Welsh Walls, Oswestry house prices are built from 100 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 21 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £153,500. Across the 13 years from 2008 to 2021 the median moved +31.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.1%.
Median price paid
£153,500
Change in cash, 2008–2021
+31.4%
Change in real terms
-1.1%
Median per m²
£1,959
HM Land Registry100 sales17 with floor areaLatest sale 21 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Welsh Walls, Oswestry prices moved
The chart tracks the median Welsh Walls, Oswestry house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 to 2021. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | £140,000 | £255,039 |
| 2010s | 1 | £169,000 | £238,290 |
| 2020s | 1 | £184,000 | £188,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Welsh Walls, Oswestry is £187,998 in 2007; the lowest is £107,000 in 2003. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £107,000 to £184,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £202,239, so the real change over the whole record is +14.9% — about +0.78% 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: +31.4% in cash against -1.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | 21 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 54 | 23 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £282,000 | £288,130 |
| Lloran Cottage | 18 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £342,283 |
| Apartment 5 Holbache House | 13 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| Apartment 7 Holbache House | 8 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| 114 | 8 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £235,000 | £272,268 |
| Wayside | 7 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £307,025 |
| 48 | 12 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 44 | 26 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £184,000 | £232,473 |
| Apartment 6 Holbache House | 8 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £98,500 | £124,449 |
| 50 | 24 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £150,000 | £189,516 |
| 86 | 5 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £308,000 | £389,140 |
| 42 | 8 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £233,737 |
| Linden House, 84 | 6 Aug 2020 | Detached | £307,000 | £397,493 |
| Wayside | 31 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £169,950 | £220,045 |
| 100 | 3 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £165,000 | £213,636 |
| 86 | 1 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £209,276 |
| 114 | 15 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £180,000 | £235,436 |
| 27 | 11 Dec 2018 | Semi-detached | £222,500 | £296,526 |
| 16 | 5 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £138,500 | £184,579 |
| 60 | 4 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £175,000 | £233,223 |
| 48 | 16 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £126,000 | £167,921 |
| Apartment 7 Holbache House | 21 Jul 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £236,000 | £321,197 |
| Matrons House | 2 Jun 2017 | Detached | £290,000 | £394,691 |
| 50 | 2 Jun 2017 | Terraced | £125,000 | £170,125 |
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 Welsh Walls, Oswestry values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 Welsh Walls | £32,500 (1996) | £282,000 (2025) | +7.7% | +5.0% |
| LLORAN COTTAGE Welsh Walls | £145,000 (1999) | £335,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.6% |
| APARTMENT 5 HOLBACHE HOUSE Welsh Walls | £116,000 (2006) | £120,000 (2024) | +0.2% | -2.7% |
| APARTMENT 7 HOLBACHE HOUSE Welsh Walls | £235,000 (2007) | £300,000 (2023) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| 114 Welsh Walls | £189,995 (2006) | £235,000 (2022) | +1.3% | -1.3% |
| WAYSIDE Welsh Walls | £115,000 (2015) | £265,000 (2022) | +12.7% | +9.5% |
| 48 Welsh Walls | £39,000 (1997) | £150,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +3.0% |
| APARTMENT 6 HOLBACHE HOUSE Welsh Walls | £159,950 (2006) | £98,500 (2021) | -3.2% | -5.4% |
| 50 Welsh Walls | £25,000 (1995) | £150,000 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| 86 Welsh Walls | £160,000 (2019) | £308,000 (2021) | +38.7% | +36.4% |
| 42 Welsh Walls | £125,000 (2012) | £185,000 (2021) | +4.5% | +2.5% |
| 100 Welsh Walls | £180,000 (2007) | £165,000 (2020) | -0.7% | -2.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Welsh Walls, Oswestry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 51 | 51.0% | £138,500 | £25,000 – £282,000 |
| Semi-detached | 29 | 29.0% | £160,000 | £37,000 – £335,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 11 | 11.0% | £160,000 | £98,500 – £300,000 |
| Detached | 9 | 9.0% | £175,000 | £40,000 – £307,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Welsh Walls, Oswestry
11 of the sales on record are leasehold and 89 freehold — 11.0% 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 £160,000 and the median freehold sale £150,000 — a gap of -6.3%. 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 | 11 | 11.0% | £160,000 |
| Freehold | 89 | 89.0% | £150,000 |
| New build | 8 | 8.0% | £173,495 |
| Existing home | 92 | 92.0% | £150,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +15.7%. 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 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 Welsh Walls, Oswestry
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Shropshire, 40.2% of 156,548 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 9.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,369 | 0.9% |
| B | 18,755 | 12.0% |
| C | 42,872 | 27.4% |
| D | 53,101 | 33.9% |
| E | 25,756 | 16.5% |
| F | 10,500 | 6.7% |
| G | 4,195 | 2.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Shropshire at £817 a month as of Jun 2026 — £603 for a one-bedroom home and £946 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £153,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.39% 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 SY11, 45 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 21 violent, 2 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 10 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.7 times quieter.
