Lower Birches Way, Rugeley house prices are built from 244 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2002 and the most recent on 23 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £157,750. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +85.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +34.2%.
Median price paid
£157,750
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+85.1%
Change in real terms
+34.2%
Median per m²
£1,667
HM Land Registry244 sales55 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Lower Birches Way, Rugeley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lower Birches Way, Rugeley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2002 to 2025. 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 | 6 | £138,500 | £252,306 |
| 2010s | 9 | £205,975 | £290,425 |
| 2020s | 1 | £392,500 | £401,033 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lower Birches Way, Rugeley is £392,500 in 2025; the lowest is £117,250 in 2004. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £138,500 to £392,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £267,148, so the real change over the whole record is +50.1% — about +1.78% 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: +85.1% in cash against +34.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 23 Mar 2026 | Detached | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 96 | 5 Nov 2025 | Detached | £305,001 | £311,631 |
| 82 | 22 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £203,000 | £207,413 |
| 7 | 15 Aug 2025 | Detached | £490,000 | £500,652 |
| 15 | 11 Jul 2025 | Detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 63 | 31 Jan 2025 | Detached | £392,500 | £401,033 |
| 55 | 18 Nov 2024 | Detached | £310,000 | £326,194 |
| 69 | 10 Jan 2024 | Detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 136 | 1 Dec 2023 | Detached | £417,500 | £451,092 |
| 36 | 29 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £182,000 | £196,644 |
| 116 | 25 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £236,000 | £254,989 |
| 88 | 16 Jan 2023 | Detached | £400,000 | £432,184 |
| 66 | 17 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £162,000 | £187,691 |
| 44 | 27 May 2022 | Terraced | £154,000 | £178,422 |
| 76 | 12 May 2022 | Terraced | £190,000 | £220,131 |
| 80 | 11 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £166,000 | £192,325 |
| 25 | 19 Nov 2021 | Detached | £390,000 | £492,742 |
| 74 | 30 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £175,000 | £221,102 |
| 3 | 8 Jul 2021 | Detached | £285,000 | £360,081 |
| 39 | 25 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £155,000 | £195,833 |
| 40 | 29 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £167,000 | £216,226 |
| 68 | 24 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £160,000 | £207,163 |
| 80 | 13 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £136,750 | £177,059 |
| 3 | 10 Jan 2020 | Detached | £275,000 | £356,061 |
| 10 | 1 Nov 2019 | Detached | £280,000 | £366,234 |
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 Lower Birches Way, Rugeley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Lower Birches Way | £157,500 (2002) | £410,000 (2026) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 96 Lower Birches Way | £189,995 (2002) | £305,001 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.7% |
| 82 Lower Birches Way | £87,500 (2002) | £203,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
| 7 Lower Birches Way | £194,000 (2002) | £490,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 15 Lower Birches Way | £194,995 (2002) | £450,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
| 55 Lower Birches Way | £135,000 (2002) | £310,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 136 Lower Birches Way | £184,995 (2002) | £417,500 (2023) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
| 36 Lower Birches Way | £69,995 (2002) | £182,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.8% |
| 116 Lower Birches Way | £126,500 (2003) | £236,000 (2023) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
| 88 Lower Birches Way | £192,500 (2002) | £400,000 (2023) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 66 Lower Birches Way | £69,995 (2002) | £162,000 (2022) | +4.3% | +1.7% |
| 44 Lower Birches Way | £69,995 (2002) | £154,000 (2022) | +4.0% | +1.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lower Birches Way, Rugeley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 150 | 61.5% | £195,000 | £112,500 – £490,000 |
| Terraced | 77 | 31.6% | £113,000 | £35,000 – £203,000 |
| Semi-detached | 17 | 7.0% | £120,000 | £87,500 – £236,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lower Birches Way, Rugeley
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 244 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 244 | 100.0% | £157,750 |
| New build | 96 | 39.3% | £138,248 |
| Existing home | 148 | 60.7% | £198,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -30.2%. 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 Lower Birches Way, Rugeley
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cannock Chase, 42.7% of 47,705 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 196 | 0.4% |
| B | 5,728 | 12.0% |
| C | 14,442 | 30.3% |
| D | 19,814 | 41.5% |
| E | 6,116 | 12.8% |
| F | 1,118 | 2.3% |
| G | 291 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cannock Chase at £854 a month as of Jun 2026 — £580 for a one-bedroom home and £949 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £157,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.50% 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 WS15, 133 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 57 violent, 10 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 13 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times quieter.
Against the 100,519 residents the 2021 census counted in Cannock Chase, that is 1.32 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 Lower Birches Way, Rugeley
The 2021 census counted 100,519 residents in Cannock Chase across 43,456 households. 67.8% of those households own their home and 32.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a WS15 postcode: 16 primary, 1 secondary, 1 all-through. 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 Hart School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,157 |
| Etching Hill CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 460 |
| The John Bamford Primary School | Primary | Community school | 268 |
| Redbrook Hayes Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 225 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 217 |
| Hob Hill CE/Methodist (VC) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 215 |
| Chancel Primary School | Primary | Community school | 210 |
| Gentleshaw Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 201 |
| Hayes Meadow Primary School | Primary | Community school | 187 |
| Chase View Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 185 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Rugeley Town Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Rugeley Trent Valley Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Hednesford Rail Station | Rail | 7.9 km |
| Lichfield City Rail Station | Rail | 10.7 km |
Section 09
How Lower Birches Way, Rugeley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lower Birches Way, Rugeley sits above that national figure — +0.2%.
Within Rugeley the street ranks 220 of 534 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £136,000 (+16.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,667 per square metre, across 55 of the 244 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 £35,000 to £490,000. 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.
Lower Birches Way, Rugeley sits in Cannock Chase, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cannock Chase at 6.3 times median local earnings of £36,211 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
- Uttoxeter Road£204,975 median
- Armitage Road£137,500 median
- Eaton Drive£151,450 median
- Burnthill Lane£150,000 median
- Lichfield Road£176,250 median
- Wolseley Road£133,475 median
- Arch Street£79,000 median
- High Street£196,250 median
- New Road£125,500 median
- Buckmaster Way£239,995 median
- Priory Avenue£190,000 median
- Canterbury Drive£171,000 median
- Chester Road£143,995 median
- Green Lane£108,000 median
- Fernwood Drive£96,225 median
- Main Road£111,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 66 Lower Birches Way5 sales
- 80 Lower Birches Way5 sales
- 68 Lower Birches Way5 sales
- 15 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 55 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 44 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 76 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 25 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 74 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 40 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 67 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 110 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 51 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 94 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 37 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 28 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 35 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 48 Lower Birches Way4 sales
- 27 Lower Birches Way3 sales
- 82 Lower Birches Way3 sales
- 7 Lower Birches Way3 sales
- 136 Lower Birches Way3 sales
- 36 Lower Birches Way3 sales
- 116 Lower Birches Way3 sales
Back to Rugeley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lower Birches Way, Rugeley?
The median price paid in Lower Birches Way, Rugeley across every sale on the register is £157,750. 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 Lower Birches Way, Rugeley?
244 sales are on record for Lower Birches Way, Rugeley, the most recent completing on 23 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lower Birches Way, Rugeley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +85.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +34.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lower Birches Way, Rugeley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £392,500, set in 2025. 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 Lower Birches Way, Rugeley?
£1,667 per square metre, from the 55 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 23 Mar 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, “Lower Birches Way, Rugeley 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.