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Balls Hill market report B71, West Bromwich
The B71 (Balls Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 10,201 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B71 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 89 registered 2026 sales put the B71 (West Bromwich) median at £220,000, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £220,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,650 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 10,201 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district B71 covering West Bromwich, Balls Hill, Stone Cross sits in West Bromwich. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where B71 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
Take the 89 registered 2026 sales in B71 and the middle price, the median, is £220,000. The mean lands at £220,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
B71 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in B71 have sold for about £2,650 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B71 trades 23% below the country as a whole.
B71's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 89 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 268 |
| 2024 | £227,000 | £241,348 | 297 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 325 |
| 2022 | £202,000 | £236,868 | 335 |
| 2021 | £182,500 | £231,069 | 341 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 231 |
| 2019 | £145,500 | £190,716 | 274 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 315 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 304 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 300 |
| 2015 | £122,800 | £173,516 | 290 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 303 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 274 |
| 2012 | £112,500 | £165,586 | 235 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 266 |
| 2010 | £116,000 | £181,918 | 229 |
| 2009 | £119,000 | £191,294 | 198 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 261 |
| 2007 | £121,000 | £205,250 | 546 |
| 2006 | £112,500 | £195,286 | 452 |
| 2005 | £109,000 | £193,976 | 406 |
| 2004 | £103,000 | £187,068 | 477 |
| 2003 | £82,500 | £151,985 | 429 |
| 2002 | £66,000 | £124,178 | 411 |
| 2001 | £58,500 | £112,463 | 413 |
| 2000 | £52,400 | £102,835 | 418 |
| 1999 | £48,500 | £96,658 | 368 |
| 1998 | £43,500 | £87,808 | 259 |
| 1997 | £43,400 | £89,005 | 277 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 321 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 289 |
In cash terms the typical B71 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 130%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B71 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−6.4%). 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) | −6.4% | −8.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.2% | +2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 50% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £322,000 against £102,500 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, B71
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £322,000 | 10 | 1,196 |
| Semi-detached | £231,000 | 49 | 5,137 |
| Terraced | £210,000 | 21 | 2,599 |
| Flats | £102,500 | 9 | 1,269 |
Sales activity in B71
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 195 B71 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 444 sales a year before the financial crisis and 263 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.
What tenants pay around B71
For renting purposes B71 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.
Against the £220,000 median purchase price, a rent of £940 a month (£11,280 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
How B71 trades
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.
Asked and answered: B71 (Balls Hill)
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Will B71 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 but down 5% 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 you could buy in B71 now
Everything above is what homes in B71 sold for. The live side of the market holds 16 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the B71 median sold price.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
B71 ranks 21 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 B71, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B71 1 | £189,000 | 19 |
| B71 2 | £211,000 | 32 |
| B71 3 | £255,000 | 29 |
| B71 4 | £202,500 | 9 |
How B71 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B71 itself, which ranks 52 of 76 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| B94 | £615,000 | +7% |
| B93 | £560,000 | +11% |
| B91 | £490,000 | +14% |
| B95 | £442,500 | +11% |
| B72 | £400,000 | +17% |
| B74 | £397,500 | +5% |
| B47 | £373,000 | +10% |
| B75 | £363,800 | +4% |
| B73 | £350,000 | +1% |
| B76 | £350,000 | +17% |
| B80 | £347,500 | +24% |
| B17 | £347,000 | +7% |
| B96 | £347,000 | -4% |
| B48 | £340,000 | -9% |
| B60 | £340,000 | +6% |
| B90 | £335,000 | +4% |
| B50 | £325,000 | -1% |
| B49 | £312,500 | -5% |
| B92 | £310,000 | +11% |
| B28 | £300,000 | +12% |
| B61 | £295,000 | +13% |
| B62 | £285,000 | +15% |
| B46 | £279,500 | +4% |
| B71 (this report) | £220,000 | +21% |
Before you sell in B71: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B71, open the average prices map and zoom from the B71 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B71 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual B71 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.