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Bidford-on-Avon market report B50, Alcester
The B50 (Bidford-on-Avon) 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: 4,035 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B50 (Alcester) 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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 64 registered 2026 sales put the B50 (Alcester) median at £325,000, down 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £332,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,480 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,035 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district B50 covering Bidford-on-Avon, Broom, Wixford sits in Alcester. 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 B50 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
Take the 64 registered 2026 sales in B50 and the middle price, the median, is £325,000. The mean lands at £332,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in B50
A square metre of B50 home has cost about £3,480 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B50 runs 14% above it.
The price of a typical B50 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 | £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 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 149%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B50 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.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £408,000 against £165,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, B50
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 | £385,000 | 28 | 1,798 |
| Semi-detached | £290,000 | 21 | 1,066 |
| Terraced | £240,000 | 13 | 906 |
| Flats | £165,000 (2025) | – | 260 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
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.
B50 recorded 107 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
For renting purposes B50 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.
£1,135 a month is £13,620 a year, which against the £325,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How B50 trades
Only 107 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B50 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Among the 76 measurable districts of its area, B50 ranks 17 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What people ask about B50 (Bidford-on-Avon)
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Is B50 (Bidford-on-Avon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B50 (Bidford-on-Avon)?
Are B50 prices heading up or down?
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.
What you could buy in B50 now
Everything above is what homes in B50 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 10 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 33% below the B50 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 60% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
B50 ranks 65 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.
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.
Inside B50, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| B50 4 | £325,000 | 64 |
How B50 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 (this report) | £325,000 | -1% |
| B49 | £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% |
Thinking of selling in B50? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B50, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B50's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B50 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.