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Shard End market report B34 6, Birmingham
The standing B34 6 (Shard End) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,111 HM Land Registry entries for B34 6 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 36 registered 2026 sales put the B34 6 (Birmingham) median at £230,000, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £220,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,670 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,111 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B34 6 is one sector of B34 (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 B34 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.
What buyers actually paid in B34 6
The B34 6 median stands at £230,000 for 2026, built from 36 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £220,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in B34 6
A square metre of B34 6 home has cost about £2,670 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B34 6 trades 19% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical B34 6 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 113 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 89 |
| 2023 | £208,000 | £228,541 | 79 |
| 2022 | £205,000 | £240,386 | 108 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 131 |
| 2020 | £176,500 | £229,012 | 90 |
| 2019 | £181,800 | £238,296 | 112 |
| 2018 | £158,000 | £210,617 | 133 |
| 2017 | £146,500 | £199,811 | 142 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 142 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 124 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 125 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 102 |
| 2012 | £122,000 | £179,569 | 82 |
| 2011 | £122,000 | £184,173 | 97 |
| 2010 | £121,000 | £189,759 | 108 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 90 |
| 2008 | £132,500 | £217,195 | 122 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 239 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 213 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 163 |
| 2004 | £127,800 | £232,110 | 186 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 159 |
| 2002 | £79,000 | £148,638 | 183 |
| 2001 | £73,500 | £141,300 | 157 |
| 2000 | £62,000 | £121,675 | 151 |
| 1999 | £56,800 | £113,199 | 164 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 126 |
| 1997 | £53,700 | £110,128 | 126 |
| 1996 | £52,500 | £110,720 | 114 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical B34 6 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 112%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B34 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 2003 (+51.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B34 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
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.
The register shows 36 B34 6 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 181 sales a year before the financial crisis and 85 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.
The rental side of B34 6
The local authority for B34 6 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £821 a month here against £1,563 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, which against the £230,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the B34 6 market
This is a thin market: 36 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.
What people ask about B34 6 (Shard End)
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What happens to B34 6 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in B34 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 22 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B34 district, not just B34 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- School Lane, Buckland End, Birmingham...
- Otter Croft, Shard End, BIRMINGHAM
- Darley Avenue, Birmingham
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 B34 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
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%) | — |
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in B34
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B34, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B34 7 | £210,000 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full B34 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B34 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in B34 6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B34 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the B34 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B34 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 B34 6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B34 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B34 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.