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Huddersfield Town Centre market report HD1, Huddersfield
The HD1 (Huddersfield Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,443 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HD1 (Huddersfield) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 56 registered 2026 sales put the HD1 (Huddersfield) median at £148,000, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £183,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,750 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,443 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
HD1 is the postcode district covering Huddersfield Town Centre, Hillhouse, Lockwood in Huddersfield. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where HD1 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 HD1
Take the 56 registered 2026 sales in HD1 and the middle price, the median, is £148,000. The mean lands at £183,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
HD1 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put HD1 at roughly £1,750 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so HD1 trades 48% below the country as a whole.
HD1's median sold price, 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 | £148,000 | £148,000 | 56 |
| 2025 | £137,000 | £140,276 | 187 |
| 2024 | £123,500 | £131,306 | 142 |
| 2023 | £129,000 | £141,740 | 146 |
| 2022 | £125,000 | £146,577 | 195 |
| 2021 | £122,800 | £155,481 | 215 |
| 2020 | £123,000 | £159,595 | 148 |
| 2019 | £114,000 | £149,427 | 161 |
| 2018 | £106,000 | £141,300 | 220 |
| 2017 | £81,000 | £110,476 | 314 |
| 2016 | £86,000 | £120,315 | 240 |
| 2015 | £99,600 | £140,735 | 190 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 206 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 159 |
| 2012 | £108,500 | £159,698 | 160 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 149 |
| 2010 | £97,900 | £153,532 | 144 |
| 2009 | £92,000 | £147,891 | 169 |
| 2008 | £109,400 | £179,330 | 206 |
| 2007 | £113,000 | £191,679 | 404 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 494 |
| 2005 | £92,500 | £164,613 | 449 |
| 2004 | £84,000 | £152,560 | 547 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 508 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 461 |
| 2001 | £39,500 | £75,937 | 370 |
| 2000 | £36,500 | £71,631 | 313 |
| 1999 | £38,500 | £76,728 | 342 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 326 |
| 1997 | £36,000 | £73,829 | 279 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 271 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 272 |
In cash terms the typical HD1 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £148,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 100%, 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 23% 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 HD1 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 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.9%). 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, 60% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £305,000 against £112,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, HD1
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 | £305,000 (2025) | – | 641 |
| Semi-detached | £233,000 | 10 | 1,522 |
| Terraced | £121,000 | 33 | 5,060 |
| Flats | £145,000 | 9 | 1,216 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +8.0% | +5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −1.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.1% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
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 HD1
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
HD1 recorded 121 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 443 sales a year before the financial crisis and 145 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 HD1
HD1 falls under Kirklees, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £775 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £578 a month here against £1,221 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Kirklees
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£775 a month is £9,300 a year, which against the £148,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.3%. 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 kind of market HD1 is
This is a thin market: 121 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. By median price HD1 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
What people ask about HD1 (Huddersfield Town Centre)
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What happens to HD1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 21% 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.
HD1's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in HD1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 61 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% below the HD1 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (121 in HD1), the 61 homes listed here amount to about 6 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
Of everything listed here, 17% 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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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every HD1 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.
Month by month: when HD1 sells
Across the 885 sales completed in HD1 from 2021 to 2025, December was the busiest month for completions (9.9% of the total) and January the quietest (6.3%). The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 56 | 6.3% |
| February | 78 | 8.8% |
| March | 79 | 8.9% |
| April | 70 | 7.9% |
| May | 68 | 7.7% |
| June | 68 | 7.7% |
| July | 69 | 7.8% |
| August | 75 | 8.5% |
| September | 79 | 8.9% |
| October | 75 | 8.5% |
| November | 80 | 9.0% |
| December | 88 | 9.9% |
Bedroom by bedroom: HD prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the HD area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | £238,000 | £270,000 (+13%) | £319,950 (+19%) | £396,500 (+24%) | £525,000 (+32%) |
| Semi-detached | £172,500 | £182,750 (+6%) | £226,000 (+24%) | £280,000 (+24%) | £337,500 (+21%) |
| Terraced | £115,000 | £150,000 (+30%) | £173,900 (+16%) | £229,500 (+32%) | £271,000 (+18%) |
| Flat | £90,000 | £120,000 (+33%) | £170,000 (+42%) | — | — |
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
HD1 ranks 3 of 9 in the HD 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, HD area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside HD1, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| HD1 1 | £122,500 | 2 |
| HD1 3 | £105,000 | 12 |
| HD1 4 | £201,000 | 33 |
| HD1 5 | £145,000 | 2 |
| HD1 6 | £115,000 | 7 |
How HD1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the HD area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| HD9 | £277,500 | +7% |
| HD8 | £271,500 | +6% |
| HD7 | £220,000 | +24% |
| HD6 | £215,000 | +17% |
| HD3 | £210,000 | +11% |
| HD2 | £195,000 | +10% |
| HD4 | £180,800 | +23% |
| HD5 | £180,000 | +19% |
| HD1 (this report) | £148,000 | +21% |
Thinking of selling in HD1? 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 HD1'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.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HD1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HD1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.