Lea Road, Wolverhampton house prices are built from 186 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 2 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £90,000. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +117.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +55.1%.
Median price paid
£90,000
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+117.8%
Change in real terms
+55.1%
Median per m²
£900
HM Land Registry186 sales54 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Lea Road, Wolverhampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lea Road, Wolverhampton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £35,500 | £78,827 |
| 2000s | 9 | £90,000 | £163,953 |
| 2010s | 4 | £114,000 | £160,740 |
| 2020s | 3 | £180,000 | £183,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lea Road, Wolverhampton is £245,000 in 2025; the lowest is £35,500 in 1998. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £36,000 to £245,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £76,331, so the real change over the whole record is +227.9% — about +4.33% 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: +117.8% in cash against +55.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 2 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 197 | 11 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| 130 | 15 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 87 | 27 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 189 | 10 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £121,000 | £123,630 |
| 110 | 30 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £216,500 | £221,207 |
| 103 | 4 Apr 2025 | Detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 12a | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 134 | 17 May 2024 | Terraced | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| 114 | 26 Apr 2023 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £145,862 |
| 116 | 17 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £145,000 | £156,667 |
| 150 | 3 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £291,724 |
| 82c | 3 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £167,471 |
| 106 | 3 Feb 2023 | Detached | £110,000 | £118,851 |
| 124 | 4 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £183,500 | £212,601 |
| 81 | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £147,000 | £170,312 |
| 10 | 25 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £182,500 | £211,442 |
| 165 | 7 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| 2 | 5 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £107,000 | £123,969 |
| 164 | 19 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £187,500 | £236,895 |
| 75 | 28 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £145,000 | £183,199 |
| 156 | 2 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £271,640 |
| 192 | 1 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £216,000 | £272,903 |
| 31 | 22 Dec 2020 | Detached | £295,000 | £381,956 |
| 110 | 29 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £174,793 |
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 Lea Road, Wolverhampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Lea Road | £25,500 (1997) | £190,000 (2026) | +7.2% | +4.4% |
| 197 Lea Road | £49,000 (2000) | £245,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 87 Lea Road | £63,000 (2002) | £270,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.6% |
| 110 Lea Road | £34,500 (1999) | £216,500 (2025) | +7.3% | +4.5% |
| 134 Lea Road | £70,000 (2002) | £120,000 (2024) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| 114 Lea Road | £38,500 (1995) | £135,000 (2023) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 82C Lea Road | £120,000 (2014) | £155,000 (2023) | +2.9% | -0.3% |
| 150 Lea Road | £69,000 (2002) | £270,000 (2023) | +6.7% | +3.8% |
| 124 Lea Road | £103,500 (2012) | £183,500 (2022) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 81 Lea Road | £33,500 (2000) | £147,000 (2022) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| 10 Lea Road | £25,000 (2001) | £182,500 (2022) | +9.9% | +7.2% |
| 165 Lea Road | £90,000 (2002) | £180,000 (2022) | +3.5% | +0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lea Road, Wolverhampton 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 | 109 | 58.6% | £85,000 | £15,000 – £245,000 |
| Semi-detached | 67 | 36.0% | £110,000 | £34,500 – £270,000 |
| Detached | 6 | 3.2% | £137,500 | £82,500 – £295,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4 | 2.2% | £28,000 | £20,500 – £70,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lea Road, Wolverhampton
5 of the sales on record are leasehold and 181 freehold — 2.7% 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 £30,000 and the median freehold sale £90,000 — a gap of +200.0%. 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 | 5 | 2.7% | £30,000 |
| Freehold | 181 | 97.3% | £90,000 |
A further 22 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 Lea Road, Wolverhampton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across South Staffordshire, 41.1% of 42,918 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 269 | 0.6% |
| B | 4,840 | 11.3% |
| C | 12,541 | 29.2% |
| D | 17,040 | 39.7% |
| E | 6,071 | 14.1% |
| F | 1,659 | 3.9% |
| G | 498 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in South Staffordshire at £947 a month as of Jun 2026 — £658 for a one-bedroom home and £1,006 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £90,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.63% 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 WV3, 262 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 136 violent, 6 burglary, 18 vehicle-related and 7 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.
Against the 110,472 residents the 2021 census counted in South Staffordshire, that is 2.37 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 Lea Road, Wolverhampton
The 2021 census counted 110,472 residents in South Staffordshire across 46,121 households. 75.4% of those households own their home and 24.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a WV3 postcode: 8 primary, 3 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 Royal School, Wolverhampton | All-through | Free schools | 1,488 |
| St Peter's Collegiate Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,329 |
| St Edmund's Catholic Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,171 |
| Smestow Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 589 |
| Bantock Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 434 |
| Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton | Primary | Free schools | 418 |
| Westacre Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 257 |
| Merridale Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 240 |
| Castlecroft Primary School | Primary | Community school | 228 |
| St Michael's Catholic Primary Academy and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 219 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Wolverhampton St George's (West Midlands Metro) | Tram | 2.2 km |
| Wolverhampton St George's (West Midlands Metro) | Metro or underground | 2.3 km |
| Pipers Row (West Midlands Metro) | Metro or underground | 2.4 km |
| Pipers Row (West Midlands Metro) | Metro or underground | 2.4 km |
Section 09
How Lea Road, Wolverhampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lea Road, Wolverhampton sits below that national figure — -42.9%.
Within Wolverhampton the street ranks 1999 of 2560 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £124,950 (-28.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £900 per square metre, across 54 of the 186 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 £15,000 to £295,000. 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.
Lea Road, Wolverhampton sits in South Staffordshire, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in South Staffordshire at 7.2 times median local earnings of £40,205 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
- Victoria Road£103,000 median
- Castlecroft Road£157,500 median
- Coalway Road£155,000 median
- Compton Road£92,000 median
- Trysull Road£144,950 median
- Merridale Street West£62,500 median
- Jeffcock Road£102,875 median
- Bruford Road£67,250 median
- Westacre Crescent£114,500 median
- Bhylls Lane£154,950 median
- Burleigh Road£75,000 median
- Clark Road£151,500 median
- Finchfield Lane£185,000 median
- Merridale Road£85,000 median
- Linden Lea£248,450 median
- Owen Road£75,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 165 Lea Road5 sales
- 69 Lea Road5 sales
- 7 Lea Road4 sales
- 164 Lea Road4 sales
- 192 Lea Road4 sales
- 83 Lea Road4 sales
- 6 Lea Road4 sales
- 139 Lea Road4 sales
- 110 Lea Road3 sales
- 134 Lea Road3 sales
- 81 Lea Road3 sales
- 70 Lea Road3 sales
- 111 Lea Road3 sales
- 120 Lea Road3 sales
- 144 Lea Road3 sales
- 197 Lea Road2 sales
- 87 Lea Road2 sales
- 114 Lea Road2 sales
- 82C Lea Road2 sales
- 150 Lea Road2 sales
- 124 Lea Road2 sales
- 10 Lea Road2 sales
- 156 Lea Road2 sales
- 31 Lea Road2 sales
Back to Wolverhampton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lea Road, Wolverhampton?
The median price paid in Lea Road, Wolverhampton across every sale on the register is £90,000. 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 Lea Road, Wolverhampton?
186 sales are on record for Lea Road, Wolverhampton, the most recent completing on 2 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lea Road, Wolverhampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +117.8% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +55.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lea Road, Wolverhampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £245,000, 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 Lea Road, Wolverhampton?
£900 per square metre, from the 54 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 2 Feb 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, “Lea Road, Wolverhampton 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.