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B1 (Birmingham): what the registers record

A district-wide reading of B1, in Birmingham (West Midlands), from named official registers. Sold prices are HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition, published 28 September 2026: 3,067 in-district sales over 2016–2025. Generated 15 October 2026 by the same pipeline that produces every brief; regenerated when the register is.

Everything below is stated as recorded. Nothing is graded, ranked, forecast or recommended. The reads are measured from the B1 district centroid, so point measures such as a flood zone are not stated for the district as a whole.

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Quick answers

How much is a flat in B1 worth?
For one home, LuxProperty gives an estimated range from the public registers, tested on 2025 sales. It is not a valuation. In 2025, 176 flats in B1 sold for a median of £235,000, and the middle half sold for between £160,000 and £290,000. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition. Get an estimated range for one home
What area is B1?
All postcodes in B1 are in Birmingham, in the West Midlands region.
Which council covers B1?
Birmingham City Council covers all of B1.
Which planning authority covers B1?
The local council is the planning authority, so it's Birmingham City Council.
Which wards does B1 cover?
B1 covers all or part of three electoral wards: Bordesley & Highgate, Ladywood and Soho & Jewellery Quarter.

Sold prices: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition, sales in 2025. Shares count the 299 postcodes with premises in B1 (Ofcom Connected Nations, Spring 2026), each placed in its council and ward by Postcodes.io. Council names and planning authorities are from the MHCLG Planning Data platform.

What homes in B1 sold for in 2025

For one home, LuxProperty gives an estimated range from the public registers, tested on 2025 sales. It is not a valuation. These are the prices recorded for homes sold in B1 in 2025, flats and houses separately. The middle half runs from the lower to the upper quartile: a quarter of sales were below it and a quarter above.

Flats

£235,000

median of 176 sales

Middle half: £160,000 to £290,000

Houses

2 houses sold in B1 in 2025: not enough sales to state a typical price (a year's figures are stated from 30 sales).

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition (published 28 September 2026). Standard sales (Category A) in postcode district B1 with a transfer date in 2025. Flats are property type F; houses are types D, S and T (detached, semi-detached, terraced). Median and quartiles by nearest rank. A type's figures are stated from 30 sales in the year.

What the Registers Record

District-wide

Eight reads, each from one source, each stated as recorded. Nothing here is graded, ranked or aimed at a type of buyer. Weigh them against what you are buying for.

Resolved for this postcode: Price trend · Sold-price evidence · Crime mix · Planning designations · Letting economics · Neighbourhood   Not resolved: Flood risk · Coal mining

Each line is a register reading for the area around this postcode, not a judgement about it or about any property. Read the sections, and verify anything that will drive your decision.

Executive Summary

Rising
Active sales activity

B1 is a postcode district in Birmingham (West Midlands), assessed district-wide from its centroid. Across 3,067 in-district Land Registry sales over 2016–2025, the median sold price is £200,000.

The market reads as rising — the 2025 median of £237,498 is +7.5% on the 2024 median.

Recorded sales activity is active (178 sales in 2025), which is why confidence in these figures is rated high. The sample is large enough for the area reads to be reliable.

This median describes sales across the whole of B1, not any individual property. Land Registry Price Paid Data records the price only, not the condition, size or tenure of what was sold, so it cannot be used as a valuation of a specific home.

Behind these figures

LocationB1 district, Birmingham, West Midlands
Median (2016–2025)£200,000
2025 median£237,498
Year-on-year+7.5%
Sales activityActive
ConfidenceHigh

Sold Prices & Trend

Sold price data as of September 2026.

Year-on-year
+7.5%
vs 2024

This median describes sales across the whole of B1, not any individual property. Land Registry Price Paid Data records the price only, not the condition, size or tenure of what was sold, so it cannot be used as a valuation of a specific home.

Based on 3,067 Land Registry transactions in B1 over 10 years (178 in the most recent full year) — a sample large enough for the area figures to be reliable. The confidence is in the sample, not in any figure as a valuation.

