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Birmingham city centre market report B1 3, Birmingham
The B1 3 (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 2,479 HM Land Registry entries for B1 3 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for B1 3 (Birmingham) is £168,800, from 12 registered sales, down 25% on five years earlier; the mean is £198,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,770 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,479 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B1 3 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 3 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 B1 3 prices, from the sold record
Across 12 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B1 3 home went for £168,800. The mean is £198,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in B1 3
By floor space, homes in B1 3 have sold for about £3,770 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B1 3 41% below the national figure.
The price of a typical B1 3 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 | £168,800 | £168,800 | 12 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 47 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 93 |
| 2023 | £231,500 | £254,362 | 120 |
| 2022 | £218,200 | £255,864 | 127 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 86 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 143 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 426 |
| 2018 | £188,000 | £250,608 | 179 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 160 |
| 2016 | £153,500 | £214,748 | 75 |
| 2015 | £158,500 | £223,961 | 60 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 53 |
| 2013 | £110,500 | £158,998 | 18 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 16 |
| 2011 | £126,200 | £190,513 | 16 |
| 2010 | £126,500 | £198,385 | 16 |
| 2009 | £188,500 | £303,015 | 6 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 41 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 102 |
| 2006 | £146,500 | £254,305 | 60 |
| 2005 | £143,000 | £254,482 | 49 |
| 2004 | £133,000 | £241,554 | 140 |
| 2003 | £139,000 | £256,072 | 215 |
| 2002 | £141,000 | £265,290 | 78 |
| 2001 | £86,500 | £166,292 | 20 |
| 2000 | £99,000 | £194,288 | 33 |
| 1999 | £43,300 | £86,295 | 16 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 5 |
| 1997 | £38,500 | £78,956 | 11 |
| 1996 | £57,800 | £121,898 | 22 |
| 1995 | £56,400 | £122,605 | 34 |
In cash terms the typical B1 3 home went from £56,400 in 1995 to £168,800 in 2026, roughly 3.0 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 38%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2009, and today's median remains roughly 44% under it: a 2009 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B1 3 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 2000 (+128.6% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−33.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B1 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −32.5% | −34.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.6% | −9.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.7% | −2.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in B1 3
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 register shows 12 B1 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 80 sales a year recently, against 87 a year before 2008. 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.
The rental side of B1 3
B1 3 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £821 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,563, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £168,800 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 7.7%: 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 B1 3 trades
Only 12 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B1 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
What people ask about B1 3 (Birmingham city centre)
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Are property prices falling in B1 3 (Birmingham city centre)?
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Are B1 3 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 25% over five years in cash but down 41% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
B1's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 159 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B1 district, not just B1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
51% 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" 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 B1 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 B: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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 B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in B1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B1 1 | £140,000 | 13 |
| B1 2 | £210,000 | 7 |
Zoom out to the full B1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in B1 3? 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 B1 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B1 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B1 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working B1 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B1 3.
Keep digging
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See every individual B1 3 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.
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.