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Selly Oak market report B29 4, Birmingham

The B29 4 (Selly Oak) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 1,665 registered sales in B29 4 (Birmingham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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: the 2026 median for B29 4 (Birmingham) is £365,000, from 21 registered sales, up 43% on five years earlier; the mean is £362,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,400 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,665 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

B29 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B29 (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.

What buyers actually paid in B29 4

In the B29 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £365,000, from 21 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £362,900, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.

What a square metre costs in B29 4

Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B29 4 costs about £3,400 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.

Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B29 4 runs 28% above it.

In cash terms the typical B29 4 home went from £61,800 in 1995 to £365,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 172%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

The strongest year on record here is 2011 (+28.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−20.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

What B29 4 has returned, per year

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 register shows 21 B29 4 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 57 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 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.

Reading the B29 4 market

Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B29 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 B29 district median, B29 4 sits 40% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.

What tenants pay around B29 4

For renting purposes B29 4 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.

Set against the £365,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.

B29 4 (Selly Oak): the questions that come up

Where do B29 4 prices go next?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 43% over five years in cash and up 13% 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.

B29's current homes for sale

Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in B29

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B29, one report each:

Zoom out to the full B29 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B29 compares with its neighbours.

Selling in B29 4? Start from the sold record

Dig further

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B29 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every B29 4 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.

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.