Property prices in Birmingham

A valuation is only as good as the sales behind it, so the Birmingham average appears here only when those sales are there.

We publish the five year comparison wherever the price series holds enough sales to make it fair.

Birmingham is the largest rental market outside London and spreads across suburbs with very different price levels. Family houses in the south and city centre flats behave almost like separate markets.

District matters twice over for a landlord: it sets what you pay and it sets what you can charge. The districts below are the Birmingham postcode areas with enough homes advertised to give a fair rental average, which is the side of the sum most buyers guess at.

Put the two halves together before you buy: the rent a district actually achieves against the price a district actually commands. That is the yield, and it is the only number that tells you whether a purchase works.

In Birmingham the gap between property types is wider than the gap between many districts, which the table below sets out. The number of sales behind each figure is shown beside it, so you can see how firm it is before you lean on it.

The table below is the price series our data supplier holds for the area, one row a year, with the movement across each year beside it. It is the same series the valuation on your own report is anchored against, which is why a report can say what your home is worth today from what it sold for years ago.

A trend is a description of the past, not a promise. What it is genuinely useful for is a sanity check: if the price you are being asked to pay assumes a rise the last five years never delivered, you are buying someone else's optimism.

Rent measured against value is the only figure that tells you whether a purchase works, and your report gives yours.

Gross yield is not what you keep. Out of it come management, safety certificates, insurance, repairs and any empty weeks between tenants. The report on your own address sets the rent it can achieve against what the home is worth, so you are looking at your property rather than an area.

If you already own here and want the running of it taken off your hands, the management page for Birmingham sets out what a high street agent charges on the area's real average rent against what Caso charges for the same work.