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Shelfield market report B49, Alcester
The B49 (Shelfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,556 registered sales in B49 (Alcester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B49 (Alcester) came in at £312,500, out of 44 registered, down 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £375,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,556 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
B49 is the postcode district covering Alcester, Shelfield, Shelfield Green in Alcester. 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 B49 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 buyers actually paid in B49
Take the 44 registered 2026 sales in B49 and the middle price, the median, is £312,500. The mean lands at £375,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
B49 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B49 sales average about £3,800 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 B49 10% above the country at large.
The price of a typical B49 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £312,500 | £312,500 | 44 |
| 2025 | £326,000 | £333,796 | 183 |
| 2024 | £336,200 | £357,450 | 210 |
| 2023 | £323,000 | £354,898 | 162 |
| 2022 | £333,000 | £390,480 | 193 |
| 2021 | £329,500 | £417,190 | 246 |
| 2020 | £297,500 | £386,012 | 128 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 159 |
| 2018 | £255,000 | £339,920 | 156 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 189 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 183 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 174 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 174 |
| 2013 | £211,000 | £303,608 | 185 |
| 2012 | £203,000 | £298,791 | 105 |
| 2011 | £166,000 | £250,596 | 100 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 121 |
| 2009 | £180,000 | £289,352 | 92 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 99 |
| 2007 | £204,000 | £346,041 | 247 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 201 |
| 2005 | £183,500 | £326,556 | 160 |
| 2004 | £191,600 | £347,983 | 210 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 187 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 230 |
| 2001 | £93,200 | £179,172 | 212 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 195 |
| 1999 | £82,800 | £165,016 | 186 |
| 1998 | £79,200 | £159,871 | 220 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 222 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 223 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 160 |
In cash terms the typical B49 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £312,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B49 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 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.3%). 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, 30% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £545,000 against £170,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, B49
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 | £498,500 | 16 | 1,643 |
| Semi-detached | £295,000 | 9 | 1,685 |
| Terraced | £265,000 | 15 | 1,438 |
| Flats | £170,000 (2025) | – | 786 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.1% | −6.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in B49
The year-by-year sales count
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 108 B49 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 205 sales a year before the financial crisis and 158 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 rental side of B49
For renting purposes B49 sits in Stratford-on-Avon. The ONS average private rent there is £1,135 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £805 a month here against £1,794 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Stratford-on-Avon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £312,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,135 a month (£13,620 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the B49 market
This is a thin market: 108 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. Among the 76 measurable districts of its area, B49 ranks 18 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
B49 (Shelfield): the questions that come up
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What happens to B49 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.
What is for sale in B49 right now
Everything above is what homes in B49 sold for. The live side of the market holds 20 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 107% above the B49 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 7% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 B49 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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
B49 ranks 69 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside B49, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| B49 5 | £310,000 | 27 |
| B49 6 | £350,000 | 17 |
How B49 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 | £340,000 | -9% |
| B60 | £340,000 | +6% |
| B90 | £335,000 | +4% |
| B50 | £325,000 | -1% |
| B49 (this report) | £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% |
Before you sell in B49: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B49'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.
Estate agents working B49: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B49.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B49 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual B49 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.