Price Trend (10-Year)

YearSalesMedianChange
2016303£164,950—
2017391£188,000+14.0%
2018390£182,250—
2019613£199,950+9.7%
2020315£227,000+13.5%
2021277£208,950-8.0%
2022206£219,998—
2023183£225,000—
2024211£221,000—
2025178£237,498+7.5%

A blank in the change column means that year's move was smaller than the uncertainty in the two medians it is drawn from — not that prices held steady. Where a change is shown, it is larger than that uncertainty.

District Price Bands

District median band
£219,995 – £250,000
The range the 2025 median for B1 is likely to sit in (90% interval, from the sales themselves). Where the district's typical price lies, not a value for any property.
Based on 178 recorded sales in 2025.
Lower-quartile sold prices
£160,000 – £237,498
Lower quartile to 2025 median for B1. A quarter of the district's sales fell in this band; another quarter sold below it.
What the data shows
  • Sold-price medians in B1 rose 7.5% between 2024 and 2025.

These are area statistics from Land Registry sold prices, not a valuation of any property or a mortgage-lending figure.

Recent sales in B1

The most recent 12 sales run -28.0% below the longer-run window median for B1 — read the trend, not any single recent sale.

The recent sales span a wide price range, so significantly different property types or sizes are represented — compare like-for-like before drawing a conclusion.

Street Price Ranking

Area median across all listed streets: £200,000. Streets are grouped into a dearer and a cheaper set, not placed in order — the gaps between neighbouring streets are smaller than the uncertainty in their medians. The sale count shows how much evidence sits behind each.

Dearer streets
StreetSalesMedianLikely rangevs area
Vittoria Street22£363,000£315,000–£398,000+81.5%
Summer Hill Street14£276,450£232,450–£332,450+38.2%
Upper Gough Street26£272,550£252,252–£285,975+36.3%
Severn Street21£270,000£220,000–£305,995+35.0%
Camden Street155£255,000£245,000–£280,000+27.5%
Cheaper streets
StreetSalesMedianLikely rangevs area
Edward Street30£150,000£146,500–£180,000-25.0%
Suffolk Street Queensway53£142,000£135,000–£150,000-29.0%
Powell Street13£137,500£132,500–£175,000-31.3%
Civic Close18£110,250£100,000–£123,000-44.9%
Holloway Head22£91,250£88,000–£97,000-54.4%

Property Type Split

Housing stock mix for Birmingham (the whole local authority), from the 2021 Census — this describes the area's dwellings, not the properties currently for sale.

Semi-detached house/bungalow150,608 · 35.6%
Terraced house/bungalow117,527 · 27.8%
Purpose-built flat88,786 · 21.0%
Detached house/bungalow47,332 · 11.2%
Converted/shared house flat12,083 · 2.9%
Flat in a commercial building4,268 · 1.0%
Flat in a converted building2,554 · 0.6%
Caravan/other mobile or temporary297 · 0.1%

Neighbourhood Profile

Neighbourhood inputs are measured from the B1 district centroid — a full postcode gives an address-specific read.
Resident sentiment

No resident commentary is shown for B1. This block is left empty rather than filled with generic or unverified text.

Stations & Commute

Stations are measured from the B1 district centre — a full postcode gives walk times from a specific address.
Headline commute
Birmingham· ~0.8 km straight-line

The nearest major employment centre is Birmingham, about 0.8 km away in a straight line from the B1 district centre. Actual travel time depends on road and rail connections — check National Rail or a mapping app for door-to-door times.

Stations within walking range
  • Library
    Tram
    2 min walk
    134 m
  • Brindley Place
    Tram
    5 min walk
    381 m
  • Town Hall
    Tram
    6 min walk
    416 m
  • Five Ways
    Tram
    9 min walk
    680 m
  • Grand Central
    Tram
    9 min walk
    704 m
  • Birmingham New Street
    National Rail
    10 min walk
    766 m

Walk times are estimates from straight-line distance at 80 m/min (~4.8 km/h), not routed walking directions.

