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Balls Hill market report B71 1, West Bromwich
The B71 1 (Balls Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,463 HM Land Registry entries for B71 1 (West Bromwich), 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in B71 1 (West Bromwich) sold for £189,000 in 2026, the median of 19 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £175,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,463 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
B71 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B71 (West Bromwich). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where B71 1 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.
The going rate for a home in B71 1
Across 19 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B71 1 home went for £189,000. The mean is £175,800, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
B71 1 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B71 1 sales average about £2,380 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B71 1 34% below the country at large.
B71 1'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 | £189,000 | £189,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £210,500 | £215,534 | 52 |
| 2024 | £201,000 | £213,704 | 42 |
| 2023 | £207,500 | £227,992 | 57 |
| 2022 | £187,500 | £219,865 | 82 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 91 |
| 2020 | £152,500 | £197,872 | 40 |
| 2019 | £138,500 | £181,540 | 60 |
| 2018 | £140,000 | £186,623 | 63 |
| 2017 | £121,500 | £165,714 | 60 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 62 |
| 2015 | £116,500 | £164,615 | 46 |
| 2014 | £114,000 | £161,729 | 58 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 54 |
| 2012 | £96,000 | £141,300 | 49 |
| 2011 | £103,000 | £155,490 | 57 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 61 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 57 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 69 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 194 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 115 |
| 2005 | £105,600 | £187,925 | 132 |
| 2004 | £92,000 | £167,090 | 112 |
| 2003 | £71,800 | £132,273 | 116 |
| 2002 | £67,500 | £127,001 | 141 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 110 |
| 2000 | £55,500 | £108,919 | 128 |
| 1999 | £42,000 | £83,704 | 84 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 55 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 69 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 66 |
| 1995 | £36,900 | £80,215 | 62 |
In cash terms the typical B71 1 home went from £36,900 in 1995 to £189,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 136%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B71 1 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 2000 (+32.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−12.5%). 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) | −10.2% | −12.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.2% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 19 sales completed in B71 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 131 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 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.
The shape of the B71 1 market
This is a thin market: 19 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. 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. Against the B71 district median, B71 1 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around B71 1
The local authority for B71 1 is Sandwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £672 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,388 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Sandwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£940 a month is £11,280 a year, which against the £189,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.0%. 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.
B71 1 (Balls Hill): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in B71 1 (Balls Hill)?
Is B71 1 (Balls Hill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B71 1 (Balls Hill)?
Are B71 1 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
B71's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 16 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B71 district, not just B71 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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- Campville Crescent, West Bromwich, B71, West Bromwich
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every B71 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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in B71
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B71, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B71 2 | £211,000 | 32 |
| B71 3 | £255,000 | 29 |
| B71 4 | £202,500 | 9 |
Zoom out to the full B71 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B71 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in B71 1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B71 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B71 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B71 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B71 1.
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See every individual B71 1 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.