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Saltaire market report BD18, Shipley
The standing BD18 (Saltaire) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 14,129 HM Land Registry entries for BD18 (Shipley), 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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 142 registered 2026 sales put the BD18 (Shipley) median at £192,000, up 22% on five years earlier, with a mean of £216,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,320 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 14,129 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district BD18 covering Saltaire, Shipley, Windhill sits in Shipley. 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 BD18 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.
The going rate for a home in BD18
Take the 142 registered 2026 sales in BD18 and the middle price, the median, is £192,000. The mean lands at £216,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BD18
By floor space, homes in BD18 have sold for about £2,320 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BD18 trades 33% below the country as a whole.
A typical BD18 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £192,000 | £192,000 | 142 |
| 2025 | £197,500 | £202,223 | 377 |
| 2024 | £185,500 | £197,225 | 358 |
| 2023 | £182,500 | £200,523 | 343 |
| 2022 | £177,500 | £208,139 | 377 |
| 2021 | £157,500 | £199,415 | 446 |
| 2020 | £156,000 | £202,413 | 346 |
| 2019 | £142,000 | £186,128 | 445 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 430 |
| 2017 | £137,000 | £186,854 | 404 |
| 2016 | £138,000 | £193,063 | 407 |
| 2015 | £132,000 | £186,516 | 389 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 431 |
| 2013 | £123,000 | £176,985 | 369 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 257 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 282 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 298 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 257 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 350 |
| 2007 | £136,500 | £231,542 | 674 |
| 2006 | £127,400 | £221,150 | 724 |
| 2005 | £115,600 | £205,721 | 584 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 645 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 707 |
| 2002 | £69,400 | £130,575 | 675 |
| 2001 | £54,800 | £105,350 | 629 |
| 2000 | £51,000 | £100,088 | 545 |
| 1999 | £49,800 | £99,249 | 523 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 448 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 477 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 398 |
| 1995 | £44,600 | £96,954 | 392 |
In cash terms the typical BD18 home went from £44,600 in 1995 to £192,000 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BD18 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 2002 (+26.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.7%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £380,000 against £112,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BD18
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 | £380,000 | 12 | 1,325 |
| Semi-detached | £193,800 | 68 | 5,919 |
| Terraced | £186,800 | 49 | 5,561 |
| Flats | £112,000 | 13 | 1,324 |
What BD18 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.8% | −5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −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.
Sales activity in BD18
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 316 BD18 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 648 sales a year before the financial crisis and 319 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 homes rent for around BD18
The local authority for BD18 is Bradford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £746 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £192,000 median sold price, £746 a month is £8,952 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
BD18 (Saltaire): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BD18 (Saltaire)?
Is BD18 (Saltaire) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BD18 (Saltaire)?
Are BD18 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 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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 BD18 today
Everything above is what homes in BD18 sold for. The live side of the market holds 98 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% above the BD18 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 24% 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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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 BD18 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BD prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BD area. 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
BD18 ranks 13 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.
Five-year change in the median, BD area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BD18, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BD18 1 | £182,600 | 53 |
| BD18 2 | £150,000 | 22 |
| BD18 3 | £220,800 | 22 |
| BD18 4 | £265,500 | 45 |
How BD18 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 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in BD18? 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 BD18'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.
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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.