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Barkerend market report BD3 8, Bradford
The standing BD3 8 (Barkerend) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,097 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BD3 8 (Bradford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 18 registered 2026 sales put the BD3 8 (Bradford) median at £124,200, up 54% on five years earlier, with a mean of £115,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,160 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,097 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BD3 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BD3 (Bradford). 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 BD3 8 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 BD3 8
Take the 18 registered 2026 sales in BD3 8 and the middle price, the median, is £124,200. The mean lands at £115,400, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
What a square metre costs in BD3 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BD3 8 sales average about £1,160 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 BD3 8 trades 56% below the country as a whole.
BD3 8's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £124,200 | £124,200 | 18 |
| 2025 | £103,200 | £105,668 | 44 |
| 2024 | £100,000 | £106,321 | 43 |
| 2023 | £95,500 | £104,931 | 54 |
| 2022 | £94,000 | £110,226 | 57 |
| 2021 | £80,800 | £102,303 | 54 |
| 2020 | £63,000 | £81,744 | 44 |
| 2019 | £75,000 | £98,307 | 59 |
| 2018 | £75,000 | £99,976 | 68 |
| 2017 | £68,900 | £93,973 | 38 |
| 2016 | £66,000 | £92,335 | 51 |
| 2015 | £58,200 | £82,237 | 58 |
| 2014 | £55,500 | £78,736 | 40 |
| 2013 | £68,000 | £97,845 | 42 |
| 2012 | £57,000 | £83,897 | 41 |
| 2011 | £79,000 | £119,260 | 53 |
| 2010 | £75,000 | £117,619 | 47 |
| 2009 | £70,000 | £112,526 | 45 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 82 |
| 2007 | £80,000 | £135,702 | 176 |
| 2006 | £75,000 | £130,190 | 164 |
| 2005 | £55,000 | £97,878 | 165 |
| 2004 | £40,000 | £72,648 | 212 |
| 2003 | £27,000 | £49,741 | 216 |
| 2002 | £25,000 | £47,037 | 183 |
| 2001 | £23,000 | £44,216 | 174 |
| 2000 | £18,000 | £35,325 | 138 |
| 1999 | £20,200 | £40,258 | 150 |
| 1998 | £25,200 | £50,868 | 138 |
| 1997 | £20,500 | £42,041 | 158 |
| 1996 | £22,000 | £46,397 | 140 |
| 1995 | £25,000 | £54,346 | 145 |
In cash terms the typical BD3 8 home went from £25,000 in 1995 to £124,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 129%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BD3 8 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 (+48.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−27.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +20.3% | +17.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +9.0% | +4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.5% | +3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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 BD3 8
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
BD3 8 recorded 18 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 179 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 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 BD3 8
BD3 8 falls under Bradford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £746 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £124,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.2%. 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.
Reading the BD3 8 market
Only 18 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BD3 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
BD3 8 (Barkerend): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BD3 8 (Barkerend)?
Is BD3 8 (Barkerend) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BD3 8 (Barkerend)?
Are BD3 8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 54% over five years in cash and up 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BD3 today
The live side of the market holds 19 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BD3 district, not just BD3 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Byron Halls, Byron Street Bradford, BD3 0AR, Bradford
- Byron Halls, Byron Street Barkerend, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD3 0AR, Bradford
- Otley Road, 289 Otley Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 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 BD3 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BD
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BD area. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BD area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BD area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BD3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BD3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BD3 0 | £120,000 | 23 |
| BD3 7 | £180,600 | 11 |
| BD3 9 | £91,500 | 6 |
Zoom out to the full BD3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BD3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BD3 8? 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 BD3 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BD3 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BD3 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BD3 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BD3 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BD3 8 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.
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.