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Finchfield market report WV3 7, Wolverhampton
The standing WV3 7 (Finchfield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,317 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WV3 7 (Wolverhampton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 32 registered 2026 sales put the WV3 7 (Wolverhampton) median at £248,000, up 15% on five years earlier, with a mean of £250,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,550 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,317 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WV3 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WV3 (Wolverhampton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WV3 7 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 buyers actually paid in WV3 7
The 2026 median for WV3 7 is £248,000, taken from 32 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £250,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in WV3 7
The last five years of sales put WV3 7 at roughly £2,550 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 WV3 7 13% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WV3 7 home, 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 | £248,000 | £248,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £229,000 | £234,476 | 91 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 97 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 69 |
| 2022 | £238,000 | £279,082 | 97 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 127 |
| 2020 | £190,000 | £246,529 | 93 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 79 |
| 2018 | £165,000 | £219,948 | 122 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 107 |
| 2016 | £161,000 | £225,241 | 98 |
| 2015 | £141,600 | £200,081 | 104 |
| 2014 | £139,500 | £197,905 | 91 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 81 |
| 2012 | £131,000 | £192,816 | 67 |
| 2011 | £131,000 | £197,760 | 70 |
| 2010 | £136,200 | £213,597 | 70 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 73 |
| 2008 | £146,000 | £239,325 | 72 |
| 2007 | £148,000 | £251,049 | 130 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 126 |
| 2005 | £122,500 | £218,001 | 117 |
| 2004 | £113,000 | £205,230 | 133 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 145 |
| 2002 | £86,600 | £162,937 | 156 |
| 2001 | £71,500 | £137,455 | 125 |
| 2000 | £62,000 | £121,675 | 143 |
| 1999 | £57,200 | £113,997 | 136 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 132 |
| 1997 | £49,100 | £100,694 | 112 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 115 |
| 1995 | £45,500 | £98,910 | 107 |
In cash terms the typical WV3 7 home went from £45,500 in 1995 to £248,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 151%, 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 11% 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 WV3 7 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 (+21.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−13.9%). 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) | +8.3% | +5.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WV3 7
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 32 WV3 7 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 134 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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 tenants pay around WV3 7
For renting purposes WV3 7 sits in Wolverhampton. The ONS average private rent there is £934 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £666 a month here against £1,427 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wolverhampton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £248,000 median sold price, £934 a month is £11,208 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
How WV3 7 trades
This is a thin market: 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
WV3 7 (Finchfield): the questions that come up
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Will WV3 7 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in WV3 today
The live side of the market holds 50 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WV3 district, not just WV3 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% 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.
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"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 WV3 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 WV
Real sold prices by size across the WV area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £265,000 | £365,000 (+38%) | £550,000 (+51%) | £820,000 (+49%) |
| Semi-detached | £191,500 | £215,000 (+12%) | £247,750 (+15%) | £315,000 (+27%) | £395,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £170,000 | £180,000 (+6%) | £200,000 (+11%) | £260,000 (+30%) | — |
| Flat | £100,000 | £125,000 (+25%) | £240,750 (+93%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WV area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, WV area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WV3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WV3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV3 0 | £149,000 | 22 |
| WV3 8 | £287,500 | 30 |
| WV3 9 | £230,000 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full WV3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WV3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WV3 7? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WV3 7'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 WV3 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WV3 7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WV3 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WV3 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.