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Selly Oak market report B29, Birmingham
The standing B29 (Selly Oak) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 16,647 HM Land Registry entries for B29 (Birmingham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical B29 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £260,200 in 2026 (median of 100 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier), with the mean at £294,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,120 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 16,647 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
B29 is a postcode district covering Selly Oak, Weoley Castle in Birmingham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where B29 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.
What B29 homes really sell for
Take the 100 registered 2026 sales in B29 and the middle price, the median, is £260,200. The mean lands at £294,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in B29
A square metre of B29 home has cost about £3,120 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B29 9% below the country at large.
A typical B29 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £260,200 | £260,200 | 100 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 292 |
| 2024 | £242,000 | £257,296 | 339 |
| 2023 | £255,000 | £280,183 | 308 |
| 2022 | £237,200 | £278,144 | 434 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 477 |
| 2020 | £210,200 | £272,739 | 362 |
| 2019 | £191,000 | £250,355 | 347 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 437 |
| 2017 | £190,000 | £259,141 | 487 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 528 |
| 2015 | £154,000 | £217,602 | 531 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 490 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 417 |
| 2012 | £136,200 | £200,469 | 358 |
| 2011 | £140,800 | £212,554 | 364 |
| 2010 | £141,500 | £221,908 | 352 |
| 2009 | £133,000 | £213,799 | 368 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 409 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 783 |
| 2006 | £142,500 | £247,362 | 773 |
| 2005 | £139,700 | £248,610 | 622 |
| 2004 | £133,000 | £241,554 | 751 |
| 2003 | £113,500 | £209,095 | 774 |
| 2002 | £87,500 | £164,630 | 795 |
| 2001 | £69,000 | £132,649 | 826 |
| 2000 | £61,200 | £120,105 | 708 |
| 1999 | £58,500 | £116,587 | 758 |
| 1998 | £54,400 | £109,810 | 658 |
| 1997 | £51,500 | £105,616 | 683 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 589 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 527 |
In cash terms the typical B29 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £260,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 155%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 7% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B29 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 (+29.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 53% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £505,000 against £182,500 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, B29
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £505,000 | 6 | 942 |
| Semi-detached | £290,000 | 43 | 5,658 |
| Terraced | £252,500 | 41 | 8,895 |
| Flats | £182,500 | 10 | 1,152 |
What B29 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.1% | +1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 213 B29 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 754 sales a year before the financial crisis and 295 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.
What homes rent for around B29
The local authority for B29 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 £260,200 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 5.0% 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.
Asked and answered: B29 (Selly Oak)
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Where do B29 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in B29 today
Everything above is what homes in B29 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 253 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the B29 median sold price.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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- Guiting Road, Birmingham, West Midlan...
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
What another bedroom costs in B
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
B29 ranks 17 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.
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.
Inside B29, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B29 4 | £365,000 | 21 |
| B29 5 | £223,800 | 24 |
| B29 6 | £256,500 | 30 |
| B29 7 | £292,500 | 25 |
How B29 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B29 itself, which ranks 29 of 76 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| B94 | £615,000 | +7% |
| B93 | £560,000 | +11% |
| B91 | £490,000 | +14% |
| B95 | £442,500 | +11% |
| B72 | £400,000 | +17% |
| B74 | £397,500 | +5% |
| B47 | £373,000 | +10% |
| B75 | £363,800 | +4% |
| B73 | £350,000 | +1% |
| B76 | £350,000 | +17% |
| B80 | £347,500 | +24% |
| B17 | £347,000 | +7% |
| B96 | £347,000 | -4% |
| B48 | £340,000 | -9% |
| B60 | £340,000 | +6% |
| B90 | £335,000 | +4% |
| B50 | £325,000 | -1% |
| B49 | £312,500 | -5% |
| B92 | £310,000 | +11% |
| B28 | £300,000 | +12% |
| B61 | £295,000 | +13% |
| B62 | £285,000 | +15% |
| B46 | £279,500 | +4% |
| B29 (this report) | £260,200 | +21% |
Thinking of selling in B29? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B29's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim B29.
Dig further
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See every individual B29 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.