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Balls Hill market report B71 2, West Bromwich
The standing B71 2 (Balls Hill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,697 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B71 2 (West Bromwich) 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 32 registered 2026 sales put the B71 2 (West Bromwich) median at £211,000, up 24% on five years earlier, with a mean of £212,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,570 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,697 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B71 2 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 2 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.
Today's B71 2 prices, from the sold record
In the B71 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £211,000, from 32 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £212,400, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in B71 2
Per square metre, B71 2 homes have averaged around £2,570 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B71 2 26% below the national figure.
A typical B71 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £211,000 | £211,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 73 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 76 |
| 2023 | £201,500 | £221,399 | 74 |
| 2022 | £194,500 | £228,073 | 82 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 89 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 63 |
| 2019 | £154,000 | £201,857 | 76 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 99 |
| 2017 | £128,000 | £174,579 | 75 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 69 |
| 2015 | £113,500 | £160,376 | 85 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 74 |
| 2013 | £101,500 | £146,048 | 62 |
| 2012 | £92,000 | £135,413 | 52 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 60 |
| 2010 | £98,000 | £153,689 | 55 |
| 2009 | £97,000 | £155,928 | 49 |
| 2008 | £123,900 | £203,098 | 78 |
| 2007 | £119,000 | £201,857 | 142 |
| 2006 | £114,800 | £199,278 | 136 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 113 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 122 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 114 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 109 |
| 2001 | £57,000 | £109,580 | 135 |
| 2000 | £46,800 | £91,845 | 116 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 81 |
| 1998 | £41,000 | £82,761 | 75 |
| 1997 | £42,700 | £87,569 | 68 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 94 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical B71 2 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £211,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 143%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 7% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the B71 2 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 2003 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−21.7%). 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) | −1.9% | −4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.8% | +2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 register shows 32 B71 2 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 123 sales a year before the financial crisis and 67 a year over the last five. 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 kind of market B71 2 is
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B71 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around B71 2
For renting purposes B71 2 sits in Sandwell. The ONS average private rent there is £940 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £672 a month here against £1,388 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £211,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.3%. 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.
Asked and answered: B71 2 (Balls Hill)
How much did a house sell for in B71 2 (Balls Hill)?
Are property prices falling in B71 2 (Balls Hill)?
Is B71 2 (Balls Hill) a good place to buy a house?
Are B71 2 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
B71's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 16 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B71 district, not just B71 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Jefferson Place, West Bromwich, B71, West Bromwich
- Gorsty Close, West Bromwich, West Mid...
- Campville Crescent, West Bromwich, B71, West Bromwich
"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 B71 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in B71
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of B71, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B71 1 | £189,000 | 19 |
| 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 2? 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 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B71 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B71 2 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 2.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about B71 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B71 2 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.