Schools

Schools are measured from the B1 district centre — a full postcode gives distances from a specific address.
Ofsted ratings are not shown in-brief: there is no verifiable per-school ratings feed we can attach reliably, so rather than proxy or invent them, each school links to its official Ofsted report — where you'll also see if a school has no current rating (new or not yet re-inspected).
School proximity is not admission: most state schools admit by catchment and criteria that change yearly, and distance here is straight-line, not the admissions measure. Confirm current catchments with the local authority before relying on any school.

Local Amenities

Amenities are measured from the B1 district centre — a full postcode gives distances from a specific address.
Supermarkets & food shops6 of 66 nearby
  • Qube Convenience StoreConvenience store4 min
  • SparConvenience store5 min
  • Tesco ExpressConvenience store6 min
  • Co-op FoodConvenience store6 min
  • PremierConvenience store6 min
  • Rosella'sConvenience store6 min
Cafés & restaurants6 of 175 nearby
  • Centenary CaféCafé1 min
  • StarbucksCafé2 min
  • Café ViteCafé2 min
  • The Fellows Coffee ShopCafé3 min
  • PizzaExpressRestaurant3 min
  • The Floating Coffee CompanyCafé3 min
GPs & health5 of 32 nearby
  • Birmingham Chest ClinicHospital5 min
  • The Drake Unit Sexual Health ServicesClinic5 min
  • BootsPharmacy5 min
  • DermoperfectionClinic7 min
  • Newhall Aesthetics ClinicGP surgery7 min

Crime Breakdown

Street-level crimes recorded within approximately 1 mile of the B1 district centroid in August 2026. Recorded-crime totals concentrate on high-footfall commercial streets, transport hubs and town centres, so a residential street is usually quieter than an area-wide count suggests. Street-level police.uk points are also snapped to representative map locations, not exact addresses. Treat this as neighbourhood context, not a street-by-street safety score.
1,753recorded crimes · August 2026

Planning Activity & Risk Flags

B1 is a whole district — these designations are for the district centroid only. Generate a full-postcode brief for an address-specific planning read.

Risk flags

Violence leads the local crime mix
Trigger: 39% of recorded crime (August 2026) is violence & sexual offences.
Permitted-development rights likely restricted
Trigger: In scope of: Article 4 direction. Alterations/extensions may need full consent.

1 planning designation recorded at the B1 district centroid — designations are point-specific, so a full postcode gives the picture for an exact address.

Article 4 direction— CITY WIDE HMO

Specific permitted-development rights have been withdrawn here, so changes that would normally be automatic (e.g. some extensions, changes of use) need a full planning application.

Live planning-application counts aren't available from any free national feed, so none is shown here (a figure would be guesswork). To see current and recent applications for a specific address, search the Birmingham planning portal.

Open the council planning portal

Flood, Climate & Resilience

B1 is a whole postcode district spanning many streets, so a single flood zone can't represent it — flood zone is property-specific. Generate a brief for a full postcode to get a point-level flood assessment at that postcode's centroid.

Flood risk varies across B1. The Environment Agency flood areas and any live warnings below are shown for the district as a whole.

Nearby Environment Agency flood areas

6 Environment Agency flood areas within 3km — nearest is “River Rea at Highgate, Deritend and Digbeth” (River Rea), about ~1.7km away. Distances are approximate (measured to each area’s centre).

