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Ainley Top market report HD2 2, Huddersfield
The HD2 2 (Ainley Top) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,687 HM Land Registry entries for HD2 2 (Huddersfield), 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical HD2 2 (Huddersfield) home changed hands for £202,500 in 2026 (median of 62 registered sales, down 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £233,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,480 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,687 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
HD2 2 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 2 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 HD2 2
Take the 62 registered 2026 sales in HD2 2 and the middle price, the median, is £202,500. The mean lands at £233,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in HD2 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HD2 2 costs about £2,480 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving HD2 2 29% below the national figure.
HD2 2'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 | £202,500 | £202,500 | 62 |
| 2025 | £305,000 | £312,293 | 183 |
| 2024 | £286,200 | £304,289 | 166 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 210 |
| 2022 | £245,000 | £287,290 | 215 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 273 |
| 2020 | £218,500 | £283,508 | 194 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 168 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 158 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 171 |
| 2016 | £174,000 | £243,428 | 173 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 177 |
| 2014 | £155,000 | £219,895 | 185 |
| 2013 | £151,500 | £217,993 | 143 |
| 2012 | £157,900 | £232,409 | 161 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 153 |
| 2010 | £155,400 | £243,707 | 180 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 180 |
| 2008 | £142,700 | £233,915 | 160 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £262,923 | 264 |
| 2006 | £141,000 | £244,758 | 285 |
| 2005 | £126,300 | £224,763 | 230 |
| 2004 | £103,000 | £187,068 | 284 |
| 2003 | £90,800 | £167,276 | 304 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 305 |
| 2001 | £59,500 | £114,386 | 325 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 231 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 221 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 229 |
| 1997 | £67,500 | £138,429 | 236 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 239 |
| 1995 | £55,200 | £119,996 | 222 |
In cash terms the typical HD2 2 home went from £55,200 in 1995 to £202,500 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 69%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 39% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the HD2 2 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 (+26.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−33.6%). 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) | −33.6% | −35.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.3% | −7.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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 HD2 2
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.
HD2 2 recorded 62 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 279 sales a year before the financial crisis and 167 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.
The shape of the HD2 2 market
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. Against the HD2 district median, HD2 2 sits 11% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around HD2 2
The local authority for HD2 2 is Kirklees, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £775 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £578 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,221 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Kirklees
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £202,500 median purchase price, a rent of £775 a month (£9,300 a year) works out at a 4.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
HD2 2 (Ainley Top): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in HD2 2 (Ainley Top)?
Are property prices falling in HD2 2 (Ainley Top)?
Is HD2 2 (Ainley Top) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to HD2 2 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 16% over five years in cash but down 33% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in HD2 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 78 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HD2 district, not just HD2 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 41% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Fartown, Huddersfield, Huddersfield
- Whitebeam Park, Huddersfield,, Huddersfield,
- Old Hopkinson Drive, Birkby, Huddersfield
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 HD2 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.
What another bedroom costs in HD
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the HD area. 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the HD area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the HD area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in HD2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of HD2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HD2 1 | £163,800 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full HD2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HD2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in HD2 2: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HD2 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HD2 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HD2 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working HD2 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HD2 2.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to HD2 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual HD2 2 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.
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.