Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 954 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B7 (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.
Sales data to November 2025. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
B7 is the postcode district 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
Click the map to open B7 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£195,000median sold price, 2026
+21%five-year change (cash)
56sales in the last 12 months
6.7%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in B7 sells for
The 2026 median in B7 is £195,000, from 7 registered sales; the mean, £180,700, sits below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so B7 trades 29% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical B7 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£195,000
£195,000
7
2025
£181,000
£181,000
34
2024
£212,000
£220,135
49
2023
£220,000
£236,081
29
2022
£180,000
£206,141
35
2021
£161,500
£199,704
50
2020
£141,000
£178,678
32
2019
£148,000
£189,462
53
2018
£150,000
£195,283
50
2017
£130,000
£173,166
45
2016
£135,000
£184,455
34
2015
£105,000
£144,900
30
2014
£92,000
£127,470
29
2013
£90,000
£126,477
19
2012
£85,000
£122,188
13
2011
£75,000
£110,577
15
2010
£89,000
£136,315
17
2009
£92,200
£144,751
18
2008
£107,000
£171,299
17
2007
£107,000
£177,263
47
2006
£105,000
£178,010
38
2005
£87,000
£151,209
30
2004
£72,500
£128,599
32
2003
£64,000
£115,150
27
2002
£50,300
£92,429
26
2001
£36,500
£68,531
27
2000
£39,800
£76,283
18
1999
£39,000
£75,910
29
1998
£50,000
£98,571
57
1997
£26,200
£52,476
19
1996
£21,000
£43,254
13
1995
£30,000
£63,692
15
In cash terms the typical B7 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 206%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
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.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
+7.7%
+7.7%
5 years (since 2021)
+3.8%
−0.5%
10 years (since 2016)
+3.7%
+0.6%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.1%
+0.5%
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
B7 recorded 56 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 31 sales a year recently, against 31 a year before 2008. 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 homes rent for around B7
B7 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.
Set against the £195,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 6.7%: 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.
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 21% over five years in cash and flat 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
B7 ranks 16 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside B7, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.