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Selly Oak market report B29 6, Birmingham
The B29 6 (Selly Oak) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,088 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B29 6 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 30 registered 2026 sales put the B29 6 (Birmingham) median at £256,500, up 18% on five years earlier, with a mean of £272,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,350 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,088 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B29 6 is one sector of B29 (Birmingham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where B29 6 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.
B29 6 sold prices: where the market stands
30 sales were registered in B29 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £256,500. The mean works out at £272,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in B29 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B29 6 costs about £3,350 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B29 6 10% below the country at large.
A typical B29 6 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £256,500 | £256,500 | 30 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 84 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 130 |
| 2023 | £265,000 | £291,170 | 132 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 158 |
| 2021 | £218,000 | £276,016 | 205 |
| 2020 | £271,000 | £351,628 | 142 |
| 2019 | £193,000 | £252,977 | 139 |
| 2018 | £182,000 | £242,609 | 179 |
| 2017 | £225,000 | £306,877 | 179 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 219 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 185 |
| 2014 | £158,000 | £224,151 | 169 |
| 2013 | £151,000 | £217,274 | 143 |
| 2012 | £148,800 | £219,015 | 140 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 141 |
| 2010 | £144,500 | £226,613 | 128 |
| 2009 | £125,500 | £201,742 | 128 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 154 |
| 2007 | £149,000 | £252,745 | 297 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 275 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 221 |
| 2004 | £136,700 | £248,274 | 256 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 258 |
| 2002 | £87,000 | £163,690 | 268 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 282 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 243 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 291 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 243 |
| 1997 | £51,700 | £106,026 | 253 |
| 1996 | £45,800 | £96,590 | 224 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 192 |
In cash terms the typical B29 6 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £256,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 157%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B29 6 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 2020 (+40.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−19.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.6% | +0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 30 sales completed in B29 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 263 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around B29 6
B29 6 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
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.
The shape of the B29 6 market
This is a thin market: 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Asked and answered: B29 6 (Selly Oak)
Is B29 6 (Selly Oak) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B29 6 (Selly Oak)?
Are property prices falling in B29 6 (Selly Oak)?
Will B29 6 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in B29 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 253 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B29 district, not just B29 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in B29
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B29's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B29 4 | £365,000 | 21 |
| B29 5 | £223,800 | 24 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in B29 6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B29 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the B29 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B29 6 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 6.
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Two maps carry on from here: every B29 6 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.