Wheel Lane, Lichfield house prices are built from 112 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 29 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £106,250. Across the 5 years from 1997 to 2002 the median moved +43.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +30.9%.
Median price paid
£106,250
Change in cash, 1997–2002
+43.9%
Change in real terms
+30.9%
Median per m²
£2,145
HM Land Registry112 sales28 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Wheel Lane, Lichfield prices moved
The chart tracks the median Wheel Lane, Lichfield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2002. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £67,500 | £149,882 |
| 2000s | 3 | £95,000 | £173,062 |
The highest yearly median on record for Wheel Lane, Lichfield is £105,000 in 2002; the lowest is £67,500 in 1999. Across the full 6-year record the cash median has moved from £72,950 to £105,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £154,676, so the real change over the whole record is +30.9% — about +5.54% 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: +43.9% in cash against +30.9% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 29 Apr 2026 | Detached | £395,000 | £395,000 |
| 30 | 6 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £242,500 | £242,500 |
| 38 | 19 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 20 | 10 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| Karesta | 14 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £327,000 | £334,109 |
| 19 | 26 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £405,112 |
| 45 | 8 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £405,172 |
| 18 | 27 Sep 2023 | Detached | £312,500 | £337,644 |
| 34 | 24 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| 20 | 31 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £295,000 | £341,783 |
| 41 | 2 Aug 2022 | Detached | £386,000 | £447,214 |
| 40 | 6 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £121,500 | £153,508 |
| 31 | 7 May 2021 | Detached | £465,000 | £587,500 |
| 20 | 5 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £265,250 | £335,128 |
| Karesta | 1 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £231,000 | £299,091 |
| 38 | 20 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £323,691 |
| 23 | 9 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £240,000 | £310,744 |
| 29 | 21 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £178,000 | £230,468 |
| 41 | 6 Dec 2019 | Detached | £282,500 | £369,504 |
| 40 | 31 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £150,417 |
| 14 | 31 Jan 2019 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £287,755 |
| 36 | 1 Dec 2017 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £326,641 |
| 23 | 12 Aug 2016 | Terraced | £220,000 | £307,129 |
| 49 | 10 Jul 2016 | Detached | £254,000 | £354,594 |
| 19 | 6 Apr 2016 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £300,149 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Wheel Lane, Lichfield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 Wheel Lane | £282,500 (2019) | £395,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +1.0% |
| 30 Wheel Lane | £74,950 (1997) | £242,500 (2026) | +4.1% | +1.5% |
| 38 Wheel Lane | £73,000 (1999) | £320,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 20 Wheel Lane | £78,500 (1998) | £330,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| KARESTA Wheel Lane | £178,000 (2004) | £327,000 (2025) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
| 19 Wheel Lane | £149,000 (2013) | £385,000 (2024) | +9.0% | +5.8% |
| 45 Wheel Lane | £75,000 (1995) | £375,000 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 34 Wheel Lane | £64,950 (1997) | £225,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 40 Wheel Lane | £72,450 (2001) | £121,500 (2021) | +2.6% | +0.4% |
| 31 Wheel Lane | £107,500 (1999) | £465,000 (2021) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
| 23 Wheel Lane | £51,000 (1997) | £240,000 (2020) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
| 14 Wheel Lane | £74,950 (1997) | £220,000 (2019) | +5.0% | +2.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wheel Lane, Lichfield is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 37 | 33.0% | £85,500 | £60,000 – £179,950 |
| Semi-detached | 30 | 26.8% | £99,950 | £51,000 – £385,000 |
| Terraced | 30 | 26.8% | £142,500 | £49,000 – £330,000 |
| Detached | 15 | 13.4% | £254,000 | £70,250 – £465,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Wheel Lane, Lichfield
39 of the sales on record are leasehold and 73 freehold — 34.8% 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 £85,500 and the median freehold sale £159,950 — a gap of +87.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 39 | 34.8% | £85,500 |
| Freehold | 73 | 65.2% | £159,950 |
| New build | 29 | 25.9% | £74,950 |
| Existing home | 83 | 74.1% | £142,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -47.4%. 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 5 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.
Section 07
Living in Wheel Lane, Lichfield
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 256 | 0.5% |
| B | 7,428 | 15.6% |
| C | 14,946 | 31.3% |
| D | 16,740 | 35.1% |
| E | 6,152 | 12.9% |
| F | 1,680 | 3.5% |
| G | 474 | 1.0% |
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 £106,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.40% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Wheel Lane, Lichfield
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Friary School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,255 |
| Nether Stowe School | Secondary | Academy converter | 692 |
| Willows Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 423 |
| Christ Church CofE (C) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 420 |
| St Stephen's Primary School | Primary | Community school | 306 |
| Streethay Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 262 |
| Charnwood Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 210 |
| St Chad's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 195 |
| Scotch Orchard Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 194 |
| Chadsmead Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 188 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Lichfield Trent Valley High Level Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Lichfield City Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Shenstone Rail Station | Rail | 6.3 km |
| Blake Street Rail Station | Rail | 10.0 km |
Section 09
How Wheel Lane, Lichfield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wheel Lane, Lichfield sits below that national figure — -32.5%.
Within Lichfield the street ranks 648 of 699 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £198,950 (-46.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,145 per square metre, across 28 of the 112 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 £49,000 to £465,000. 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.
Wheel Lane, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Birmingham Road£215,750 median
- Lower Sandford Street£150,000 median
- Hobs Road£72,500 median
- Walsall Road£247,000 median
- Chesterfield Road£162,500 median
- Deykin Road£178,750 median
- Beacon Street£210,000 median
- Curborough Road£138,000 median
- Castle Dyke£79,475 median
- Wolsey Road£116,750 median
- Williams Avenue£167,000 median
- Boathouse Field£199,950 median
- Trent Valley Road£180,000 median
- Harrington Walk£180,375 median
- Weston Road£150,000 median
- Wade Street£87,225 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 20 Wheel Lane6 sales
- 31 Wheel Lane5 sales
- 23 Wheel Lane5 sales
- 34 Wheel Lane4 sales
- 40 Wheel Lane4 sales
- 36 Wheel Lane4 sales
- 41 Wheel Lane3 sales
- 38 Wheel Lane3 sales
- KARESTA Wheel Lane3 sales
- 19 Wheel Lane3 sales
- 14 Wheel Lane3 sales
- 43 Wheel Lane3 sales
- 18, BREWHOUSE COURT Wheel Lane3 sales
- 10, BREWHOUSE COURT Wheel Lane3 sales
- 22 Wheel Lane3 sales
- 30 Wheel Lane2 sales
- 45 Wheel Lane2 sales
- 55 Wheel Lane2 sales
- 1, BREWHOUSE COURT Wheel Lane2 sales
- 4, BREWHOUSE COURT Wheel Lane2 sales
- 51 Wheel Lane2 sales
- 8, BREWHOUSE COURT Wheel Lane2 sales
- 10 Wheel Lane2 sales
- 11, BREWHOUSE COURT Wheel Lane2 sales
Back to Lichfield house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Wheel Lane, Lichfield?
The median price paid in Wheel Lane, Lichfield across every sale on the register is £106,250. 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 Wheel Lane, Lichfield?
112 sales are on record for Wheel Lane, Lichfield, the most recent completing on 29 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Wheel Lane, Lichfield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +43.9% between 1997 and 2002. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +30.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Wheel Lane, Lichfield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £105,000, set in 2002. 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 Wheel Lane, Lichfield?
£2,145 per square metre, from the 28 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 29 Apr 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, “Wheel Lane, 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.