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Digbeth market report B5 7, Birmingham
The B5 7 (Digbeth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,869 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B5 7 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in B5 7 (Birmingham) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 14 registered sales, down 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £217,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,440 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,869 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
B5 7 is one sector of B5 (Birmingham): 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 B5 7 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 B5 7
14 sales were registered in B5 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £230,000. The mean works out at £217,300, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
House prices per square metre in B5 7
The last five years of sales put B5 7 at roughly £3,440 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, B5 7 sits 19% below the national market.
B5 7's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 14 |
| 2025 | £225,900 | £231,302 | 69 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 28 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 50 |
| 2022 | £259,300 | £304,059 | 194 |
| 2021 | £255,600 | £323,623 | 178 |
| 2020 | £201,200 | £261,061 | 80 |
| 2019 | £252,500 | £330,967 | 86 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 85 |
| 2017 | £182,500 | £248,912 | 74 |
| 2016 | £148,800 | £208,173 | 60 |
| 2015 | £154,000 | £217,602 | 83 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 74 |
| 2013 | £142,500 | £205,043 | 52 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 35 |
| 2011 | £148,000 | £223,423 | 51 |
| 2010 | £121,600 | £190,700 | 141 |
| 2009 | £131,000 | £210,584 | 116 |
| 2008 | £159,000 | £260,635 | 122 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 154 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 74 |
| 2005 | £136,000 | £242,025 | 84 |
| 2004 | £143,200 | £260,079 | 86 |
| 2003 | £136,500 | £251,466 | 126 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 95 |
| 2001 | £88,000 | £169,176 | 87 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 101 |
| 1999 | £67,500 | £134,524 | 123 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 75 |
| 1997 | £67,500 | £138,429 | 124 |
| 1996 | £56,200 | £118,523 | 75 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 73 |
In cash terms the typical B5 7 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 130%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B5 7 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 2019 (+40.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−20.3%). 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) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.1% | −6.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
B5 7 recorded 14 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 101 sales a year before the financial crisis and 71 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 kind of market B5 7 is
This is a thin market: 14 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. Against the B5 district median, B5 7 sits 35% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around B5 7
The local authority for B5 7 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £230,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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 7 (Digbeth)
How much did a house sell for in B5 7 (Digbeth)?
Are property prices falling in B5 7 (Digbeth)?
Is B5 7 (Digbeth) a good place to buy a house?
Will B5 7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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 B5 right now
The live side of the market holds 93 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B5 district, not just B5 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Holloway Head, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1
- Latitude, 155 Bromsgrove Street, Birm...
- The Arcadian, Hurst Street, Birmingham, B5, Birmingham
"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 B5 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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight 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%) | — |
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. 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.
B area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in B5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B5 4 | £90,000 | 7 |
| B5 5 | £145,000 | 3 |
| B5 6 | £152,500 | 2 |
Zoom out to the full B5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in B5 7? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B5 7'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B5 7.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B5 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B5 7 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.