Marsh Lane, Birmingham house prices are built from 277 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 16 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £89,700. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +97.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +45.1%.
Median price paid
£89,700
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+97.7%
Change in real terms
+45.1%
Median per m²
£1,177
HM Land Registry277 sales64 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Marsh Lane, Birmingham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Marsh Lane, Birmingham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 | £43,500 | £96,591 |
| 2000s | 9 | £92,475 | £168,462 |
| 2010s | 9 | £110,000 | £155,100 |
| 2020s | 4 | £177,500 | £181,359 |
The highest yearly median on record for Marsh Lane, Birmingham is £217,500 in 2024; the lowest is £41,500 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £46,250 to £217,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £102,697, so the real change over the whole record is +122.9% — about +2.80% 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: +97.7% in cash against +45.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 297 | 16 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £258,000 | £258,000 |
| 60 | 24 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £187,000 | £187,000 |
| 62 | 27 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £398,478 |
| 105 | 19 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 118 | 26 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 262 | 23 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| 89 | 23 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 122 | 7 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| 125 | 26 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 253 | 13 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £190,000 | £205,287 |
| 115 | 28 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £187,000 | £202,046 |
| 181 | 28 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 274 | 20 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £237,701 |
| 119 | 17 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £177,000 | £191,241 |
| 50 | 9 Sep 2022 | Detached | £435,000 | £503,985 |
| 255 | 8 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £181,000 | £209,704 |
| 21 | 12 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 310 | 21 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £196,000 | £227,083 |
| 78 | 1 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £158,000 | £199,624 |
| 124 | 30 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 273 | 4 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £105,000 | £132,661 |
| 35 | 30 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £360,081 |
| 253 | 11 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £130,000 | £164,247 |
| Flat 2 141 | 9 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £78,500 | £99,180 |
| 189 | 21 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £167,000 | £210,995 |
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 Marsh Lane, Birmingham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 297 Marsh Lane | £39,500 (2001) | £258,000 (2026) | +7.8% | +4.9% |
| 60 Marsh Lane | £47,000 (2001) | £187,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 62 Marsh Lane | £178,000 (2007) | £390,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.4% |
| 105 Marsh Lane | £47,000 (2000) | £210,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 118 Marsh Lane | £35,000 (1996) | £225,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 262 Marsh Lane | £120,000 (2011) | £245,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.6% |
| 122 Marsh Lane | £90,000 (2004) | £235,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
| 125 Marsh Lane | £100,000 (2003) | £200,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 253 Marsh Lane | £130,000 (2021) | £190,000 (2023) | +20.9% | +11.8% |
| 255 Marsh Lane | £143,000 (2018) | £181,000 (2022) | +6.1% | +2.4% |
| 21 Marsh Lane | £58,000 (2009) | £350,000 (2022) | +14.8% | +11.8% |
| 78 Marsh Lane | £75,000 (2012) | £158,000 (2021) | +8.6% | +6.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Marsh Lane, Birmingham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 180 | 65.0% | £87,000 | £12,750 – £315,000 |
| Semi-detached | 89 | 32.1% | £95,000 | £34,000 – £390,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 6 | 2.2% | £44,500 | £38,500 – £129,950 |
| Detached | 2 | 0.7% | £435,000 | £435,000 – £465,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Marsh Lane, Birmingham
18 of the sales on record are leasehold and 259 freehold — 6.5% 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 £63,000 and the median freehold sale £90,000 — a gap of +42.9%. 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 | 18 | 6.5% | £63,000 |
| Freehold | 259 | 93.5% | £90,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.4% | £75,000 |
| Existing home | 276 | 99.6% | £89,850 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -16.5%. 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 28 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 Marsh Lane, Birmingham
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 £89,700 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.58% 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 B23, 705 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 336 violent, 46 burglary, 51 vehicle-related and 29 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.2 times busier.
Against the 1,144,919 residents the 2021 census counted in Birmingham, that is 0.62 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 Marsh Lane, Birmingham
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 B23 postcode: 11 primary, 3 nursery, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Edmund Campion Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,158 |
| Stockland Green School | Secondary | Academy converter | 757 |
| Slade Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 442 |
| Oasis Academy Short Heath | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 427 |
| SS Mary & John Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 424 |
| Abbey Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 419 |
| Featherstone Primary School | Primary | Community school | 416 |
| Marsh Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 415 |
| Osborne Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 410 |
| St Margaret Mary RC Junior and Infant School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 353 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Erdington Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Gravelly Hill Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Chester Road Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Wylde Green Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
Section 09
How Marsh Lane, Birmingham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Marsh Lane, Birmingham sits below that national figure — -43.0%.
Within Birmingham the street ranks 5391 of 6954 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £120,500 (-25.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,177 per square metre, across 64 of the 277 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 £12,750 to £465,000. 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.
Marsh Lane, Birmingham 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
Streets nearby
- Reservoir Road£112,000 median
- High Street£154,000 median
- George Road£132,245 median
- Clarence Road£119,500 median
- Gravelly Lane£93,000 median
- Somerset Road£123,000 median
- Court Lane£117,000 median
- Short Heath Road£100,000 median
- Slade Road£80,000 median
- Frederick Road£125,000 median
- Poplar Avenue£125,000 median
- Sycamore Road£138,750 median
- Johnson Road£92,975 median
- Ivyfield Road£78,000 median
- North Park Road£72,000 median
- Norfolk Road£159,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 52 Marsh Lane7 sales
- 21 Marsh Lane5 sales
- 35 Marsh Lane5 sales
- 94 Marsh Lane5 sales
- 46 Marsh Lane5 sales
- 297 Marsh Lane4 sales
- 118 Marsh Lane4 sales
- 124 Marsh Lane4 sales
- 243 Marsh Lane4 sales
- 16 Marsh Lane4 sales
- 148 Marsh Lane4 sales
- 66 Marsh Lane4 sales
- 60 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 105 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 189 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 190 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 130 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 209 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 20 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 83 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 38 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 304 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 276 Marsh Lane3 sales
- 214 Marsh Lane3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Marsh Lane, Birmingham?
The median price paid in Marsh Lane, Birmingham across every sale on the register is £89,700. 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 Marsh Lane, Birmingham?
277 sales are on record for Marsh Lane, Birmingham, the most recent completing on 16 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Marsh Lane, Birmingham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +97.7% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +45.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Marsh Lane, Birmingham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £217,500, 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 Marsh Lane, Birmingham?
£1,177 per square metre, from the 64 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 16 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, “Marsh Lane, Birmingham 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.