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Sheldon market report B26, Birmingham
The standing B26 (Sheldon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 15,943 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B26 (Birmingham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 178 registered 2026 sales put the B26 (Birmingham) median at £256,500, up 28% on five years earlier, with a mean of £254,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,920 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 15,943 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B26 is the postcode district covering Sheldon 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 B26 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.
B26 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 178 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B26 home went for £256,500. The mean is £254,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in B26
A square metre of B26 home has cost about £2,920 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B26 trades 10% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical B26 home, 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 | £256,500 | £256,500 | 178 |
| 2025 | £244,000 | £249,835 | 502 |
| 2024 | £236,000 | £250,916 | 407 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 411 |
| 2022 | £228,000 | £267,356 | 493 |
| 2021 | £200,000 | £253,226 | 603 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 456 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 515 |
| 2018 | £177,000 | £235,944 | 535 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 494 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 450 |
| 2015 | £146,000 | £206,298 | 539 |
| 2014 | £137,500 | £195,068 | 570 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 413 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 330 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 322 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 316 |
| 2009 | £122,000 | £196,116 | 303 |
| 2008 | £139,100 | £228,014 | 356 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 684 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 669 |
| 2005 | £133,000 | £236,686 | 555 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 651 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 643 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 622 |
| 2001 | £72,700 | £139,762 | 604 |
| 2000 | £66,500 | £130,506 | 633 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 652 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 532 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 575 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 551 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 379 |
In cash terms the typical B26 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £256,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 141%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 4% 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 B26 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 (+23.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.3%). 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) | +5.1% | +2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 62% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £331,000 against £135,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, B26
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 | £331,000 | 15 | 968 |
| Semi-detached | £257,000 | 121 | 9,839 |
| Terraced | £256,300 | 30 | 3,319 |
| Flats | £135,000 | 12 | 1,817 |
How many homes change hands in B26
Sales per year, counted
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
B26 recorded 381 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 633 sales a year before the financial crisis and 398 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
The local authority for B26 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £256,500 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on B26 (Sheldon)
Is B26 (Sheldon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B26 (Sheldon)?
Are property prices falling in B26 (Sheldon)?
What happens to B26 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
B26's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in B26 sold for. The live side of the market holds 105 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the B26 median sold price.
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 →
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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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%) | — |
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
B26 ranks 6 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 B26, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| B26 1 | £280,000 | 49 |
| B26 2 | £250,000 | 58 |
| B26 3 | £250,000 | 71 |
How B26 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B26 itself, which ranks 32 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% |
| B26 (this report) | £256,500 | +28% |
Before you sell in B26: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B26, open the average prices map and zoom from the B26 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B26 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.
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Two maps carry on from here: every B26 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.