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Birmingham city centre market report B1, Birmingham
The B1 (Birmingham city centre) 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: 8,191 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B1 (Birmingham) 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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 32 registered 2026 sales put the B1 (Birmingham) median at £169,800, down 19% on five years earlier, with a mean of £189,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,510 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,191 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district B1 covering Birmingham city centre sits in Birmingham. 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 B1 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.
B1 sold prices: where the market stands
32 sales were registered in B1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £169,800. The mean works out at £189,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in B1
A square metre of B1 home has cost about £3,510 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B1 trades 40% below the country as a whole.
B1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £169,800 | £169,800 | 32 |
| 2025 | £237,500 | £243,179 | 176 |
| 2024 | £223,000 | £237,095 | 212 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 183 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 205 |
| 2021 | £209,000 | £264,621 | 277 |
| 2020 | £227,000 | £294,537 | 315 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 613 |
| 2018 | £182,200 | £242,876 | 390 |
| 2017 | £188,000 | £256,413 | 391 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 303 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 279 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 281 |
| 2013 | £121,500 | £174,826 | 217 |
| 2012 | £121,500 | £178,833 | 179 |
| 2011 | £128,800 | £194,438 | 174 |
| 2010 | £126,500 | £198,385 | 160 |
| 2009 | £133,000 | £213,799 | 128 |
| 2008 | £155,000 | £254,078 | 271 |
| 2007 | £163,000 | £276,493 | 623 |
| 2006 | £171,400 | £297,529 | 425 |
| 2005 | £149,300 | £265,694 | 335 |
| 2004 | £162,000 | £294,224 | 383 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 700 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 264 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 347 |
| 2000 | £143,200 | £281,030 | 132 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 48 |
| 1998 | £98,000 | £197,820 | 39 |
| 1997 | £56,200 | £115,255 | 38 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 28 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 43 |
In cash terms the typical B1 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £169,800 in 2026, roughly 3.1 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 42%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 43% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B1 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 (+186.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−49.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −28.5% | −30.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.1% | −8.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | 0.0% | −2.8% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 98% of the typed total.
Median by property type, B1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £520,000 (2023) | – | 175 |
| Flats | £166,000 | 28 | 7,958 |
Sales activity in B1
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
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.
B1 recorded 72 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 401 sales a year before the financial crisis and 162 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.
How B1 trades
Only 72 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B1 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. In its area's price order B1 comes 73 of 76, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Rents around B1
For renting purposes B1 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £169,800 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 7.7% 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.
B1 (Birmingham city centre): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in B1 (Birmingham city centre)?
Are property prices falling in B1 (Birmingham city centre)?
Is B1 (Birmingham city centre) a good place to buy a house?
Will B1 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 36% 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 B1 today
Everything above is what homes in B1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 159 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the B1 median sold price.
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 →
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: B prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
B1 ranks 74 of 76 in the B 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 B area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside B1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B1 1 | £140,000 | 13 |
| B1 2 | £210,000 | 7 |
| B1 3 | £168,800 | 12 |
How B1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B1 itself, which ranks 73 of 76 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| B94 | £615,000 | +7% |
| B93 | £560,000 | +11% |
| B91 | £490,000 | +14% |
| B95 | £442,500 | +11% |
| B72 | £400,000 | +17% |
| B74 | £397,500 | +5% |
| B47 | £373,000 | +10% |
| B75 | £363,800 | +4% |
| B73 | £350,000 | +1% |
| B76 | £350,000 | +17% |
| B80 | £347,500 | +24% |
| B17 | £347,000 | +7% |
| B96 | £347,000 | -4% |
| B48 | £340,000 | -9% |
| B60 | £340,000 | +6% |
| B90 | £335,000 | +4% |
| B50 | £325,000 | -1% |
| B49 | £312,500 | -5% |
| B92 | £310,000 | +11% |
| B28 | £300,000 | +12% |
| B61 | £295,000 | +13% |
| B62 | £285,000 | +15% |
| B46 | £279,500 | +4% |
| B1 (this report) | £169,800 | -19% |
Before you sell in B1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.