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Balsall Heath market report B12 0, Birmingham
The standing B12 0 (Balsall Heath) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 1,307 registered sales in B12 0 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B12 0 (Birmingham) came in at £140,000, out of 8 registered, down 20% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £149,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,610 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,307 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like B12 0 is a single group of streets within B12 (Birmingham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where B12 0 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 B12 0 homes really sell for
Across 8 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B12 0 home went for £140,000. The mean is £149,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in B12 0
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B12 0 costs about £3,610 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B12 0 runs 51% below it.
A typical B12 0 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 8 |
| 2025 | £259,500 | £265,705 | 48 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 84 |
| 2023 | £230,700 | £253,483 | 66 |
| 2022 | £212,000 | £248,594 | 131 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 49 |
| 2020 | £222,000 | £288,050 | 58 |
| 2019 | £175,000 | £229,383 | 22 |
| 2018 | £118,000 | £157,296 | 170 |
| 2017 | £121,400 | £165,577 | 132 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 33 |
| 2015 | £127,500 | £180,158 | 33 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 19 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 13 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 7 |
| 2011 | £121,000 | £182,663 | 8 |
| 2010 | £111,000 | £174,077 | 5 |
| 2009 | £132,200 | £212,513 | 13 |
| 2008 | £121,900 | £199,820 | 20 |
| 2007 | £155,900 | £264,450 | 110 |
| 2006 | £149,000 | £258,645 | 179 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 14 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 5 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 13 |
| 2002 | £55,900 | £105,175 | 23 |
| 2001 | £58,000 | £111,502 | 7 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 9 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 5 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 9 |
| 1997 | £33,900 | £69,522 | 2 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 6 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 6 |
In cash terms the typical B12 0 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £140,000 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 2020, and today's median remains roughly 51% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B12 0 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 (+61.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−46.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −46.1% | −47.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.4% | −8.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.3% | −3.0% |
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 B12 0
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 8 sales completed in B12 0. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 67 sales a year over the last five years against 45 before the financial crisis. 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.
What kind of market B12 0 is
Only 8 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B12 0 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. Against the B12 district median, B12 0 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around B12 0
B12 0 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.
£1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, which against the £140,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 9.3%. 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.
What people ask about B12 0 (Balsall Heath)
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Are B12 0 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 20% over five years in cash but down 37% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in B12 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 52 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B12 district, not just B12 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 B12 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
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 | — | £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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in B12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B12 8 | £180,000 | 7 |
| B12 9 | £192,500 | 6 |
Zoom out to the full B12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in B12 0? 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 B12 0'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim B12 0.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B12 0. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B12 0 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.