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Chelmsley Wood market report B37 7, Birmingham
The B37 7 (Chelmsley Wood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,793 registered sales in B37 7 (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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for B37 7 (Birmingham) is £240,000, from 53 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £260,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,870 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,793 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B37 7 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 7 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.
The going rate for a home in B37 7
Take the 53 registered 2026 sales in B37 7 and the middle price, the median, is £240,000. The mean lands at £260,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in B37 7
Per square metre, B37 7 homes have averaged around £2,870 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B37 7 runs 16% below it.
B37 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £223,000 | £228,333 | 145 |
| 2024 | £213,800 | £227,313 | 156 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 137 |
| 2022 | £231,900 | £271,929 | 176 |
| 2021 | £201,000 | £254,492 | 166 |
| 2020 | £197,500 | £256,260 | 116 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 192 |
| 2018 | £188,000 | £250,608 | 213 |
| 2017 | £170,800 | £232,954 | 198 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 204 |
| 2015 | £151,000 | £213,363 | 162 |
| 2014 | £163,000 | £231,244 | 188 |
| 2013 | £153,200 | £220,440 | 160 |
| 2012 | £137,000 | £201,647 | 98 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 125 |
| 2010 | £141,000 | £221,124 | 86 |
| 2009 | £108,500 | £174,415 | 127 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 110 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 243 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 257 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 177 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 294 |
| 2003 | £108,500 | £199,883 | 266 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 255 |
| 2001 | £86,500 | £166,292 | 276 |
| 2000 | £82,000 | £160,925 | 357 |
| 1999 | £49,500 | £98,651 | 181 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 167 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 139 |
| 1996 | £46,200 | £97,434 | 148 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 221 |
In cash terms the typical B37 7 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 135%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 12% 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 7 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 2000 (+65.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B37 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.6% | +5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in B37 7
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 53 sales completed in B37 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 266 sales a year before the financial crisis and 133 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.
How B37 7 trades
Only 53 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B37 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the B37 district median, B37 7 sits 13% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around B37 7
For renting purposes B37 7 sits in Solihull. The ONS average private rent there is £1,260 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £844 a month here against £1,851 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Solihull
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £240,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,260 a month (£15,120 a year) works out at a 6.3% 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.
B37 7 (Chelmsley Wood): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in B37 7 (Chelmsley Wood)?
Is B37 7 (Chelmsley Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B37 7 (Chelmsley Wood)?
Will B37 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in B37 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 46 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B37 district, not just B37 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every B37 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs 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. 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 5 | £186,000 | 24 |
| B37 6 | £225,000 | 35 |
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 7? 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 B37 7'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B37 7.
Keep digging
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See every individual B37 7 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.