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Saltley market report B8, Birmingham
The standing B8 (Saltley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 10,251 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B8 (Birmingham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 42 registered 2026 sales put the B8 (Birmingham) median at £187,500, up 23% on five years earlier, with a mean of £187,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,070 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 10,251 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B8 is the postcode district covering Saltley, Washwood Heath in Birmingham. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where B8 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.
Today's B8 prices, from the sold record
The B8 median stands at £187,500 for 2026, built from 42 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £187,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in B8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B8 costs about £2,070 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts B8 34% below the country at large.
The price of a typical B8 home, 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 | £187,500 | £187,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £188,200 | £192,700 | 124 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 160 |
| 2023 | £176,000 | £193,381 | 157 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 174 |
| 2021 | £152,000 | £192,452 | 201 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 166 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 201 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 235 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 254 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 236 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 207 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 209 |
| 2013 | £94,000 | £135,257 | 161 |
| 2012 | £100,500 | £147,923 | 202 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 227 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 234 |
| 2009 | £96,000 | £154,321 | 178 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 306 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 524 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 588 |
| 2005 | £108,000 | £192,196 | 513 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 549 |
| 2003 | £81,500 | £150,143 | 561 |
| 2002 | £62,000 | £116,652 | 659 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 583 |
| 2000 | £38,500 | £75,556 | 549 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 458 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 409 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 461 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 375 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 348 |
In cash terms the typical B8 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £187,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 170%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B8 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 (+37.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.4% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.0% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 69% of the typed total. In 2022, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £344,000 against £57,000 for a flat, 6.0 times the price.
Median by property type, B8
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 | £344,000 (2022) | – | 227 |
| Semi-detached | £215,000 | 14 | 2,697 |
| Terraced | £180,000 | 25 | 7,015 |
| Flats | £67,200 (2024) | – | 272 |
How many homes change hands in B8
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
B8 recorded 88 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 566 sales a year before the financial crisis and 131 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.
The rental side of B8
B8 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.
Set against the £187,500 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 7.0%: 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 B8 market
This is a thin market: 88 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. Among the 76 measurable districts of its area, B8 ranks 62 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Common questions on B8 (Saltley)
Is B8 (Saltley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B8 (Saltley)?
Are property prices falling in B8 (Saltley)?
What happens to B8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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.
B8's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in B8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 9 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% above the B8 median sold price.
22% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every B8 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.
What another bedroom costs in B
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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
B8 ranks 12 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.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside B8, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| B8 1 | £171,500 | 8 |
| B8 2 | £192,500 | 22 |
| B8 3 | £201,500 | 12 |
How B8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the B area, and B8 itself, which ranks 62 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% |
| B8 (this report) | £187,500 | +23% |
Before you sell in B8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at B8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B8 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.
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.