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Castle Bromwich market report B36, Birmingham
The B36 (Castle Bromwich) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 12,745 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B36 (Birmingham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
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 B36 (Birmingham) is £253,000, from 129 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £264,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,810 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 12,745 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B36 is the postcode district covering Castle Bromwich, Smith's Wood, Bromford in Birmingham. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where B36 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 B36 homes really sell for
Take the 129 registered 2026 sales in B36 and the middle price, the median, is £253,000. The mean lands at £264,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in B36
The last five years of sales put B36 at roughly £2,810 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B36 11% below the country at large.
A typical B36 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 | £253,000 | £253,000 | 129 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 342 |
| 2024 | £231,000 | £245,600 | 348 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 285 |
| 2022 | £241,000 | £282,600 | 371 |
| 2021 | £236,000 | £298,806 | 424 |
| 2020 | £208,000 | £269,884 | 305 |
| 2019 | £196,000 | £256,909 | 430 |
| 2018 | £207,000 | £275,935 | 382 |
| 2017 | £171,200 | £233,500 | 375 |
| 2016 | £166,200 | £232,515 | 418 |
| 2015 | £164,000 | £231,732 | 369 |
| 2014 | £141,000 | £200,033 | 372 |
| 2013 | £148,500 | £213,677 | 340 |
| 2012 | £147,500 | £217,102 | 299 |
| 2011 | £140,400 | £211,950 | 332 |
| 2010 | £141,500 | £221,908 | 245 |
| 2009 | £137,000 | £220,229 | 250 |
| 2008 | £132,000 | £216,376 | 315 |
| 2007 | £146,000 | £247,657 | 614 |
| 2006 | £131,000 | £227,399 | 606 |
| 2005 | £126,000 | £224,229 | 470 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 546 |
| 2003 | £108,000 | £198,962 | 575 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 573 |
| 2001 | £73,200 | £140,723 | 526 |
| 2000 | £64,000 | £125,600 | 499 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 470 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 404 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 411 |
| 1996 | £47,700 | £100,597 | 394 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 326 |
In cash terms the typical B36 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £253,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 133%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B36 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 (+35.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £370,000 against £122,500 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, B36
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 | £370,000 | 19 | 1,525 |
| Semi-detached | £305,000 | 49 | 5,439 |
| Terraced | £207,000 | 49 | 4,581 |
| Flats | £122,500 | 12 | 1,200 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
B36 recorded 282 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 551 sales a year before the financial crisis and 295 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.
What homes rent for around B36
For renting purposes B36 sits in Solihull. The ONS average private rent there is £1,260 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £844 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,851 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Solihull
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,260 a month is £15,120 a year, which against the £253,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.0%. 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.
Asked and answered: B36 (Castle Bromwich)
How much did a house sell for in B36 (Castle Bromwich)?
Are property prices falling in B36 (Castle Bromwich)?
Is B36 (Castle Bromwich) a good place to buy a house?
Will B36 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in B36 right now
Everything above is what homes in B36 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 49 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the B36 median sold price.
35% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 B36 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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
B36 ranks 52 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 B36, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| B36 0 | £257,500 | 56 |
| B36 8 | £227,000 | 27 |
| B36 9 | £295,000 | 46 |
How B36 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B36 itself, which ranks 33 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% |
| B36 (this report) | £253,000 | +7% |
Before you sell in B36: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B36, open the average prices map and zoom from the B36 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B36 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B36.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about B36. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B36 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.
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.