Birmingham market report B
The B (Birmingham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 823,589 registered sales in the B postcode area (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 recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 8,555 registered 2026 sales put the the B postcode area (Birmingham) median at £260,000, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £301,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,130 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 823,589 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The figures for B centred on Birmingham run across 76 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where B 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.
The going rate for a home in B
Across 8,555 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B home went for £260,000. The mean is £301,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
B prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put B at roughly £3,130 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 B 9% below the national figure.
The price of a typical B 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 8,555 |
| 2025 | £257,000 | £263,146 | 21,088 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 19,963 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 18,727 |
| 2022 | £242,000 | £283,773 | 24,182 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 28,094 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 19,975 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 24,555 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 25,771 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 25,561 |
| 2016 | £168,000 | £235,034 | 25,536 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 24,999 |
| 2014 | £153,000 | £217,057 | 24,554 |
| 2013 | £147,000 | £211,518 | 20,489 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 17,314 |
| 2011 | £139,000 | £209,837 | 17,592 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 17,849 |
| 2009 | £138,000 | £221,836 | 16,481 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 19,338 |
| 2007 | £146,000 | £247,657 | 36,898 |
| 2006 | £141,500 | £245,626 | 37,779 |
| 2005 | £134,000 | £238,466 | 31,032 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 35,906 |
| 2003 | £114,000 | £210,016 | 35,541 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 39,029 |
| 2001 | £76,500 | £147,067 | 35,645 |
| 2000 | £66,200 | £129,918 | 32,974 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 32,216 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 28,217 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 29,257 |
| 1996 | £51,500 | £108,611 | 26,184 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 22,288 |
In cash terms the typical B home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 139%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B 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 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−4.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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 £440,000 against £142,500 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, B
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 | £440,000 | 1,638 | 145,404 |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | 3,211 | 288,787 |
| Terraced | £222,000 | 2,550 | 265,678 |
| Flats | £142,500 | 1,156 | 123,720 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.2% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in B
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
B recorded 15,370 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 35,601 sales a year before the financial crisis and 18,503 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.
Reading the B market
B is a liquid market by any standard, with 15,370 sales in the last twelve months of data. Figures built on that many transactions move because the market moves, and for no other reason.
What homes rent for around B
B falls under Birmingham, the local authority covering most of the B area (parts fall under Sandwell and Solihull, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £821 a month here against £1,563 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £260,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
Common questions on B (Birmingham)
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What happens to B prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
What you could buy in B now
Everything above is what homes in B sold for. The live side of the market holds 1,725 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the B median sold price.
Set against 15,370 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 1,725 homes on the market here are roughly 6 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
15% 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.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every B 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.
Month by month: when B sells
Take the 112,054 B sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.9% of the total, January trails with 6.7%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7,555 | 6.7% |
