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Perry Barr market report B42, Birmingham
The B42 (Perry Barr) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 11,625 registered sales in B42 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 91 registered 2026 sales put the B42 (Birmingham) median at £225,000, up 22% on five years earlier, with a mean of £221,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,810 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 11,625 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district B42 covering Perry Barr, Great Barr, Hamstead 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 B42 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 B42
In the B42 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £225,000, from 91 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £221,500, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in B42
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B42 costs about £2,810 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B42 runs 21% below it.
The price of a typical B42 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 91 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 318 |
| 2024 | £223,500 | £237,626 | 264 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 221 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 312 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 396 |
| 2020 | £172,500 | £223,822 | 251 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 371 |
| 2018 | £162,000 | £215,949 | 362 |
| 2017 | £153,000 | £208,677 | 340 |
| 2016 | £140,500 | £196,561 | 338 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 306 |
| 2014 | £122,000 | £173,078 | 309 |
| 2013 | £119,000 | £171,229 | 252 |
| 2012 | £115,700 | £170,296 | 208 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 205 |
| 2010 | £122,000 | £191,327 | 201 |
| 2009 | £122,000 | £196,116 | 189 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 268 |
| 2007 | £132,700 | £225,096 | 524 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 582 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 461 |
| 2004 | £118,000 | £214,311 | 556 |
| 2003 | £95,000 | £175,013 | 491 |
| 2002 | £78,000 | £146,756 | 559 |
| 2001 | £63,000 | £121,114 | 499 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 551 |
| 1999 | £52,000 | £103,633 | 531 |
| 1998 | £48,500 | £97,901 | 471 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 432 |
| 1996 | £45,800 | £96,590 | 452 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 314 |
In cash terms the typical B42 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 5% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B42 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 (+24.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−5.8%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 60% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £322,500 against £110,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, B42
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 | £322,500 (2025) | – | 575 |
| Semi-detached | £225,500 | 54 | 6,976 |
| Terraced | £210,000 | 29 | 3,561 |
| Flats | £110,000 (2025) | – | 495 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.3% | −0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in B42
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 227 B42 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 528 sales a year before the financial crisis and 241 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.
What homes rent for around B42
The local authority for B42 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£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 (Perry Barr)
How much did a house sell for in B42 (Perry Barr)?
Are property prices falling in B42 (Perry Barr)?
Is B42 (Perry Barr) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to B42 prices now?
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
Everything above is what homes in B42 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the B42 median sold price.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Perry Wood Road, Birmingham
- Church Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham
- Sandringham Court, Great Barr, 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 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
B42 ranks 15 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 B42, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| B42 1 | £230,800 | 34 |
| B42 2 | £225,000 | 57 |
How B42 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B42 itself, which ranks 49 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% |
| B42 (this report) | £225,000 | +22% |
Selling in B42? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B42, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B42's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B42 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.