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Shelfield market report B49 6, Alcester
The B49 6 (Shelfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,948 HM Land Registry entries for B49 6 (Alcester), 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B49 6 (Alcester) came in at £350,000, out of 17 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £398,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,750 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,948 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
B49 6 is one sector of B49 (Alcester): 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 B49 6 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 B49 6 prices, from the sold record
Across 17 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B49 6 home went for £350,000. The mean is £398,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in B49 6
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B49 6 sales average about £3,750 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, B49 6 runs 23% above it.
The price of a typical B49 6 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 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 79 |
| 2024 | £329,000 | £349,795 | 112 |
| 2023 | £302,500 | £332,374 | 66 |
| 2022 | £332,500 | £389,894 | 92 |
| 2021 | £341,200 | £432,003 | 140 |
| 2020 | £330,000 | £428,182 | 64 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 89 |
| 2018 | £247,000 | £329,256 | 93 |
| 2017 | £265,500 | £362,115 | 108 |
| 2016 | £282,000 | £394,521 | 95 |
| 2015 | £235,500 | £332,762 | 102 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 109 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 111 |
| 2012 | £187,500 | £275,977 | 50 |
| 2011 | £162,000 | £244,558 | 51 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 59 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 49 |
| 2008 | £196,500 | £322,105 | 43 |
| 2007 | £174,700 | £296,340 | 110 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 111 |
| 2005 | £151,000 | £268,719 | 84 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 102 |
| 2003 | £152,500 | £280,942 | 90 |
| 2002 | £117,500 | £221,075 | 124 |
| 2001 | £82,500 | £158,602 | 111 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 114 |
| 1999 | £79,500 | £158,439 | 102 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 125 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 126 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 121 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 99 |
In cash terms the typical B49 6 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 178%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% 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 B49 6 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 2002 (+42.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−16.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.1% | −11.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in B49 6
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
B49 6 recorded 17 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 106 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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.
The shape of the B49 6 market
This is a thin market: 17 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the B49 district median, B49 6 sits 12% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around B49 6
B49 6 falls under Stratford-on-Avon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,135 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £805 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,794 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Stratford-on-Avon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,135 a month is £13,620 a year, which against the £350,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.
What people ask about B49 6 (Shelfield)
Are property prices falling in B49 6 (Shelfield)?
Is B49 6 (Shelfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B49 6 (Shelfield)?
Where do B49 6 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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 B49 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 20 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B49 district, not just B49 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
7% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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%) | — |
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.
B area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in B49
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B49, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B49 5 | £310,000 | 27 |
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 6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B49 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the B49 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B49 6 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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See every individual B49 6 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.