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Northfield market report B31 5, Birmingham
The B31 5 (Northfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,953 HM Land Registry entries for B31 5 (Birmingham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B31 5 (Birmingham) came in at £252,500, out of 52 registered, up 31% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £247,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,020 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,953 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
B31 5 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 5 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 5 sells for
Across 52 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B31 5 home went for £252,500. The mean is £247,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in B31 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of B31 5 sales average about £3,020 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so B31 5 trades 11% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical B31 5 home, 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 | £252,500 | £252,500 | 52 |
| 2025 | £265,000 | £271,337 | 153 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 173 |
| 2023 | £255,000 | £280,183 | 169 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 191 |
| 2021 | £193,000 | £244,363 | 143 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 104 |
| 2019 | £177,800 | £233,053 | 166 |
| 2018 | £170,000 | £226,613 | 151 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 180 |
| 2016 | £154,000 | £215,448 | 183 |
| 2015 | £148,000 | £209,124 | 204 |
| 2014 | £145,000 | £205,708 | 167 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 132 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 116 |
| 2011 | £121,000 | £182,663 | 79 |
| 2010 | £124,000 | £194,464 | 76 |
| 2009 | £126,000 | £202,546 | 77 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 104 |
| 2007 | £132,800 | £225,266 | 168 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 197 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 189 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 209 |
| 2003 | £107,000 | £197,120 | 235 |
| 2002 | £91,200 | £171,592 | 257 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 191 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £129,525 | 170 |
| 1999 | £59,600 | £118,780 | 242 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 176 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 115 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £98,066 | 90 |
| 1995 | £41,400 | £89,997 | 94 |
In cash terms the typical B31 5 home went from £41,400 in 1995 to £252,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 181%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 10% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the B31 5 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 2022 (+24.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−4.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B31 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.7% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.5% | +0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in B31 5
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
B31 5 recorded 52 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 202 sales a year before the financial crisis and 148 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around B31 5
B31 5 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 £252,500 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
How B31 5 trades
This is a thin market: 52 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Common questions on B31 5 (Northfield)
Are property prices falling in B31 5 (Northfield)?
Is B31 5 (Northfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in B31 5 (Northfield)?
What happens to B31 5 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 31% over five years in cash and up 3% 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.
B31's current homes for sale
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 40% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the B area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are B31's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B31 1 | £217,500 | 36 |
| B31 2 | £260,000 | 71 |
| B31 3 | £234,800 | 46 |
| B31 4 | £245,000 | 42 |
Zoom out to the full B31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B31 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in B31 5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in B31 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from B31 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded B31 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working B31 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B31 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B31 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every B31 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.