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Northfield market report B31 3, Birmingham
The standing B31 3 (Northfield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,604 registered sales in B31 3 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for B31 3 (Birmingham) is £234,800, from 46 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier; the mean is £233,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,720 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,604 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like B31 3 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.
Where B31 3 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 B31 3 homes really sell for
46 sales were registered in B31 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £234,800. The mean works out at £233,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in B31 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in B31 3 costs about £2,720 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, B31 3 sits 18% below the national market.
B31 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £234,800 | £234,800 | 46 |
| 2025 | £223,500 | £228,845 | 119 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 131 |
| 2023 | £214,800 | £236,013 | 112 |
| 2022 | £195,000 | £228,660 | 131 |
| 2021 | £185,600 | £234,994 | 142 |
| 2020 | £157,000 | £203,711 | 144 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 121 |
| 2018 | £156,500 | £208,617 | 140 |
| 2017 | £142,500 | £194,356 | 148 |
| 2016 | £134,500 | £188,167 | 124 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 141 |
| 2014 | £124,700 | £176,909 | 130 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 110 |
| 2012 | £105,000 | £154,547 | 94 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 100 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 105 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 92 |
| 2008 | £120,400 | £197,361 | 145 |
| 2007 | £120,800 | £204,910 | 201 |
| 2006 | £118,000 | £204,833 | 211 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 167 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 161 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 195 |
| 2002 | £76,000 | £142,993 | 206 |
| 2001 | £64,000 | £123,037 | 199 |
| 2000 | £52,500 | £103,031 | 184 |
| 1999 | £54,000 | £107,619 | 162 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 208 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 207 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £98,066 | 121 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 107 |
In cash terms the typical B31 3 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £234,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 151%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the B31 3 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 2001 (+21.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.6%). 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) | +5.1% | +2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 46 B31 3 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 191 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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.
What kind of market B31 3 is
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B31 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around B31 3
B31 3 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £234,800 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on B31 3 (Northfield)
How much did a house sell for in B31 3 (Northfield)?
Are property prices falling in B31 3 (Northfield)?
Is B31 3 (Northfield) a good place to buy a house?
Are B31 3 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in B31 right now
The live side of the market holds 548 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B31 district, not just B31 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 40% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: B prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, B area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 1 | £217,500 | 36 |
| B31 2 | £260,000 | 71 |
| 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 a home in B31 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B31 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B31 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B31 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B31 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B31 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual B31 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.