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Birmingham city centre market report B1 1, Birmingham
The B1 1 (Birmingham city centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,920 HM Land Registry entries for B1 1 (Birmingham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical B1 1 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £140,000 in 2026 (median of 13 registered sales, down 33% on five years earlier), with the mean at £157,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,180 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,920 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
B1 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B1 (Birmingham). 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 B1 1 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 B1 1 homes really sell for
13 sales were registered in B1 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £140,000. The mean works out at £157,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in B1 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B1 1 costs about £3,180 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 B1 1 51% below the national figure.
The price of a typical B1 1 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 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 13 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 63 |
| 2024 | £168,000 | £178,619 | 41 |
| 2023 | £195,500 | £214,807 | 42 |
| 2022 | £255,000 | £299,017 | 48 |
| 2021 | £209,000 | £264,621 | 153 |
| 2020 | £229,000 | £297,132 | 138 |
| 2019 | £205,000 | £268,706 | 159 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 122 |
| 2017 | £186,000 | £253,685 | 183 |
| 2016 | £171,000 | £239,231 | 172 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 166 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 177 |
| 2013 | £123,500 | £177,704 | 167 |
| 2012 | £121,800 | £179,274 | 127 |
| 2011 | £133,500 | £201,534 | 130 |
| 2010 | £130,700 | £204,971 | 102 |
| 2009 | £133,000 | £213,799 | 101 |
| 2008 | £146,000 | £239,325 | 111 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 373 |
| 2006 | £180,200 | £312,804 | 320 |
| 2005 | £156,000 | £277,617 | 237 |
| 2004 | £209,100 | £379,766 | 161 |
| 2003 | £196,500 | £362,001 | 311 |
| 2002 | £157,800 | £296,899 | 72 |
| 2001 | £168,500 | £323,933 | 178 |
| 2000 | £175,000 | £343,438 | 41 |
| 1999 | £75,500 | £150,468 | 6 |
| 1998 | £13,000 | £26,241 | 1 |
| 1997 | £12,000 | £24,610 | 1 |
| 1996 | £21,800 | £45,975 | 2 |
| 1995 | £16,500 | £35,868 | 2 |
In cash terms the typical B1 1 home went from £16,500 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 290%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2004, and today's median remains roughly 63% under it: a 2004 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B1 1 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 1999 (+480.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−45.0%). 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) | −34.9% | −36.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −7.7% | −12.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.0% | −5.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −1.3% | −3.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in B1 1
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, 13 sales completed in B1 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 212 sales a year before the financial crisis and 41 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.
How B1 1 trades
This is a thin market: 13 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. 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 B1, this sector trades 18% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around B1 1
The local authority for B1 1 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £821 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,563 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £140,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 9.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about B1 1 (Birmingham city centre)
Is B1 1 (Birmingham city centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B1 1 (Birmingham city centre)?
Are property prices falling in B1 1 (Birmingham city centre)?
Are B1 1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 33% over five years in cash but down 47% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in B1 now
Turning to what is actually available: 159 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B1 district, not just B1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
51% 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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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 B1 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 B
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £306,000 | £425,000 (+39%) | £665,000 (+56%) | £950,000 (+43%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £240,000 (+14%) | £300,000 (+25%) | £418,250 (+39%) | £535,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £187,500 | £200,000 (+7%) | £235,000 (+18%) | £315,000 (+34%) | £397,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £130,000 | £179,500 (+38%) | £299,000 (+67%) | £500,000 (+67%) | — |
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 B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
B 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 B1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B1 2 | £210,000 | 7 |
| B1 3 | £168,800 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full B1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in B1 1? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B1 1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B1 1.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every B1 1 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.