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Finchfield market report WV3 9, Wolverhampton
The WV3 9 (Finchfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,623 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV3 9 (Wolverhampton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WV3 9 (Wolverhampton) is £230,000, from 28 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £249,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,640 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,623 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WV3 9 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 9 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 WV3 9 homes really sell for
28 sales were registered in WV3 9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £230,000. The mean works out at £249,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WV3 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WV3 9 costs about £2,640 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WV3 9 19% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WV3 9 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 82 |
| 2024 | £232,000 | £246,664 | 107 |
| 2023 | £232,000 | £254,911 | 77 |
| 2022 | £247,000 | £289,636 | 109 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 129 |
| 2020 | £191,000 | £247,826 | 77 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 107 |
| 2018 | £172,000 | £229,279 | 117 |
| 2017 | £167,000 | £227,771 | 108 |
| 2016 | £185,500 | £259,516 | 130 |
| 2015 | £191,200 | £270,166 | 118 |
| 2014 | £177,000 | £251,105 | 117 |
| 2013 | £168,000 | £241,735 | 101 |
| 2012 | £134,000 | £197,231 | 99 |
| 2011 | £134,000 | £202,288 | 97 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 66 |
| 2009 | £157,500 | £253,183 | 72 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 81 |
| 2007 | £159,500 | £270,556 | 148 |
| 2006 | £156,500 | £271,664 | 148 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 150 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 141 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 150 |
| 2002 | £112,500 | £211,668 | 166 |
| 2001 | £85,500 | £164,369 | 137 |
| 2000 | £65,500 | £128,544 | 135 |
| 1999 | £63,600 | £126,751 | 156 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 123 |
| 1997 | £59,500 | £122,022 | 135 |
| 1996 | £51,800 | £109,244 | 118 |
| 1995 | £54,200 | £117,822 | 94 |
In cash terms the typical WV3 9 home went from £54,200 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 95%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WV3 9 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 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−17.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WV3 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −16.4% | −18.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.8% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 28 sales completed in WV3 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 147 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 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 homes rent for around WV3 9
For renting purposes WV3 9 sits in Wolverhampton. The ONS average private rent there is £934 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £666 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,427 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wolverhampton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £934 a month is £11,208 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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 9 trades
Only 28 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WV3 9 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 WV3, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
WV3 9 (Finchfield): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WV3 9 (Finchfield)?
Are property prices falling in WV3 9 (Finchfield)?
Is WV3 9 (Finchfield) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to WV3 9 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
On the market in WV3 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 50 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WV3 district, not just WV3 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 →
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 WV: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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 WV area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WV area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 8 | £287,500 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full WV3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WV3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WV3 9? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WV3 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WV3 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WV3 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WV3 9.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WV3 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WV3 9 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.
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.