Renting out a home in Kings Heath
The streets off Kings Heath High Street are mostly pre-1919 terraces, many from a building boom between 1895 and 1907, with semis and larger period houses on roads further out.
Most homes here are owner-occupied, so a well-kept rental competes with a strong owner market and tenants who expect a decent standard.
- Kings Heath High Street, one of the longest in Birmingham, with its own Business Improvement District and a monthly farmers' market
- Kings Heath Park and Highbury Park
- Schools including Colmore, Kings Heath and Wheelers Lane primaries, with the King Edward VI Camp Hill grammar schools in neighbouring Hall Green
Our work in Kings Heath
We have let or managed more than ten homes in Kings Heath over the last few years, and the rents we achieve sit in line with the local market.
One example: a family we had housed in Kings Heath lived in a jointly owned property. When the owners' mortgage went up, they wanted to raise the rent. Working with tax professionals we know, we helped the landlord restructure his portfolio to ease the tax bill, rather than passing the whole increase on to the tenants.
Shared houses are common here. For landlords with several of them we offer portfolio management, and we deal with the council and other housing bodies on their behalf.
We also run landlord seminars in Birmingham on the new rules, licensing and tax. The next one is in the last week of November 2026. Join the seminar waitlist.
Kings Heath in numbers
Kings Heath is mostly houses, and fewer households rent privately than across Birmingham as a whole. A well-kept two or three bed house stands out.
- At the 2021 Census, 18% of the 7,805 households in Brandwood & King's Heath ward rented privately, against 23% across Birmingham and 20% in England.
- Homes: 39% semi-detached houses, 32% terraced houses, 15% purpose-built flats, 10% detached houses (Census 2021).
- 46 homes were listed to let in Kings Heath on Rightmove on 31 October 2026. Leaving out rooms and student lets left 37 homes, with a middle asking rent of £1,150 a month.
- By size: 1 bed £900 (5 homes), 2 bed £1,000 (17 homes), 3 bed £1,300 (10 homes), 4+ bed £1,400 (5 homes). Only sizes with five or more listings are shown.
Asking rents are what landlords advertise, not what tenants end up paying, and a snapshot of a few dozen homes moves from week to week.
Why tenants want to live here
- Kings Heath station reopened on 7 April 2026 on the Camp Hill line, about 11 minutes to New Street on average. It has no car park.
- Buses 50 and 35 run along the High Street and Alcester Road into the city
Licensing and the rules in Kings Heath
Kings Heath comes under Birmingham City Council. Not for an ordinary single-family let. Kings Heath is in Brandwood & King's Heath ward, outside Birmingham's selective licensing scheme. Shared houses are different: across Birmingham an HMO with three or more sharers needs a licence, and a new small HMO needs planning permission.
Kings Heath itself is outside selective licensing, but B14 is a big postcode stretching into Billesley, Druids Heath and Kings Norton, so check the ward of the exact address.
Shared houses: a new small HMO (three to six sharers) needs planning permission anywhere in Birmingham, under the city-wide Article 4 direction in force since 8 June 2020. HMOs with three or four sharers have also needed an additional licence since 5 June 2023, and five or more need a mandatory licence.
Use our Birmingham licensing checker to check a postcode, and our guide to the new renting rules for what changed on 1 May 2026.
Rents in Kings Heath
- £1,100 a month median: asking rents across the B14 postcode district, 82 homes. The average (£1,465) is pulled up by a few very expensive listings, so the median is the fairer guide (home.co.uk, October 2026)
- £1,106 a month: average private rent across Birmingham (1 bed £834, 2 bed £1,009, 3 bed £1,141, 4+ bed £1,587), up 3.3% on a year earlier (ONS Price Index of Private Rents, September 2026)
Published averages lag behind the market and mix every kind of home. For a figure for your own property, book a free Tenancy Health Check. By the end of the call you'll know exactly where you stand.
What we charge landlords in Kings Heath
The same published fees as everywhere we work. Managed is what we recommend for most landlords.
Advertising and finding the tenant; referencing; setting up the tenancy; collecting the rent every month; arranging repairs with our contractors, up to £250 per item without needing to ask you; tracking certificates and deadlines, with reminders; keeping the paperwork right as the rules change; your landlord portal for statements, documents and maintenance.
Advertising and finding the tenant; referencing; setting up the tenancy. After move-in, the tenancy and the paperwork are yours to handle. Utility and council tax changeover is not included and can be added from the list below.
See all our fees, or read about letting a buy-to-let with us.