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Finchfield market report WV3 8, Wolverhampton
The WV3 8 (Finchfield) 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: 3,001 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV3 8 (Wolverhampton) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for WV3 8 (Wolverhampton) is £287,500, from 30 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £314,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,080 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,001 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WV3 8 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 8 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 WV3 8 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for WV3 8 is £287,500, taken from 30 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £314,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WV3 8
Per square metre, WV3 8 homes have averaged around £3,080 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WV3 8 1% above the country at large.
The price of a typical WV3 8 home, 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 | £287,500 | £287,500 | 30 |
| 2025 | £298,000 | £305,126 | 87 |
| 2024 | £282,500 | £300,356 | 72 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 53 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 79 |
| 2021 | £274,800 | £347,932 | 110 |
| 2020 | £243,000 | £315,298 | 94 |
| 2019 | £238,500 | £312,616 | 80 |
| 2018 | £195,500 | £260,605 | 96 |
| 2017 | £220,500 | £300,740 | 108 |
| 2016 | £197,000 | £275,605 | 99 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 95 |
| 2014 | £181,000 | £256,780 | 90 |
| 2013 | £167,000 | £240,296 | 73 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 79 |
| 2011 | £173,500 | £261,918 | 81 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 67 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 76 |
| 2008 | £177,000 | £290,140 | 60 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 110 |
| 2006 | £188,000 | £326,344 | 111 |
| 2005 | £171,000 | £304,311 | 114 |
| 2004 | £159,200 | £289,138 | 170 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 118 |
| 2002 | £115,500 | £217,312 | 94 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 126 |
| 2000 | £88,000 | £172,700 | 123 |
| 1999 | £78,500 | £156,446 | 117 |
| 1998 | £77,500 | £156,439 | 104 |
| 1997 | £65,100 | £133,507 | 112 |
| 1996 | £60,800 | £128,224 | 94 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 79 |
In cash terms the typical WV3 8 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £287,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 120%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WV3 8 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 2019 (+22.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.3%). 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) | −3.5% | −5.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
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
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.
WV3 8 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 121 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
How WV3 8 trades
This is a thin market: 30 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. Against the WV3 district median, WV3 8 sits 15% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of WV3 8
For renting purposes WV3 8 sits in Wolverhampton. The ONS average private rent there is £934 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £666 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,427, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wolverhampton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£934 a month is £11,208 a year, which against the £287,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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 people ask about WV3 8 (Finchfield)
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Where do WV3 8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in WV3 now
Turning to what is actually available: 50 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WV3 district, not just WV3 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WV: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WV 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WV area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WV 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 WV3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WV3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV3 0 | £149,000 | 22 |
| WV3 7 | £248,000 | 32 |
| 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.
Before you sell in WV3 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WV3 8'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WV3 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WV3 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WV3 8 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.
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.