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Saltley market report B8 2, Birmingham
The B8 2 (Saltley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,745 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in B8 2 (Birmingham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 22 registered 2026 sales put the B8 2 (Birmingham) median at £192,500, up 20% on five years earlier, with a mean of £194,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,210 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,745 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B8 2 is one sector of B8 (Birmingham): 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 B8 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.
What B8 2 homes really sell for
The B8 2 median stands at £192,500 for 2026, built from 22 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £194,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in B8 2
By floor space, homes in B8 2 have sold for about £2,210 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B8 2 runs 32% below it.
A typical B8 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £192,500 | £192,500 | 22 |
| 2025 | £209,000 | £213,998 | 54 |
| 2024 | £182,000 | £193,503 | 82 |
| 2023 | £191,000 | £209,862 | 69 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 91 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 109 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 79 |
| 2019 | £145,200 | £190,322 | 100 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 115 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 113 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 134 |
| 2015 | £111,000 | £156,843 | 108 |
| 2014 | £113,800 | £161,445 | 102 |
| 2013 | £96,000 | £138,134 | 76 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 82 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 107 |
| 2010 | £104,000 | £163,099 | 114 |
| 2009 | £98,500 | £158,340 | 69 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 145 |
| 2007 | £119,500 | £202,705 | 206 |
| 2006 | £114,000 | £197,889 | 303 |
| 2005 | £113,000 | £201,094 | 238 |
| 2004 | £108,500 | £197,057 | 250 |
| 2003 | £89,000 | £163,960 | 243 |
| 2002 | £65,600 | £123,426 | 322 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 258 |
| 2000 | £42,000 | £82,425 | 269 |
| 1999 | £39,000 | £77,725 | 198 |
| 1998 | £37,000 | £74,687 | 181 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 186 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 175 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 145 |
In cash terms the typical B8 2 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £192,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 146%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B8 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 (+35.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B8 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.9% | −10.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 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.
Sales activity in B8 2
Sales per year, counted
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.
B8 2 recorded 22 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 261 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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 kind of market B8 2 is
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B8 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
The rental side of B8 2
B8 2 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £821 a month here against £1,563 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £192,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 6.8% 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.
What people ask about B8 2 (Saltley)
Are property prices falling in B8 2 (Saltley)?
Is B8 2 (Saltley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B8 2 (Saltley)?
Are B8 2 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in B8 today
The live side of the market holds 9 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B8 district, not just B8 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 B8 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.
What another bedroom costs in B
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight 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%) | — |
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.
B area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in B8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B8 1 | £171,500 | 8 |
| B8 3 | £201,500 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full B8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B8 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in B8 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B8 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the B8 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B8 2 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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Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual B8 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.