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Ainley Top market report HD2, Huddersfield
The standing HD2 (Ainley Top) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 12,828 HM Land Registry entries for HD2 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in HD2 (Huddersfield) sold for £183,200 in 2026, the median of 112 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £214,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 12,828 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
HD2 is the postcode district covering Ainley Top, Birkby, Brackenhall 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 HD2 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 HD2 homes really sell for
The HD2 median stands at £183,200 for 2026, built from 112 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £214,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in HD2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of HD2 sales average about £2,250 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, HD2 runs 36% below it.
A typical HD2 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £183,200 | £183,200 | 112 |
| 2025 | £219,500 | £224,749 | 360 |
| 2024 | £201,000 | £213,704 | 328 |
| 2023 | £195,500 | £214,807 | 370 |
| 2022 | £172,000 | £201,690 | 383 |
| 2021 | £178,000 | £225,371 | 453 |
| 2020 | £148,800 | £193,071 | 346 |
| 2019 | £137,000 | £179,574 | 341 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 329 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 338 |
| 2016 | £132,500 | £185,369 | 348 |
| 2015 | £138,000 | £194,994 | 327 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 340 |
| 2013 | £123,000 | £176,985 | 296 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 297 |
| 2011 | £131,500 | £198,514 | 250 |
| 2010 | £129,500 | £203,089 | 308 |
| 2009 | £120,200 | £193,223 | 292 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 384 |
| 2007 | £136,000 | £230,694 | 625 |
| 2006 | £115,800 | £201,014 | 640 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 502 |
| 2004 | £94,000 | £170,722 | 643 |
| 2003 | £66,200 | £121,956 | 638 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 610 |
| 2001 | £52,000 | £99,967 | 582 |
| 2000 | £56,000 | £109,900 | 427 |
| 1999 | £46,000 | £91,676 | 407 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 393 |
| 1997 | £55,500 | £113,819 | 405 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 377 |
| 1995 | £42,500 | £92,388 | 377 |
In cash terms the typical HD2 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £183,200 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 98%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HD2 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 (+42.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−16.5%). 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, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £379,500 against £87,000 for a flat, 4.4 times the price.
Median by property type, HD2
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 | £379,500 | 30 | 3,983 |
| Semi-detached | £195,000 | 31 | 3,691 |
| Terraced | £133,800 | 36 | 4,634 |
| Flats | £87,000 | 15 | 520 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −16.5% | −18.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 255 HD2 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 583 sales a year before the financial crisis and 311 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.
What kind of market HD2 is
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.
What homes rent for around HD2
The local authority for HD2 is Kirklees, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £775 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £183,200 median purchase price, a rent of £775 a month (£9,300 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
What people ask about HD2 (Ainley Top)
Is HD2 (Ainley Top) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HD2 (Ainley Top)?
Are property prices falling in HD2 (Ainley Top)?
Will HD2 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in HD2 right now
Everything above is what homes in HD2 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 78 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the HD2 median sold price.
41% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in HD
What homes of each size actually sold for across the HD area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
HD2 ranks 9 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.
Winners and losers across the HD area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside HD2, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HD2 1 | £163,800 | 50 |
| HD2 2 | £202,500 | 62 |
How HD2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the HD area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| HD9 | £275,000 | +6% |
| HD8 | £265,000 | +4% |
| HD7 | £217,000 | +22% |
| HD6 | £211,500 | +16% |
| HD3 | £205,000 | +8% |
| HD2 (this report) | £183,200 | +3% |
| HD5 | £180,000 | +19% |
| HD4 | £173,000 | +18% |
| HD1 | £145,500 | +18% |
Selling a home in HD2? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HD2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HD2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HD2 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 HD2.
Keep digging
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See every individual HD2 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.
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.