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Alvechurch market report B48 7, Birmingham
The B48 7 (Alvechurch) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,916 HM Land Registry entries for B48 7 (Birmingham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for B48 7 (Birmingham) is £340,000, from 24 registered sales, down 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £410,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,010 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,916 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B48 7 is one sector of B48 (Birmingham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where B48 7 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 B48 7
The 2026 median for B48 7 is £340,000, taken from 24 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £410,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in B48 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B48 7 sales average about £4,010 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 B48 7 19% above the country at large.
A typical B48 7 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £428,700 | £438,952 | 70 |
| 2024 | £370,000 | £393,386 | 75 |
| 2023 | £381,200 | £418,846 | 66 |
| 2022 | £399,500 | £468,459 | 84 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 114 |
| 2020 | £357,500 | £463,864 | 76 |
| 2019 | £314,800 | £412,627 | 78 |
| 2018 | £350,000 | £466,557 | 61 |
| 2017 | £282,500 | £385,302 | 94 |
| 2016 | £290,000 | £405,713 | 117 |
| 2015 | £300,500 | £424,607 | 88 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 87 |
| 2013 | £247,200 | £355,696 | 86 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 82 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 116 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 73 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 89 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 49 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 92 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 146 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 92 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 116 |
| 2003 | £171,000 | £315,023 | 112 |
| 2002 | £142,800 | £268,677 | 114 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 124 |
| 2000 | £102,600 | £201,353 | 99 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 110 |
| 1998 | £76,500 | £154,421 | 106 |
| 1997 | £83,500 | £171,242 | 128 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 83 |
| 1995 | £66,000 | £143,474 | 65 |
In cash terms the typical B48 7 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 137%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B48 7 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 (+28.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−20.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B48 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −20.7% | −22.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.9% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The register shows 24 B48 7 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 112 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
Reading the B48 7 market
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B48 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Rents around B48 7
The local authority for B48 7 is Bromsgrove, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £979 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £708 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,585 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bromsgrove
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£979 a month is £11,748 a year, which against the £340,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. 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.
B48 7 (Alvechurch): the questions that come up
Is B48 7 (Alvechurch) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B48 7 (Alvechurch)?
Are property prices falling in B48 7 (Alvechurch)?
Are B48 7 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in B48 right now
The live side of the market holds 60 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B48 district, not just B48 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Mill Court, Alvechurch, Birmingham, Worcestershire
- Swans Walk, Alvechurch, Birmingham
- The Becks, Alvechurch, Birmingham, Worcestershire
"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 B48 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, from the Land Registry record. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Zoom out to the full B48 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B48 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B48 7? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B48 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B48 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B48 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim B48 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B48 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual B48 7 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.