That is the middle of 92 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.2 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
92 homes sold in three years: 19 detached houses, 45 semi-detached houses, 21 terraced houses and 7 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£312K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£285K–£380K
Last 12 months
£290K5 sold
Semi-detached houses£230K
median sale · 45 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£185K–£250K
Last 12 months
£198K12 sold
Terraced houses£175K
median sale · 21 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£160K–£185K
Last 12 months
£210K5 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 7 sold, median £122K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 49% of sales
Detached houses21%
Semi-detached houses49%
Terraced houses23%
Flats and maisonettes8%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Rawnsley’s homes sold for between £165K and £285K
One sale in ten was under £125K and one in ten over £350K. 66% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £211,247, sits in the £200–250K band
92 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.2 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £50,000 in 1995 to £210,247 in the last 12 months (£215,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
24 sales in the last 12 months, against 73 in 2000, the busiest year, and 14 in 2011. Sales fell by 65% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 32% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Rawnsley costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Rawnsley, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£66K
£86K
£190K
—
£206K
£255K
£290K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£60K
£129K
£120K
£120K
£185K
£198K
Terraced houses
—
£52K
£94K
—
£116K
£137K
£210K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
88 new homes have been sold in Rawnsley since 1995; the share peaked at 54% in 1995.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.4% sold leasehold in Rawnsley. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Littleworth Road is Rawnsley’s busiest street, with 29 sales in three years
5 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Littleworth Road
WS12
29
£180,000
Mixed
2
Cannock Wood Street
WS12
9
£185,000
Mixed
3
Chetwynd Park
WS12
8
£247,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Longacres
WS12
6
£183,750
Mixed
5
Eastgate
WS12
5
£187,500
Mostly terraced houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Rawnsley’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Rawnsley
What is the average house price in Rawnsley?
The median home in Rawnsley sold for £211,247 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 92 standard sales (£210,247 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £312,000, semi-detached houses £230,000, terraced houses £175,000 and flats and maisonettes £122,000.
Are house prices going up in Rawnsley?
The median was £197,500 in 2025, down 7% on 2024 (£212,000), and £210,247 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Rawnsley each year?
24 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 34 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Photo: Geoff Pick · CC BY-SA 2.0