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Northfield market report B31 2, Birmingham

The B31 2 (Northfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,435 sales registered with HM Land Registry in B31 2 (Birmingham) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: the typical home in B31 2 (Birmingham) sold for £260,000 in 2026, the median of 71 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £310,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,120 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,435 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

A postcode sector like B31 2 is a single group of streets within B31 (Birmingham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

Today's B31 2 prices, from the sold record

In the B31 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £260,000, from 71 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £310,000, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

B31 2 prices by floor area

Measured by floor area, the last five years of B31 2 sales average about £3,120 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.

Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, B31 2 runs 9% below it.

In cash terms the typical B31 2 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 99%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2015 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−11.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

What B31 2 has returned, per year

Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.

Transaction volumes

B31 2 recorded 71 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 188 sales a year recently, against 234 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.

What kind of market B31 2 is

The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.

What tenants pay around B31 2

B31 2 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.

£1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, which against the £260,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.

Asked and answered: B31 2 (Northfield)

Where do B31 2 prices go next?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.

B31's current homes for sale

The price of an extra bedroom in B

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in B31

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B31, one report each:

Zoom out to the full B31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B31 compares with its neighbours.

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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.