Against the 323,606 residents the 2021 census counted in Shropshire, that is 0.14 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 Welsh Walls, Oswestry
The 2021 census counted 323,606 residents in Shropshire across 139,579 households. 69.5% of those households own their home and 30.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a SY11 postcode: 7 primary, 1 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 Marches School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,346 |
| Woodside Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 558 |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary Academy and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 316 |
| The Meadows Primary School | Primary | Community school | 268 |
| Whittington CofE (VA) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 239 |
| Gobowen Primary School | Primary | Community school | 224 |
| West Felton Church of England Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 167 |
| Our Lady and St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 130 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Gobowen Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Chirk Rail Station | Rail | 7.4 km |
| Ruabon Rail Station | Rail | 13.0 km |
| Llangollen (Llangollen Railway) | Metro or underground | 14.7 km |
Section 09
How Welsh Walls, Oswestry compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Welsh Walls, Oswestry sits below that national figure — -2.5%.
Within Oswestry the street ranks 236 of 612 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £136,000 (+12.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,959 per square metre, across 17 of the 100 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 £25,000 to £335,000. 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.
Welsh Walls, Oswestry sits in Shropshire, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Shropshire at 8.0 times median local earnings of £34,232 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
- Cabin Lane£81,975 median
- Balmoral Crescent£117,000 median
- Park Avenue£115,000 median
- Cherry Tree Drive£96,250 median
- Smale Rise£88,850 median
- Middleton Road£150,000 median
- Station Road£143,000 median
- Albert Road£79,250 median
- Lutton Close£105,000 median
- Ascot Road£129,498 median
- Henley Drive£140,000 median
- College Road£111,500 median
- Oak Drive£148,500 median
- York Street£75,000 median
- Llwyn Road£105,000 median
- Castle Street£90,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 48 Welsh Walls8 sales
- 54 Welsh Walls4 sales
- 50 Welsh Walls4 sales
- 100 Welsh Walls4 sales
- 16 Welsh Walls4 sales
- 92 Welsh Walls4 sales
- LLORAN COTTAGE Welsh Walls3 sales
- APARTMENT 7, HOLBACHE HOUSE Welsh Walls3 sales
- 114 Welsh Walls3 sales
- WAYSIDE Welsh Walls3 sales
- 27 Welsh Walls3 sales
- 28 Welsh Walls3 sales
- 106 Welsh Walls3 sales
- 30 Welsh Walls3 sales
- APARTMENT 5, HOLBACHE HOUSE Welsh Walls2 sales
- APARTMENT 6, HOLBACHE HOUSE Welsh Walls2 sales
- 86 Welsh Walls2 sales
- 42 Welsh Walls2 sales
- MATRONS HOUSE Welsh Walls2 sales
- 112 Welsh Walls2 sales
- 98 Welsh Walls2 sales
- APARTMENT 3, HOLBACHE HOUSE Welsh Walls2 sales
- 26 Welsh Walls2 sales
- 78 Welsh Walls2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Welsh Walls, Oswestry?
The median price paid in Welsh Walls, Oswestry across every sale on the register is £153,500. 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 Welsh Walls, Oswestry?
100 sales are on record for Welsh Walls, Oswestry, the most recent completing on 21 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Welsh Walls, Oswestry house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +31.4% between 2008 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Welsh Walls, Oswestry house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £187,998, set in 2007. 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 Welsh Walls, Oswestry?
£1,959 per square metre, from the 17 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 21 Aug 2025. 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, “Welsh Walls, Oswestry 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.