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Shelfield market report B49 5, Alcester
The B49 5 (Shelfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,608 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B49 5 (Alcester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 27 registered 2026 sales put the B49 5 (Alcester) median at £310,000, down 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £360,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,850 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,608 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B49 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B49 (Alcester). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where B49 5 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 B49 5 homes really sell for
In the B49 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £310,000, from 27 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £360,300, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
B49 5 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B49 5 costs about £3,850 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B49 5 trades 9% above the country as a whole.
B49 5's median sold price, 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 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £306,500 | £313,829 | 104 |
| 2024 | £340,000 | £361,490 | 98 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 96 |
| 2022 | £334,000 | £391,653 | 101 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 106 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 64 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 70 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 63 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 81 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 88 |
| 2015 | £217,500 | £307,328 | 72 |
| 2014 | £237,500 | £336,935 | 65 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 74 |
| 2012 | £222,000 | £326,756 | 55 |
| 2011 | £167,500 | £252,861 | 49 |
| 2010 | £200,800 | £314,906 | 62 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 43 |
| 2008 | £219,000 | £358,987 | 56 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 137 |
| 2006 | £218,800 | £379,809 | 90 |
| 2005 | £210,500 | £374,605 | 76 |
| 2004 | £199,500 | £362,331 | 108 |
| 2003 | £172,000 | £316,866 | 97 |
| 2002 | £136,500 | £256,824 | 106 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 101 |
| 2000 | £96,000 | £188,400 | 81 |
| 1999 | £86,500 | £172,390 | 84 |
| 1998 | £84,500 | £170,569 | 95 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 96 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 102 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 61 |
In cash terms the typical B49 5 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 110%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B49 5 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 2012 (+32.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−16.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B49 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.1% | −1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 27 sales completed in B49 5. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 85 sales a year recently, against 100 a year before 2008. 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 tenants pay around B49 5
For renting purposes B49 5 sits in Stratford-on-Avon. The ONS average private rent there is £1,135 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £805 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,794, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Stratford-on-Avon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £310,000 median sold price, £1,135 a month is £13,620 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
How B49 5 trades
This is a thin market: 27 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
B49 5 (Shelfield): the questions that come up
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What happens to B49 5 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in B49 today
Turning to what is actually available: 20 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B49 district, not just B49 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 7% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 B49 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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.
Other sectors in B49
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B49, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B49 6 | £350,000 | 17 |
Zoom out to the full B49 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B49 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B49 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B49 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the B49 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B49 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Two maps carry on from here: every B49 5 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.
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.