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Selly Oak market report B29 5, Birmingham
The standing B29 5 (Selly Oak) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,360 registered sales in B29 5 (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: 24 registered 2026 sales put the B29 5 (Birmingham) median at £223,800, up 40% on five years earlier, with a mean of £236,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,590 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,360 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like B29 5 is a single group of streets within B29 (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 B29 5 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.
Today's B29 5 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for B29 5 is £223,800, taken from 24 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £236,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in B29 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B29 5 sales average about £2,590 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B29 5 21% below the country at large.
A typical B29 5 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 | £223,800 | £223,800 | 24 |
| 2025 | £205,500 | £210,414 | 76 |
| 2024 | £191,000 | £203,072 | 66 |
| 2023 | £186,200 | £204,588 | 65 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 106 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 87 |
| 2020 | £150,800 | £195,666 | 82 |
| 2019 | £147,000 | £192,682 | 68 |
| 2018 | £140,000 | £186,623 | 83 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 102 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 116 |
| 2015 | £112,000 | £158,256 | 127 |
| 2014 | £108,500 | £153,926 | 93 |
| 2013 | £98,000 | £141,012 | 96 |
| 2012 | £96,200 | £141,594 | 70 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 67 |
| 2010 | £94,000 | £147,416 | 62 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 53 |
| 2008 | £107,300 | £175,887 | 69 |
| 2007 | £111,500 | £189,135 | 183 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 175 |
| 2005 | £106,000 | £188,637 | 157 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 178 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 178 |
| 2002 | £63,000 | £118,534 | 161 |
| 2001 | £50,800 | £97,660 | 175 |
| 2000 | £45,400 | £89,098 | 134 |
| 1999 | £42,200 | £84,102 | 126 |
| 1998 | £41,500 | £83,771 | 115 |
| 1997 | £38,500 | £78,956 | 112 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 79 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 75 |
In cash terms the typical B29 5 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £223,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 151%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the B29 5 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 (+27.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B29 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.9% | +6.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.9% | +2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.0% | +2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in B29 5
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 24 B29 5 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 168 sales a year before the financial crisis and 67 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How B29 5 trades
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B29 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within B29, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of B29 5
The local authority for B29 5 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £821 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,563 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £223,800 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 5.8% 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.
B29 5 (Selly Oak): the questions that come up
Is B29 5 (Selly Oak) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B29 5 (Selly Oak)?
Are property prices falling in B29 5 (Selly Oak)?
Where do B29 5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 40% over five years in cash and up 10% 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.
B29's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 253 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B29 district, not just B29 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Pershore Avenue, BIRMINGHAM, West Mid...
- Mimosa Close, Bournville Village Trust, Selly Oak, Birmingham
- Guiting Road, Birmingham, West Midlan...
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every B29 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
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%) | — |
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
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in B29
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B29, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B29 4 | £365,000 | 21 |
| B29 6 | £256,500 | 30 |
| B29 7 | £292,500 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full B29 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B29 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in B29 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B29 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the B29 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B29 5 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 B29 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B29 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual B29 5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.