Major's Green doesn't really have a high street in the way most places do — it's detached and semi-detached houses on quiet roads, gardens rather than front yards, and the kind of hush that comes with a population you could fit into a couple of large office blocks. There's no pretending this is a bustling centre; it's a residential pocket on the edge of Solihull's patchwork, and it looks and feels like one. The numbers back up that impression of settledness: a median age around 50 against a national figure closer to 40 tells you this isn't a place cycling through young professionals every couple of years. Housing here runs to freehold semis and detached houses — six of the seven recent sales were freehold, and semi-detached is the dominant type — so a For Sale board on this street is usually advertising a family-sized house with a garden, not a flat share. At a median of £390,000, prices sit comfortably above the national £281,000 and about 20% above the Solihull borough average, which puts Major's Green among the pricier corners of a borough that isn't cheap to begin with. Connectivity is solid rather than flashy — full fibre reaches over three-quarters of properties, which matters more day to day than any train timetable here, since there's no rail station in the picture; this is a driving village more than a commuter one. Green space is generously provided for relative to both the region and the country, which tracks with the low-density, garden-heavy streetscape — this is a place where a walk around the block means trees and hedgerows, not shopfronts. Eating out and nightlife are thin (the nightlife grade is the one clear dip in an otherwise consistent set of B's and B+'s), so weekends here are built around the house and garden, a drive out, or Solihull itself for restaurants and shops, rather than anything on the doorstep. Safety is the pattern's quiet centre point: crime sits at a genuinely low 9 incidents recorded, with vehicle crime and burglary the recurring themes — small numbers that read as "quiet village" rather than "high-crime pocket," even though the crime-rate-versus-Solihull comparison looks dramatic on paper (a product of the borough's own low base rate rather than anything alarming locally). Schools score a solid B on average, environment and health both come in at B+, so day-to-day life reads as comfortable and low-friction rather than exciting. This suits someone who has already done the busy years elsewhere and wants space, quiet, and a garden more than convenience or a lively evening scene — an older couple, an established family with a car each, someone working from home who values a decent broadband connection over a train platform. It would suit less well anyone who wants to walk to a station, a decent choice of restaurants, or a high street with some life in it after dark. The trade-off is straightforward: you're paying a premium for peace and space, not for proximity or buzz.