  • River Rea at Highgate, Deritend and Digbeth
    River Reawarning
    ~1.7km
  • River Rea at Calthorpe
    River Reawarning
    ~2.4km
  • River Rea at Edgbaston
    River Reawarning
    ~2.8km
  • River Rea at Vauxhall, Saltley and Nechells
    River Reawarning
    ~3.6km
  • River Rea
    River Reaalert
    ~3.7km
  • Upper Tame
    River Tame, Ford Brookalert
    ~6.5km
Surface water — Surface-water (‘flash’) flooding — drains overwhelmed by intense rainfall — is a SEPARATE hazard from the river and sea flooding mapped above, and can affect properties nowhere near a watercourse. There is no open property-level surface-water rating, so none is asserted here: check the surface-water layer on the EA flood map and ask the seller about any past drainage or flash-flooding issues.
Subsidence & ground stability — General guidance (not a property-specific assessment): ground stability — including clay shrink-swell subsidence — is not covered by Environment Agency flood data and varies property by property. It is not possible to rate it reliably from a postcode alone, so no rating is given. If subsidence is a concern, commission a RICS survey and ask your conveyancer to include a ground-stability / environmental search.
Coal mining & coastal erosion — Coal mining and coastal erosion are point reads at a postcode centroid, and B1 is a whole district, so neither is stated here. Generate a brief for a full postcode to get both at that postcode's centroid.
Before you offer
  • Generate a brief for a full postcode to get the flood zone at that postcode's centroid — then verify the exact plot at flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk.
  • Check the surface-water flood layer separately — it is a distinct hazard from the river/sea flooding assessed here.

Buying Costs

Birmingham is the billing authority for this district. Council tax is set per authority (not per postcode), so these figures apply area-wide.
Council tax · Birmingham2026/27
Band D£2,363/ year
A
£1,575
B
£1,838
C
£2,100
D
£2,363
E
£2,888
F
£3,413
G
£3,938
H
£4,726
Confirm the band & current charge at gov.uk
Stamp duty (SDLT)
Estimated SDLT
£1,500
effective rate 0.8%
At area median
£200,000
Estimated SDLT on a main residence at the area median sold price (£200,000) — not your liability for a specific property, which depends on the actual price, whether it's your only home, and first-time-buyer status.
BandRateTax on portion
£125,001–£250,0002%£1,500

Additional property: Buying an additional property (second home or buy-to-let) adds a 5% surcharge on every band.

First-time buyers: First-time buyers pay no SDLT up to £300,000, then 5% on £300,001–£500,000 (no relief on purchases above £500,000).

  • Stress-test affordability against higher interest rates: lenders check whether you could still meet repayments if rates rose, and your budget should survive the same test.
  • If the property is leasehold, check the remaining lease term, ground rent and service charges before offering — short leases (under ~80 years) are expensive to extend and can affect mortgageability.
Estimate your exact SDLT at gov.uk

Stamp Duty Land Tax rates effective 1 April 2025.

Rental Snapshot

B1 is a postcode district, not a local authority, so we've used Birmingham — the authority at the district's centre.
£1,099 pcm
+3.0% year on year

£1,099 pcm is the average rent currently being paid across all private tenancies in Birmingham, from the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026.

By bedroom count · Birmingham · August 2026
1 bed
£830 pcm
+2.8% year on year
2 bed
£1,003 pcm
+2.8% year on year
3 bed
£1,134 pcm
+3.4% year on year
4+ bed
£1,578 pcm
+2.6% year on year
By property type · Birmingham · August 2026
Detached
£1,434 pcm
+2.3% year on year
Semi-detached
£1,151 pcm
+3.3% year on year
Terraced
£1,095 pcm
+3.3% year on year
Flat
£919 pcm
+2.6% year on year

These two breakdowns describe the same rental stock cut two different ways — they are not a cross-tabulation. ONS publishes no figure for, say, a two-bed flat, so one cannot be read off the two groups together.

This is a STOCK measure: it averages rents across tenancies that started at different times, not just new lettings. Rents on continuing tenancies typically lag the current market, so in a rising market the figure sits BELOW what a new letting would achieve today. PIPR does not measure the size of that gap and neither do we, so no adjustment is applied and none should be assumed. It is also not a median — ONS publishes an average of modelled prices and no quartiles, so there is no spread to show.

Letting Economics

Two real letting inputs are shown below. Neither is a tenant-demand measurement — see the methodology note.
Gross yield (return)
5.5%
Flat5.5%£919 pcm × 12 ÷ £199,950(2,975 sales)

Not shown: Terraced (only 90 recorded terraced sales — below the 100-sale floor a median needs); Semi-detached (no recorded sales of this type in the district); Detached (only 2 recorded detached sales — below the 100-sale floor a median needs).

