Renting in Solihull
Median asking rent · all sizes · 412 live listings · October 2026
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Solihull is £1,250 a month, from 412 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £950/moasking · 112 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £1,200/moasking · 131 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £1,450/moasking · 112 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £2,350/moasking · 49 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £650/moasking · 57 listings · Oct 2026 |
Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated . Weekly prices normalised to monthly. Each figure counts the live listings behind it; rooms are per room.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent in Solihull by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/solihull, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Solihull
Solihull currently has 469 rental listings on the property sites we track, 412 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Solihull is £1,250 a month, from 412 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 55 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 44% are houses and the rest are flats. How we measure this
Rents vary sharply by postcode. Median asking rents for homes of all sizes run from £875 a month in B27 (16 live listings) to £1,300 in B28 (8 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Solihull (Dwellio, October 2026). For a wider view of where the UK’s cheapest rents are, see our guide to the cheapest cities to rent in the UK.
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Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Solihull, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Solihull is £950 a month, 24% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 112 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Solihull is £1,200 a month, 4% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 131 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Solihull is £1,450 a month, 16% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 112 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Solihull is £2,350 a month, 88% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 49 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Solihull is £650 a month, from 57 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
Medians exclude prices that fail our junk-listing floor. Room rents are per room, not per property. Each size needs at least 10 live listings. Studio figures are hidden for now: listings whose bedroom count we couldn’t read were being counted as studios. How we measure this
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Rent trend · ONS PIPR
The ONS average rent paid in Solihull is £1,284 a month, up 3.3% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). The Office for National Statistics’ Price Index of Private Rents is the official series for rents being paid, including long-running tenancies; Dwellio’s figures above are asking rents.
Annual
+3.3%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+35%
since 2021
Source: Office for National Statistics · Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR). Updated monthly with a ~2-month lag. ONS uses Broad Rental Market Areas in Scotland — figures may aggregate beyond the city itself. How we measure this
Affordability · ONS ASHE
Renters in Solihull spend an estimated 42% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£36,672/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
42%
Stretched — above the 30% rent-burden threshold.
Sources: Office for National Statistics — Price Index of Private Rents (latest month) and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Table 8.7a (median annual gross pay, place of residence). The 30% line is the conventional rent-burden threshold above which housing costs are considered to crowd out other essentials. How we measure this
Property types
48% of listings
37% of listings
14% of listings
0% of listings
Property mix · houses
Semi-detached houses make up 35% of the 154 houses currently advertised in Solihull.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 288 live listings in 8 districts (October 2026). Districts with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental; rooms in shared houses are left out.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent by postcode district in Solihull, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/solihull, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Solihull
Live signal across 469 Solihull rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
69%
of 112 Solihull listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
90%
of 127 Solihull listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
55 homes came onto the Solihull rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
3 bed house
2 bed flat/apartment
1 bed room
2 bed flat/apartment
1 bed room
2 bed flat/apartment
Stanway Road, SOLIHULL, B90
2 bed terraced house
Slateley Crescent, Solihull B90
2 bed flat/apartment
Featherstone Crescent, SOLIHULL, B90
1 bed property
Main Street, Shirley B90
3 bed house
Glascote Close, Solihull, B90
2 bed flat/apartment
Hermitage Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B91
3 bed bungalow
Hawbridge Close, Shirley, Solihull
1 bed flat/apartment
Yardley Road, Acocks Green, B27 6LR
2 bed flat/apartment
Ascote Lane, Solihull, B90
1 bed flat/apartment
Streetsbrook Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B91
3 bed semi-detached house
Delrene Road, Shirley B90
2 bed flat/apartment
Cornwood House, Shirley, Solihull, B90
2 bed flat/apartment
Wharf Lane, Solihull
3 bed terraced house
Thornton Road, Monkspath, B90 4TF
1 bed flat/apartment
Warwick Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B92
4 bed detached house
Palmers Close, Shirley, Solihull, B90
3 bed detached house
Dunard Road, Shirley
1 bed flat/apartment
Ascote Lane, Dickens Heath, Solihull, West Midlands, B90
3 bed flat/apartment
Charles Edward Road, Swan Courtyard, B26
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Solihull. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Solihull homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 95,500 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
3.56
≈ Band C–D
Stock
96k
95,500 properties
Source: HM Valuation Office Agency — Council Tax Stock of Properties (CTSOP1.0), extract dated 31 March 2024. Covers England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland use separate band schemes and aren't included.
Broadband · Ofcom Connected Nations
80% of Solihull premises can already get full-fibre and 96% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
80%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
96%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
487 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Solihull), July 2025, covering 95,029 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
45% of Solihull homes hold a current EPC in bands A–C — the bands that meet the proposed 2030 minimum energy-efficiency standard for rented stock.
Bands A–C
45%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
55%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
75k
74,594 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Solihull. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
11 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Solihull centroid. The five closest:
St Alphege Church of England Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · B91 3DW
St Alphege Church of England Junior School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · B91 3JG
Solihull Sixth Form College
16 plus · Academy 16-19 converter · B91 3WR
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · B91 3NZ
St Peter's Catholic School
Secondary · Academy converter · B91 3NZ
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Solihull centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
Area safety
Based on the latest police data (October 2026), Solihull has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 100 of 100 postcode districts analysed, the median was 306 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Solihull is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Solihull’s overall figures sit above the national median, but crime varies a lot by neighbourhood. Dwellio alerts include the area’s data so you can pick the right street.
Data from data.police.uk, updated monthly. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.
Area breakdown
Street-level crime counts from data.police.uk for August 2026, covering a ~1 mile radius around each suburb centre. Figures are normalised per 1,000 residents so you can compare neighbourhoods fairly.
Most common: Shoplifting (86) · pop. ~30,000
Most common: Violent crime (8) · pop. ~8,000
Most common: Violent crime (12) · pop. ~13,000
Most common: Violent crime (45) · pop. ~14,000
Most common: Violent crime (7) · pop. ~8,000
Suburbs shown are representative populated areas; figures reflect street-level incidents within ~1 mile of each centre. Data from data.police.uk. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Solihull is £1,250 a month, from 412 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Solihull is £950 a month, 24% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 112 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Solihull is £1,200 a month, 4% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 131 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Solihull is £1,450 a month, 16% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 112 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Solihull is £2,350 a month, 88% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 49 live listings on four property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Solihull is £650 a month, from 57 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 469 rental properties available in Solihull, with 55 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Solihull has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 306 reported crimes per postcode area (October 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Solihull is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across West Midlands
How Solihull compares with the other 22 places we track in West Midlands — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across West Midlands, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/solihull, updated 28 October 2026.
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