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Sheldon market report B26 3, Birmingham
The standing B26 3 (Sheldon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,461 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B26 3 (Birmingham) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 71 registered 2026 sales put the B26 3 (Birmingham) median at £250,000, up 32% on five years earlier, with a mean of £237,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,940 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,461 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like B26 3 is a single group of streets within B26 (Birmingham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where B26 3 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 3 homes really sell for
71 sales were registered in B26 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £250,000. The mean works out at £237,000, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
Price per square metre in B26 3
The last five years of sales put B26 3 at roughly £2,940 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B26 3 12% below the national figure.
A typical B26 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 207 |
| 2024 | £227,500 | £241,879 | 143 |
| 2023 | £234,000 | £257,109 | 131 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 164 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 249 |
| 2020 | £170,000 | £220,579 | 227 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 210 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 163 |
| 2017 | £169,000 | £230,499 | 184 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 157 |
| 2015 | £145,500 | £205,592 | 198 |
| 2014 | £141,000 | £200,033 | 233 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 151 |
| 2012 | £122,800 | £180,746 | 88 |
| 2011 | £121,000 | £182,663 | 124 |
| 2010 | £128,000 | £200,737 | 107 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 95 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 109 |
| 2007 | £138,800 | £235,443 | 228 |
| 2006 | £136,000 | £236,079 | 200 |
| 2005 | £131,800 | £234,551 | 174 |
| 2004 | £128,000 | £232,473 | 205 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 212 |
| 2002 | £94,500 | £177,801 | 203 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 180 |
| 2000 | £69,000 | £135,413 | 194 |
| 1999 | £59,800 | £119,178 | 200 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 177 |
| 1997 | £52,500 | £107,667 | 177 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 175 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 125 |
In cash terms the typical B26 3 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 130%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B26 3 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 (+26.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.2% | +1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.6% | +0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 71 sales completed in B26 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 200 sales a year before the financial crisis and 143 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 3
For renting purposes B26 3 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £821 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,563, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £250,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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.
What people ask about B26 3 (Sheldon)
Is B26 3 (Sheldon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B26 3 (Sheldon)?
Are property prices falling in B26 3 (Sheldon)?
Are B26 3 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 32% over five years in cash and up 4% 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.
What is for sale in B26 right now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £250,000 | 58 |
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 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B26 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the B26 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B26 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working B26 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B26 3.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about B26 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B26 3 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.
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.