Rocky Lane, Birmingham house prices are built from 407 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 31 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £114,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +80.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +30.6%.
Median price paid
£114,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+80.3%
Change in real terms
+30.6%
HM Land Registry407 salesLatest sale 31 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Rocky Lane, Birmingham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rocky Lane, Birmingham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | £48,000 | £106,583 |
| 2000s | 10 | £121,000 | £220,426 |
| 2010s | 8 | £116,500 | £164,265 |
| 2020s | 6 | £176,750 | £180,592 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rocky Lane, Birmingham is £210,000 in 2025; the lowest is £39,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £39,000 to £210,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £86,598, so the real change over the whole record is +147.8% — about +3.07% 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: +80.3% in cash against +30.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 306 | 31 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 135 | 1 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £194,000 | £198,217 |
| 203 | 21 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 64 | 18 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £228,000 | £232,957 |
| 95 | 18 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 120 | 9 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 87 | 7 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £178,804 |
| 334 | 27 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 403 | 23 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £251,000 | £256,457 |
| 103 | 20 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 141 | 23 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 187 | 26 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £218,000 | £222,739 |
| 232 | 28 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 169 | 26 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 178 | 3 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 377 | 22 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 385 | 24 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £226,231 |
| 185 | 5 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 309 | 29 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 385 | 9 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £40,000 | £42,090 |
| 169 | 19 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £55,000 | £59,425 |
| 176 | 16 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| 227 | 6 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £275,517 |
| 206 | 27 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £187,500 | £202,586 |
| 398 | 3 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £205,287 |
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 Rocky 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 306 Rocky Lane | £90,000 (2008) | £180,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 135 Rocky Lane | £53,950 (1996) | £194,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 95 Rocky Lane | £185,000 (2023) | £220,000 (2025) | +9.0% | +6.0% |
| 334 Rocky Lane | £55,500 (2000) | £280,000 (2025) | +6.7% | +3.9% |
| 141 Rocky Lane | £90,000 (2014) | £200,000 (2025) | +7.5% | +4.3% |
| 187 Rocky Lane | £66,500 (2002) | £218,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.4% |
| 232 Rocky Lane | £49,000 (1997) | £210,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 169 Rocky Lane | £55,000 (2023) | £190,000 (2025) | +85.9% | +80.7% |
| 377 Rocky Lane | £143,000 (2005) | £165,000 (2024) | +0.8% | -2.1% |
| 385 Rocky Lane | £60,000 (2022) | £215,000 (2024) | +89.3% | +80.4% |
| 185 Rocky Lane | £110,000 (2014) | £225,000 (2024) | +7.4% | +4.1% |
| 309 Rocky Lane | £120,000 (2005) | £170,000 (2024) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rocky 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 334 | 82.1% | £113,500 | £5,750 – £300,000 |
| Terraced | 57 | 14.0% | £99,000 | £21,000 – £220,000 |
| Detached | 12 | 2.9% | £245,000 | £38,000 – £415,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4 | 1.0% | £100,000 | £32,000 – £185,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rocky Lane, Birmingham
42 of the sales on record are leasehold and 365 freehold — 10.3% 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 £108,750 and the median freehold sale £115,000 — a gap of +5.7%. 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 | 42 | 10.3% | £108,750 |
| Freehold | 365 | 89.7% | £115,000 |
A further 45 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 Rocky 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 £114,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.47% 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 B42, 224 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 90 violent, 11 burglary, 10 vehicle-related and 3 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.
Against the 1,144,919 residents the 2021 census counted in Birmingham, that is 0.20 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 Rocky 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.
8 state and independent schools have a B42 postcode: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 969 |
| Prince Albert High School | Secondary | Free schools | 950 |
| Dorrington Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 651 |
| Eden Boys' School, Birmingham | Secondary | Free schools | 606 |
| Calshot Primary School | Primary | Community school | 436 |
| Beeches Junior School | Primary | Community school | 361 |
| St Mark's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| Perry Beeches Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 69 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hamstead (Birmingham) Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Perry Barr Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Witton (West Midlands) Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Aston Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
Section 09
How Rocky Lane, Birmingham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rocky Lane, Birmingham sits below that national figure — -27.6%.
Within Birmingham the street ranks 3682 of 6954 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £120,500 (-5.4%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £5,750 to £415,000. 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.
Rocky 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
- Walsall Road£159,700 median
- Aldridge Road£105,000 median
- Perry Wood Road£122,000 median
- Beeches Road£100,000 median
- Calshot Road£107,500 median
- Sandringham Road£111,800 median
- Sterndale Road£105,000 median
- Booths Lane£170,475 median
- Curbar Road£110,000 median
- Foden Road£120,000 median
- Dyas Avenue£107,000 median
- Mildenhall Road£131,000 median
- Tideswell Road£110,250 median
- Wensleydale Road£115,000 median
- Derrydown Road£117,000 median
- Thornbridge Avenue£113,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 19 Rocky Lane6 sales
- 227 Rocky Lane5 sales
- 259 Rocky Lane5 sales
- 292 Rocky Lane5 sales
- 135 Rocky Lane4 sales
- 385 Rocky Lane4 sales
- 185 Rocky Lane4 sales
- 37 Rocky Lane4 sales
- 66 Rocky Lane4 sales
- 282 Rocky Lane4 sales
- 232 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 377 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 260 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 144 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 193 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 345 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 183 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 351 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 131 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 357 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 105 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 196 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 122 Rocky Lane3 sales
- 302 Rocky Lane3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rocky Lane, Birmingham?
The median price paid in Rocky Lane, Birmingham across every sale on the register is £114,000. 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 Rocky Lane, Birmingham?
407 sales are on record for Rocky Lane, Birmingham, the most recent completing on 31 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rocky Lane, Birmingham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +80.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +30.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rocky Lane, Birmingham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £210,000, set in 2025. 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 Rocky Lane, Birmingham?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 31 Mar 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, “Rocky 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.