Each figure is the ONS PIPR rent for that property type in Birmingham (August 2026), times twelve, divided by the Land Registry median sold price for the SAME property type in B1. Matching on type is what makes the division meaningful; PIPR's bedroom figures are shown in the Rental Snapshot but cannot be used here, because Price Paid Data records no bedroom count.

Two things still do not line up, and neither is hidden. The rent is the whole of Birmingham; the price is just the B1 district — a narrower area inside it, so the two describe different ground. And the rent is a stock average across new and existing tenancies, which sits below what a new letting achieves, biasing these yields DOWN by an amount ONS does not publish and we do not estimate. Gross, too: no voids, management, maintenance or tax.

Sales velocity (liquidity)
~307 sales/yr

3,067 recorded sales over 10 years; 178 in 2025.

This is NOT a tenant-demand score. We hold no days-to-let, void-period or tenant-demand data for any postcode, so none is asserted. What's shown are the letting signals that can be derived from published data: a type-matched gross yield (return) and recorded sales velocity (market liquidity). A high yield often reflects lower capital values rather than strong tenant demand, and sales velocity is a sales-market measure — read them as inputs, not a verdict.

Energy Performance (EPC)

This is a district-wide brief. The EPC register is searched by full postcode and has no district-level equivalent, so there is no B1 energy profile to report — enter a full postcode for the area figures, or look up a specific address on the register.
Look up a specific address on the EPC register

Air Quality

No urban background or suburban monitoring station within 5 km
No urban background or suburban air-quality monitoring station within 5 km of the B1 district centre, so no reading is shown. DEFRA's real-time network in this feed covers London, the South East and the near edge of the East of England only. Only urban background and suburban stations are used: roadside and kerbside monitors measure the road they stand beside, not the surrounding area. UK-AIR publishes modelled background estimates for the rest of the country.
DEFRA UK-AIR

What this guide does not say

  • No school grade. Each school is named with its distance and a link to its official Ofsted report page; the brief does not hold a verifiable per-school ratings feed and does not assert one.
  • No development schemes. There is no national planning-application feed; planning designations at the district centroid are shown with their official reference and date instead.
  • No valuation, offer figure or price forecast. District medians describe sales across the whole district, not any property.
  • No year-on-year move unless it clears the margins of error of the two medians it is drawn from. Where it does not, that is said.
  • No point measures for a whole district. A flood zone or an EPC profile belongs to an address; generate a brief for a full postcode for those.
  • No resident commentary, testimonial or editorial verdict.

Sources

18 of 18 sections carry a source line. Generated 15 October 2026 · register edition September 2026.

