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B28 vs B90: house prices per square metre compared

B28 (Hall Green) has a median of £3,250 per against £3,850 in B90 (Shirley). B90 is the more expensive of the two: B28 is 15.6% cheaper per . The figures come from 214 and 525 matched sales in the last 12 months of HM Land Registry data.

£342,000, the median sale price in B90, buys about 89 there and about 105 in B28, a difference of 16 at each district’s own median. Over the 10 years to Q1 2026, B28 moved +4.6% a year against B90 at +3.0% a year, before inflation.

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Sales in the last 12 months.

B28 compared with B90
Measure

B28

High confidence

Hall Green, Birmingham

£3,250median per m²

B90

High confidence

Shirley, Solihull

£3,850median per m²

Difference
Median price per m²£3,250£3,850+18.5%
Median sale price£300,000£342,000+14.0%
Middle 60% of salesp20 to p80£2,820–£3,750£3,170–£4,540
Sales (last 12 months)257622+365
With a matched floor areaThe denominator behind each median per unit area214525+311
Mean floor area (matched sales)96 m²93 m²−3.1%
Annual change over 9.8 years+4.6% a year+3.0% a year−1.6 pts
By property typeMedian price per m² for each property type sold in the last 12 months.
Detachedno sales£4,410n = 115n/a
Semi-detached£3,390n = 114£3,910n = 243+15.3%
Terraced£3,140n = 51£3,770n = 68+20.1%
Flatno sales£2,900n = 99n/a
Difference: B28 minus B90.
All B28 sold prices All B90 sold prices

Each trend line is that district’s own quarterly median price per square metre, scaled to its own range: compare directions, not heights. Gaps are quarters with too few matched sales to publish a median.

Frequently asked questions

Why compare B28 and B90 on price per square metre rather than price?

A raw sale price mostly reflects how big homes are; price per square metre corrects for size, so B28 and B90 can be compared on what a buyer actually gets for the money. Both figures here are medians of sold price divided by EPC floor area, from HM Land Registry sales, computed the same way for both areas.

Why do B28 and B90 show different numbers of sales?

The two districts are different sizes and trade at different rates, and each figure is computed over the matched sales its own area produced in its stated window. The matched-sale count is printed beside each median because it is that median's own denominator.

Or browse the league tables for the most expensive and best value districts, every comparison page, or the free dataset behind these figures.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 · Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 · Floor areas from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register · how these figures are made