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Harborne market report B17, Birmingham
The house prices in B17 (Harborne): the full public record, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 14,538 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B17 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical B17 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £347,000 in 2026 (median of 95 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £388,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,690 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 14,538 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
B17 is the postcode district covering Harborne 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 B17 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 B17 prices, from the sold record
The B17 median stands at £347,000 for 2026, built from 95 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £388,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in B17
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B17 sales average about £3,690 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B17 trades 22% above the country as a whole.
A typical B17 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 | £347,000 | £347,000 | 95 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | £343,011 | 282 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 315 |
| 2023 | £316,800 | £348,086 | 280 |
| 2022 | £345,000 | £404,552 | 391 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 393 |
| 2020 | £286,500 | £371,740 | 290 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 377 |
| 2018 | £291,000 | £387,908 | 426 |
| 2017 | £285,000 | £388,711 | 408 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 475 |
| 2015 | £247,200 | £349,294 | 510 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 513 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 403 |
| 2012 | £207,200 | £304,973 | 322 |
| 2011 | £197,000 | £297,394 | 327 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 403 |
| 2009 | £184,500 | £296,585 | 292 |
| 2008 | £205,000 | £336,038 | 327 |
| 2007 | £205,000 | £347,737 | 599 |
| 2006 | £194,000 | £336,759 | 633 |
| 2005 | £189,000 | £336,344 | 527 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 587 |
| 2003 | £158,000 | £291,074 | 650 |
| 2002 | £133,000 | £250,238 | 626 |
| 2001 | £112,500 | £216,276 | 708 |
| 2000 | £92,500 | £181,531 | 583 |
| 1999 | £83,500 | £166,411 | 640 |
| 1998 | £79,000 | £159,467 | 569 |
| 1997 | £71,000 | £145,607 | 598 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 565 |
| 1995 | £56,800 | £123,474 | 424 |
In cash terms the typical B17 home went from £56,800 in 1995 to £347,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 181%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B17 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 2001 (+21.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.0%). 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) | +3.6% | +1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £625,000 against £158,000 for a flat, 4.0 times the price.
Median by property type, B17
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 | £625,000 | 13 | 1,748 |
| Semi-detached | £397,500 | 24 | 3,783 |
| Terraced | £341,200 | 41 | 6,200 |
| Flats | £158,000 | 17 | 2,807 |
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 212 B17 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 614 sales a year before the financial crisis and 273 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 B17 market
Among the 76 measurable districts of its area, B17 ranks 12 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What tenants pay around B17
For renting purposes B17 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). 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 £347,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: 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.
B17 (Harborne): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in B17 (Harborne)?
Are property prices falling in B17 (Harborne)?
Is B17 (Harborne) a good place to buy a house?
Where do B17 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 B17 now
Everything above is what homes in B17 sold for. The live side of the market holds 175 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the B17 median sold price.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 51 Wentworth Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B17 9SS
- Sheepmoor Close, Birmingham, West Midlands, B17 8TD
- Sheepmoor Close, Birmingham, West Midlands
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every B17 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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%) | — |
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
B17 ranks 54 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 B17, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B17 0 | £297,500 | 28 |
| B17 8 | £362,500 | 22 |
| B17 9 | £362,000 | 45 |
How B17 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the B area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| B97 | £279,000 | +9% |
Thinking of selling in B17? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B17'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 B17.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B17 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B17 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.