That is the middle of 24,798 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5.3 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
24,798 homes sold in three years: 1,944 detached houses, 8,929 semi-detached houses, 9,435 terraced houses and 4,490 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.6 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£385K
median sale · 1,944 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£310K–£510K
Last 12 months
£385K538 sold
New build
£437K
Semi-detached houses£253K
median sale · 8,929 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£215K–£305K
Last 12 months
£260K2,487 sold
New build
£323K
Terraced houses£210K
median sale · 9,435 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£178K–£252K
Last 12 months
£215K2,606 sold
New build
£280K
Flats and maisonettes£148K
median sale · 4,490 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£110K–£217K
Last 12 months
£140K1,046 sold
New build
£268K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses8%
Semi-detached houses36%
Terraced houses38%
Flats and maisonettes18%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Birmingham’s homes sold for between £180K and £290K
One sale in ten was under £130K and one in ten over £380K. 60% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £225,000, sits in the £200–250K band
24,798 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.3 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £43,500 in 1995 to £231,000 in the last 12 months (£175,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
6,677 sales in the last 12 months, against 19,095 in 2006, the busiest year, and 8,041 in 2012. Sales fell by 57% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 31% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Birmingham costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Birmingham, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£85K
£120K
£235K
£240K
£260K
£320K
£385K
Semi-detached houses
£49K
£65K
£134K
£139K
£153K
£207K
£260K
Terraced houses
£40K
£47K
£112K
£115K
£124K
£162K
£215K
Flats and maisonettes
£37K
£48K
£122K
£103K
£117K
£165K
£140K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 1.4% of sales in the last 12 months
33,651 new homes have been sold in Birmingham since 1995; the share peaked at 14% in 2020.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £285,000
against £224,409 for a home sold on, 27% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
25% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 8.8% sold leasehold in Birmingham. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Goodman Street is Birmingham’s busiest street, with 94 sales in three years
1,735 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 585 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Goodman Street
B1
94
£242,497
Mostly flats · new builds
2
Griffiths Close
B12
80
£212,750
Mostly flats
3
Chester Road (B36)
B36
76
£233,000
Mixed
4
Coventry Road (B26)
B26
68
£198,980
Mostly flats · new builds
5
Essex Street
B5
64
£261,802
Mostly flats · new builds
6
Wake Green Road
B13
62
£220,000
Mostly flats
7
Pitt Street
B4
50
£280,531
Mostly flats · new builds
8
Bristol Road South (B31)
B31
49
£280,000
Mixed · new builds
9
Redditch Road
B38
48
£230,000
Mixed
10
Warwick Street
B12
46
£286,102
Mostly flats · new builds
11
Price Street
B4
46
£247,500
Mostly flats · new builds
12
Green Street
B12
45
£230,000
Mostly flats · new builds
13
Walsall Road
B42
44
£311,000
Mixed
14
Ludgate Hill
B3
44
£265,000
Mostly flats · new builds
15
Stratford Road (B28)
B28
42
£114,750
Mixed
Dearest streets
Farquhar Road (B15): £1,800,000
Birmingham median£225K
Farquhar Road (B15)£1.8M
Fitz Roy Avenue£1.1M
Wellington Road (B15)£1.1M
Reddings Road£880K
Russell Road (B13)£857K
Cheapest streets
Bridge Road: £35,000
Birmingham median£225K
Bridge Road£35K
Manor House Close£49K
Ravenhurst Mews£55K
Birchdale Avenue£63K
Sandon Road (B66)£65K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 51.4 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across West Midlands
Birmingham is the 17th most expensive of 35 towns in West Midlands
Birmingham is in the middle of West Midlands’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Birmingham
What is the average house price in Birmingham?
The median home in Birmingham sold for £225,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 24,798 standard sales (£231,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £385,000, semi-detached houses £253,000, terraced houses £210,000 and flats and maisonettes £148,000.
Are house prices going up in Birmingham?
The median was £230,000 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£222,000), and £231,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Birmingham each year?
6,677 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 10,831 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Birmingham?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Farquhar Road (B15, £1,800,000), Fitz Roy Avenue (B17, £1,132,500) and Wellington Road (B15, £1,100,000).
How much does a new build cost in Birmingham?
New homes sold for a median £285,000 over three years, against £224,409 for homes sold on. New builds were 4.7% of sales.
Is Birmingham expensive for West Midlands?
Birmingham is the 16th most expensive of 35 towns of 2,500 or more in West Midlands by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.