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Ainley Top market report HD2 1, Huddersfield
The HD2 1 (Ainley Top) 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: 6,140 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HD2 1 (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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical HD2 1 (Huddersfield) home changed hands for £163,800 in 2026 (median of 50 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier), with the mean at £191,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,980 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,140 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
HD2 1 is one sector of HD2 (Huddersfield): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where HD2 1 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 HD2 1
The HD2 1 median stands at £163,800 for 2026, built from 50 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £191,800, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in HD2 1
The last five years of sales put HD2 1 at roughly £1,980 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, HD2 1 runs 43% below it.
HD2 1'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 | £163,800 | £163,800 | 50 |
| 2025 | £168,000 | £172,017 | 177 |
| 2024 | £166,800 | £177,343 | 162 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 160 |
| 2022 | £135,000 | £158,303 | 168 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 180 |
| 2020 | £110,000 | £142,727 | 152 |
| 2019 | £105,000 | £137,630 | 173 |
| 2018 | £106,000 | £141,300 | 171 |
| 2017 | £116,000 | £158,212 | 167 |
| 2016 | £112,000 | £156,689 | 175 |
| 2015 | £103,500 | £146,246 | 150 |
| 2014 | £91,000 | £129,099 | 155 |
| 2013 | £96,000 | £138,134 | 153 |
| 2012 | £103,500 | £152,339 | 136 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 97 |
| 2010 | £91,000 | £142,711 | 128 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 112 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 224 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 361 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 355 |
| 2005 | £85,000 | £151,266 | 272 |
| 2004 | £88,500 | £160,733 | 358 |
| 2003 | £58,000 | £106,850 | 334 |
| 2002 | £41,500 | £78,082 | 305 |
| 2001 | £46,000 | £88,433 | 257 |
| 2000 | £42,900 | £84,191 | 196 |
| 1999 | £39,000 | £77,725 | 186 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 164 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 169 |
| 1996 | £37,200 | £78,453 | 138 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 155 |
In cash terms the typical HD2 1 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £163,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 115%, 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 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HD2 1 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 (+52.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−13.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 50 sales completed in HD2 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 305 sales a year before the financial crisis and 143 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.
How HD2 1 trades
Only 50 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HD2 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the HD2 district median, HD2 1 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around HD2 1
For renting purposes HD2 1 sits in Kirklees. The ONS average private rent there is £775 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £578 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,221, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Kirklees
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £163,800 median sold price, £775 a month is £9,300 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
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What happens to HD2 1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
HD2's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 78 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HD2 district, not just HD2 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 41% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Fartown, Huddersfield, Huddersfield
- Whitebeam Park, Huddersfield,, Huddersfield,
- Old Hopkinson Drive, Birkby, Huddersfield
"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 HD2 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 HD
Real sold prices by size across the HD area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £266,975 | £369,995 (+39%) | £520,000 (+41%) | £700,000 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £178,000 | £198,000 (+11%) | £255,000 (+29%) | £322,500 (+26%) | £410,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £125,000 | £155,000 (+24%) | £200,000 (+29%) | £255,000 (+27%) | £339,000 (+33%) |
| Flat | £102,000 | £137,000 (+34%) | £192,000 (+40%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the HD area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, HD area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in HD2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of HD2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HD2 2 | £202,500 | 62 |
Zoom out to the full HD2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HD2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in HD2 1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HD2 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HD2 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HD2 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual HD2 1 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.
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.