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Handsworth Wood market report B20 3, Birmingham
The standing B20 3 (Handsworth Wood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,298 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B20 3 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical B20 3 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £230,000 in 2026 (median of 17 registered sales, up 31% on five years earlier), with the mean at £244,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,090 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,298 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like B20 3 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 3 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 B20 3 homes really sell for
In the B20 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £230,000, from 17 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £244,500, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
B20 3 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put B20 3 at roughly £2,090 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 3 19% below the national figure.
B20 3'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 53 |
| 2024 | £193,000 | £205,199 | 38 |
| 2023 | £193,800 | £212,939 | 82 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 63 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 65 |
| 2020 | £160,200 | £207,863 | 68 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 73 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 65 |
| 2017 | £119,000 | £162,304 | 71 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 89 |
| 2015 | £120,800 | £170,690 | 76 |
| 2014 | £119,500 | £169,532 | 80 |
| 2013 | £107,500 | £154,682 | 46 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 51 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 50 |
| 2010 | £113,000 | £177,213 | 58 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 53 |
| 2008 | £124,500 | £204,082 | 91 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 171 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 161 |
| 2005 | £114,000 | £202,874 | 123 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 207 |
| 2003 | £79,800 | £147,011 | 182 |
| 2002 | £65,100 | £122,485 | 181 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 214 |
| 2000 | £39,500 | £77,519 | 180 |
| 1999 | £37,000 | £73,739 | 184 |
| 1998 | £37,500 | £75,696 | 133 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 139 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 123 |
| 1995 | £32,500 | £70,650 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical B20 3 home went from £32,500 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 226%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the B20 3 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 (+44.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.2% | +9.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.6% | +0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.7% | +3.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in B20 3
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 17 B20 3 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 51 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.
What kind of market B20 3 is
Only 17 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B20 3 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.
The rental side of B20 3
For renting purposes B20 3 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
B20 3 (Handsworth Wood): the questions that come up
Is B20 3 (Handsworth Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B20 3 (Handsworth Wood)?
Are property prices falling in B20 3 (Handsworth Wood)?
What happens to B20 3 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 31% over five years in cash and up 4% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in B20 right now
The live side of the market holds 30 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B20 district, not just B20 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
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 2 | £200,000 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full B20 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B20 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in B20 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B20 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the B20 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B20 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B20 3.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B20 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual B20 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.