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Handsworth Wood market report B20, Birmingham
The B20 (Handsworth Wood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 8,916 registered sales in B20 (Birmingham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for B20 (Birmingham) is £235,000, from 67 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £260,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,410 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,916 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B20 is a postcode district covering Handsworth Wood, Birchfield in Birmingham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where B20 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.
Today's B20 prices, from the sold record
Take the 67 registered 2026 sales in B20 and the middle price, the median, is £235,000. The mean lands at £260,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in B20
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B20 costs about £2,410 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B20 trades 18% below the country as a whole.
B20's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £235,000 | £235,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £237,500 | £243,179 | 160 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 135 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 197 |
| 2022 | £245,800 | £288,229 | 196 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 239 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 210 |
| 2019 | £157,000 | £205,789 | 195 |
| 2018 | £171,500 | £228,613 | 215 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 199 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 238 |
| 2015 | £153,500 | £216,896 | 215 |
| 2014 | £147,000 | £208,545 | 198 |
| 2013 | £137,000 | £197,129 | 171 |
| 2012 | £143,000 | £210,478 | 150 |
| 2011 | £143,500 | £216,630 | 153 |
| 2010 | £142,500 | £223,477 | 152 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 144 |
| 2008 | £147,800 | £242,275 | 232 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 465 |
| 2006 | £139,500 | £242,154 | 428 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 353 |
| 2004 | £124,500 | £226,116 | 465 |
| 2003 | £95,000 | £175,013 | 435 |
| 2002 | £78,000 | £146,756 | 480 |
| 2001 | £58,000 | £111,502 | 503 |
| 2000 | £54,000 | £105,975 | 483 |
| 1999 | £51,600 | £102,836 | 440 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 357 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 372 |
| 1996 | £46,900 | £98,910 | 357 |
| 1995 | £43,300 | £94,128 | 312 |
In cash terms the typical B20 home went from £43,300 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 150%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B20 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 (+46.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−9.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £310,000 against £97,200 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, B20
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £310,000 | 11 | 1,379 |
| Semi-detached | £280,000 | 27 | 2,901 |
| Terraced | £227,500 | 22 | 3,916 |
| Flats | £97,200 | 7 | 718 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 129 sales completed in B20. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 452 sales a year before the financial crisis and 151 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around B20
The local authority for B20 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £821 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,563, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £235,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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.
Reading the B20 market
Only 129 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B20 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: B20 (Handsworth Wood)
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Are property prices falling in B20 (Handsworth Wood)?
Will B20 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
B20's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in B20 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 30 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% above the B20 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 19% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in B
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%) | — |
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
B20 ranks 67 of 76 in the B area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the B area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside B20, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B20 1 | £278,000 | 21 |
| B20 2 | £200,000 | 29 |
| B20 3 | £230,000 | 17 |
How B20 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B20 itself, which ranks 43 of 76 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| B94 | £615,000 | +7% |
| B93 | £560,000 | +11% |
| B91 | £490,000 | +14% |
| B95 | £442,500 | +11% |
| B72 | £400,000 | +17% |
| B74 | £397,500 | +5% |
| B47 | £373,000 | +10% |
| B75 | £363,800 | +4% |
| B73 | £350,000 | +1% |
| B76 | £350,000 | +17% |
| B80 | £347,500 | +24% |
| B17 | £347,000 | +7% |
| B96 | £347,000 | -4% |
| B48 | £340,000 | -9% |
| B60 | £340,000 | +6% |
| B90 | £335,000 | +4% |
| B50 | £325,000 | -1% |
| B49 | £312,500 | -5% |
| B92 | £310,000 | +11% |
| B28 | £300,000 | +12% |
| B61 | £295,000 | +13% |
| B62 | £285,000 | +15% |
| B46 | £279,500 | +4% |
| B20 (this report) | £235,000 | -2% |
Before you sell in B20: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B20, open the average prices map and zoom from the B20 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B20 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
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The live map plots every individual B20 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.