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Shard End market report B34, Birmingham
The standing B34 (Shard End) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 7,164 registered sales in B34 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for B34 (Birmingham) is £217,500, from 69 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier; the mean is £208,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,620 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,164 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district B34 covering Shard End, Buckland End sits in Birmingham. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where B34 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 B34 prices, from the sold record
69 sales were registered in B34 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £217,500. The mean works out at £208,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
B34 prices by floor area
A square metre of B34 home has cost about £2,620 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 B34 24% below the country at large.
A typical B34 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 | £217,500 | £217,500 | 69 |
| 2025 | £213,500 | £218,605 | 202 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 153 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 161 |
| 2022 | £197,500 | £231,591 | 199 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 218 |
| 2020 | £170,000 | £220,579 | 169 |
| 2019 | £167,500 | £219,552 | 208 |
| 2018 | £155,000 | £206,618 | 247 |
| 2017 | £144,500 | £197,083 | 266 |
| 2016 | £133,500 | £186,768 | 241 |
| 2015 | £122,500 | £173,093 | 210 |
| 2014 | £118,000 | £167,404 | 226 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 208 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 207 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 179 |
| 2010 | £113,500 | £177,997 | 168 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 152 |
| 2008 | £124,000 | £203,262 | 199 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 391 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 387 |
| 2005 | £112,800 | £200,739 | 327 |
| 2004 | £107,500 | £195,241 | 327 |
| 2003 | £93,500 | £172,250 | 268 |
| 2002 | £72,000 | £135,467 | 317 |
| 2001 | £62,000 | £119,192 | 233 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 250 |
| 1999 | £51,200 | £102,039 | 232 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 196 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 195 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 189 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 170 |
In cash terms the typical B34 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £217,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 113%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 6% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B34 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 (+29.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.3%). 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) | +1.9% | −0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £252,500 against £113,500 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, B34
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 | £252,500 (2025) | – | 372 |
| Semi-detached | £235,000 | 21 | 3,111 |
| Terraced | £217,500 | 39 | 3,232 |
| Flats | £115,000 | 8 | 444 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 157 sales completed in B34. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 313 sales a year before the financial crisis and 157 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.
The rental side of B34
The local authority for B34 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.
Set against the £217,500 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 6.0%: 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.
B34 (Shard End): the questions that come up
Is B34 (Shard End) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B34 (Shard End)?
Are property prices falling in B34 (Shard End)?
Are B34 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in B34 today
Everything above is what homes in B34 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 22 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% below the B34 median sold price.
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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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%) | — |
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
B34 ranks 18 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.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside B34, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B34 6 | £230,000 | 36 |
| B34 7 | £210,000 | 33 |
How B34 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B34 itself, which ranks 54 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% |
| B34 (this report) | £217,500 | +21% |
Before you sell in B34: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B34, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B34's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B34 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.