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# Price of cheapest 10% of houses increased in the past five years
- URL: https://www.birminghameastside.co.uk/rise-in-housing-prices-in-the-past-five-years/
- Published: 2024-12-10T14:05:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-14T09:58:25.000Z
- Author: Fahtima Afzal
- Tags: Data, News, #Migrated-1786701253228, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-14 09:54

The price of the cheapest 10% of houses in the West Midlands has gone up by one fifth in the past five years, according to government figures.

New [data](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/datasets/housingpurchaseaffordabilityingreatbritain?ref=birminghameastside.co.uk) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that in 2022/23 the cheapest 10% of houses in the West Midlands went up to a maximum of £129,950.

Five years earlier the cheapest 10% of houses went up to a maximum of £108,000.

The poorest 10% of people had to pay 11 times their household income for 10% cheaper houses in the year ending 2022/23.

Five years earlier they had to pay nine times their household income.