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Sheldon market report B26 1, Birmingham
The B26 1 (Sheldon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,450 HM Land Registry entries for B26 1 (Birmingham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B26 1 (Birmingham) came in at £280,000, out of 49 registered, up 33% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £286,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,980 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,450 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
B26 1 is one sector of B26 (Birmingham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where B26 1 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 B26 1 prices, from the sold record
Take the 49 registered 2026 sales in B26 1 and the middle price, the median, is £280,000. The mean lands at £286,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in B26 1
The last five years of sales put B26 1 at roughly £2,980 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B26 1 2% below the country at large.
A typical B26 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 160 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 139 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 146 |
| 2022 | £239,500 | £280,841 | 178 |
| 2021 | £211,000 | £267,153 | 175 |
| 2020 | £214,700 | £278,578 | 114 |
| 2019 | £202,500 | £265,429 | 140 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 196 |
| 2017 | £166,500 | £227,089 | 148 |
| 2016 | £166,500 | £232,935 | 140 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 170 |
| 2014 | £143,200 | £203,154 | 154 |
| 2013 | £133,500 | £192,093 | 132 |
| 2012 | £128,000 | £188,400 | 111 |
| 2011 | £129,000 | £194,740 | 89 |
| 2010 | £132,500 | £207,794 | 118 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 104 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 108 |
| 2007 | £149,500 | £253,594 | 249 |
| 2006 | £137,100 | £237,988 | 254 |
| 2005 | £135,200 | £240,602 | 196 |
| 2004 | £128,000 | £232,473 | 228 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 254 |
| 2002 | £92,000 | £173,097 | 232 |
| 2001 | £72,200 | £138,801 | 220 |
| 2000 | £67,000 | £131,488 | 243 |
| 1999 | £64,000 | £127,549 | 266 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 195 |
| 1997 | £50,500 | £103,565 | 209 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 199 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 134 |
In cash terms the typical B26 1 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 168%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the B26 1 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 (+27.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.0% | +9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.8% | +0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
B26 1 recorded 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 235 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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.
Rents around B26 1
B26 1 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 £280,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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 B26 1 is
This is a thin market: 49 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. Against the B26 district median, B26 1 sits 9% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about B26 1 (Sheldon)
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What happens to B26 1 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
B26's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 105 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B26 district, not just B26 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Park Gate at Lyndon Place, Sheldon, Birmingham
- Selby Close, Yardley, Birmingham
- The Farriers, Sheldon, Birmingham
"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 B26 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.
What another bedroom costs in B
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in B26
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B26, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B26 2 | £250,000 | 58 |
| B26 3 | £250,000 | 71 |
Zoom out to the full B26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B26 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B26 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B26 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B26 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B26 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B26 1.
Take it further
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See every individual B26 1 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.