Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 16,817 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B26 (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 data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
B26 is the postcode district 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
Click the map to open B26 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£250,000median sold price, 2026
+25%five-year change (cash)
456sales in the last 12 months
5.2%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in B26 sells for
The 2026 median in B26 is £250,000, from 137 registered sales; the mean, £251,500, sits almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so B26 trades 9% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical B26 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£250,000
£250,000
137
2025
£240,000
£240,000
598
2024
£230,000
£238,826
500
2023
£220,000
£236,081
519
2022
£225,000
£257,676
574
2021
£200,000
£247,312
724
2020
£180,000
£228,099
553
2019
£176,800
£226,330
594
2018
£175,000
£227,830
610
2017
£165,000
£219,788
552
2016
£158,200
£216,154
496
2015
£146,000
£201,480
563
2014
£136,000
£188,434
600
2013
£125,000
£175,662
420
2012
£125,000
£179,688
330
2011
£120,000
£176,923
322
2010
£130,000
£199,112
316
2009
£122,000
£191,536
303
2008
£139,100
£222,689
356
2007
£140,000
£231,933
684
2006
£135,000
£228,870
669
2005
£133,000
£231,159
555
2004
£125,000
£221,722
651
2003
£110,000
£197,914
643
2002
£90,000
£165,379
622
2001
£72,700
£136,498
604
2000
£66,500
£127,458
633
1999
£60,000
£116,784
652
1998
£55,000
£108,429
532
1997
£52,000
£104,151
575
1996
£49,000
£100,925
551
1995
£49,000
£104,031
379
In cash terms the typical B26 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 140%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
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)
+4.2%
+4.2%
5 years (since 2021)
+4.6%
+0.2%
10 years (since 2016)
+4.7%
+1.5%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.1%
+0.4%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
B26 recorded 456 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 466 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.
What homes rent for around B26
B26 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £250,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
Will B26 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
B26 ranks 5 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 B26, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.