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Sheldon market report B26 2, Birmingham
The B26 2 (Sheldon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,032 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B26 2 (Birmingham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for B26 2 (Birmingham) is £250,000, from 58 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier; the mean is £249,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,830 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,032 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B26 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B26 (Birmingham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where B26 2 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 B26 2 homes really sell for
In the B26 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £250,000, from 58 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £249,500, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in B26 2
Per square metre, B26 2 homes have averaged around £2,830 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B26 2 trades 12% below the country as a whole.
A typical B26 2 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 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 58 |
| 2025 | £243,000 | £248,811 | 135 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 125 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 134 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 151 |
| 2021 | £198,000 | £250,694 | 179 |
| 2020 | £184,000 | £238,744 | 115 |
| 2019 | £182,000 | £238,558 | 165 |
| 2018 | £170,000 | £226,613 | 176 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 162 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 153 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 171 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 183 |
| 2013 | £121,800 | £175,258 | 130 |
| 2012 | £123,500 | £181,777 | 131 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 109 |
| 2010 | £127,000 | £199,169 | 91 |
| 2009 | £117,000 | £188,078 | 104 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 139 |
| 2007 | £134,000 | £227,301 | 207 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 215 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 185 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 218 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 177 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 187 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 204 |
| 2000 | £64,000 | £125,600 | 196 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 186 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 160 |
| 1997 | £50,500 | £103,565 | 189 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 177 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 120 |
In cash terms the typical B26 2 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 150%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 3% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B26 2 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 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.9% | +0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 58 B26 2 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 199 sales a year before the financial crisis and 121 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 B26 2 trades
This is a thin market: 58 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.
What homes rent for around B26 2
For renting purposes B26 2 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). 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 £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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 B26 2 (Sheldon)
Is B26 2 (Sheldon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B26 2 (Sheldon)?
Are property prices falling in B26 2 (Sheldon)?
Where do B26 2 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in B26 today
Turning to what is actually available: 105 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B26 district, not just B26 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Park Gate at Lyndon Place, Sheldon, Birmingham
- Selby Close, Yardley, Birmingham
- The Farriers, Sheldon, Birmingham
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
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
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
B area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in B26
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B26's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B26 1 | £280,000 | 49 |
| 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.
Before you sell in B26 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B26 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the B26 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B26 2 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 B26 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B26 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B26 2 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.
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.