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Jewellery Quarter market report B18, Birmingham
The standing B18 (Jewellery Quarter) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,160 registered sales in B18 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for B18 (Birmingham) is £174,000, from 28 registered sales, up 33% on five years earlier; the mean is £190,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,370 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,160 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B18 is the postcode district covering Jewellery Quarter, Hockley 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 B18 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 B18 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for B18 is £174,000, taken from 28 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £190,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in B18
By floor space, homes in B18 have sold for about £2,370 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B18 39% below the country at large.
A typical B18 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £174,000 | £174,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £168,000 | £172,017 | 67 |
| 2024 | £182,500 | £194,035 | 81 |
| 2023 | £159,200 | £174,922 | 68 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 99 |
| 2021 | £130,500 | £165,230 | 72 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 67 |
| 2019 | £163,600 | £214,440 | 118 |
| 2018 | £165,000 | £219,948 | 129 |
| 2017 | £146,800 | £200,220 | 142 |
| 2016 | £166,000 | £232,236 | 230 |
| 2015 | £124,800 | £176,342 | 139 |
| 2014 | £113,000 | £160,310 | 137 |
| 2013 | £101,000 | £145,329 | 97 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 103 |
| 2011 | £103,000 | £155,490 | 125 |
| 2010 | £107,800 | £169,058 | 78 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 86 |
| 2008 | £102,000 | £167,200 | 130 |
| 2007 | £107,000 | £181,502 | 241 |
| 2006 | £144,500 | £250,834 | 444 |
| 2005 | £99,700 | £177,426 | 296 |
| 2004 | £116,400 | £211,405 | 347 |
| 2003 | £98,200 | £180,908 | 425 |
| 2002 | £63,000 | £118,534 | 418 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 293 |
| 2000 | £34,900 | £68,491 | 172 |
| 1999 | £25,000 | £49,824 | 131 |
| 1998 | £27,000 | £54,501 | 119 |
| 1997 | £26,000 | £53,321 | 112 |
| 1996 | £26,200 | £55,255 | 90 |
| 1995 | £26,400 | £57,390 | 76 |
In cash terms the typical B18 home went from £26,400 in 1995 to £174,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 203%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B18 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 2002 (+80.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2007 (−26.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 50% of the typed total. In 2012, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £219,000 against £130,000 for a flat, 1.7 times the price.
Median by property type, B18
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 | £219,000 (2012) | – | 52 |
| Semi-detached | £186,000 (2024) | – | 413 |
| Terraced | £168,000 | 19 | 2,536 |
| Flats | £186,500 | 8 | 2,111 |
What B18 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.6% | +1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.9% | +1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.8% |
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.
Sales activity in B18
How many homes change hands
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
B18 recorded 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 330 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
How B18 trades
This is a thin market: 50 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. In its area's price order B18 comes 71 of 76, towards the cheaper end of the table.
The rental side of B18
B18 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £174,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 7.5% 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.
What people ask about B18 (Jewellery Quarter)
Is B18 (Jewellery Quarter) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B18 (Jewellery Quarter)?
Are property prices falling in B18 (Jewellery Quarter)?
What happens to B18 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% 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.
What you could buy in B18 now
Everything above is what homes in B18 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 42 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the B18 median sold price.
38% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 B18 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.
What another bedroom costs in B
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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
B18 ranks 4 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.
B area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside B18, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| B18 4 | £156,500 | 8 |
| B18 5 | £205,000 | 4 |
| B18 6 | £195,000 | 7 |
| B18 7 | £232,000 | 9 |
How B18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B18 itself, which ranks 71 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% |
| B18 (this report) | £174,000 | +33% |
Before you sell in B18: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B18, open the average prices map and zoom from the B18 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B18 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim B18.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B18 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual B18 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.