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Birmingham city centre market report B4 6, Birmingham
The B4 6 (Birmingham city centre) house price history in full, 1998 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 774 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B4 6 (Birmingham) since 1998, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in B4 6 (Birmingham) sold for £190,000 in 2026, the median of 3 registered sales, down 18% on five years earlier. The mean was £215,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,150 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 774 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1998 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
B4 6 is one sector of B4 (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 B4 6 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 B4 6 prices, from the sold record
Take the 3 registered 2026 sales in B4 6 and the middle price, the median, is £190,000. The mean lands at £215,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in B4 6
A square metre of B4 6 home has cost about £5,150 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B4 6 runs 33% below it.
A typical B4 6 home, priced year by year (1998 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 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 3 |
| 2025 | £318,000 | £325,604 | 21 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 52 |
| 2023 | £337,100 | £370,391 | 85 |
| 2022 | £314,800 | £369,139 | 174 |
| 2021 | £230,500 | £291,843 | 77 |
| 2020 | £380,000 | £493,058 | 3 |
| 2019 | £179,000 | £234,626 | 4 |
| 2018 | £140,000 | £186,623 | 9 |
| 2017 | £222,500 | £303,468 | 28 |
| 2016 | £101,000 | £141,300 | 7 |
| 2015 | £115,000 | £162,495 | 21 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 17 |
| 2013 | £107,000 | £153,962 | 5 |
| 2012 | £95,000 | £139,828 | 3 |
| 2011 | £108,000 | £163,038 | 3 |
| 2010 | £74,200 | £116,365 | 18 |
| 2009 | £82,900 | £133,262 | 66 |
| 2008 | £98,000 | £160,643 | 42 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 5 |
| 2006 | £121,200 | £210,388 | 4 |
| 2005 | £101,000 | £179,739 | 3 |
| 2004 | £109,000 | £197,965 | 12 |
| 2003 | £114,000 | £210,016 | 6 |
| 2002 | £108,200 | £203,577 | 6 |
| 2001 | £86,800 | £166,869 | 10 |
| 2000 | £94,500 | £185,456 | 14 |
| 1999 | £81,000 | £161,429 | 28 |
| 1998 | £57,500 | £116,068 | 48 |
In cash terms the typical B4 6 home went from £57,500 in 1998 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 3.3 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 64%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 61% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B4 6 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 2017 (+120.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−40.3%). 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) | −40.3% | −41.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.8% | −8.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.5% | +3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in B4 6
The year-by-year sales count
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, 3 sales completed in B4 6. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 67 sales a year over the last five years against 8 before the financial crisis. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the B4 6 market
Only 3 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B4 6 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.
The rental side of B4 6
B4 6 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £190,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 6.9%: 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.
Common questions on B4 6 (Birmingham city centre)
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What happens to B4 6 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 18% over five years in cash but down 35% 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 B4 right now
The live side of the market holds 9 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B4 district, not just B4 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 44% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Birmingham
- Ashted Wharf, Glasswater Locks, Pitt Street, Birmingham, B4, Birmingham
- The Colmore, Snow Hill Wharf, Shadwell Street, Birmingham, B4, Birmingham
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 B4 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.
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. 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.
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.
Zoom out to the full B4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in B4 6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B4 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B4 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B4 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working B4 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B4 6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B4 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B4 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.