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Handsworth Wood market report B20 2, Birmingham
The B20 2 (Handsworth Wood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,510 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B20 2 (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: a typical B20 2 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £200,000 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, down 18% on five years earlier), with the mean at £240,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,420 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,510 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
B20 2 is one sector of B20 (Birmingham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where B20 2 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.
What a home in B20 2 sells for
Across 29 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B20 2 home went for £200,000. The mean is £240,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in B20 2
The last five years of sales put B20 2 at roughly £2,420 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B20 2 30% below the national figure.
B20 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £200,000 | £200,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £237,500 | £243,179 | 64 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 61 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 56 |
| 2022 | £287,500 | £337,127 | 78 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 107 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 99 |
| 2019 | £158,500 | £207,756 | 78 |
| 2018 | £191,000 | £254,607 | 96 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 75 |
| 2016 | £182,000 | £254,620 | 87 |
| 2015 | £172,200 | £243,319 | 78 |
| 2014 | £168,000 | £238,337 | 63 |
| 2013 | £137,000 | £197,129 | 70 |
| 2012 | £160,500 | £236,236 | 56 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 55 |
| 2010 | £141,000 | £221,124 | 53 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 57 |
| 2008 | £155,000 | £254,078 | 97 |
| 2007 | £142,500 | £241,720 | 196 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 175 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 136 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 163 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 167 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 195 |
| 2001 | £65,500 | £125,920 | 192 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 192 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 160 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 151 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 144 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 150 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 130 |
In cash terms the typical B20 2 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 109%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 41% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B20 2 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 2020 (+51.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−25.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −15.8% | −17.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.0% | −8.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 29 B20 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around B20 2
The local authority for B20 2 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £821 a month here against £1,563 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, which against the £200,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market B20 2 is
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B20 2 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. Within B20, this sector trades 15% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: B20 2 (Handsworth Wood)
How much did a house sell for in B20 2 (Handsworth Wood)?
Are property prices falling in B20 2 (Handsworth Wood)?
Is B20 2 (Handsworth Wood) a good place to buy a house?
Where do B20 2 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 18% over five years in cash but down 36% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in B20 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 30 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B20 district, not just B20 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every B20 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in B20
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B20, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B20 1 | £278,000 | 21 |
| 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.
Selling in B20 2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B20 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working B20 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B20 2.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual B20 2 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.