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Birmingham city centre market report B4, Birmingham
The B4 (Birmingham city centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 809 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B4 (Birmingham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to June 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for B4 (Birmingham) is £190,000, from 3 registered sales, down 18% on five years earlier; the mean is £215,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,150 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 809 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B4 is a postcode district covering Birmingham city centre in Birmingham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where B4 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 B4
3 sales were registered in B4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £190,000. The mean works out at £215,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in B4
A square metre of B4 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B4 trades 33% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical B4 home, 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 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 3 |
| 2025 | £307,800 | £315,160 | 44 |
| 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 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 50 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 5 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 5 |
| 2005 | £101,000 | £179,739 | 3 |
| 2004 | £109,000 | £197,965 | 12 |
| 2003 | £114,000 | £210,016 | 6 |
| 2002 | £109,000 | £205,083 | 7 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 11 |
| 2000 | £94,500 | £185,456 | 14 |
| 1999 | £81,000 | £161,429 | 28 |
| 1998 | £57,500 | £116,068 | 48 |
| 1995 | £22,000 | £47,825 | 1 |
In cash terms the typical B4 home went from £22,000 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 297%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 61% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B4 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, 2021 (−39.3%). 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) | −38.3% | −39.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.8% | −8.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.5% | +3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
B4 recorded 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 72 sales a year over the last five years against 8 before the financial crisis. 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.
The rental side of B4
B4 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £821 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,563, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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.
Reading the B4 market
This is a thin market: 45 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. 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. In its area's price order B4 comes 60 of 76, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What people ask about B4 (Birmingham city centre)
Are property prices falling in B4 (Birmingham city centre)?
Is B4 (Birmingham city centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B4 (Birmingham city centre)?
Are B4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 18% over five years in cash but down 35% 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.
On the market in B4 today
Everything above is what homes in B4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 9 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 37% above the B4 median sold price.
44% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every B4 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, 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
B4 ranks 73 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside B4, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B4 6 | £190,000 | 3 |
How B4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B4 itself, which ranks 60 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% |
| B4 (this report) | £190,000 | -18% |
Selling in B4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B4, open the average prices map and zoom from the B4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B4 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.
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.