| February | 9,028 | 8.1% |
| March | 12,265 | 10.9% |
| April | 7,581 | 6.8% |
| May | 8,261 | 7.4% |
| June | 10,762 | 9.6% |
| July | 8,876 | 7.9% |
| August | 9,698 | 8.7% |
| September | 10,705 | 9.6% |
| October | 9,199 | 8.2% |
| November | 9,240 | 8.2% |
| December | 8,884 | 7.9% |
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | £270,000 | £297,500 (+10%) | £360,000 (+21%) | £469,794 (+30%) | £650,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £230,000 (+10%) | £265,000 (+15%) | £335,000 (+26%) | £435,000 (+30%) |
| Terraced | £174,000 | £200,000 (+15%) | £210,000 (+5%) | £265,000 (+26%) | £325,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £155,000 (+29%) | £223,000 (+44%) | £330,000 (+48%) | £450,000 (+36%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
District by district
The spread inside B matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| B94 Hockley Heath, Earlswood | £605,000 | +5% | 39 |
| B93 Baddesley Clinton, Bentley Heath | £560,000 | +11% | 126 |
| B91 Solihull, Blossomfield | £488,800 | +14% | 216 |
| B95 Henley-in-Arden, Wooton Wawen | £455,000 | +14% | 35 |
| B74 Four Oaks, Little Aston | £390,000 | +3% | 219 |
| B48 Alvechurch, Cobley Hill | £380,000 | +1% | 29 |
| B47 Hollywood, Wythall | £373,000 | +10% | 67 |
| B75 Mere Green, Roughley | £370,500 | +6% | 180 |
| B73 Boldmere, Oscott | £360,000 | +4% | 164 |
| B76 Walmley, Minworth | £351,500 | +17% | 129 |
| B17 Harborne | £350,000 | +8% | 113 |
| B60 Bromsgrove, Stoke Prior | £350,000 | +10% | 173 |
| B72 Sutton Coldfield town centre, Maney | £350,000 | +2% | 55 |
| B96 Feckenham, Astwood Bank | £348,500 | -4% | 22 |
| B80 Studley, Green Lane | £337,500 | +21% | 51 |
| B49 Alcester, Shelfield | £335,000 | +2% | 58 |
| B90 Shirley, Solihull Lodge | £335,000 | +4% | 363 |
| B50 Bidford-on-Avon, Broom | £330,000 | +1% | 72 |
| B92 Olton, Elmdon | £310,000 | +11% | 276 |
| B61 Bromsgrove, Dodford | £300,000 | +15% | 172 |
| B28 Hall Green | £295,000 | +10% | 155 |
| B62 Halesowen, Romsley | £285,000 | +15% | 125 |
| B97 Redditch, Callow Hill | £285,000 | +12% | 228 |
| B13 Moseley, Billesley | £282,500 | +18% | 154 |
| B46 Coleshill, Water Orton | £280,000 | +4% | 71 |
| B30 Bournville, Cotteridge | £276,200 | +17% | 182 |
| B43 Great Barr, Hamstead | £261,500 | +19% | 137 |
| B79 Tamworth, Warton | £260,000 | +2% | 165 |
| B78 Tamworth, Fazeley | £256,000 | +1% | 173 |
| B15 Edgbaston | £255,000 | -9% | 53 |
| B26 Sheldon | £255,000 | +28% | 203 |
| B36 Castle Bromwich, Smith's Wood | £255,000 | +8% | 155 |
| B45 Rednal, New Frankley | £255,000 | +16% | 199 |
| B29 Selly Oak, Weoley Castle | £252,800 | +18% | 118 |
| B14 Kings Heath, Yardley Wood | £252,500 | +9% | 215 |
| B20 Handsworth Wood, Birchfield | £251,500 | +5% | 86 |
| B16 Ladywood, Edgbaston | £250,000 | +2% | 63 |
| B32 Woodgate, Bartley Green | £250,000 | +35% | 128 |
| B38 Kings Norton, Hawkesley | £250,000 | +11% | 112 |
| B31 Northfield, Longbridge | £242,500 | +21% | 296 |
| B68 Langley, Brandhall | £240,000 | +23% | 127 |
| B70 West Bromwich, Lyng | £240,000 | +42% | 69 |
| B77 Tamworth, Wilnecote | £240,000 | +10% | 329 |
| B63 Halesowen, Hayley Green | £238,500 | +26% | 202 |
| B98 Redditch, Beoley | £235,000 | +8% | 217 |
| B27 Acocks Green | £232,200 | +22% | 122 |
| B4 Birmingham city centre | £230,000 | +0% | 4 |
| B24 Erdington, Tyburn | £230,000 | +13% | 113 |
| B37 Chelmsley Wood, Marston Green | £225,000 | +28% | 141 |
| B42 Perry Barr, Great Barr | £225,000 | +22% | 111 |
| B69 Oldbury, Tividale | £225,000 | +36% | 105 |
| B71 West Bromwich, Balls Hill | £223,000 | +22% | 103 |
| B33 Kitts Green, Stechford | £222,000 | +31% | 115 |
| B34 Shard End, Buckland End | £218,200 | +21% | 84 |
| B3 Birmingham city centre, Colmore Row | £217,500 | +4% | 20 |
| B44 Perry Barr, Kingstanding | £215,000 | +24% | 168 |
| B64 Cradley Heath, Old Hill | £215,000 | +26% | 80 |
| B65 Rowley Regis, Blackheath | £215,000 | +24% | 85 |
| B67 Smethwick, Bearwood | £207,500 | +12% | 86 |
| B23 Erdington, Short Heath | £205,000 | +21% | 187 |
| B10 Small Heath | £195,000 | +22% | 24 |
| B8 Saltley, Washwood Heath | £190,000 | +25% | 48 |
| B25 Yardley | £190,000 | +9% | 42 |
| B11 Sparkhill, Tyseley | £187,500 | +19% | 86 |
| B21 Handsworth | £185,000 | +19% | 45 |
| B35 Castle Vale | £185,000 | +19% | 18 |
| B19 Lozells, Newtown | £182,500 | +16% | 12 |
| B7 Nechells | £180,000 | +16% | 9 |
| B66 Smethwick, Bearwood | £179,500 | +11% | 44 |
| B9 Bordesley Green | £175,000 | +15% | 32 |
| B18 Jewellery Quarter, Hockley | £174,000 | +33% | 34 |
| B5 Digbeth, Highgate | £170,000 | -32% | 29 |
| B1 Birmingham city centre | £167,200 | -20% | 38 |
| B6 Aston | £165,000 | +22% | 23 |
| B12 Balsall Heath, Sparkbrook | £156,000 | -8% | 24 |
| B2 Birmingham city centre, New Street | £100,500 | -58% | 2 |
Before you sell in B: 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 B'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.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about B. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B 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.