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Do the numbers work? Rents and yields, the HMO planning rules, growth and what owners made, and the council's letting picture.
| Typical private rent in Solihull | A month | A year |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | £1,279 | £15,348 |
| 1 bedroom | £858 | £10,296 |
| 2 bedrooms | £1,065 | £12,780 |
| 3 bedrooms | £1,262 | £15,144 |
| 4+ bedrooms | £1,877 | £22,524 |
The council's typical rent against the typical home here (£305k): a gross yield of about 5.0%.
| Marston Green & Airport | Solihull | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing allowance yield (%) | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.2 |
| Rented privately | 14% | 13% | 20% |
| Homes ever let | 12% | 13% | 18% |
| Residents per home | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| Homes owned by companies | 3% | 2% | 4% |
| Homes bought by companies since 2021 | 44 | 28 | 34 |
ONS private rents (council, 2026-08); Local Housing Allowance (VOA). Gross yields are before costs, voids and tax.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Solihull has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team.
| Marston Green & Airport | Solihull | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postcodes under an Article 4 direction | 0% | 0% | 16% |
planning.data.gov.uk (Article 4 directions). Whether one address is inside an HMO area is on its postcode's Investing page. HMO Article 4 map · About HMOs
| Marston Green & Airport | Solihull | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population change, 2021–2024 | 0% | +2% | +4% |
| Homes added, 2021–2024 | +1% | +2% | +3% |
| People added per new home, 2021–2024 | -2.1 | 1.1 | 5.1 |
| Housing pressure vs region | 1.1 | 0.7 | -0.3 |
Like-for-like (repeat-sales) index, HM Land Registry. What owners made when they sold, by area and how long they held.
MHCLG council tax base (England), Ministry of Justice repossessions, ONS short-term lets.
Yields, prices, growth, renting and Article 4 cover, side by side.
| Smith's Wood North | 5.1 | £187k | +62% | 14% | 0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fordbridge | 5.0 | £181k | +67% | 15% | 0% |
| Chelmsley Wood West | 4.8 | £189k | +60% | 10% | 0% |
| Chelmsley Wood East | 4.7 | £201k | +83% | 15% | 0% |
| Smith's Wood South | 4.1 | £214k | +68% | 10% | 0% |
| Kingshurst | 3.8 | £225k | +71% | 12% | 0% |
| Lyndon North | 3.4 | £283k | +64% | 13% | 0% |
| Olton & Kineton Green | 3.3 | £303k | +49% | 20% | 0% |
| Lyndon South | 3.2 | £335k | +55% | 13% | 0% |
| Elmdon Park | 3.1 | £307k | +69% | 14% | 0% |
| Solihull Lodge | 3.1 | £312k | +49% | 14% | 0% |
| Shirley West | 3.1 | £309k | +44% | 14% | 0% |
| Castle Bromwich West | 3.0 | £302k | +50% | 9% | 0% |
| Marston Green & Airport (this one) | 3.0 | £305k | +58% | 14% | 0% |
| Castle Bromwich East | 2.9 | £321k | +56% | 7% | 0% |
| Blossomfield | 2.9 | £357k | +49% | 15% | 0% |
| Elmdon Heath & Catherine-de-Barnes | 2.8 | £365k | +44% | 18% | 0% |
| Shirley East | 2.6 | £392k | +48% | 12% | 0% |
| Dickens Heath, Cheswick Green & Hockley Heath | 2.5 | £403k | +33% | 16% | 0% |
| Shirley Heath | 2.4 | £434k | +53% | 7% | 0% |
| Ulverley Green & Langley | 2.4 | £447k | +22% | 10% | 0% |
| Monkspath South | 2.4 | £448k | +50% | 12% | 0% |
| Meriden, Hampton-in-Arden & Temple Balsall | 2.3 | £436k | +45% | 11% | 0% |
| Lode Heath | 2.3 | £399k | +38% | 16% | 0% |
| Monkspath North | 2.1 | £492k | +45% | 11% | 0% |
| Balsall Common | 2.0 | £505k | +46% | 11% | 0% |
| Dorridge | 1.8 | £629k | +35% | 9% | 0% |
| Knowle | 1.7 | £556k | +41% | 10% | 0% |
| Central Solihull & Sharmans Cross | 1.6 | £511k | +35% | 15% | 0% |
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Local Housing Allowance, Birmingham rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £342 · 1 bed £695 · 2 beds £750 · 3 beds £825 · 4 beds £1,100. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 1-bed rate vs flats 5.96% · 2-bed vs terraced houses 4.04% · 3-bed vs semis 3.19%.