UK Property Check

UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/birmingham

Council areaWest Midlands, England

House prices in Birmingham

Homes in Birmingham sold for a median of £240,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 17,579 standard sales.

That puts it in the middle third of the 30 council areas in the West Midlands with at least 300 sales. The median across the region was £255,000.

Median sale price£240,00017,579 standard sales
Middle half of prices£187,000 to £318,000
Change since 2016+56%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Postcode districts in Birmingham

The dearest district was B75 (Sutton Coldfield), at £394,000, and the cheapest was B18 (mostly Soho & Jewellery Quarter ward), at £180,000. The dearest median is 2.2 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were B74 (Sutton Coldfield) and B72 (Sutton Coldfield), and the next cheapest B21 (Handsworth) and B9 (Bordesley Green).

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Each dot is a postcode district in Birmingham, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The list below gives the same figures.
Districts with at least 100 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. B75Sutton Coldfield, 756 sales£394,000+4%
  2. B74Sutton Coldfield, 904 sales£385,0000%
  3. B72Sutton Coldfield, 279 sales£375,0000%
  4. B73Sutton Coldfield, 641 sales£363,000−1%
  5. B76Sutton Coldfield, 545 sales£340,000+4%
  6. B17Birmingham, 517 sales£336,500+8%
  7. B28Birmingham, 626 sales£304,500+3%
  8. B30Birmingham, 695 sales£275,000+1%
  9. B15Birmingham, 255 sales£269,000+12%
  10. B45Birmingham, 790 sales£260,000+1%
  11. B13Birmingham, 617 sales£258,000+8%
  12. B14Birmingham, 870 sales£253,500+4%
  13. B29Birmingham, 544 sales£250,000+4%
  14. B26Birmingham, 891 sales£245,000+4%
  15. B20Birmingham, 292 sales£243,500+7%
  16. B38Birmingham, 454 sales£242,000+12%
  17. B16Birmingham, 225 sales£240,000−6%
  18. B24Birmingham, 561 sales£240,000+2%
  19. B31Birmingham, 1,316 sales£235,000+1%
  20. B32Birmingham, 588 sales£230,000+6%
  21. B1Birmingham, 323 sales£225,000+7%
  22. B27Birmingham, 407 sales£225,0000%
  23. B5Birmingham, 185 sales£222,500Too few
  24. B42Birmingham, 531 sales£222,500−2%
  25. B3Birmingham, 125 sales£220,000Too few
  26. B34Birmingham, 348 sales£215,000−1%
  27. B12Birmingham, 281 sales£212,000+5%
  28. B33Birmingham, 470 sales£210,000+5%
  29. B44Birmingham, 737 sales£209,000+3%
  30. B25Birmingham, 200 sales£207,500+7%
  31. B10Birmingham, 119 sales£200,000Too few
  32. B23Birmingham, 777 sales£200,000+5%
  33. B35Birmingham, 109 sales£195,000Too few
  34. B8Birmingham, 223 sales£190,000+4%
  35. B11Birmingham, 359 sales£190,000+4%
  36. B9Birmingham, 170 sales£186,000Too few
  37. B21Birmingham, 197 sales£182,000+3%
  38. B18Birmingham, 135 sales£180,000Too few

Fewer than 100 sales, not ranked: B4 £296k (96 sales), B6 £168k (90 sales), B7 £190k (27 sales), B19 £173k (54 sales).

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in B15 (mostly Edgbaston ward) and B38 (Birmingham), up 12%, and fell most in B16 (Birmingham), down 6%.

Streets with the most standard sales in the districts listed above, September 2024 to August 2026:

  • Goodman Street, Birmingham (B1)96 sales
  • Griffiths Close, Balsall Heath (B12)80 sales
  • Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield (B74)65 sales
  • Pitt Street, Birmingham (B4)62 sales
  • Essex Street, Birmingham (B5)60 sales
  • Coventry Road, Sheldon (B26)56 sales
  • Birmingham Road, Sutton Coldfield (B72)49 sales
  • Green Street, Birmingham (B12)45 sales

Of the streets with at least 10 sales, the dearest by median price were Rosemary Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield (B74, detached houses, £1,100,000), Little Sutton Lane, Sutton Coldfield (B75, detached houses, £912,500) and Streetly Lane, Sutton Coldfield (B74, £886,500).

The cheapest were Pershore Road, Kings Norton (B30, £64,000), Brookvale Road, Erdington (B23, flats, £67,000) and Ashill Road, Rednal (B45, flats, £72,500).

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 56%, from £153,500 in 2016 to £240,000 in 2025, more than the 50% rise across the West Midlands as a whole.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in Birmingham, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached1,974£450,000£350,000 to £608,000£3,926/m²from 85 sales
Semi-detached6,317£265,000£220,000 to £325,000£3,256/m²from 235 sales
Terraced6,054£216,000£185,000 to £265,000£2,657/m²from 222 sales
Flats and maisonettes3,234£155,000£118,000 to £220,000£2,500/m²from 123 sales

Semi-detached houses and terraced houses sold in similar numbers in Birmingham, at 36% and 34% of sales.

Living in Birmingham

Crime

123 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to August 2026

Higher than 93 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 84.

The rate counts every crime recorded in an area against the people who live there, so shops, stations and nightlife push it up.

Gigabit broadband

96% of homes can get it

Higher than 80 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 89%.

Radon

18% of postcodes are in a 1 km square that includes a radon Affected Area

Lower than 67 in 100 council areas.

In a radon Affected Area, UKHSA recommends a radon test. A UKradon report gives the result for an exact address.

Council tax

Band D is £2,363 a year in Birmingham for 2026 to 2027

Lower than 65 in 100 council areas. England: £2,392.

Band D includes every charge on the bill, such as police, fire and any county, parish or town council.

The free check gives these for a single home, with the nearest schools and road and rail noise (how we work them out).

Crime: data.police.uk, with Census 2021 population from the Office for National Statistics. Broadband: Ofcom Connected Nations, January 2026. Radon: the British Geological Survey and UKHSA. Council tax: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Council areas in the West Midlands

Median sale price of the 30 council areas in the West Midlands with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026, dearest first. Birmingham and the 14 council areas nearest it in the ranking are shown.

  1. North Warwickshire£265,000
  2. Redditch£260,000
  3. Stafford£260,000
  4. Worcester£258,000
  5. Wyre Forest£257,000
  6. Tamworth£248,000
  7. Nuneaton and Bedworth£244,000
  8. Birmingham£240,000
  9. Dudley£240,000
  10. East Staffordshire£240,000
  11. Telford and Wrekin£235,000
  12. Coventry£230,000
  13. Staffordshire Moorlands£228,500
  14. Cannock Chase£227,000
  15. Walsall£227,000
All 30 council areas in the West Midlands, ranked

About these figures

Birmingham's figures come from 17,579 standard sales, each placed in the council area by its own postcode (how we build council pages).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.