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Bradford City Centre market report BD1, Bradford
The BD1 (Bradford City Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,297 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BD1 (Bradford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to June 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BD1 (Bradford) came in at £75,200, out of 16 registered, up 25% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £77,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,110 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,297 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district BD1 covering Bradford City Centre, Little Germany, Goitside sits in Bradford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BD1 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 buyers actually paid in BD1
Across 16 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BD1 home went for £75,200. The mean is £77,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in BD1
The last five years of sales put BD1 at roughly £2,110 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BD1 74% below the national figure.
A typical BD1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £75,200 | £75,200 | 16 |
| 2025 | £107,000 | £109,559 | 46 |
| 2024 | £130,000 | £138,217 | 151 |
| 2023 | £78,000 | £85,703 | 75 |
| 2022 | £83,000 | £97,327 | 80 |
| 2021 | £60,000 | £75,968 | 188 |
| 2020 | £50,000 | £64,876 | 124 |
| 2019 | £67,200 | £88,083 | 113 |
| 2018 | £72,000 | £95,977 | 115 |
| 2017 | £65,000 | £88,653 | 107 |
| 2016 | £55,000 | £76,946 | 144 |
| 2015 | £56,700 | £80,117 | 148 |
| 2014 | £41,000 | £58,166 | 328 |
| 2013 | £57,100 | £82,161 | 26 |
| 2012 | £53,800 | £79,187 | 38 |
| 2011 | £69,200 | £104,465 | 50 |
| 2010 | £94,000 | £147,416 | 31 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 126 |
| 2008 | £99,000 | £162,282 | 172 |
| 2007 | £130,000 | £220,516 | 288 |
| 2006 | £119,300 | £207,090 | 216 |
| 2005 | £121,000 | £215,331 | 176 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 144 |
| 2003 | £70,500 | £129,878 | 190 |
| 2002 | £71,500 | £134,527 | 50 |
| 2001 | £51,500 | £99,006 | 41 |
| 2000 | £39,000 | £76,538 | 23 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 9 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 13 |
| 1997 | £37,400 | £76,700 | 30 |
| 1996 | £30,800 | £64,956 | 24 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 15 |
In cash terms the typical BD1 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £75,200 in 2026, a 98% rise. Strip out inflation, though, and the change is small: about -9% in real terms. Most of the cash growth is money losing value rather than homes gaining it. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 66% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BD1 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 2024 (+66.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−29.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 91% of the typed total. In 2005, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £220,000 against £120,000 for a flat, 1.8 times the price.
Median by property type, BD1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £220,000 (2005) | – | 26 |
| Semi-detached | £77,000 (2001) | – | 5 |
| Terraced | £135,000 (2025) | – | 249 |
| Flats | £57,500 | 15 | 2,941 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −29.7% | −31.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −2.3% | −4.9% |
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 BD1
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
BD1 recorded 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 141 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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 tenants pay around BD1
For renting purposes BD1 sits in Bradford. The ONS average private rent there is £746 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £551 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,112, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bradford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £75,200 median purchase price, a rent of £746 a month (£8,952 a year) works out at a 11.9% 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.
How BD1 trades
This is a thin market: 35 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. 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. BD1 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
Asked and answered: BD1 (Bradford City Centre)
Is BD1 (Bradford City Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BD1 (Bradford City Centre)?
Are property prices falling in BD1 (Bradford City Centre)?
Where do BD1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% 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 you could buy in BD1 now
Everything above is what homes in BD1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 40 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 31% below the BD1 median sold price.
45% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Bradford, West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
- Colonial Buildings Sunbridge Road, Bradford, BD1 2NB, Bradford
- Colonial Buildings Sunbridge Road, Bradford, BD1 2NB, Bradford
"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 BD1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in BD
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BD area, 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 | — | £240,000 | £347,500 (+45%) | £494,995 (+42%) | £673,750 (+36%) |
| Semi-detached | £155,000 | £179,950 (+16%) | £230,000 (+28%) | £302,250 (+31%) | £432,500 (+43%) |
| Terraced | £115,000 | £142,000 (+23%) | £160,000 (+13%) | £195,000 (+22%) | £240,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £97,500 | £130,000 (+33%) | £189,975 (+46%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BD1 ranks 9 of 24 in the BD area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the BD area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BD1, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BD1 1 | £37,000 | 1 |
| BD1 2 | £119,000 | 21 |
| BD1 3 | £66,000 | 2 |
| BD1 4 | £78,800 | 2 |
| BD1 5 | £115,000 | 11 |
How BD1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BD area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BD24 | £310,000 | +17% |
| BD23 | £277,500 | +16% |
| BD17 | £250,000 | +11% |
| BD20 | £230,000 | +7% |
| BD16 | £228,000 | +20% |
| BD11 | £225,000 | +10% |
| BD19 | £222,000 | +25% |
| BD13 | £209,500 | +29% |
| BD10 | £207,500 | +22% |
| BD15 | £203,000 | +19% |
| BD22 | £194,000 | +19% |
| BD18 | £192,000 | +22% |
| BD12 | £186,800 | +33% |
| BD14 | £185,000 | +23% |
| BD6 | £174,000 | +35% |
| BD2 | £165,000 | +14% |
| BD9 | £149,000 | +10% |
| BD4 | £145,000 | +21% |
| BD21 | £140,000 | +29% |
| BD7 | £139,000 | +32% |
| BD8 | £131,000 | +44% |
| BD3 | £122,500 | +45% |
| BD5 | £120,000 | +41% |
| BD1 (this report) | £75,200 | +25% |
Before you sell in BD1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BD1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BD1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BD1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BD1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BD1 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.
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.