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Handsworth Wood market report B20 1, Birmingham
The standing B20 1 (Handsworth Wood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,108 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B20 1 (Birmingham) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in B20 1 (Birmingham) sold for £278,000 in 2026, the median of 21 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £300,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,740 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,108 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like B20 1 is a single group of streets within B20 (Birmingham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where B20 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in B20 1
The B20 1 median stands at £278,000 for 2026, built from 21 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £300,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in B20 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B20 1 sales average about £2,740 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B20 1 2% below the national figure.
The price of a typical B20 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £278,000 | £278,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £310,000 | £317,413 | 43 |
| 2024 | £268,000 | £284,939 | 36 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 59 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 55 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 67 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 43 |
| 2019 | £255,500 | £334,899 | 44 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 54 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 53 |
| 2016 | £181,500 | £253,920 | 62 |
| 2015 | £172,000 | £243,036 | 61 |
| 2014 | £163,000 | £231,244 | 55 |
| 2013 | £169,000 | £243,174 | 55 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 43 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 48 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 41 |
| 2009 | £163,000 | £262,024 | 34 |
| 2008 | £165,800 | £271,781 | 44 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 98 |
| 2006 | £174,500 | £302,910 | 92 |
| 2005 | £169,000 | £300,752 | 94 |
| 2004 | £172,000 | £312,386 | 95 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 86 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 104 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 97 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 111 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 96 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 73 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 89 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 84 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical B20 1 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £278,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 117%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B20 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−10.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B20 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.3% | −12.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 21 sales completed in B20 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 97 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around B20 1
B20 1 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £821 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,563 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £278,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 4.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How B20 1 trades
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B20 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the B20 district median, B20 1 sits 18% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
B20 1 (Handsworth Wood): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in B20 1 (Handsworth Wood)?
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What happens to B20 1 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in B20 now
Turning to what is actually available: 30 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B20 district, not just B20 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Lea Hill Road, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, B20 2AS, Handsworth Wood
- Tintern Road, Birmingham, West Midlands
- Wellington Road, Handsworth , West Midlands, B67 6EX
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every B20 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £306,000 | £425,000 (+39%) | £665,000 (+56%) | £950,000 (+43%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £240,000 (+14%) | £300,000 (+25%) | £418,250 (+39%) | £535,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £187,500 | £200,000 (+7%) | £235,000 (+18%) | £315,000 (+34%) | £397,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £130,000 | £179,500 (+38%) | £299,000 (+67%) | £500,000 (+67%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
B area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in B20
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B20, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B20 2 | £200,000 | 29 |
| B20 3 | £230,000 | 17 |
Zoom out to the full B20 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B20 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B20 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B20 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B20 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B20 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim B20 1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B20 1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B20 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.