Renting out a home in Stechford
Stechford grew up around its station, opened in 1844. Victorian houses survive along Station Road and Albert Road, with inter-war private housing, council estates from the 1930s to the 1960s, and small 1980s estates elsewhere.
Victorian houses near the station are the type often split into flats or used as shared houses, which brings extra rules (see below).
- Trains to New Street in about 9 minutes
- Heartlands Hospital in neighbouring Bordesley Green
- Stechford Retail Park and Stechford Cascades leisure centre
Our work in Stechford
We have let or managed more than ten homes in Stechford over the last few years, and the rents we achieve sit in line with the local market.
Much of our work here is selective licensing: checking whether an address is in the scheme, putting the application together for the landlord, and keeping the licence conditions met once a tenant is in.
We also manage licensed HMOs. That includes homes let to supported accommodation providers, where we deal with the provider on the landlord's behalf and make sure the risks are understood before anything is signed.
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.
Stechford in numbers
Few homes come up to let in Stechford, and most of those listed were three bed houses.
- At the 2021 Census, 22% of the 4,290 households in Yardley West & Stechford ward rented privately, against 23% across Birmingham and 20% in England.
- Homes: 43% semi-detached houses, 30% terraced houses, 15% purpose-built flats, 6% detached houses, 5% flats in converted houses or buildings (Census 2021).
- 20 homes were listed to let in Stechford on Rightmove on 31 October 2026. Leaving out rooms and student lets left 10 homes, with a middle asking rent of £1,375 a month.
- By size: 3 bed £1,350 (7 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
- Stechford station, about 9 minutes to New Street
- The Outer Ring Road and the 11A and 11C Outer Circle buses, plus the 14 and 97 into town
Licensing and the rules in Stechford
Stechford comes under Birmingham City Council. It depends on the street. Part of Stechford is in Yardley West & Stechford, inside Birmingham's selective licensing scheme, and part is in Glebe Farm & Tile Cross, outside it. Check the exact address with our postcode checker.
As a rough guide, the station and Station Road side is in the scheme, and the side towards Stechford Retail Park is not.
A building split into flats without meeting the 1991 Building Regulations can count as a section 257 HMO and need its own licence.
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 Stechford
- £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 Stechford
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.