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Chelmsley Wood market report B37 5, Birmingham
The standing B37 5 (Chelmsley Wood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,857 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B37 5 (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 B37 5 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £186,000 in 2026 (median of 24 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier), with the mean at £183,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,190 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,857 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
B37 5 is one sector of B37 (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 B37 5 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 B37 5 homes really sell for
24 sales were registered in B37 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £186,000. The mean works out at £183,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
B37 5 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in B37 5 have sold for about £2,190 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B37 5 trades 35% below the country as a whole.
A typical B37 5 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 | £186,000 | £186,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £187,000 | £191,472 | 69 |
| 2024 | £172,000 | £182,871 | 72 |
| 2023 | £168,000 | £184,591 | 67 |
| 2022 | £175,800 | £206,146 | 84 |
| 2021 | £157,200 | £199,035 | 96 |
| 2020 | £143,800 | £186,583 | 66 |
| 2019 | £138,000 | £180,885 | 84 |
| 2018 | £151,600 | £202,086 | 137 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 83 |
| 2016 | £122,000 | £170,679 | 99 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 85 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 109 |
| 2013 | £87,200 | £125,472 | 68 |
| 2012 | £88,500 | £130,261 | 48 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 53 |
| 2010 | £89,000 | £139,575 | 61 |
| 2009 | £111,000 | £178,433 | 60 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 126 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 143 |
| 2006 | £98,800 | £171,504 | 150 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 125 |
| 2004 | £87,700 | £159,280 | 140 |
| 2003 | £76,000 | £140,010 | 99 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 122 |
| 2001 | £46,700 | £89,778 | 94 |
| 2000 | £44,500 | £87,331 | 83 |
| 1999 | £42,000 | £83,704 | 104 |
| 1998 | £44,700 | £90,230 | 110 |
| 1997 | £37,500 | £76,905 | 69 |
| 1996 | £38,400 | £80,984 | 78 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 49 |
In cash terms the typical B37 5 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £186,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 131%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 10% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B37 5 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 (+28.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−19.8%). 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) | −0.5% | −2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 register shows 24 B37 5 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 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 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.
What tenants pay around B37 5
For renting purposes B37 5 sits in Solihull. The ONS average private rent there is £1,260 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £844 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,851, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Solihull
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £186,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,260 a month (£15,120 a year) works out at a 8.1% 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.
What kind of market B37 5 is
This is a thin market: 24 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. Against the B37 district median, B37 5 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on B37 5 (Chelmsley Wood)
Are property prices falling in B37 5 (Chelmsley Wood)?
Is B37 5 (Chelmsley Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B37 5 (Chelmsley Wood)?
Where do B37 5 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% 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 you could buy in B37 now
Turning to what is actually available: 46 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B37 district, not just B37 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 B37 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.
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in B37
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B37's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B37 6 | £225,000 | 35 |
| B37 7 | £240,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full B37 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B37 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B37 5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B37 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B37 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B37 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working B37 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B37 5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B37 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B37 5 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.