Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,025 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B48 (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.
Sales data to April 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
B48 is the postcode district covering Alvechurch, Cobley Hill, Rowney Green 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 B48 sits
Click the map to open B48 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£365,000median sold price, 2026
-3%five-year change (cash)
75sales in the last 12 months
3.2%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in B48 sells for
The 2026 median in B48 is £365,000, from 16 registered sales; the mean, £431,100, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so B48 trades 33% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical B48 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£365,000
£365,000
16
2025
£435,000
£435,000
75
2024
£370,000
£384,199
84
2023
£375,000
£402,411
79
2022
£398,400
£456,259
92
2021
£375,000
£463,710
127
2020
£345,000
£437,190
93
2019
£317,500
£406,447
89
2018
£335,000
£436,132
73
2017
£283,600
£377,768
102
2016
£285,000
£389,406
134
2015
£300,000
£414,000
90
2014
£300,000
£415,663
89
2013
£247,200
£347,389
86
2012
£245,000
£352,188
82
2011
£235,000
£346,474
116
2010
£240,000
£367,592
73
2009
£215,000
£337,543
89
2008
£235,000
£376,218
49
2007
£250,000
£414,166
92
2006
£215,000
£364,496
146
2005
£210,000
£364,987
92
2004
£220,000
£390,231
116
2003
£171,000
£307,666
112
2002
£142,800
£262,402
114
2001
£125,000
£234,694
124
2000
£102,600
£196,650
99
1999
£84,000
£163,498
110
1998
£76,500
£150,814
106
1997
£83,500
£167,242
128
1996
£73,000
£150,358
83
1995
£66,000
£140,123
65
In cash terms the typical B48 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £365,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 160%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 21% 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 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 (−16.1%). 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)
−16.1%
−16.1%
5 years (since 2021)
−0.5%
−4.7%
10 years (since 2016)
+2.5%
−0.6%
20 years (since 2006)
+2.7%
0.0%
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
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
B48 recorded 75 sales in the last 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 69 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.
What homes rent for around B48
B48 falls under Bromsgrove, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £979 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £708 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,585, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bromsgrove
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £365,000 median sold price, £979 a month is £11,748 a year, a gross yield of 3.2%: 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.
Will B48 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 21% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
B48 ranks 66 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside B48, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.