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Perry Barr market report B42 2, Birmingham

The B42 2 (Perry Barr) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,023 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B42 2 (Birmingham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.

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 B42 2 (Birmingham) came in at £225,000, out of 57 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £210,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,810 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,023 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

B42 2 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.

Today's B42 2 prices, from the sold record

The B42 2 median stands at £225,000 for 2026, built from 57 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £210,900, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.

What a square metre costs in B42 2

Measured by floor area, the last five years of B42 2 sales average about £2,810 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B42 2 21% below the country at large.

In cash terms the typical B42 2 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 141%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 4% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+25.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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.

Sales activity in B42 2

B42 2 recorded 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 310 sales a year before the financial crisis and 151 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.

How B42 2 trades

Only 57 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B42 2 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 2

For renting purposes B42 2 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). 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.

£1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, which against the £225,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.

Asked and answered: B42 2 (Perry Barr)

Will B42 2 prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.

B42's current homes for sale

The price of an extra bedroom in B

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in B42

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B42's other sectors, each with its own report:

Zoom out to the full B42 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B42 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in B42 2: what the record supports

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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.