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Kings Norton market report B38 8, Birmingham
The B38 8 (Kings Norton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,175 HM Land Registry entries for B38 8 (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: the middle 2026 sale in B38 8 (Birmingham) came in at £276,200, out of 42 registered, up 34% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £321,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,850 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,175 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
B38 8 is one sector of B38 (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 B38 8 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 B38 8 prices, from the sold record
Across 42 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B38 8 home went for £276,200. The mean is £321,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
B38 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of B38 8 home has cost about £2,850 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 B38 8 3% below the country at large.
B38 8's median sold price, 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 | £276,200 | £276,200 | 42 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 129 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 133 |
| 2023 | £238,000 | £261,504 | 100 |
| 2022 | £225,000 | £263,838 | 137 |
| 2021 | £205,500 | £260,190 | 144 |
| 2020 | £192,000 | £249,124 | 103 |
| 2019 | £186,800 | £244,850 | 116 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 159 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 147 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 157 |
| 2015 | £156,000 | £220,428 | 127 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 144 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 96 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 113 |
| 2011 | £138,000 | £208,327 | 104 |
| 2010 | £128,000 | £200,737 | 105 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 97 |
| 2008 | £121,000 | £198,345 | 63 |
| 2007 | £142,000 | £240,872 | 185 |
| 2006 | £131,200 | £227,746 | 188 |
| 2005 | £127,500 | £226,899 | 126 |
| 2004 | £117,100 | £212,676 | 180 |
| 2003 | £98,000 | £180,540 | 141 |
| 2002 | £82,500 | £155,223 | 166 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 165 |
| 2000 | £66,800 | £131,095 | 178 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 169 |
| 1998 | £56,700 | £114,453 | 106 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 135 |
| 1996 | £53,600 | £113,040 | 116 |
| 1995 | £50,200 | £109,127 | 104 |
In cash terms the typical B38 8 home went from £50,200 in 1995 to £276,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 153%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the B38 8 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 2004 (+19.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−14.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.3% | −0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.1% | +1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in B38 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 166 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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.
Reading the B38 8 market
This is a thin market: 42 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. Within B38, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around B38 8
The local authority for B38 8 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.
Against the £276,200 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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.
B38 8 (Kings Norton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in B38 8 (Kings Norton)?
Are property prices falling in B38 8 (Kings Norton)?
Is B38 8 (Kings Norton) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to B38 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 34% over five years in cash and up 6% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in B38 now
Turning to what is actually available: 101 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B38 district, not just B38 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Grange Hill Road, Kings Norton, Birmingham
- Orwell Drive, Kings Norton, Birmingham, West Midlands
- Burford Park Road, Birmingham, B38
"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 B38 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
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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 B38
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B38, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B38 0 | £290,000 | 5 |
| B38 9 | £216,000 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full B38 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B38 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in B38 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B38 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the B38 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B38 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working B38 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B38 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B38 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual B38 8 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.