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Great Barr market report B43 5, Birmingham
The standing B43 5 (Great Barr) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,947 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B43 5 (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 2026 median for B43 5 (Birmingham) is £253,500, from 34 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier; the mean is £255,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,750 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,947 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like B43 5 is a single group of streets within B43 (Birmingham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where B43 5 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 B43 5
The B43 5 median stands at £253,500 for 2026, built from 34 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £255,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in B43 5
By floor space, homes in B43 5 have sold for about £2,750 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B43 5 runs 11% below it.
The price of a typical B43 5 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £253,500 | £253,500 | 34 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 126 |
| 2024 | £228,000 | £242,411 | 104 |
| 2023 | £221,000 | £242,825 | 105 |
| 2022 | £225,500 | £264,424 | 124 |
| 2021 | £201,000 | £254,492 | 154 |
| 2020 | £182,800 | £237,187 | 96 |
| 2019 | £175,000 | £229,383 | 128 |
| 2018 | £167,000 | £222,614 | 119 |
| 2017 | £158,000 | £215,496 | 133 |
| 2016 | £150,500 | £210,551 | 132 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 129 |
| 2014 | £137,500 | £195,068 | 106 |
| 2013 | £128,000 | £184,179 | 103 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 95 |
| 2011 | £129,500 | £195,495 | 78 |
| 2010 | £136,000 | £213,283 | 73 |
| 2009 | £126,000 | £202,546 | 74 |
| 2008 | £141,900 | £232,604 | 86 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 173 |
| 2006 | £141,000 | £244,758 | 155 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 149 |
| 2004 | £129,000 | £234,289 | 127 |
| 2003 | £108,800 | £200,436 | 138 |
| 2002 | £88,500 | £166,512 | 176 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 175 |
| 2000 | £63,000 | £123,638 | 161 |
| 1999 | £59,200 | £117,983 | 149 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 195 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 141 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 107 |
| 1995 | £49,200 | £106,953 | 102 |
In cash terms the typical B43 5 home went from £49,200 in 1995 to £253,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 137%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 4% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B43 5 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 2003 (+22.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in B43 5
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 34 sales completed in B43 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 157 sales a year before the financial crisis and 99 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.
The shape of the B43 5 market
Only 34 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B43 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What homes rent for around B43 5
The local authority for B43 5 is Sandwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £672 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,388 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Sandwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £253,500 median purchase price, a rent of £940 a month (£11,280 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about B43 5 (Great Barr)
How much did a house sell for in B43 5 (Great Barr)?
Are property prices falling in B43 5 (Great Barr)?
Is B43 5 (Great Barr) a good place to buy a house?
Are B43 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat 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.
B43's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 16 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B43 district, not just B43 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 B43 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the B area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in B43
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B43, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B43 6 | £316,200 | 26 |
| B43 7 | £250,000 | 61 |
Zoom out to the full B43 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B43 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B43 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B43 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the B43 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B43 5 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 B43 5.
Dig further
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See every individual B43 5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.