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Saltley market report B8 3, Birmingham
The standing B8 3 (Saltley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,468 registered sales in B8 3 (Birmingham) 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B8 3 (Birmingham) came in at £193,000, out of 15 registered, up 29% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £189,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,030 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,468 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like B8 3 is a single group of streets within B8 (Birmingham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where B8 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.
What buyers actually paid in B8 3
In the B8 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £193,000, from 15 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £189,400, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in B8 3
Per square metre, B8 3 homes have averaged around £2,030 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, B8 3 runs 32% below it.
B8 3's median sold price, 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 | £193,000 | £193,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 49 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 50 |
| 2023 | £163,000 | £179,097 | 57 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 50 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 62 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 56 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 61 |
| 2018 | £129,800 | £173,026 | 78 |
| 2017 | £117,200 | £159,849 | 98 |
| 2016 | £108,000 | £151,093 | 71 |
| 2015 | £103,200 | £145,822 | 62 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 69 |
| 2013 | £99,000 | £142,451 | 56 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 97 |
| 2011 | £100,500 | £151,716 | 66 |
| 2010 | £99,500 | £156,042 | 78 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 73 |
| 2008 | £114,000 | £186,870 | 112 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 196 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 175 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 164 |
| 2004 | £98,000 | £177,987 | 191 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 197 |
| 2002 | £67,000 | £126,060 | 214 |
| 2001 | £44,500 | £85,549 | 204 |
| 2000 | £36,000 | £70,650 | 173 |
| 1999 | £34,000 | £67,760 | 154 |
| 1998 | £33,500 | £67,622 | 133 |
| 1997 | £32,000 | £65,626 | 165 |
| 1996 | £30,500 | £64,323 | 120 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 122 |
In cash terms the typical B8 3 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £193,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 196%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 5% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B8 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 2002 (+50.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B8 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +4.3% | +1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +6.1% | +1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.0% | +2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 15 B8 3 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 189 sales a year before the financial crisis and 44 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.
Reading the B8 3 market
This is a thin market: 15 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. 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.
Rents around B8 3
For renting purposes B8 3 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £821 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,563 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £193,000 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.
Common questions on B8 3 (Saltley)
How much did a house sell for in B8 3 (Saltley)?
Are property prices falling in B8 3 (Saltley)?
Is B8 3 (Saltley) a good place to buy a house?
Where do B8 3 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 29% 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in B
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. 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 | £270,000 | £297,500 (+10%) | £360,000 (+21%) | £469,794 (+30%) | £650,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £230,000 (+10%) | £265,000 (+15%) | £335,000 (+26%) | £435,000 (+30%) |
| Terraced | £174,000 | £200,000 (+15%) | £210,000 (+5%) | £265,000 (+26%) | £325,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £155,000 (+29%) | £223,000 (+44%) | £330,000 (+48%) | £450,000 (+36%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 B8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B8's other sectors, each with its own report:
Zoom out to the full B8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in B8 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 B8 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B8 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B8 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to B8 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B8 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.