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Perry Barr market report B42 1, Birmingham
The standing B42 1 (Perry Barr) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,602 registered sales in B42 1 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B42 1 (Birmingham) came in at £230,800, out of 34 registered, up 25% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £239,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,602 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
B42 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B42 (Birmingham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where B42 1 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 B42 1
34 sales were registered in B42 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £230,800. The mean works out at £239,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in B42 1
The last five years of sales put B42 1 at roughly £2,800 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B42 1 19% below the national figure.
The price of a typical B42 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,800 | £230,800 | 34 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 113 |
| 2024 | £226,500 | £240,816 | 122 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 73 |
| 2022 | £216,000 | £253,285 | 111 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 128 |
| 2020 | £170,000 | £220,579 | 81 |
| 2019 | £172,000 | £225,451 | 114 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 139 |
| 2017 | £156,000 | £212,768 | 111 |
| 2016 | £142,800 | £199,779 | 138 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 105 |
| 2014 | £123,000 | £174,497 | 117 |
| 2013 | £121,600 | £174,970 | 110 |
| 2012 | £121,000 | £178,097 | 84 |
| 2011 | £126,000 | £190,212 | 94 |
| 2010 | £130,400 | £204,501 | 92 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 94 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 105 |
| 2007 | £144,600 | £245,282 | 207 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 260 |
| 2005 | £127,000 | £226,009 | 210 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 262 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 194 |
| 2002 | £81,000 | £152,401 | 231 |
| 2001 | £66,000 | £126,882 | 181 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 199 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 205 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 189 |
| 1997 | £48,800 | £100,079 | 178 |
| 1996 | £48,200 | £101,652 | 186 |
| 1995 | £47,500 | £103,258 | 135 |
In cash terms the typical B42 1 home went from £47,500 in 1995 to £230,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 124%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B42 1 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.1%). 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) | +4.9% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
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.
The register shows 34 B42 1 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 218 sales a year before the financial crisis and 91 a year over the last five. 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.
How B42 1 trades
Only 34 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B42 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around B42 1
B42 1 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 £230,800 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
B42 1 (Perry Barr): the questions that come up
Is B42 1 (Perry Barr) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B42 1 (Perry Barr)?
Are property prices falling in B42 1 (Perry Barr)?
Are B42 1 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
B42's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B42 district, not just B42 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Perry Wood Road, Birmingham
- Church Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham
- Sandringham Court, Great Barr, 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 B42 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.
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. 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in B42
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B42, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B42 2 | £225,000 | 57 |
Zoom out to the full B42 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B42 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B42 1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B42 1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B42 1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B42 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B42 1 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.