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Erdington market report B23, Birmingham
The standing B23 (Erdington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 20,177 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B23 (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: 167 registered 2026 sales put the B23 (Birmingham) median at £205,000, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £197,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,390 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 20,177 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B23 is the postcode district covering Erdington, Short Heath 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 B23 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 B23
Across 167 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B23 home went for £205,000. The mean is £197,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
B23 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B23 costs about £2,390 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B23 runs 28% below it.
B23's median sold price, 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 | £205,000 | £205,000 | 167 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 429 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 434 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 396 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 513 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 573 |
| 2020 | £154,000 | £199,818 | 423 |
| 2019 | £149,000 | £195,303 | 485 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 599 |
| 2017 | £139,500 | £190,264 | 590 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 575 |
| 2015 | £122,500 | £173,093 | 579 |
| 2014 | £111,000 | £157,473 | 531 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 445 |
| 2012 | £104,000 | £153,075 | 393 |
| 2011 | £107,500 | £162,284 | 404 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 521 |
| 2009 | £106,000 | £170,396 | 331 |
| 2008 | £118,000 | £193,427 | 457 |
| 2007 | £124,000 | £210,339 | 1,009 |
| 2006 | £116,000 | £201,361 | 931 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 976 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 1,008 |
| 2003 | £86,000 | £158,433 | 989 |
| 2002 | £66,000 | £124,178 | 1,035 |
| 2001 | £56,000 | £107,657 | 1,009 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 882 |
| 1999 | £43,500 | £86,693 | 845 |
| 1998 | £43,500 | £87,808 | 739 |
| 1997 | £42,500 | £87,159 | 735 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 661 |
| 1995 | £41,500 | £90,215 | 513 |
In cash terms the typical B23 home went from £41,500 in 1995 to £205,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 127%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 5% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B23 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 (+30.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.2%). 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, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £303,800 against £112,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, B23
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 | £303,800 | 6 | 992 |
| Semi-detached | £229,200 | 70 | 6,532 |
| Terraced | £200,000 | 59 | 8,445 |
| Flats | £112,000 | 32 | 4,208 |
What B23 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.5% | +0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Sales activity in B23
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 333 sales completed in B23. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 980 sales a year before the financial crisis and 388 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 rental side of B23
B23 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 £205,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 6.4% 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 kind of market B23 is
In its area's price order B23 comes 59 of 76, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: B23 (Erdington)
How much did a house sell for in B23 (Erdington)?
Are property prices falling in B23 (Erdington)?
Is B23 (Erdington) a good place to buy a house?
Are B23 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in B23 today
Everything above is what homes in B23 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 108 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the B23 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Enfield Close, Birmingham, West Midla...
- Gravelly Hill North, Erdington, Birmi...
- Golden Eagle Gardens, BIRMINGHAM, Wes...
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 B23 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. 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
B23 ranks 20 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.
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.
Inside B23, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B23 5 | £220,000 | 69 |
| B23 6 | £190,000 | 47 |
| B23 7 | £184,000 | 51 |
How B23 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B23 itself, which ranks 59 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% |
| B23 (this report) | £205,000 | +21% |
Selling in B23? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B23'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.
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Take it further
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The live map plots every individual B23 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.