Lichfield house prices

Lichfield house prices are built from 25,782 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £198,950. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +45.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +4.3%.

HM Land Registry25,782 sales5,040 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Lichfield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Lichfield is £350,000 in 2024; the lowest is £63,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £63,000 to £345,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £139,890, so the real change over the whole record is +146.6% — about +2.95% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +45.6% in cash against +4.3% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Lichfield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lichfield is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 6,201 certificates cover Lichfield, and their median floor area is 82 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +7.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

5,655 of the sales on record are leasehold and 20,127 freehold — 21.9% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £125,000 and the median freehold sale £228,000 — a gap of +82.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +28.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 1,496 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Lichfield, 47.5% of 47,676 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Lichfield at £1,098 a month as of Jun 2026 — £738 for a one-bedroom home and £1,152 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £198,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.62% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of WS13, 251 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 89 violent, 3 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 32 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times busier.

Against the 106,436 residents the 2021 census counted in Lichfield, that is 2.36 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 106,436 residents in Lichfield across 45,632 households. 74.2% of those households own their home and 25.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

12 state and independent schools have a WS13 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lichfield sits above that national figure — +26.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,319 per square metre, across 5,040 of the 25,782 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £1,115 to £2,500,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Lichfield sits in Lichfield, in the West Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Lichfield at 9.2 times median local earnings of £34,657 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Lichfield

• Birmingham Road388 sales
• Lower Sandford Street348 sales
• Hobs Road333 sales
• Walsall Road291 sales
• Chesterfield Road209 sales
• Upper St John Street202 sales
• Deykin Road192 sales
• Haymoor183 sales
• Beacon Street181 sales
• Manor Rise179 sales
• Agincourt Road165 sales
• Curborough Road164 sales
• Castle Dyke160 sales
• Trafalgar Way155 sales
• Wolsey Road154 sales
• Williams Avenue149 sales
• Cornfield Drive145 sales
• Shortbutts Lane145 sales
• Boathouse Field143 sales
• Trent Valley Road141 sales
• Harrington Walk140 sales
• Tamworth Road139 sales
• Weston Road139 sales
• Wade Street138 sales
• Main Street132 sales
• Worthington Road126 sales
• Curlew Close119 sales
• Borrowcop Lane114 sales
• Gaia Lane114 sales
• Rogerson Road114 sales
• Cross Keys112 sales
• Maybank Close112 sales
• Sainte Foy Avenue112 sales
• Wheel Lane112 sales
• Richard Cooper Road107 sales
• Walnut Walk106 sales
• Ferndale Road105 sales
• Yew Tree Avenue105 sales
• Whitehouse Drive104 sales
• Deans Slade Drive101 sales
• Netherbridge Avenue100 sales
• Giles Road99 sales
• Valley Lane99 sales
• Sandfield Meadow98 sales
• Rotten Row97 sales
• Burton Old Road95 sales
• Francis Road95 sales
• Alesmore Meadow94 sales
• Wyndham Wood Close94 sales
• Thacker Drive93 sales
• Patrick Mews92 sales
• Tye Road91 sales
• Burton Old Road East89 sales
• Mulberry Drive89 sales
• Swan Mews89 sales
• Baskeyfield Close88 sales
• Swallow Croft88 sales
• Bloomsbury Way87 sales
• St Michael Road87 sales
• Dimbles Lane86 sales

Postcode districts covering Lichfield

• WS13£192,000 median
• WS14£210,000 median

What is the average house price in Lichfield?

The median price paid in Lichfield across every sale on the register is £198,950. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Lichfield?

25,782 sales are on record for Lichfield, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lichfield house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +45.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +4.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lichfield house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £350,000, set in 2024. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Lichfield?

£2,319 per square metre, from the 5,040 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 19 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Lichfield house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.