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Northfield market report B31 1, Birmingham
The standing B31 1 (Northfield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,385 registered sales in B31 1 (Birmingham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 36 registered 2026 sales put the B31 1 (Birmingham) median at £217,500, up 12% on five years earlier, with a mean of £224,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,730 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,385 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
B31 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B31 (Birmingham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where B31 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What a home in B31 1 sells for
Across 36 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B31 1 home went for £217,500. The mean is £224,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in B31 1
A square metre of B31 1 home has cost about £2,730 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, B31 1 sits 24% below the national market.
The price of a typical B31 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £217,500 | £217,500 | 36 |
| 2025 | £217,500 | £222,701 | 122 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 101 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 101 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 119 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 140 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 118 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 138 |
| 2018 | £144,000 | £191,955 | 149 |
| 2017 | £139,000 | £189,582 | 150 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 133 |
| 2015 | £148,000 | £209,124 | 153 |
| 2014 | £133,500 | £189,393 | 163 |
| 2013 | £129,500 | £186,338 | 140 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 112 |
| 2011 | £121,200 | £182,965 | 104 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 110 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 91 |
| 2008 | £117,300 | £192,279 | 128 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 181 |
| 2006 | £116,000 | £201,361 | 155 |
| 2005 | £108,000 | £192,196 | 148 |
| 2004 | £105,000 | £190,701 | 193 |
| 2003 | £86,000 | £158,433 | 180 |
| 2002 | £73,000 | £137,349 | 206 |
| 2001 | £69,000 | £132,649 | 237 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 187 |
| 1999 | £54,400 | £108,416 | 180 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 104 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 105 |
| 1996 | £40,200 | £84,780 | 90 |
| 1995 | £51,800 | £112,605 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical B31 1 home went from £51,800 in 1995 to £217,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 93%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B31 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 1999 (+36.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−22.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in B31 1
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 36 B31 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Reading the B31 1 market
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B31 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the B31 district median, B31 1 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around B31 1
For renting purposes B31 1 sits in Birmingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,088 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £821 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,563 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £217,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,088 a month (£13,056 a year) works out at a 6.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: B31 1 (Northfield)
Is B31 1 (Northfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B31 1 (Northfield)?
Are property prices falling in B31 1 (Northfield)?
Will B31 1 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in B31 today
Turning to what is actually available: 548 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B31 district, not just B31 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
40% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- The Roundabout, Northfield, Birmingham
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every B31 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in B
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £306,000 | £425,000 (+39%) | £665,000 (+56%) | £950,000 (+43%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £240,000 (+14%) | £300,000 (+25%) | £418,250 (+39%) | £535,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £187,500 | £200,000 (+7%) | £235,000 (+18%) | £315,000 (+34%) | £397,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £130,000 | £179,500 (+38%) | £299,000 (+67%) | £500,000 (+67%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
B area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in B31
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B31, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B31 2 | £260,000 | 71 |
| B31 3 | £234,800 | 46 |
| B31 4 | £245,000 | 42 |
| B31 5 | £252,500 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full B31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B31 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in B31 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B31 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the B31 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B31 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim B31 1.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about B31 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B31 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.