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Balsall Heath market report B12, Birmingham
The standing B12 (Balsall Heath) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,323 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B12 (Birmingham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 21 registered 2026 sales put the B12 (Birmingham) median at £157,000, down 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £176,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,330 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,323 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B12 is the postcode district covering Balsall Heath, Sparkbrook in Birmingham. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where B12 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.
The going rate for a home in B12
Across 21 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B12 home went for £157,000. The mean is £176,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in B12
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B12 costs about £3,330 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B12 45% below the country at large.
A typical B12 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £157,000 | £157,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £230,200 | £235,705 | 150 |
| 2024 | £217,200 | £230,928 | 188 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 133 |
| 2022 | £208,000 | £243,904 | 178 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 98 |
| 2020 | £199,000 | £258,207 | 103 |
| 2019 | £138,000 | £180,885 | 87 |
| 2018 | £119,500 | £159,296 | 218 |
| 2017 | £123,000 | £167,760 | 207 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 78 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 96 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 78 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 59 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 49 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 56 |
| 2010 | £110,500 | £173,292 | 56 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 63 |
| 2008 | £125,500 | £205,721 | 100 |
| 2007 | £139,200 | £236,122 | 234 |
| 2006 | £139,300 | £241,807 | 320 |
| 2005 | £119,000 | £211,772 | 130 |
| 2004 | £108,000 | £196,149 | 153 |
| 2003 | £92,000 | £169,486 | 234 |
| 2002 | £63,800 | £120,039 | 198 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 168 |
| 2000 | £40,800 | £80,070 | 176 |
| 1999 | £37,200 | £74,138 | 154 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 153 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 135 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 133 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 117 |
In cash terms the typical B12 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £157,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 88%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 39% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B12 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 2020 (+44.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−31.8%). 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) | −31.8% | −33.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.6% | −2.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 57% of the typed total. In 2005, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £240,000 against £116,000 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, B12
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £240,000 (2005) | – | 28 |
| Semi-detached | £290,000 (2025) | – | 283 |
| Terraced | £183,800 | 12 | 2,445 |
| Flats | £128,500 | 8 | 1,512 |
How many homes change hands in B12
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 52 B12 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 202 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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.
Reading the B12 market
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B12 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 B12 comes 75 of 76, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What tenants pay around B12
For renting purposes B12 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 £157,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 8.3% 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.
B12 (Balsall Heath): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in B12 (Balsall Heath)?
Is B12 (Balsall Heath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B12 (Balsall Heath)?
Where do B12 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in B12 right now
Everything above is what homes in B12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 52 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 42% above the B12 median sold price.
35% 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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
B12 ranks 71 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside B12, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B12 0 | £140,000 | 8 |
| B12 8 | £180,000 | 7 |
| B12 9 | £192,500 | 6 |
How B12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B12 itself, which ranks 75 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% |
| B12 (this report) | £157,000 | -8% |
Before you sell in B12: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B12'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.
Estate agents working B12: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B12.
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The live map plots every individual B12 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.