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Bidford-on-Avon market report B50 4, Alcester
The standing B50 4 (Bidford-on-Avon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,035 HM Land Registry entries for B50 4 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B50 4 (Alcester) came in at £325,000, out of 64 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £332,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,480 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,035 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like B50 4 is a single group of streets within B50 (Alcester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where B50 4 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 B50 4
64 sales were registered in B50 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £325,000. The mean works out at £332,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in B50 4
By floor space, homes in B50 4 have sold for about £3,480 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B50 4 runs 14% above it.
B50 4's median sold price, 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 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 64 |
| 2025 | £345,000 | £353,250 | 91 |
| 2024 | £308,000 | £327,467 | 97 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 79 |
| 2022 | £333,000 | £390,480 | 139 |
| 2021 | £327,200 | £414,277 | 166 |
| 2020 | £281,200 | £364,863 | 132 |
| 2019 | £292,000 | £382,742 | 163 |
| 2018 | £285,000 | £379,910 | 167 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 187 |
| 2016 | £241,000 | £337,161 | 147 |
| 2015 | £235,000 | £332,055 | 169 |
| 2014 | £229,500 | £325,586 | 120 |
| 2013 | £207,000 | £297,852 | 78 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 69 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 64 |
| 2010 | £207,500 | £325,413 | 71 |
| 2009 | £197,500 | £317,483 | 66 |
| 2008 | £198,800 | £325,875 | 70 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 129 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 183 |
| 2005 | £196,000 | £348,801 | 127 |
| 2004 | £166,000 | £301,488 | 125 |
| 2003 | £152,000 | £280,021 | 121 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 175 |
| 2001 | £138,500 | £266,259 | 214 |
| 2000 | £92,000 | £180,550 | 195 |
| 1999 | £86,200 | £171,792 | 172 |
| 1998 | £82,500 | £166,532 | 112 |
| 1997 | £74,000 | £151,759 | 124 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 115 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 104 |
In cash terms the typical B50 4 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 149%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B50 4 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 2001 (+50.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−15.9%). 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) | −5.8% | −8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
B50 4 recorded 64 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 159 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around B50 4
For renting purposes B50 4 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.
Set against the £325,000 median sold price, £1,135 a month is £13,620 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
How B50 4 trades
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.
Asked and answered: B50 4 (Bidford-on-Avon)
How much did a house sell for in B50 4 (Bidford-on-Avon)?
Are property prices falling in B50 4 (Bidford-on-Avon)?
Is B50 4 (Bidford-on-Avon) a good place to buy a house?
Will B50 4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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 B50 today
The live side of the market holds 10 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B50 district, not just B50 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 60% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Bryan Mews, Bidford on Avon, Alcester
- Bryan Mews, Bidford-on-Avon, Alcester
- Chestnut Way, Bidford-on-Avon, Alcester
"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 B50 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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.
Winners and losers across the B area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Zoom out to the full B50 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B50 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in B50 4: 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 B50 4'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 B50 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B50 4.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B50 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B50 4 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.
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.