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Kings Norton market report B38 9, Birmingham
The B38 9 (Kings Norton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,383 registered sales in B38 9 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B38 9 (Birmingham) came in at £216,000, out of 44 registered, down 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £229,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,730 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,383 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
B38 9 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 9 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 buyers actually paid in B38 9
Across 44 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B38 9 home went for £216,000. The mean is £229,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
B38 9 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in B38 9 have sold for about £2,730 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B38 9 24% below the national figure.
B38 9'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 | £216,000 | £216,000 | 44 |
| 2025 | £213,500 | £218,605 | 107 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 96 |
| 2023 | £188,500 | £207,115 | 88 |
| 2022 | £211,000 | £247,422 | 141 |
| 2021 | £250,500 | £317,165 | 181 |
| 2020 | £160,000 | £207,603 | 117 |
| 2019 | £178,000 | £233,315 | 173 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 107 |
| 2017 | £124,500 | £169,806 | 112 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 120 |
| 2015 | £133,000 | £187,929 | 99 |
| 2014 | £131,500 | £186,556 | 108 |
| 2013 | £102,000 | £146,768 | 67 |
| 2012 | £97,500 | £143,508 | 55 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 63 |
| 2010 | £91,000 | £142,711 | 45 |
| 2009 | £85,000 | £136,638 | 79 |
| 2008 | £104,500 | £171,298 | 70 |
| 2007 | £112,000 | £189,983 | 151 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 129 |
| 2005 | £98,500 | £175,290 | 127 |
| 2004 | £91,000 | £165,274 | 143 |
| 2003 | £72,200 | £133,010 | 146 |
| 2002 | £56,000 | £105,364 | 124 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 143 |
| 2000 | £43,000 | £84,388 | 131 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 96 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 77 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 89 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 74 |
| 1995 | £37,500 | £81,519 | 81 |
In cash terms the typical B38 9 home went from £37,500 in 1995 to £216,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 165%, 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 32% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B38 9 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 2021 (+56.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.7%). 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) | −2.9% | −7.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in B38 9
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 44 B38 9 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 137 sales a year before the financial crisis and 95 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.
The shape of the B38 9 market
Only 44 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B38 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the B38 district median, B38 9 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of B38 9
For renting purposes B38 9 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £821 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,563 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £216,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 6.0% 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.
Common questions on B38 9 (Kings Norton)
Are property prices falling in B38 9 (Kings Norton)?
Is B38 9 (Kings Norton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B38 9 (Kings Norton)?
Where do B38 9 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 14% over five years in cash but down 32% 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.
What is for sale in B38 right 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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 8 | £276,200 | 42 |
Zoom out to the full B38 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B38 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in B38 9? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B38 9'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.
Estate agents working B38 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B38 9.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B38 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual B38 9 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.