West Drive, Birmingham house prices are built from 168 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 16 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £79,500. Across the 17 years from 2007 to 2024 the median moved +253.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +114.1%.
Median price paid
£79,500
Change in cash, 2007–2024
+253.7%
Change in real terms
+114.1%
Median per m²
£1,839
HM Land Registry168 sales36 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Jan 2026
Section 01
How West Drive, Birmingham prices moved
The chart tracks the median West Drive, 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 | £30,500 | £67,724 |
| 2000s | 8 | £59,975 | £109,257 |
| 2010s | 2 | £88,300 | £124,503 |
| 2020s | 2 | £198,000 | £202,304 |
The highest yearly median on record for West Drive, Birmingham is £313,000 in 2024; the lowest is £24,000 in 1995. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £24,000 to £313,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £53,291, so the real change over the whole record is +518.0% — about +6.48% 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: +253.7% in cash against +114.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 11 Phoenix Court | 16 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £68,200 | £68,200 |
| Flat 9 Phoenix Court | 4 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £117,500 |
| Flat 8 Phoenix Court | 19 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £111,000 | £113,413 |
| 35 | 22 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £399,851 |
| 57 | 15 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £313,000 | £329,351 |
| 49 | 12 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £350,000 | £368,284 |
| Flat 14 Griffin Court | 31 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| Flat 16 Phoenix Court | 8 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £99,000 | £104,172 |
| Flat 3 Griffin Court | 20 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £110,050 | £118,905 |
| 15 | 31 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £335,000 | £361,954 |
| 36 | 17 Nov 2022 | Detached | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 28 | 9 Sep 2022 | Detached | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| Flat 3 Phoenix Court | 1 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | £95,583 |
| 21 | 25 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £270,000 | £341,129 |
| Flat 6 Griffin Court | 22 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £113,710 |
| 42 | 29 Mar 2021 | Detached | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| Flat 7 Griffin Court | 15 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £96,000 | £121,290 |
| 63 | 5 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £198,000 | £250,161 |
| Flat 32 Griffin Court | 22 Sep 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £96,600 | £125,074 |
| 37 | 11 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £220,000 | £284,848 |
| Flat 27 Phoenix Court | 19 Jun 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £85,702 | £110,964 |
| Flat 9 Phoenix Court | 17 Jan 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £104,000 | £134,656 |
| 51 | 21 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £280,000 | £366,234 |
| Flat 3 Griffin Court | 26 Sep 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £124,258 |
| Flat 8 Griffin Court | 17 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £75,500 | £100,619 |
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 West Drive, Birmingham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 11 PHOENIX COURT West Drive | £93,500 (2007) | £68,200 (2026) | -1.6% | -4.5% |
| FLAT 9 PHOENIX COURT West Drive | £28,300 (1998) | £115,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| FLAT 8 PHOENIX COURT West Drive | £32,500 (2000) | £111,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 49 West Drive | £61,000 (1996) | £350,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| FLAT 14 GRIFFIN COURT West Drive | £32,000 (1998) | £110,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| FLAT 16 PHOENIX COURT West Drive | £36,000 (2001) | £99,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 3 GRIFFIN COURT West Drive | £25,000 (1996) | £110,050 (2023) | +5.6% | +3.0% |
| 15 West Drive | £181,775 (2001) | £335,000 (2023) | +2.8% | +0.1% |
| 36 West Drive | £70,000 (1997) | £250,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.7% |
| 28 West Drive | £108,000 (2000) | £250,000 (2022) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 21 West Drive | £172,000 (2012) | £270,000 (2021) | +5.1% | +3.2% |
| FLAT 6 GRIFFIN COURT West Drive | £84,000 (2008) | £90,000 (2021) | +0.5% | -1.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. West Drive, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 102 | 60.7% | £59,950 | £18,000 – £115,000 |
| Terraced | 35 | 20.8% | £170,000 | £25,000 – £350,000 |
| Detached | 19 | 11.3% | £182,000 | £50,000 – £348,000 |
| Semi-detached | 12 | 7.1% | £115,000 | £51,500 – £380,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in West Drive, Birmingham
122 of the sales on record are leasehold and 46 freehold — 72.6% 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 £63,725 and the median freehold sale £171,000 — a gap of +168.3%. 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 | 122 | 72.6% | £63,725 |
| Freehold | 46 | 27.4% | £171,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.6% | £348,000 |
| Existing home | 167 | 99.4% | £79,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +340.5%. 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 10 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 09
How West Drive, Birmingham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. West Drive, Birmingham sits below that national figure — -49.5%.
Within Birmingham the street ranks 5987 of 6954 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £120,500 (-34.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,839 per square metre, across 36 of the 168 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 £18,000 to £380,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Navigation Street£165,000 median
- St Johns Walk£155,590 median
- Masshouse Plaza£131,000 median
- Essex Street£123,750 median
- The Boulevard£162,000 median
- Bromsgrove Street£130,000 median
- Viceroy Close£155,000 median
- Jacoby Place£122,500 median
- Hurst Street£224,420 median
- Pershore Street£231,770 median
- Alexandra Road£72,500 median
- Edgbaston Crescent£120,500 median
- St Lukes Road£240,000 median
- Odell Place£87,250 median
- The Ashes£120,000 median
- Wrentham Street£177,450 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 7, GRIFFIN COURT West Drive5 sales
- FLAT 31, PHOENIX COURT West Drive5 sales
- FLAT 8, PHOENIX COURT West Drive4 sales
- 49 West Drive4 sales
- FLAT 14, GRIFFIN COURT West Drive4 sales
- FLAT 16, PHOENIX COURT West Drive4 sales
- FLAT 3, GRIFFIN COURT West Drive4 sales
- 15 West Drive4 sales
- FLAT 6, PHOENIX COURT West Drive4 sales
- FLAT 12, GRIFFIN COURT West Drive4 sales
- FLAT 2, GRIFFIN COURT West Drive4 sales
- FLAT 9, PHOENIX COURT West Drive3 sales
- 51 West Drive3 sales
- 19 West Drive3 sales
- 31 West Drive3 sales
- FLAT 16, GRIFFIN COURT West Drive3 sales
- FLAT 29, GRIFFIN COURT West Drive3 sales
- FLAT 7, PHOENIX COURT West Drive3 sales
- FLAT 20, PHOENIX COURT West Drive3 sales
- FLAT 1, PHOENIX COURT West Drive3 sales
- FLAT 11, PHOENIX COURT West Drive2 sales
- 36 West Drive2 sales
- 28 West Drive2 sales
- 21 West Drive2 sales
Back to Birmingham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in West Drive, Birmingham?
The median price paid in West Drive, Birmingham across every sale on the register is £79,500. 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 West Drive, Birmingham?
168 sales are on record for West Drive, Birmingham, the most recent completing on 16 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have West Drive, Birmingham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +253.7% between 2007 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +114.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were West Drive, Birmingham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £313,000, 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 West Drive, Birmingham?
£1,839 per square metre, from the 36 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 Jan 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, “West Drive, 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.