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Four Oaks market report B74, Sutton Coldfield
The B74 (Four Oaks) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 18,570 registered sales in B74 (Sutton Coldfield) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 184 registered 2026 sales put the B74 (Sutton Coldfield) median at £397,500, up 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £467,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,860 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 18,570 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district B74 covering Four Oaks, Little Aston, Streetly sits in Sutton Coldfield. 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 B74 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 B74
184 sales were registered in B74 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £397,500. The mean works out at £467,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in B74
Per square metre, B74 homes have averaged around £3,860 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B74 runs 39% above it.
A typical B74 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £397,500 | £397,500 | 184 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 493 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 448 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 455 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 571 |
| 2021 | £379,500 | £480,496 | 712 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 436 |
| 2019 | £305,000 | £399,782 | 488 |
| 2018 | £316,500 | £421,900 | 552 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 570 |
| 2016 | £280,000 | £391,723 | 571 |
| 2015 | £261,200 | £369,076 | 612 |
| 2014 | £236,200 | £335,091 | 624 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 527 |
| 2012 | £228,000 | £335,588 | 433 |
| 2011 | £222,800 | £336,342 | 500 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 496 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 381 |
| 2008 | £249,000 | £408,164 | 395 |
| 2007 | £242,000 | £410,499 | 853 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 859 |
| 2005 | £222,500 | £395,960 | 657 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 698 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 654 |
| 2002 | £172,000 | £323,617 | 891 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 670 |
| 2000 | £132,000 | £259,050 | 700 |
| 1999 | £106,000 | £211,252 | 743 |
| 1998 | £96,000 | £193,783 | 653 |
| 1997 | £86,000 | £176,369 | 659 |
| 1996 | £92,500 | £195,078 | 637 |
| 1995 | £89,500 | £194,559 | 448 |
In cash terms the typical B74 home went from £89,500 in 1995 to £397,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 104%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B74 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 2002 (+32.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.2% | +0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £536,000 against £190,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, B74
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 | £536,000 | 78 | 7,489 |
| Semi-detached | £357,500 | 53 | 5,392 |
| Terraced | £333,800 | 10 | 1,165 |
| Flats | £190,000 | 43 | 4,524 |
Sales activity in B74
The year-by-year sales count
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
B74 recorded 380 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 748 sales a year before the financial crisis and 430 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.
The rental side of B74
The local authority for B74 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £397,500 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.
Reading the B74 market
Among the 76 measurable districts of its area, B74 ranks 6 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What people ask about B74 (Four Oaks)
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Will B74 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in B74 right now
Everything above is what homes in B74 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 48 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 19% above the B74 median sold price.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Clarence Road, Sutton Coldfield, Sutton Coldfield
- Tintern Close, Sutton Coldfield, Sutton Coldfield
- Bradgate Drive, Sutton Coldfield, Sutton Coldfield
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 B74 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
B74 ranks 58 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.
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.
Inside B74, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B74 2 | £368,000 | 66 |
| B74 3 | £375,000 | 53 |
| B74 4 | £415,000 | 65 |
How B74 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the B area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| B97 | £279,000 | +9% |
Thinking of selling in B74? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B74, open the average prices map and zoom from the B74 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B74 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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Take it further
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See every individual B74 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.