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Balsall Heath market report B12 9, Birmingham
The B12 9 (Balsall Heath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 1,412 HM Land Registry entries for B12 9 (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 B12 9 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £192,500 in 2026 (median of 6 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £217,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,580 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,412 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like B12 9 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 9 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 B12 9 prices, from the sold record
The B12 9 median stands at £192,500 for 2026, built from 6 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £217,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in B12 9
A square metre of B12 9 home has cost about £3,580 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B12 9 32% below the national figure.
A typical B12 9 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £192,500 | £192,500 | 6 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 78 |
| 2024 | £235,500 | £250,385 | 79 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 44 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 23 |
| 2021 | £178,000 | £225,371 | 24 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 25 |
| 2019 | £146,000 | £191,371 | 32 |
| 2018 | £168,000 | £223,947 | 19 |
| 2017 | £128,400 | £175,125 | 34 |
| 2016 | £131,200 | £183,550 | 18 |
| 2015 | £146,500 | £207,005 | 29 |
| 2014 | £125,500 | £178,044 | 26 |
| 2013 | £142,500 | £205,043 | 18 |
| 2012 | £111,500 | £164,114 | 22 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 20 |
| 2010 | £156,000 | £244,648 | 14 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 32 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 39 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 55 |
| 2006 | £129,500 | £224,795 | 66 |
| 2005 | £133,000 | £236,686 | 45 |
| 2004 | £118,800 | £215,764 | 68 |
| 2003 | £105,500 | £194,357 | 108 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 73 |
| 2001 | £65,500 | £125,920 | 66 |
| 2000 | £48,000 | £94,200 | 63 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 65 |
| 1998 | £42,200 | £85,184 | 54 |
| 1997 | £38,800 | £79,571 | 62 |
| 1996 | £43,500 | £91,740 | 54 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 51 |
In cash terms the typical B12 9 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £192,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 111%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B12 9 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 2010 (+48.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−26.3%). 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) | −19.8% | −21.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
B12 9 recorded 6 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 68 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 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.
The shape of the B12 9 market
This is a thin market: 6 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. 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 9 sits 23% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around B12 9
The local authority for B12 9 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 £192,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 6.8% 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.
Common questions on B12 9 (Balsall Heath)
Is B12 9 (Balsall Heath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B12 9 (Balsall Heath)?
Are property prices falling in B12 9 (Balsall Heath)?
What people search before landing on B12 9 (Balsall Heath)
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, B12 9AN among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
What happens to B12 9 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
B12's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 52 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B12 district, not just B12 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 B12 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.
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. 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%) | — |
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. 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.
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 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 0 | £140,000 | 8 |
| B12 8 | £180,000 | 7 |
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 9? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B12 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B12 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B12 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working B12 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B12 9.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B12 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual B12 9 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.