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Kings Norton market report B38, Birmingham
The B38 (Kings Norton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 8,208 HM Land Registry entries for B38 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in B38 (Birmingham) sold for £250,000 in 2026, the median of 91 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £275,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,810 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,208 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district B38 covering Kings Norton, Hawkesley, Headley Heath sits in Birmingham. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where B38 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 prices, from the sold record
91 sales were registered in B38 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £250,000. The mean works out at £275,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in B38
By floor space, homes in B38 have sold for about £2,810 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B38 12% below the country at large.
The price of a typical B38 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 91 |
| 2025 | £241,400 | £247,173 | 254 |
| 2024 | £216,000 | £229,652 | 247 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 202 |
| 2022 | £225,000 | £263,838 | 296 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 340 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 232 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 310 |
| 2018 | £162,800 | £217,015 | 280 |
| 2017 | £147,800 | £201,584 | 278 |
| 2016 | £152,500 | £213,349 | 292 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 256 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 273 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 191 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 181 |
| 2011 | £117,000 | £176,625 | 179 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 159 |
| 2009 | £97,500 | £156,732 | 189 |
| 2008 | £116,700 | £191,296 | 146 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 365 |
| 2006 | £116,000 | £201,361 | 345 |
| 2005 | £112,000 | £199,315 | 271 |
| 2004 | £105,000 | £190,701 | 350 |
| 2003 | £83,700 | £154,196 | 311 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 317 |
| 2001 | £59,000 | £113,424 | 349 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 330 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 286 |
| 1998 | £48,200 | £97,295 | 208 |
| 1997 | £47,800 | £98,028 | 252 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 215 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 213 |
In cash terms the typical B38 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 161%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B38 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 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £438,800 against £117,000 for a flat, 3.8 times the price.
Median by property type, B38
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 | £438,800 | 12 | 1,020 |
| Semi-detached | £270,000 | 35 | 2,735 |
| Terraced | £212,000 | 37 | 3,241 |
| Flats | £117,000 | 7 | 1,212 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.6% | +1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 200 B38 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 330 sales a year before the financial crisis and 218 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 market
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.
Rents around B38
The local authority for B38 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.
Set against the £250,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
B38 (Kings Norton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in B38 (Kings Norton)?
Are property prices falling in B38 (Kings Norton)?
Is B38 (Kings Norton) a good place to buy a house?
Where do B38 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 B38 now
Everything above is what homes in B38 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 101 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the B38 median sold price.
27% 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.
- Grange Hill Road, Kings Norton, Birmingham
- Orwell Drive, Kings Norton, Birmingham, West Midlands
- Burford Park Road, Birmingham, B38
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 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. 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
B38 ranks 42 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.
B area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside B38, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B38 0 | £290,000 | 5 |
| B38 8 | £276,200 | 42 |
| B38 9 | £216,000 | 44 |
How B38 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B38 itself, which ranks 36 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% |
| B38 (this report) | £250,000 | +11% |
Selling a home in B38? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B38, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B38's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B38 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B38.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual B38 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.