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Great Barr market report B43, Birmingham
The standing B43 (Great Barr) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 12,891 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B43 (Birmingham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical B43 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £261,500 in 2026 (median of 121 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £264,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,910 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 12,891 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
B43 is the postcode district covering Great Barr, Hamstead, Pheasey in Birmingham. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where B43 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.
B43 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 121 registered 2026 sales in B43 and the middle price, the median, is £261,500. The mean lands at £264,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in B43
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B43 sales average about £2,910 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 B43 8% below the country at large.
The price of a typical B43 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £261,500 | £261,500 | 121 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 413 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 367 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 343 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 418 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 501 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 324 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 439 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 432 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 442 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 439 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 441 |
| 2014 | £152,000 | £215,639 | 389 |
| 2013 | £139,500 | £200,727 | 394 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 263 |
| 2011 | £137,500 | £207,572 | 302 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 291 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 269 |
| 2008 | £150,300 | £246,373 | 308 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 543 |
| 2006 | £149,000 | £258,645 | 580 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 413 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 451 |
| 2003 | £115,200 | £212,226 | 478 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 534 |
| 2001 | £77,000 | £148,029 | 469 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 466 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 470 |
| 1998 | £55,800 | £112,636 | 490 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 426 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 391 |
| 1995 | £49,500 | £107,605 | 284 |
In cash terms the typical B43 home went from £49,500 in 1995 to £261,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 143%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B43 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 (+28.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.9%). 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) | +2.5% | +0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
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, 53% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £310,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, B43
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 | £310,000 | 15 | 1,643 |
| Semi-detached | £280,000 | 64 | 6,782 |
| Terraced | £226,000 | 23 | 2,924 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 19 | 1,542 |
How many homes change hands in B43
How many homes change hands
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 272 sales completed in B43. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 492 sales a year before the financial crisis and 332 a year over the last five. 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.
What homes rent for around B43
B43 falls under Sandwell, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £672 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,388, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sandwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£940 a month is £11,280 a year, which against the £261,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
Common questions on B43 (Great Barr)
Is B43 (Great Barr) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B43 (Great Barr)?
Are property prices falling in B43 (Great Barr)?
Will B43 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
What is for sale in B43 right now
Everything above is what homes in B43 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 16 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the B43 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Cotleigh Grove, Birmingham, West Midl...
- Pear Tree Drive, Birmingham
- Queslett Road, Great Barr, Birmingham
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every B43 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.
What another bedroom costs in B
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%) | — |
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
B43 ranks 25 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.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside B43, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B43 5 | £253,500 | 34 |
| B43 6 | £316,200 | 26 |
| B43 7 | £250,000 | 61 |
How B43 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B43 itself, which ranks 28 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% |
| B43 (this report) | £261,500 | +19% |
Thinking of selling in B43? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B43, open the average prices map and zoom from the B43 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B43 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working B43: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B43.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B43 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B43 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
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.