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Selly Oak market report B29 7, Birmingham
The B29 7 (Selly Oak) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,534 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B29 7 (Birmingham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical B29 7 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £292,500 in 2026 (median of 25 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier), with the mean at £319,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,100 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,534 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
B29 7 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 7 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 7 prices, from the sold record
25 sales were registered in B29 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £292,500. The mean works out at £319,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in B29 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B29 7 costs about £3,100 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B29 7 trades 3% above the country as a whole.
A typical B29 7 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £292,500 | £292,500 | 25 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 92 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 84 |
| 2023 | £262,000 | £287,874 | 72 |
| 2022 | £262,800 | £308,163 | 112 |
| 2021 | £231,200 | £292,729 | 114 |
| 2020 | £201,000 | £260,802 | 92 |
| 2019 | £227,800 | £298,591 | 96 |
| 2018 | £190,200 | £253,540 | 116 |
| 2017 | £197,000 | £268,688 | 137 |
| 2016 | £170,500 | £238,531 | 138 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 151 |
| 2014 | £174,000 | £246,849 | 171 |
| 2013 | £141,500 | £203,604 | 131 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 108 |
| 2011 | £152,000 | £229,462 | 118 |
| 2010 | £158,200 | £248,098 | 120 |
| 2009 | £144,500 | £232,285 | 136 |
| 2008 | £161,500 | £264,733 | 155 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 243 |
| 2006 | £157,200 | £272,879 | 260 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 189 |
| 2004 | £152,200 | £276,425 | 268 |
| 2003 | £125,500 | £231,201 | 280 |
| 2002 | £103,000 | £193,794 | 306 |
| 2001 | £73,000 | £140,339 | 305 |
| 2000 | £67,000 | £131,488 | 282 |
| 1999 | £62,100 | £123,762 | 286 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 242 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 263 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 235 |
| 1995 | £48,200 | £104,779 | 207 |
In cash terms the typical B29 7 home went from £48,200 in 1995 to £292,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 179%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 5% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B29 7 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 (+41.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−11.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.9% | −1.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
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
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
B29 7 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 267 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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.
Reading the B29 7 market
This is a thin market: 25 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. Within B29, this sector trades 12% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around B29 7
For renting purposes B29 7 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). 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 £292,500 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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 B29 7 (Selly Oak)
How much did a house sell for in B29 7 (Selly Oak)?
Are property prices falling in B29 7 (Selly Oak)?
Is B29 7 (Selly Oak) a good place to buy a house?
Will B29 7 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 27% 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.
What you could buy in B29 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 7: 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, 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%) | — |
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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 6 | £256,500 | 30 |
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 7: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B29 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B29 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B29 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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See every individual B29 7 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.
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.