🇬🇧 UK · West Midlands
Birmingham.
Where the housing market sits.
UK's actual second-largest city — HS2 connectivity narrative, ongoing regeneration projects, and a meaningful affordability gap to London.
Updated 5m ago
Latest data: 2026-04-01
HM Land Registry W Midlands · BoE · ONS ASHE
City gauges
Affordability
0
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Most expensive100 · Most affordable
- Median price (GBP)
- £235,682City-level median home price, source-specific (see below).
- Median household income (GBP)
- £35,000Most recent published metro-level median household income.
- Mortgage payment burden
- 37.7%30-year amortized payment at current UK rates as a share of median household income.
Momentum
45
Below average
0 · Cooling/declining100 · Running hot
- Year-over-year price change
- +0.8%Latest available city-level YoY HPI delta.
- Months of supply
- —Active listings divided by trailing-three-month sales pace.
- Days on market
- —Median days from listing to under contract.
Regime · What the gauges say together
Transitional
Between regime quadrants — affordability and momentum mixed.
Between regime quadrants — affordability and momentum mixed.
Context
| Real price growth (3-mo annualized) | -0.39% |
| Headline mortgage rate | 5.75% |
| CPI year-over-year | 2.97% |
| Leading equity indicators (homebuilders/REITs) | -12.8% avg vs 200-day MA · breadth 0/4 |
Data sources for Birmingham
- ONS HPI West Midlands
- Rightmove regional data
Full source documentation on /data-sources.
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