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Cottingley market report BD16, Bingley
The BD16 (Cottingley) 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: 16,027 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BD16 (Bingley) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical BD16 (Bingley) home changed hands for £228,000 in 2026 (median of 183 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier), with the mean at £268,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,600 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 16,027 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BD16 is a postcode district covering Bingley, Cottingley, Eldwick in Bingley. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BD16 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 BD16
The 2026 median for BD16 is £228,000, taken from 183 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £268,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in BD16
The last five years of sales put BD16 at roughly £2,600 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 runs 20% below it.
A typical BD16 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £228,000 | £228,000 | 183 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 481 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 388 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 329 |
| 2022 | £212,000 | £248,594 | 461 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 619 |
| 2020 | £195,000 | £253,017 | 409 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 464 |
| 2018 | £162,500 | £216,616 | 456 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 531 |
| 2016 | £162,000 | £226,640 | 456 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 458 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 507 |
| 2013 | £142,500 | £205,043 | 456 |
| 2012 | £143,200 | £210,773 | 328 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 340 |
| 2010 | £158,500 | £248,569 | 342 |
| 2009 | £144,000 | £231,481 | 361 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 389 |
| 2007 | £163,000 | £276,493 | 870 |
| 2006 | £160,200 | £278,087 | 842 |
| 2005 | £146,000 | £259,821 | 647 |
| 2004 | £138,500 | £251,543 | 693 |
| 2003 | £105,200 | £193,804 | 594 |
| 2002 | £88,500 | £166,512 | 727 |
| 2001 | £69,000 | £132,649 | 658 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 600 |
| 1999 | £62,000 | £123,563 | 595 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 538 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 480 |
| 1996 | £52,400 | £110,509 | 423 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 402 |
In cash terms the typical BD16 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £228,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 98%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BD16 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 (+31.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.0%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £431,800 against £121,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, BD16
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 | £431,800 | 32 | 3,596 |
| Semi-detached | £273,000 | 66 | 4,955 |
| Terraced | £198,000 | 49 | 5,154 |
| Flats | £121,000 | 36 | 2,322 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.3% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
Sales activity in BD16
Sales per year, counted
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 401 BD16 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 704 sales a year before the financial crisis and 368 a year over the last five. 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.
Rents around BD16
The local authority for BD16 is Bradford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £746 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £551 a month here against £1,112 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £228,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.
How BD16 trades
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Among the 24 measurable districts of its area, BD16 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What people ask about BD16 (Cottingley)
How much did a house sell for in BD16 (Cottingley)?
Are property prices falling in BD16 (Cottingley)?
Is BD16 (Cottingley) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BD16 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% 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.
On the market in BD16 today
Everything above is what homes in BD16 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 223 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the BD16 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- The Locks, Bingley, West Yorkshire
- Merchants Court, Bingley, Bradford, Bradford
- Manor Court, Bingley, Bingley
"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 BD16 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BD
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BD area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BD16 ranks 15 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.
BD area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BD16, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BD16 1 | £237,800 | 64 |
| BD16 2 | £165,000 | 29 |
| BD16 3 | £286,200 | 34 |
| BD16 4 | £212,500 | 56 |
How BD16 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 (this report) | £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 | £75,200 | +25% |
Selling in BD16? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BD16, open the average prices map and zoom from the BD16 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BD16 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BD16.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BD16 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BD16 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.
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.