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Alvechurch market report B48, Birmingham
The standing B48 (Alvechurch) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,916 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B48 (Birmingham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical B48 (Birmingham) home changed hands for £340,000 in 2026 (median of 24 registered sales, down 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £410,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,010 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,916 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district B48 covering Alvechurch, Cobley Hill, Rowney Green 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 B48 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.
What B48 homes really sell for
The B48 median stands at £340,000 for 2026, built from 24 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as 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
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B48 costs about £4,010 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B48 19% above the national figure.
The price of a typical B48 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 | £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 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £340,000 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 2021. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B48 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.
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, 39% of the typed total. In 2023, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £560,000 against £218,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, B48
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 | £719,400 | 7 | 905 |
| Semi-detached | £310,000 | 14 | 1,116 |
| Terraced | £297,500 (2025) | – | 846 |
| Flats | £218,000 (2023) | – | 11 |
The long view: annualised growth
| 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% |
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.
Sales activity in B48
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 49 B48 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. 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 kind of market B48 is
Only 49 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B48 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. B48 sits 14 of 76 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Rents around B48
For renting purposes B48 sits in Bromsgrove. The ONS average private rent there is £979 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £708 a month here against £1,585 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Bromsgrove
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £340,000 median sold price, £979 a month is £11,748 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about B48 (Alvechurch)
Are property prices falling in B48 (Alvechurch)?
Is B48 (Alvechurch) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B48 (Alvechurch)?
Are B48 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in B48 today
Everything above is what homes in B48 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 60 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% below the B48 median sold price.
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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every B48 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
B48 ranks 72 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 B48, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| B48 7 | £340,000 | 24 |
How B48 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the B area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| B97 | £279,000 | +9% |
Selling in B48? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B48's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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Two maps carry on from here: every B48 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.