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Codsall market report WV8 2, Wolverhampton
The standing WV8 2 (Codsall) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,036 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WV8 2 (Wolverhampton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 19 registered 2026 sales put the WV8 2 (Wolverhampton) median at £455,000, up 36% on five years earlier, with a mean of £447,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,610 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,036 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WV8 2 is a single group of streets within WV8 (Wolverhampton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WV8 2 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 2 sells for
The WV8 2 median stands at £455,000 for 2026, built from 19 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £447,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in WV8 2
A square metre of WV8 2 home has cost about £3,610 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WV8 2 sits 60% above the national market.
A typical WV8 2 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £455,000 | £455,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £382,500 | £391,647 | 71 |
| 2024 | £370,000 | £393,386 | 57 |
| 2023 | £378,000 | £415,330 | 44 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 93 |
| 2021 | £335,000 | £424,153 | 89 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 61 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 71 |
| 2018 | £257,500 | £343,252 | 54 |
| 2017 | £256,000 | £349,158 | 65 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 61 |
| 2015 | £217,800 | £307,751 | 74 |
| 2014 | £237,500 | £336,935 | 70 |
| 2013 | £235,000 | £338,142 | 55 |
| 2012 | £222,000 | £326,756 | 54 |
| 2011 | £218,000 | £329,096 | 43 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 40 |
| 2009 | £201,500 | £323,913 | 47 |
| 2008 | £216,700 | £355,217 | 37 |
| 2007 | £211,000 | £357,915 | 66 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 59 |
| 2005 | £235,000 | £418,205 | 83 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 100 |
| 2003 | £179,500 | £330,683 | 78 |
| 2002 | £147,500 | £277,520 | 70 |
| 2001 | £126,800 | £243,767 | 60 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 57 |
| 1999 | £91,000 | £181,358 | 79 |
| 1998 | £104,500 | £210,941 | 78 |
| 1997 | £106,800 | £219,025 | 54 |
| 1996 | £88,500 | £186,643 | 75 |
| 1995 | £78,000 | £169,560 | 72 |
In cash terms the typical WV8 2 home went from £78,000 in 1995 to £455,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 168%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the WV8 2 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 2000 (+26.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2007 (−15.6%). 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) | +19.0% | +16.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.3% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 19 sales completed in WV8 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 72 sales a year before the financial crisis and 57 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.
Rents around WV8 2
For renting purposes WV8 2 sits in South Staffordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £945 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £657 a month here against £1,517 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Staffordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £455,000 median purchase price, a rent of £945 a month (£11,340 a year) works out at a 2.5% 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 2 market
This is a thin market: 19 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the WV8 district median, WV8 2 sits 67% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: WV8 2 (Codsall)
Is WV8 2 (Codsall) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WV8 2 (Codsall)?
Are property prices falling in WV8 2 (Codsall)?
Will WV8 2 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 7% 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 is for sale in WV8 right now
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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.
What another bedroom costs in WV
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WV area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WV area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WV area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WV8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WV8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV8 1 | £258,000 | 51 |
Zoom out to the full WV8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WV8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WV8 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WV8 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the WV8 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WV8 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WV8 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WV8 2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WV8 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WV8 2 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.
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.