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Digbeth market report B5 6, Birmingham
The standing B5 6 (Digbeth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 686 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B5 6 (Birmingham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 2 registered 2026 sales put the B5 6 (Birmingham) median at £152,500, up 17% on five years earlier, with a mean of £152,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,830 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 686 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B5 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B5 (Birmingham). 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 B5 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.
What a home in B5 6 sells for
Take the 2 registered 2026 sales in B5 6 and the middle price, the median, is £152,500. The mean lands at £152,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
B5 6 prices by floor area
Per square metre, B5 6 homes have averaged around £4,830 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B5 6 trades 46% below the country as a whole.
A typical B5 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £152,500 | £152,500 | 2 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 6 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 6 |
| 2023 | £286,800 | £315,123 | 30 |
| 2022 | £234,700 | £275,213 | 291 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 1 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 3 |
| 2019 | £165,000 | £216,276 | 20 |
| 2018 | £182,400 | £243,143 | 96 |
| 2017 | £153,100 | £208,813 | 5 |
| 2016 | £136,000 | £190,265 | 12 |
| 2015 | £147,500 | £208,418 | 14 |
| 2014 | £142,500 | £202,161 | 64 |
| 2013 | £123,000 | £176,985 | 26 |
| 2012 | £71,700 | £105,533 | 9 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 9 |
| 2010 | £111,500 | £174,861 | 16 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 56 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 6 |
| 2007 | £94,000 | £159,450 | 4 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 2 |
| 2005 | £82,000 | £145,927 | 1 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 2 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 1 |
| 1997 | £17,500 | £35,889 | 1 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 1 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 2 |
In cash terms the typical B5 6 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £152,500 in 2026, roughly 3.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 40%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 54% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B5 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 1998 (+328.6% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−65.0%). 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) | −23.8% | −25.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −1.1% | −3.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in B5 6
Sales per year, counted
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 register shows 2 B5 6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 67 sales a year over the last five years against 2 before the financial crisis. 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.
The shape of the B5 6 market
This is a thin market: 2 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. Within B5, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around B5 6
For renting purposes B5 6 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £821 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,563 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £152,500 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 8.6%: 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.
Asked and answered: B5 6 (Digbeth)
How much did a house sell for in B5 6 (Digbeth)?
Are property prices falling in B5 6 (Digbeth)?
Is B5 6 (Digbeth) a good place to buy a house?
Where do B5 6 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
B5's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 93 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B5 district, not just B5 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Holloway Head, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1
- Latitude, 155 Bromsgrove Street, Birm...
- The Arcadian, Hurst Street, Birmingham, B5, Birmingham
"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 B5 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in B5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B5 4 | £90,000 | 7 |
| B5 5 | £145,000 | 3 |
| B5 7 | £230,000 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full B5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B5 6? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B5 6'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 B5 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B5 6.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about B5 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B5 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.