B26 house prices are built from 15,561 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £128,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +62.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +16.4%.
Median price paid
£128,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+62.5%
Change in real terms
+16.4%
Median per m²
£1,795
HM Land Registry15,561 sales3,434 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026
Section 01
How B26 prices moved
The chart tracks the median B26 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £51,500 | £114,354 |
| 2000s | 10 | £120,000 | £218,605 |
| 2010s | 10 | £137,500 | £193,875 |
| 2020s | 7 | £235,000 | £240,109 |
The highest yearly median on record for B26 is £260,000 in 2026; the lowest is £48,950 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £48,950 to £260,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £108,692, so the real change over the whole record is +139.2% — about +2.85% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +62.5% in cash against +16.4% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 137 Goldthorne Avenue | 25 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 5 SOLIHULL HEIGHTS, 54 New Coventry Road | 22 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| 64 Rectory Park Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 17 Paddock Drive | 18 Jun 2026 | Detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 450 Brays Road | 18 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £171,000 | £171,000 |
| 359 Barrows Lane | 15 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| 16 Derron Avenue | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £287,500 | £287,500 |
| 554 Barrows Lane | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 61 Brays Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 53 Herondale Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £257,000 | £257,000 |
| 6 Ridgemere Close | 4 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 428 Brays Road | 4 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £228,000 | £228,000 |
| 9 Trentham Grove | 2 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 12 Ivydale Avenue | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £262,000 | £262,000 |
| 133 Elmay Road | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 60 Vibart Road | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £355,000 | £355,000 |
| 3 New Coventry Road | 26 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 11 Shepheard Road | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £230,500 | £230,500 |
| 258 Woodcock Lane North | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £335,000 | £335,000 |
| 98 Elmay Road | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £328,500 | £328,500 |
| 35 Berryfield Road | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 76 Rectory Park Road | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £204,000 | £204,000 |
| 31 Chaffcombe Road | 13 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £89,194 | £89,194 |
| 8 Kennedy Croft | 12 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 73 Parkdale Road | 8 May 2026 | Detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to B26 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 137 Goldthorne Avenue | £46,325 (1995) | £250,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 5 SOLIHULL HEIGHTS, 54 New Coventry Road | £114,000 (2015) | £95,000 (2026) | -1.6% | -4.7% |
| 64 Rectory Park Road | £125,000 (2012) | £240,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +1.8% |
| 17 Paddock Drive | £218,000 (2007) | £325,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 450 Brays Road | £37,000 (1995) | £171,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 359 Barrows Lane | £105,000 (2002) | £310,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 16 Derron Avenue | £70,500 (1998) | £287,500 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 554 Barrows Lane | £125,000 (2007) | £235,000 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| 53 Herondale Road | £126,500 (2009) | £257,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 61 Brays Road | £155,000 (2005) | £265,000 (2026) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 428 Brays Road | £55,500 (1999) | £228,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| 6 Ridgemere Close | £215,000 (2020) | £245,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -2.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. B26 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 9,551 | 61.4% | £135,000 | £1,250 – £535,000 |
| Terraced | 3,251 | 20.9% | £122,000 | £2,000 – £500,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,809 | 11.6% | £92,000 | £15,750 – £415,000 |
| Detached | 950 | 6.1% | £185,500 | £25,000 – £560,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in B26
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,196 certificates cover B26, and their median floor area is 75 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — -1.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 75 m² | about 807 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 61 m² | about 657 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 88 m² | about 947 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 23.0% | 963 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 1.1% | 47 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in B26
3,103 of the sales on record are leasehold and 12,458 freehold — 19.9% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £105,000 and the median freehold sale £134,000 — a gap of +27.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 3,103 | 19.9% | £105,000 |
| Freehold | 12,458 | 80.1% | £134,000 |
| New build | 638 | 4.1% | £144,725 |
| Existing home | 14,923 | 95.9% | £127,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +14.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 966 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in B26
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Birmingham, 38.9% of 580,025 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,383 | 0.2% |
| B | 48,569 | 8.4% |
| C | 175,877 | 30.3% |
| D | 230,400 | 39.7% |
| E | 97,747 | 16.9% |
| F | 19,877 | 3.4% |
| G | 6,172 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Birmingham at £1,090 a month as of Jun 2026 — £823 for a one-bedroom home and £1,124 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £128,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.22% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of B26, 403 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 150 violent, 16 burglary, 60 vehicle-related and 16 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.4 times busier.
Against the 1,144,919 residents the 2021 census counted in Birmingham, that is 0.35 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around B26
The 2021 census counted 1,144,919 residents in Birmingham across 423,455 households. 53.5% of those households own their home and 46.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a B26 postcode: 7 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,188 |
| Cockshut Hill School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 977 |
| Yardley Primary School | Primary | Community school | 830 |
| Gilbertstone Primary School | Primary | Community school | 411 |
| Lyndon Green Junior School | Primary | Community school | 364 |
| St Thomas More Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 331 |
| Mapledene Primary School | Primary | Community school | 293 |
| Lyndon Green Infant School | Primary | Community school | 239 |
| Stanville Primary School | Primary | Community school | 223 |
| Garretts Green Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 76 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Lea Hall Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Marston Green Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Acocks Green Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
| Olton Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
Section 09
How B26 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. B26 sits below that national figure — -18.7%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,795 per square metre, across 3,434 of the 15,561 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £1,250 to £560,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
B26 sits in Birmingham, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Birmingham at 6.1 times median local earnings of £38,556 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside B26
The closest districts
- B922.9 km · £173,000
- B373.7 km · £111,000
- B364.8 km · £129,950
- B285.3 km · £155,000
- B915.3 km · £245,000
- B907.5 km · £199,950
- B18.4 km · £168,000
- B148.4 km · £128,000
This district mostly covers Birmingham.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in B26?
The median price paid in B26 across every sale on the register is £128,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in B26?
15,561 sales are on record for B26, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have B26 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +62.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +16.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were B26 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £260,000, set in 2026. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in B26?
£1,795 per square metre, from the 3,434 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 25 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “B26 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.