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Nechells market report B7, Birmingham
The standing B7 (Nechells) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 693 HM Land Registry entries for B7 (Birmingham), 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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for B7 (Birmingham) is £180,000, from 9 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier; the mean is £178,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,060 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 693 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
B7 is the postcode district covering Nechells in Birmingham. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where B7 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 B7
In the B7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £180,000, from 9 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £178,100, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in B7
A square metre of B7 home has cost about £2,060 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B7 37% below the national figure.
The price of a typical B7 home, 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 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 9 |
| 2025 | £192,500 | £197,103 | 16 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 10 |
| 2023 | £191,000 | £209,862 | 12 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 23 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 18 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 19 |
| 2019 | £128,700 | £168,695 | 27 |
| 2018 | £122,000 | £162,628 | 17 |
| 2017 | £92,000 | £125,479 | 19 |
| 2016 | £111,500 | £155,990 | 14 |
| 2015 | £97,500 | £137,768 | 18 |
| 2014 | £83,800 | £118,885 | 16 |
| 2013 | £80,500 | £115,831 | 16 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 13 |
| 2011 | £75,000 | £113,221 | 15 |
| 2010 | £89,000 | £139,575 | 17 |
| 2009 | £92,200 | £148,212 | 18 |
| 2008 | £107,000 | £175,396 | 17 |
| 2007 | £108,500 | £184,046 | 48 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 38 |
| 2005 | £87,000 | £154,825 | 30 |
| 2004 | £72,500 | £131,674 | 32 |
| 2003 | £64,000 | £117,904 | 27 |
| 2002 | £50,300 | £94,639 | 26 |
| 2001 | £36,500 | £70,169 | 27 |
| 2000 | £39,800 | £78,108 | 18 |
| 1999 | £39,000 | £77,725 | 29 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 57 |
| 1997 | £26,200 | £53,731 | 19 |
| 1996 | £21,000 | £44,288 | 13 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 15 |
In cash terms the typical B7 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 176%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B7 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 (+90.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−30.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −6.5% | −8.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +5.6% | +1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 72% of the typed total.
Median by property type, B7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | £107,500 (2007) | – | 90 |
| Terraced | £180,000 | 7 | 422 |
| Flats | £99,000 (2022) | – | 73 |
Sales activity in B7
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 16 B7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 31 sales a year before the financial crisis and 14 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.
How B7 trades
Only 16 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B7 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. In its area's price order B7 comes 68 of 76, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Rents around B7
The local authority for B7 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £180,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 7.3%: 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: B7 (Nechells)
Are property prices falling in B7 (Nechells)?
Is B7 (Nechells) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B7 (Nechells)?
Will B7 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What another bedroom costs in B
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
B7 ranks 31 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.
B area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside B7, 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 B7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B7 itself, which ranks 68 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% |
| B7 (this report) | £180,000 | +16% |
Before you sell in B7: 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 B7'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
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about B7. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B7 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.
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.