Which street has the best claim to be Birmingham’s “millionaires’ row”?
It turns out there are two.
Farquhar Road in Edgbaston and Westfield Road in Chad Valley have both seen 18 homes change hands for a million pounds or more over the last decade.
The figures come from exclusive analysis of more than 120,000 seven-figure property transactions across England and Wales since November 2008.
The sales in Farquhar Road include one for £2,825,000 in February this year.
Three other homes on the road have changed hands for more than million pounds in 2018.
The most expensive purchase on Westfield Road over the last decade came in January 2017, when a house there was sold for £1,800,000.
Other roads with a good claim to be “millionaires’ rows” in our region include Hartopp Road in Sutton Coldfield.
It has seen 12 sales of a million pounds or more over the past decade.
They included a purchase of £2,800,000.
Ladywood Road in Sutton Coldfield has seen 10 million-pound deals, including one for £3,275,000.
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Moor Hall Drive and Wellington Road have seen nine apiece.
The data shows there have been 198 residential property sales of more than a million pounds in Birmingham since November 2008.
That might sound like a lot - until you discover there have been 12,375 in just one London borough (the City of Westminster).
There have been 11,470 in Kensington and Chelsea, and 7,233 in Wandsworth.
The nation’s millionaires’ row is, arguably, Queenstown Road in Battersea.
The road has seen 247 home sales of a million pounds or more since 2008.
That is more than in the whole of Birmingham.
London accounts for 76,675 of the 120,658 deals in which a house or flat has changed hands for more than a million pounds in the last 10 years.
A further 9,850 were in Surrey.
To put that in perspective, there were 801 in the whole of Greater Manchester, 413 in the whole of the West Midlands - and 130 in the whole of Wales.
