B28 house prices are built from 13,793 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £155,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +43.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.5%.
Median price paid
£155,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+43.0%
Change in real terms
+2.5%
Median per m²
£1,960
HM Land Registry13,793 sales2,511 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Jun 2026
Section 01
How B28 prices moved
The chart tracks the median B28 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 | £64,000 | £142,110 |
| 2000s | 10 | £160,000 | £291,473 |
| 2010s | 10 | £175,250 | £247,103 |
| 2020s | 7 | £295,000 | £301,413 |
The highest yearly median on record for B28 is £312,000 in 2023; the lowest is £58,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £58,000 to £297,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £128,787, so the real change over the whole record is +131.0% — about +2.74% 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: +43.0% in cash against +2.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Brooklands Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 4 Hall Dale Close | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £432,500 | £432,500 |
| 11 Clifton Green | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 12 Woodvale Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £262,000 | £262,000 |
| 22 Halewood Grove | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 23 Beechcroft Avenue | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 27 Tixall Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £294,500 | £294,500 |
| 56 Pitmaston Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £239,000 | £239,000 |
| 18 Barton Lodge Road | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £31,121 | £31,121 |
| 31 Mapleton Grove | 26 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 37 Barton Lodge Road | 21 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 8 Houghton Court | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £99,000 | £99,000 |
| 114 Acheson Road | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £47,500 | £47,500 |
| 192 Priory Road | 14 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 54 Overton Close | 11 May 2026 | Detached | £326,000 | £326,000 |
| 660 Fox Hollies Road | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £415,500 | £415,500 |
| 542 Fox Hollies Road | 8 May 2026 | Terraced | £415,000 | £415,000 |
| 37 Hall Dale Close | 7 May 2026 | Detached | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 35 Barton Croft | 5 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £244,000 | £244,000 |
| 19 Paradise Lane | 5 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 89 Doveridge Road | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 281 Baldwins Lane | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £322,500 | £322,500 |
| 107 Solihull Lane | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £286,000 | £286,000 |
| 44 Lulworth Road | 30 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 19 Boyleston Road | 29 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £370,000 |
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 B28 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Brooklands Road | £99,000 (2000) | £300,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 12 Woodvale Road | £53,500 (1995) | £262,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 4 Hall Dale Close | £106,950 (1999) | £432,500 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 27 Tixall Road | £102,000 (2000) | £294,500 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 56 Pitmaston Road | £67,000 (2001) | £239,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 22 Halewood Grove | £225,000 (2021) | £325,000 (2026) | +7.6% | +2.7% |
| 18 Barton Lodge Road | £300,000 (2018) | £31,121 (2026) | -24.7% | -27.3% |
| 31 Mapleton Grove | £88,950 (2003) | £235,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 37 Barton Lodge Road | £73,000 (1999) | £150,000 (2026) | +2.7% | +0.0% |
| 114 Acheson Road | £68,500 (1998) | £47,500 (2026) | -1.3% | -3.8% |
| 8 Houghton Court | £47,400 (2000) | £99,000 (2026) | +2.9% | +0.2% |
| 192 Priory Road | £160,000 (2007) | £255,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. B28 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 | 7,392 | 53.6% | £165,000 | £650 – £651,000 |
| Terraced | 3,662 | 26.5% | £145,000 | £1,200 – £550,000 |
| Detached | 1,572 | 11.4% | £230,000 | £25,000 – £735,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,167 | 8.5% | £99,950 | £11,000 – £445,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in B28
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 3,088 certificates cover B28, and their median floor area is 83 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +9.2%. 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 | 83 m² | about 893 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 67 m² | about 721 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 104 m² | about 1,119 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 17.9% | 552 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 5.7% | 175 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in B28
1,775 of the sales on record are leasehold and 12,018 freehold — 12.9% 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 £107,000 and the median freehold sale £165,000 — a gap of +54.2%. 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 | 1,775 | 12.9% | £107,000 |
| Freehold | 12,018 | 87.1% | £165,000 |
| New build | 503 | 3.6% | £210,000 |
| Existing home | 13,290 | 96.4% | £155,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +35.5%. 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 670 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 B28
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 £155,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.44% 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 B28, 321 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 156 violent, 18 burglary, 28 vehicle-related and 5 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.
Against the 1,144,919 residents the 2021 census counted in Birmingham, that is 0.28 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 B28
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.
8 state and independent schools have a B28 postcode: 7 primary, 1 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hall Green School | Secondary | Academy converter | 903 |
| Robin Hood Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 508 |
| Hall Green Junior School | Primary | Community school | 482 |
| Chilcote Primary School | Primary | Community school | 458 |
| Lakey Lane Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 435 |
| Hall Green Infant School | Primary | Community school | 407 |
| St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 204 |
| Yorkmead Junior and Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Yardley Wood Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Hall Green Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Spring Road Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Shirley Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
Section 09
How B28 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. B28 sits below that national figure — -1.6%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,960 per square metre, across 2,511 of the 13,793 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 £650 to £735,000. 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.
B28 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 B28
The closest districts
- B143.4 km · £128,000
- B903.5 km · £199,950
- B914.3 km · £245,000
- B924.9 km · £173,000
- B265.3 km · £128,000
- B305.8 km · £130,000
- B17.3 km · £168,000
- B378.9 km · £111,000
This district mostly covers Birmingham.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in B28?
The median price paid in B28 across every sale on the register is £155,000. 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 B28?
13,793 sales are on record for B28, the most recent completing on 12 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have B28 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +43.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were B28 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £312,000, set in 2023. 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 B28?
£1,960 per square metre, from the 2,511 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 12 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, “B28 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.