What homes in B1 sold for in 2025
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition (published 28 September 2026). Standard sales (Category A) in postcode district B1 with a transfer date in 2025. Flats are property type F; houses are types D, S and T (detached, semi-detached, terraced). Median and quartiles by nearest rank. A type's figures are stated from 30 sales in the year.
What the Registers Record
Sources are those of the sections each resolved read names: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (price trend, sold-price evidence), data.police.uk street-level crime (crime mix), MHCLG Planning Data platform (planning designations), ONS Price Index of Private Rents over Land Registry type-matched medians (letting economics), and OpenStreetMap with data.police.uk (neighbourhood). No source is named for the flood risk and coal mining reads, which did not resolve here. Every figure here also appears, with its own footnote, in the section it came from.
Executive Summary
Summary derived from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (the same deduped in-district transaction set as every price figure in this brief) and the Postcodes.io location lookup. Market-trajectory and sales-activity labels use fixed thresholds shown against each signal.
Sold Prices & Trend
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, 2016–2025, postcode district B1. Deduplicated in-district transactions only.
Recent sales in B1
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, 2016–2025, postcode district B1. The 12 most recent deduplicated in-district sales, newest first; registered sale prices, not asking prices.
Street Price Ranking
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, 2016–2025, postcode district B1. Streets need at least 12 recorded sales to appear; 40 of 63 named streets qualify. 1 further street was set aside for holding two clearly different price levels (typically mixed new-build and existing stock), where a single median describes neither. Streets are grouped into a dearer and a cheaper set, not ranked in order — the gaps between neighbouring streets are smaller than the uncertainty in their medians.
Property Type Split
Source: ONS Census 2021 (21 March 2021) table TS044 (Accommodation type), Birmingham (E08000025), via Nomis. Granularity: Local authority.
Neighbourhood Profile
Neighbourhood inputs are what OpenStreetMap (stations, schools, amenities, parks) and data.police.uk (recorded crime) record within walking range of this postcode. Distances are straight-line; walk times assume 80 m/min.
Stations & Commute
Stations from OpenStreetMap (Overpass). Modes and lines are deduplicated from OSM tags. Commute distance is straight-line to the nearest major employment centre — not a timetabled journey time.
Schools
Schools from OpenStreetMap (Overpass); nearest 8 within range. Distances are straight-line, walk times estimated at 80 m/min. Ratings via each school's official Ofsted report (reports.ofsted.gov.uk).
Local Amenities
Amenities from OpenStreetMap (Overpass). Counts are what OSM records within range (supermarkets/food ≤1.2 km, cafés/restaurants ≤800 m, health ≤1.5 km); distances are straight-line, walk times estimated at 80 m/min.
Crime Breakdown
Crime: data.police.uk street-level crimes, August 2026 (the feed lags ~2 months). Radius ~1 mile of the coordinates. No national benchmark is shown — police.uk carries no population denominator to compute one fairly.
Planning Activity & Risk FlagsSPARSE
Planning designations: MHCLG Planning Data platform (planning.data.gov.uk), point-in-polygon at the coordinates · LPA: Birmingham LPA. Each designation's date is its official designation/start date. Listed-building status is not assessed here: the source is building-outline polygons, and a postcode centroid rarely falls inside one, so a miss is not evidence that the property is unlisted. Check the address on the National Heritage List for England (historicengland.org.uk) or Cadw for Wales. Live applications are not shown — check the council portal (www.birmingham.gov.uk).
Flood, Climate & Resilience
Source: Environment Agency open data, queried at the validated coordinates: Flood Warning/Alert Areas. Indicative and area-modelled — not a property-specific flood risk assessment. Confirm at flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk. Live flood warnings are not shown in guides; a full postcode brief checks them when it is generated.
Buying Costs
Council tax: Birmingham area Band D £2,363/yr — the whole bill, including county, police, fire, parish and adult social care precepts. MHCLG council tax levels 2026/27. Bands A–H derived via the statutory multipliers (A=6/9 … D=1 … H=2). Use the gov.uk checker for a property's confirmed band.
Rental Snapshot
Rents: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR), local-authority level for England and Wales, published monthly. PIPR price levels are a weighted geometric average of modelled prices across the private rental STOCK — not a median, and PIPR publishes no quartiles. England and Wales inputs are achieved rents (what tenants actually pay) across a mix of new and existing tenancies. Bedroom and property-type figures are separate breakdowns of the same stock, not a cross-tabulation: there is no "two-bed flat" figure. See the ONS 'Private rent and house prices, UK' bulletin (https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest).
Letting Economics
Gross yield: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (local-authority, by property type) ÷ HM Land Registry median sold price for the same property type in this district. The rent covers the whole local authority and the price covers the postcode district, so the two grains differ; the rent is also a stock average and sits below new-let rates. Sales velocity: HM Land Registry recorded in-district sales per year. No tenant-demand, void or days-to-let data is used because none is available from a free national feed.
Energy Performance (EPC)SPARSE
Energy performance: MHCLG EPC Register (England & Wales), searched by full postcode. Address-level certificates: find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk.
Air QualityUNAVAILABLE
Air quality: DEFRA / ERG real-time monitoring index — no urban background or suburban station within 5 km of this location.

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A full postcode gives the point reads a district cannot: the flood zone at the address, the EPC profile of its certified homes, planning designations at the plot, and the nearest schools and stations measured from it.