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Balls Hill market report B71 3, West Bromwich
The B71 3 (Balls Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,640 HM Land Registry entries for B71 3 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B71 3 (West Bromwich) came in at £255,000, out of 29 registered, up 28% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £269,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,640 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
B71 3 is one sector of B71 (West Bromwich): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where B71 3 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.
B71 3 sold prices: where the market stands
The B71 3 median stands at £255,000 for 2026, built from 29 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £269,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in B71 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B71 3 sales average about £2,800 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 3 11% below the country at large.
B71 3's median sold price, 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 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £258,000 | £264,170 | 109 |
| 2024 | £281,000 | £298,761 | 142 |
| 2023 | £270,000 | £296,664 | 162 |
| 2022 | £238,800 | £280,020 | 124 |
| 2021 | £200,000 | £253,226 | 113 |
| 2020 | £170,000 | £220,579 | 97 |
| 2019 | £150,500 | £197,269 | 88 |
| 2018 | £158,500 | £211,283 | 110 |
| 2017 | £136,500 | £186,172 | 122 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 121 |
| 2015 | £133,000 | £187,929 | 107 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 123 |
| 2013 | £113,800 | £163,747 | 94 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 80 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 82 |
| 2010 | £128,000 | £200,737 | 59 |
| 2009 | £124,000 | £199,331 | 71 |
| 2008 | £127,000 | £208,180 | 91 |
| 2007 | £126,200 | £214,070 | 154 |
| 2006 | £113,000 | £196,154 | 133 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 124 |
| 2004 | £138,000 | £250,635 | 201 |
| 2003 | £104,500 | £192,514 | 151 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 119 |
| 2001 | £59,000 | £113,424 | 120 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 137 |
| 1999 | £58,900 | £117,385 | 152 |
| 1998 | £51,500 | £103,956 | 89 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 96 |
| 1996 | £51,800 | £109,244 | 116 |
| 1995 | £49,700 | £108,040 | 124 |
In cash terms the typical B71 3 home went from £49,700 in 1995 to £255,000 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. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2024. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B71 3 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 (+49.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−13.0%). 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) | −1.2% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.0% | +0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.8% | +4.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
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.
Sales activity in B71 3
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.
B71 3 recorded 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 142 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 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.
What kind of market B71 3 is
This is a thin market: 29 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. 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. Within B71, this sector trades 16% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around B71 3
B71 3 falls under Sandwell, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £940 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £672 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,388, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sandwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £255,000 median purchase price, a rent of £940 a month (£11,280 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on B71 3 (Balls Hill)
Are property prices falling in B71 3 (Balls Hill)?
Is B71 3 (Balls Hill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B71 3 (Balls Hill)?
Are B71 3 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 28% 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.
What is for sale in B71 right now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
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 2 | £211,000 | 32 |
| 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 a home in B71 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B71 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B71 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B71 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim B71 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B71 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual B71 3 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.
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.