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Cottingley market report BD16 4, Bingley
The standing BD16 4 (Cottingley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,602 registered sales in BD16 4 (Bingley) 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: the middle 2026 sale in BD16 4 (Bingley) came in at £212,500, out of 56 registered, up 21% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £305,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,420 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,602 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like BD16 4 is a single group of streets within BD16 (Bingley), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BD16 4 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.
BD16 4 sold prices: where the market stands
56 sales were registered in BD16 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £212,500. The mean works out at £305,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in BD16 4
The last five years of sales put BD16 4 at roughly £2,420 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BD16 4 runs 25% below it.
A typical BD16 4 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 | £212,500 | £212,500 | 56 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 133 |
| 2024 | £200,400 | £213,066 | 100 |
| 2023 | £183,500 | £201,622 | 106 |
| 2022 | £196,000 | £229,832 | 112 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 162 |
| 2020 | £192,500 | £249,773 | 116 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 105 |
| 2018 | £157,500 | £209,950 | 115 |
| 2017 | £159,800 | £217,951 | 164 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 114 |
| 2015 | £141,800 | £200,363 | 122 |
| 2014 | £147,500 | £209,255 | 123 |
| 2013 | £142,000 | £204,324 | 105 |
| 2012 | £141,000 | £207,534 | 112 |
| 2011 | £134,000 | £202,288 | 81 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 103 |
| 2009 | £127,000 | £204,154 | 103 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 106 |
| 2007 | £151,000 | £256,138 | 214 |
| 2006 | £145,400 | £252,396 | 207 |
| 2005 | £124,500 | £221,560 | 160 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 195 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 199 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 220 |
| 2001 | £56,800 | £109,195 | 186 |
| 2000 | £63,000 | £123,638 | 209 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 182 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 195 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 183 |
| 1996 | £48,400 | £102,073 | 142 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 172 |
In cash terms the typical BD16 4 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £212,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 92%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BD16 4 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 2004 (+44.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BD16 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.7% | +1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 56 sales completed in BD16 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 199 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 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.
The shape of the BD16 4 market
Only 56 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BD16 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around BD16 4
For renting purposes BD16 4 sits in Bradford. The ONS average private rent there is £746 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £551 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,112 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bradford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£746 a month is £8,952 a year, which against the £212,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
What people ask about BD16 4 (Cottingley)
Are property prices falling in BD16 4 (Cottingley)?
Is BD16 4 (Cottingley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BD16 4 (Cottingley)?
Are BD16 4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% 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.
BD16's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 223 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BD16 district, not just BD16 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- The Locks, Bingley, West Yorkshire
- Merchants Court, Bingley, Bradford, Bradford
- Manor Court, Bingley, Bingley
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BD16 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in BD: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BD 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BD area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the BD area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BD16
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BD16, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BD16 1 | £237,800 | 64 |
| BD16 2 | £165,000 | 29 |
| BD16 3 | £286,200 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full BD16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BD16 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BD16 4? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BD16 4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BD16 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BD16 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BD16 4 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.