Short Heath Road, Birmingham house prices are built from 342 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £100,000. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +34.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -0.5%.
Median price paid
£100,000
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+34.3%
Change in real terms
-0.5%
Median per m²
£1,244
HM Land Registry342 sales106 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Short Heath Road, Birmingham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Short Heath Road, Birmingham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 | 4 | £39,300 | £87,265 |
| 2000s | 10 | £89,950 | £163,862 |
| 2010s | 10 | £110,000 | £155,100 |
| 2020s | 4 | £145,000 | £148,152 |
The highest yearly median on record for Short Heath Road, Birmingham is £173,000 in 2022; the lowest is £35,500 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £43,250 to £145,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £96,035, so the real change over the whole record is +63.1% — about +1.76% 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: +34.3% in cash against -0.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 194 | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £232,000 | £232,000 |
| 235 | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 192 | 23 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 130 | 28 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £305,000 | £311,630 |
| 92 | 7 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 165 | 17 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £238,000 | £243,174 |
| 180 | 14 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £237,500 | £242,663 |
| Somerton Court, 325 | 15 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £147,313 |
| 72 | 18 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £172,000 | £185,839 |
| Flat 9 Ffernfail Court, 88 | 30 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £121,000 | £130,736 |
| 259 | 30 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £160,000 | £172,874 |
| Flat 16 Ffernfail Court, 88 | 25 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £123,000 | £132,897 |
| 50 | 28 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 117 | 23 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £113,448 |
| Flat 15 Ffernfail Court, 88 | 9 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £140,460 |
| 277 | 6 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| 267 | 9 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £217,000 | £251,413 |
| 46 | 10 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £173,000 | £200,435 |
| Flat 17 Fernfail Court, 88 | 26 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £110,066 |
| Flat 16 Fernfail Court, 88 | 22 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| 348 | 24 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 99 | 21 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £215,000 | £249,096 |
| 275 | 27 May 2022 | Terraced | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| Flat 4 Fernfail Court, 88 | 29 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £112,500 | £130,341 |
| 77 | 22 Apr 2022 | Detached | £399,000 | £462,276 |
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 Short Heath Road, Birmingham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 Short Heath Road | £165,000 (2003) | £305,000 (2025) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
| 92 Short Heath Road | £57,950 (1996) | £220,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 180 Short Heath Road | £160,000 (2007) | £237,500 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.8% |
| SOMERTON COURT, 325 Short Heath Road | £115,000 (2016) | £140,000 (2024) | +2.5% | -1.1% |
| 72 Short Heath Road | £23,000 (1995) | £172,000 (2023) | +7.5% | +4.7% |
| 259 Short Heath Road | £75,000 (2006) | £160,000 (2023) | +4.6% | +1.5% |
| 50 Short Heath Road | £39,000 (1997) | £180,000 (2023) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 117 Short Heath Road | £36,000 (1999) | £105,000 (2023) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 277 Short Heath Road | £96,000 (2004) | £250,000 (2023) | +5.2% | +2.2% |
| 267 Short Heath Road | £65,000 (2003) | £217,000 (2022) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 46 Short Heath Road | £38,500 (1999) | £173,000 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.2% |
| FLAT 17 FERNFAIL COURT, 88 Short Heath Road | £32,000 (1997) | £95,000 (2022) | +4.4% | +2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Short Heath Road, 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 | 141 | 41.2% | £105,000 | £20,580 – £305,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 110 | 32.2% | £95,000 | £28,000 – £140,000 |
| Semi-detached | 76 | 22.2% | £98,000 | £20,445 – £257,000 |
| Detached | 15 | 4.4% | £180,000 | £34,000 – £475,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Short Heath Road, Birmingham
119 of the sales on record are leasehold and 223 freehold — 34.8% 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 £97,500 and the median freehold sale £105,000 — a gap of +7.7%. 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 | 119 | 34.8% | £97,500 |
| Freehold | 223 | 65.2% | £105,000 |
| New build | 28 | 8.2% | £110,000 |
| Existing home | 314 | 91.8% | £99,975 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +10.0%. 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 41 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 Short Heath Road, 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 £100,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.08% 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 Short Heath Road, 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 Short Heath Road, Birmingham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Short Heath Road, Birmingham sits below that national figure — -36.5%.
Within Birmingham the street ranks 4525 of 6954 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £120,500 (-17.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,244 per square metre, across 106 of the 342 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 £20,445 to £475,000. 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.
Short Heath Road, 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
- Slade Road£80,000 median
- Frederick Road£125,000 median
- Poplar Avenue£125,000 median
- Sycamore Road£138,750 median
- Marsh Lane£89,700 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
- 172 Short Heath Road6 sales
- 202 Short Heath Road5 sales
- 92 Short Heath Road4 sales
- 72 Short Heath Road4 sales
- 50 Short Heath Road4 sales
- 267 Short Heath Road4 sales
- FLAT 16, FERNFAIL COURT, 88 Short Heath Road4 sales
- 176B Short Heath Road4 sales
- 169 Short Heath Road4 sales
- 123 Short Heath Road4 sales
- FLAT 5, FERNFAIL COURT, 88 Short Heath Road4 sales
- 295 Short Heath Road4 sales
- 291 Short Heath Road4 sales
- FLAT 17, FERNFAIL COURT, 88 Short Heath Road3 sales
- 45 Short Heath Road3 sales
- 54 Short Heath Road3 sales
- SOMERTON COURT, 313 Short Heath Road3 sales
- 201 Short Heath Road3 sales
- SOMERTON COURT, 305 Short Heath Road3 sales
- FLAT 18, FERNFAIL COURT, 88 Short Heath Road3 sales
- 37 Short Heath Road3 sales
- FLAT 10, FERNFAIL COURT, 88 Short Heath Road3 sales
- 332 Short Heath Road3 sales
- FLAT 9, FERNFAIL COURT, 88 Short Heath Road3 sales
Back to Birmingham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Short Heath Road, Birmingham?
The median price paid in Short Heath Road, Birmingham across every sale on the register is £100,000. 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 Short Heath Road, Birmingham?
342 sales are on record for Short Heath Road, Birmingham, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Short Heath Road, Birmingham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +34.3% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -0.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Short Heath Road, Birmingham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £173,000, set in 2022. 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 Short Heath Road, Birmingham?
£1,244 per square metre, from the 106 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 29 May 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, “Short Heath Road, 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.