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Finchfield market report WV3, Wolverhampton
The WV3 (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: 12,620 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WV3 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WV3 (Wolverhampton) home changed hands for £250,000 in 2026 (median of 112 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £253,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,560 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 12,620 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district WV3 covering Finchfield, Compton, Castlecroft sits in Wolverhampton. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WV3 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 prices, from the sold record
The WV3 median stands at £250,000 for 2026, built from 112 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £253,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in WV3
The last five years of sales put WV3 at roughly £2,560 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 12% below the national figure.
WV3'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 112 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 311 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 325 |
| 2023 | £205,500 | £225,794 | 242 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 356 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 436 |
| 2020 | £190,000 | £246,529 | 319 |
| 2019 | £175,000 | £229,383 | 339 |
| 2018 | £165,000 | £219,948 | 397 |
| 2017 | £171,000 | £233,227 | 393 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 391 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 370 |
| 2014 | £154,000 | £218,476 | 344 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 301 |
| 2012 | £130,500 | £192,080 | 286 |
| 2011 | £138,500 | £209,082 | 294 |
| 2010 | £136,200 | £213,597 | 248 |
| 2009 | £138,500 | £222,640 | 273 |
| 2008 | £142,800 | £234,079 | 290 |
| 2007 | £146,500 | £248,505 | 511 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 499 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 507 |
| 2004 | £126,000 | £228,841 | 610 |
| 2003 | £106,700 | £196,567 | 654 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 561 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 521 |
| 2000 | £62,800 | £123,245 | 506 |
| 1999 | £58,500 | £116,587 | 505 |
| 1998 | £51,500 | £103,956 | 471 |
| 1997 | £50,400 | £103,360 | 468 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 425 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 355 |
In cash terms the typical WV3 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 147%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 8% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WV3 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 2003 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−6.6%). 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) | +2.0% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £322,500 against £92,800 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, WV3
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 | £322,500 | 32 | 3,025 |
| Semi-detached | £282,000 | 41 | 4,394 |
| Terraced | £178,000 | 25 | 3,598 |
| Flats | £92,800 | 14 | 1,603 |
Sales activity in WV3
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WV3 recorded 245 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 546 sales a year before the financial crisis and 269 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 homes rent for around WV3
The local authority for WV3 is Wolverhampton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £934 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £250,000 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.
Common questions on WV3 (Finchfield)
How much did a house sell for in WV3 (Finchfield)?
Are property prices falling in WV3 (Finchfield)?
Is WV3 (Finchfield) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WV3 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
WV3's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WV3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 50 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% below the WV3 median sold price.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WV prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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
WV3 ranks 9 of 16 in the WV 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 WV area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WV3, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WV3 0 | £149,000 | 22 |
| WV3 7 | £248,000 | 32 |
| WV3 8 | £287,500 | 30 |
| WV3 9 | £230,000 | 28 |
How WV3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WV area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WV7 | £330,000 | +16% |
| WV5 | £310,000 | +13% |
| WV15 | £275,000 | +10% |
| WV8 | £272,500 | +2% |
| WV4 | £259,000 | +22% |
| WV6 | £255,000 | +11% |
| WV3 (this report) | £250,000 | +16% |
| WV16 | £250,000 | -4% |
| WV9 | £235,000 | +7% |
| WV11 | £233,000 | +23% |
| WV10 | £230,000 | +30% |
| WV12 | £225,000 | +25% |
| WV14 | £205,000 | +17% |
| WV2 | £195,000 | +26% |
| WV13 | £190,000 | +23% |
| WV1 | £175,000 | +40% |
Thinking of selling in WV3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WV3, open the average prices map and zoom from the WV3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WV3 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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Dig further
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See every individual WV3 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.