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Essex Drive, WS12

Sold prices, £/m² and street profile from HM Land Registry records.

Median sold price
£150,000
all recorded sales
£ per m²
£2,189
from EPC floor areas
Recorded sales
29
Distinct homes
16
Price range
£29,343£285,000
Sales recorded
2001 → 2025
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Essex Drive is mostly semi-detached houses. Homes here typically change hands around £150,000 — roughly 30% below the WS12 norm. On floor area that works out near £2,189 per square metre, below the district's £2,586. Too few recent sales to read a street-level trend, but across WS12 prices have been easing over the last few years. HM Land Registry records 29 sales across 16 homes since 2001 — homes here come up rarely.

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Essex Drive prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 29 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianWS12 district trend
£0£100k£200k£300k200520102015202020252001: £60,995 median · 2 sales2002: £59,646 median · 2 sales2003: £106,475 median · 2 sales2005: £119,995 median · 1 sale2008: £160,000 median · 1 sale2009: £125,000 median · 1 sale2013: £145,000 median · 1 sale2014: £114,000 median · 1 sale2015: £118,000 median · 1 sale2016: £167,500 median · 2 sales2017: £177,500 median · 4 sales2019: £140,000 median · 1 sale2020: £160,000 median · 1 sale2021: £185,000 median · 3 sales2022: £220,000 median · 3 sales2023: £247,500 median · 2 sales2025: £230,000 median · 1 sale

Median sold price by year vs the WS12 district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Essex Drive compares

Essex Drive against the WS12 district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

Suthard Way£345k · 54
Dawes Way£304k · 62
Adams Way£256k · 84
Miners Way£232k · 147
Green Heath Road£214k · 49
Cannock Road£190k · 52
Littleworth Road£183k · 115
Belt Road£175k · 52
Essex Drive£150k · 29*

Median sold price and sale count over the last 8years for the district's busiest streets. *This street's figures cover all recorded sales (fewer than 3 in the last 8 years).

This street
£150,000
median · all recorded sales
WS12 district
£215,000
median · last 8 years · street -30%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Essex Drive's £150,000 median sits about 30% below WS12's £215,000; on floor space it runs £2,189/m² against the district's £2,586/m² (-15%).

Street and WS12 figures are medians of HM Land Registry sales; the England figures are the UK House Price Index mix-adjusted average — a different basis, so compare direction rather than levels between the two.

Prices by property type

Median sold price by property type on Essex Drive.

Semi-detached
£160,000
19 sales
Terraced
£132,498
10 sales

Every recorded sale on Essex Drive

Individual transactions as recorded by HM Land Registry, newest first.

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
14 Mar 202518 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£230,000
9 Jan 202527 · WS12 1LGnon-standardSemi-detached£203,000
29 Sept 202328 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£285,000
3 Mar 202322 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£210,000
3 Nov 202213 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£235,000
15 Sept 20226 · WS12 1LGTerraced£220,000
15 Jul 202214 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£220,000
22 Dec 20214 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£143,000
12 Mar 202119 · WS12 1LGTerraced£185,000
12 Mar 202119 · WS12 1LGTerraced£185,000
15 May 202014 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£160,000
28 Feb 20194 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£140,000
20 Dec 201721 · WS12 1LGTerraced£149,950
13 Nov 201729 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£165,000
18 Aug 20172a · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£190,000
6 Jan 201730 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£210,000
20 May 201628 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£150,000
22 Jan 20169 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£185,000
9 Oct 20154 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£118,000
2 May 201421 · WS12 1LGTerraced£114,000
31 May 201319 · WS12 1LGTerraced£145,000
31 Jul 200926 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£125,000
3 Oct 20083 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£160,000
29 Jul 200519 · WS12 1LGTerraced£119,995
4 Aug 200329 · WS12 1LGTerraced£119,950
13 Jun 200314 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£93,000
12 Jul 20023 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£89,950
10 Apr 200218 · WS12 1LGTerraced£29,343
13 Jul 20018 · WS12 1LGTerraced£59,995
12 Jan 200114 · WS12 1LGSemi-detached£61,995

Sales marked non-standardare Land Registry “additional price paid” entries — bulk purchases, repossessions, right-to-buy and similar transfers. They're listed for completeness but excluded from every median and comparison figure on this page.

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More streets in WS12

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, including the UK House Price Index. EPC data © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures summarise recorded sales on the street and are not a valuation of any individual home.