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Digbeth market report B5, Birmingham
The B5 (Digbeth) 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: 6,101 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B5 (Birmingham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B5 (Birmingham) came in at £170,000, out of 29 registered, down 32% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £181,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,010 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,101 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district B5 covering Digbeth, Highgate sits in Birmingham. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where B5 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
The B5 median stands at £170,000 for 2026, built from 29 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £181,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
B5 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B5 costs about £4,010 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B5 40% below the national figure.
A typical B5 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 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £221,200 | £226,490 | 114 |
| 2024 | £223,600 | £237,733 | 78 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 96 |
| 2022 | £242,900 | £284,828 | 503 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 191 |
| 2020 | £191,000 | £247,826 | 105 |
| 2019 | £205,000 | £268,706 | 151 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 269 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 163 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 178 |
| 2015 | £139,000 | £196,407 | 194 |
| 2014 | £136,500 | £193,649 | 232 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 181 |
| 2012 | £117,500 | £172,945 | 140 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 162 |
| 2010 | £118,000 | £185,054 | 212 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 444 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 269 |
| 2007 | £166,000 | £281,582 | 416 |
| 2006 | £176,500 | £306,381 | 499 |
| 2005 | £151,000 | £268,719 | 422 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 142 |
| 2003 | £136,000 | £250,545 | 129 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 99 |
| 2001 | £89,000 | £171,098 | 91 |
| 2000 | £69,000 | £135,413 | 102 |
| 1999 | £66,500 | £132,531 | 127 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 82 |
| 1997 | £67,500 | £138,429 | 126 |
| 1996 | £56,200 | £118,523 | 77 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical B5 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 74%, 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 46% 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 B5 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 2021 (+30.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−25.0%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 80% of the typed total. In 2023, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £676,000 against £212,500 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, B5
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 | £676,000 (2023) | – | 204 |
| Semi-detached | £395,000 (2025) | – | 282 |
| Terraced | £305,000 | 7 | 724 |
| Flats | £130,000 | 21 | 4,845 |
What B5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −23.1% | −24.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −7.4% | −11.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −1.9% | −6.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.2% | −2.9% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in B5
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
B5 recorded 80 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 238 sales a year before the financial crisis and 164 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.
What kind of market B5 is
This is a thin market: 80 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. Among the 76 measurable districts of its area, B5 ranks 72 by median price: towards the affordable end.
The rental side of B5
B5 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £821 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,563, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £170,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 7.7% 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.
B5 (Digbeth): the questions that come up
Is B5 (Digbeth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B5 (Digbeth)?
Are property prices falling in B5 (Digbeth)?
Are B5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 32% over five years in cash but down 46% 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 B5 today
Everything above is what homes in B5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 33 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% below the B5 median sold price.
Set against 80 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 33 homes on the market here are roughly 5 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
27% 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 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.
Month by month: when B5 sells
Across the 982 sales completed in B5 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (20.4% of the total) and July the quietest (4.2%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 66 | 6.7% |
| February | 127 | 12.9% |
| March | 200 | 20.4% |
| April | 59 | 6.0% |
| May | 62 | 6.3% |
| June | 80 | 8.1% |
| July | 41 | 4.2% |
| August | 68 | 6.9% |
| September | 87 | 8.9% |
| October | 68 | 6.9% |
| November | 45 | 4.6% |
| December | 79 | 8.0% |
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
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 | £270,000 | £297,500 (+10%) | £360,000 (+21%) | £469,794 (+30%) | £650,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £230,000 (+10%) | £265,000 (+15%) | £335,000 (+26%) | £435,000 (+30%) |
| Terraced | £174,000 | £200,000 (+15%) | £210,000 (+5%) | £265,000 (+26%) | £325,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £155,000 (+29%) | £223,000 (+44%) | £330,000 (+48%) | £450,000 (+36%) |
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
B5 ranks 75 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 B5, 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.
How B5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B5 itself, which ranks 72 of 76 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| B94 | £605,000 | +5% |
| B93 | £560,000 | +11% |
| B91 | £488,800 | +14% |
| B95 | £455,000 | +14% |
| B74 | £390,000 | +3% |
| B48 | £380,000 | +1% |
| B47 | £373,000 | +10% |
| B75 | £370,500 | +6% |
| B73 | £360,000 | +4% |
| B76 | £351,500 | +17% |
| B17 | £350,000 | +8% |
| B60 | £350,000 | +10% |
| B72 | £350,000 | +2% |
| B96 | £348,500 | -4% |
| B80 | £337,500 | +21% |
| B49 | £335,000 | +2% |
| B90 | £335,000 | +4% |
| B50 | £330,000 | +1% |
| B92 | £310,000 | +11% |
| B61 | £300,000 | +15% |
| B28 | £295,000 | +10% |
| B62 | £285,000 | +15% |
| B97 | £285,000 | +12% |
| B5 (this report) | £170,000 | -32% |
Selling in B5? 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'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.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual B5 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.