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Handsworth market report B21, Birmingham
The standing B21 (Handsworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 7,947 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B21 (Birmingham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical B21 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £185,000 in 2026 (median of 41 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £191,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,970 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,947 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
B21 is the postcode district covering Handsworth 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 B21 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 buyers actually paid in B21
The 2026 median for B21 is £185,000, taken from 41 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £191,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in B21
Per square metre, B21 homes have averaged around £1,970 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B21 35% below the national figure.
The price of a typical B21 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 122 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 101 |
| 2023 | £167,000 | £183,492 | 125 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 146 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 160 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 125 |
| 2019 | £122,000 | £159,913 | 167 |
| 2018 | £120,000 | £159,962 | 146 |
| 2017 | £108,000 | £147,301 | 195 |
| 2016 | £103,800 | £145,217 | 174 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 183 |
| 2014 | £98,000 | £139,030 | 143 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 163 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 123 |
| 2011 | £91,200 | £137,677 | 150 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 161 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 129 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 245 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 397 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 404 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 414 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 458 |
| 2003 | £64,000 | £117,904 | 447 |
| 2002 | £47,000 | £88,430 | 542 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 488 |
| 2000 | £30,000 | £58,875 | 399 |
| 1999 | £30,000 | £59,788 | 385 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 322 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 333 |
| 1996 | £27,100 | £57,153 | 284 |
| 1995 | £29,000 | £63,042 | 275 |
In cash terms the typical B21 home went from £29,000 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 193%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B21 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 (+36.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.4%). 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, 77% of the typed total. In 2008, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £169,700 against £81,400 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, B21
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 | £141,000 (2013) | – | 106 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 12 | 1,700 |
| Terraced | £172,500 | 28 | 6,040 |
| Flats | £81,400 (2008) | – | 11 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.8% | +0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.9% | +2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
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 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.
B21 recorded 89 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 444 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Reading the B21 market
This is a thin market: 89 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. Among the 76 measurable districts of its area, B21 ranks 64 by median price: towards the affordable end.
The rental side of B21
B21 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.
£1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, which against the £185,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.1%. 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.
B21 (Handsworth): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in B21 (Handsworth)?
Are property prices falling in B21 (Handsworth)?
Is B21 (Handsworth) a good place to buy a house?
Where do B21 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in B21 today
Everything above is what homes in B21 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 33 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the B21 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 3% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 B21 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.
What another bedroom costs in B
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
B21 ranks 23 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside B21, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| B21 0 | £187,500 | 14 |
| B21 8 | £185,000 | 18 |
| B21 9 | £167,000 | 9 |
How B21 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B21 itself, which ranks 64 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% |
| B21 (this report) | £185,000 | +19% |
Selling a home in B21? 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 B21'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 B21.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every B21 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.
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.