B45 house prices are built from 14,520 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £137,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +45.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +3.9%.
Median price paid
£137,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+45.1%
Change in real terms
+3.9%
Median per m²
£1,787
HM Land Registry14,520 sales308 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026
Section 01
How B45 prices moved
The chart tracks the median B45 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 | £58,400 | £129,676 |
| 2000s | 10 | £115,000 | £209,496 |
| 2010s | 10 | £163,975 | £231,205 |
| 2020s | 7 | £250,000 | £255,435 |
The highest yearly median on record for B45 is £264,000 in 2024; the lowest is £51,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £51,000 to £249,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £113,244, so the real change over the whole record is +120.3% — about +2.58% 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: +45.1% in cash against +3.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 the Longlands | 26 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £242,500 | £242,500 |
| 58 Barrington Road | 18 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| 42 Loynells Road | 15 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £333,000 | £333,000 |
| 12A Stilthouse Grove | 9 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 85 Ryde Park Road | 9 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 4 Durant Close | 9 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 5 Hafren Close | 9 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £90,000 |
| 29 Thurloe Crescent | 8 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| 22 the Pines | 8 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 56 East Works Drive | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £430,000 | £430,000 |
| 36 Cliff Rock Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 22 Knowle Close | 4 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £179,950 | £179,950 |
| 32 the Pines | 1 Jun 2026 | Detached | £187,450 | £187,450 |
| 48 Parsonage Drive | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £282,000 | £282,000 |
| 10 Durant Close | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £213,000 | £213,000 |
| 24 Ryde Park Road | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £227,000 | £227,000 |
| 45 Rednal Mill Drive | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| FLAT 1 HILL COURT, 230 Leach Green Lane | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 56 Ringwood Drive | 21 May 2026 | Terraced | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 178 Callowbrook Lane | 21 May 2026 | Terraced | £168,000 | £168,000 |
| 46 Dowar Road | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £244,000 | £244,000 |
| 171 Kendal Rise Road | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 21 Rousay Close | 13 May 2026 | Terraced | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| 132 Waseley Road | 12 May 2026 | Detached | £380,000 | £380,000 |
| 2 Chestnut Drive | 7 May 2026 | Detached | £496,000 | £496,000 |
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 B45 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 the Longlands | £47,500 (1997) | £242,500 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 58 Barrington Road | £139,950 (2007) | £260,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| 42 Loynells Road | £102,500 (2013) | £333,000 (2026) | +9.5% | +6.4% |
| 12A Stilthouse Grove | £53,000 (1996) | £255,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 5 Hafren Close | £22,000 (1999) | £90,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| 4 Durant Close | £150,000 (2021) | £210,000 (2026) | +7.0% | +2.1% |
| 85 Ryde Park Road | £71,500 (2002) | £220,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
| 29 Thurloe Crescent | £30,750 (1997) | £390,000 (2026) | +9.2% | +6.4% |
| 22 the Pines | £120,000 (1998) | £375,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 56 East Works Drive | £315,500 (2015) | £430,000 (2026) | +2.9% | -0.3% |
| 36 Cliff Rock Road | £115,000 (2011) | £255,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.5% |
| 22 Knowle Close | £49,000 (2001) | £179,950 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. B45 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 | 5,432 | 37.4% | £142,000 | £3,550 – £1,750,000 |
| Terraced | 4,266 | 29.4% | £112,000 | £1,200 – £614,000 |
| Detached | 3,190 | 22.0% | £329,000 | £610 – £2,500,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,632 | 11.2% | £78,950 | £8,000 – £610,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in B45
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,694 certificates cover B45, and their median floor area is 77 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 | 77 m² | about 829 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 57 m² | about 614 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 89 m² | about 958 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 26.5% | 1,246 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 4.6% | 214 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in B45
2,739 of the sales on record are leasehold and 11,781 freehold — 18.9% 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 £82,500 and the median freehold sale £156,000 — a gap of +89.1%. 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 | 2,739 | 18.9% | £82,500 |
| Freehold | 11,781 | 81.1% | £156,000 |
| New build | 1,381 | 9.5% | £217,000 |
| Existing home | 13,139 | 90.5% | £133,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +63.2%. 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 763 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 B45
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 £137,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.55% 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 B45, 143 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 60 violent, 11 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 19 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 1,144,919 residents the 2021 census counted in Birmingham, that is 0.12 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 B45
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.
16 state and independent schools have a B45 postcode: 12 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colmers School and Sixth Form College | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,139 |
| Waseley Hills High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 782 |
| King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 423 |
| Holywell Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 410 |
| Colmers Farm Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 403 |
| Lickey Hills Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 371 |
| Rednal Hill Junior School | Primary | Community school | 327 |
| Rednal Hill Infant School | Primary | Community school | 257 |
| Beaconside Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 235 |
| St Andrew's CofE First School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 218 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Longbridge Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Barnt Green Rail Station | Rail | 3.3 km |
| Northfield Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Alvechurch Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
Section 09
How B45 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. B45 sits below that national figure — -13.0%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,787 per square metre, across 308 of the 14,520 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 £610 to £2,500,000. 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.
B45 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 B45
The closest districts
- B313.2 km · £123,995
- B616.2 km · £160,000
- B306.6 km · £130,000
- B607.6 km · £185,000
- B627.7 km · £146,500
- B638.1 km · £124,250
- B148.7 km · £128,000
- DY99.2 km · £175,000
This district mostly covers Birmingham.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in B45?
The median price paid in B45 across every sale on the register is £137,000. 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 B45?
14,520 sales are on record for B45, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have B45 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +45.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +3.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were B45 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £264,000, set in 2024. 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 B45?
£1,787 per square metre, from the 308 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 26 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, “B45 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.