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Perry Barr market report B44, Birmingham
The B44 (Perry Barr) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 14,719 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B44 (Birmingham) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical B44 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £215,000 in 2026 (median of 168 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier), with the mean at £215,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,610 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 14,719 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
B44 is the postcode district covering Perry Barr, Kingstanding, Great Barr 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 B44 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.
Today's B44 prices, from the sold record
The B44 median stands at £215,000 for 2026, built from 168 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £215,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in B44
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B44 sales average about £2,610 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B44 runs 25% below it.
The price of a typical B44 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 168 |
| 2025 | £206,500 | £211,438 | 433 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 395 |
| 2023 | £192,500 | £211,510 | 330 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 404 |
| 2021 | £173,000 | £219,040 | 456 |
| 2020 | £151,000 | £195,926 | 321 |
| 2019 | £147,000 | £192,682 | 481 |
| 2018 | £144,800 | £193,021 | 484 |
| 2017 | £132,000 | £180,035 | 434 |
| 2016 | £123,000 | £172,078 | 460 |
| 2015 | £116,000 | £163,908 | 387 |
| 2014 | £107,000 | £151,798 | 405 |
| 2013 | £102,000 | £146,768 | 353 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 294 |
| 2011 | £98,000 | £147,942 | 299 |
| 2010 | £102,900 | £161,374 | 305 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 225 |
| 2008 | £113,500 | £186,050 | 360 |
| 2007 | £118,000 | £200,161 | 714 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 775 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 633 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 658 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 662 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 730 |
| 2001 | £53,000 | £101,890 | 624 |
| 2000 | £47,000 | £92,238 | 652 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 560 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 517 |
| 1997 | £41,000 | £84,083 | 454 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 395 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 351 |
In cash terms the typical B44 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 141%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 3% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B44 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 (+23.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.9%). 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, 58% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £277,500 against £120,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, B44
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 | £277,500 | 6 | 293 |
| Semi-detached | £225,000 | 85 | 8,551 |
| Terraced | £205,000 | 69 | 5,214 |
| Flats | £120,000 | 8 | 645 |
What B44 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +6.1% | +1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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 B44
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 289 B44 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 681 sales a year before the financial crisis and 346 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 B44
The local authority for B44 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £215,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 6.1% 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.
B44 (Perry Barr): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in B44 (Perry Barr)?
Are property prices falling in B44 (Perry Barr)?
Is B44 (Perry Barr) a good place to buy a house?
Where do B44 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
B44's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in B44 sold for. The live side of the market holds 4 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 21% below the B44 median sold price.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 B44 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.
When homes in B44 change hands
March is when B44 changes hands most (10.0% of the 2,018 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 7.1%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 146 | 7.2% |
| February | 158 | 7.8% |
| March | 202 | 10.0% |
| April | 143 | 7.1% |
| May | 152 | 7.5% |
| June | 161 | 8.0% |
| July | 186 | 9.2% |
| August | 176 | 8.7% |
| September | 184 | 9.1% |
| October | 163 | 8.1% |
| November | 185 | 9.2% |
| December | 162 | 8.0% |
What another bedroom costs in B
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £270,000 | £297,500 (+10%) | £360,000 (+21%) | £469,794 (+30%) | £650,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £230,000 (+10%) | £265,000 (+15%) | £335,000 (+26%) | £435,000 (+30%) |
| Terraced | £174,000 | £200,000 (+15%) | £210,000 (+5%) | £265,000 (+26%) | £325,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £155,000 (+29%) | £223,000 (+44%) | £330,000 (+48%) | £450,000 (+36%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
B44 ranks 11 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.
Winners and losers across the B area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside B44, 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.
How B44 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B44 itself, which ranks 56 of 76 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| B94 | £605,000 | +5% |
| B93 | £560,000 | +11% |
| B91 | £488,800 | +14% |
| B95 | £455,000 | +14% |
| B74 | £390,000 | +3% |
| B48 | £380,000 | +1% |
| B47 | £373,000 | +10% |
| B75 | £370,500 | +6% |
| B73 | £360,000 | +4% |
| B76 | £351,500 | +17% |
| B17 | £350,000 | +8% |
| B60 | £350,000 | +10% |
| B72 | £350,000 | +2% |
| B96 | £348,500 | -4% |
| B80 | £337,500 | +21% |
| B49 | £335,000 | +2% |
| B90 | £335,000 | +4% |
| B50 | £330,000 | +1% |
| B92 | £310,000 | +11% |
| B61 | £300,000 | +15% |
| B28 | £295,000 | +10% |
| B62 | £285,000 | +15% |
| B97 | £285,000 | +12% |
| B44 (this report) | £215,000 | +24% |
Selling a home in B44? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B44, open the average prices map and zoom from the B44 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B44 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B44 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B44 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.
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.