211,231 | 96 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 115 |
| 2011 | £153,500 | £231,726 | 78 |
| 2010 | £147,800 | £231,788 | 86 |
| 2009 | £152,500 | £245,145 | 76 |
| 2008 | £128,000 | £209,819 | 90 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 132 |
| 2006 | £163,000 | £282,947 | 181 |
| 2005 | £148,800 | £264,804 | 122 |
| 2004 | £129,500 | £235,197 | 160 |
| 2003 | £122,800 | £226,227 | 156 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 192 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 195 |
| 2000 | £76,500 | £150,131 | 165 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 102 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 132 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 113 |
| 1996 | £58,200 | £122,741 | 124 |
| 1995 | £59,500 | £129,344 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical WV8 1 home went from £59,500 in 1995 to £258,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 99%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WV8 1 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 (+38.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−22.4%). 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) | −4.4% | −6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 51 sales completed in WV8 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 163 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 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.
What homes rent for around WV8 1
The local authority for WV8 1 is South Staffordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £945 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £657 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,517, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, South Staffordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £258,000 median purchase price, a rent of £945 a month (£11,340 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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 WV8 1 market
This is a thin market: 51 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.
Asked and answered: WV8 1 (Codsall)
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Are property prices falling in WV8 1 (Codsall)?
Will WV8 1 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
On the market in WV8 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 17 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WV8 district, not just WV8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 WV8 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WV: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WV area. 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. 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.
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.
Other sectors in WV8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WV8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV8 2 | £455,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full WV8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WV8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WV8 1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WV8 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WV8 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WV8 1 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 WV8 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WV8 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WV8 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.