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Ainley Top market report HD3 3, Huddersfield
The HD3 3 (Ainley Top) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,578 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in HD3 3 (Huddersfield) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for HD3 3 (Huddersfield) is £230,000, from 105 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £243,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,630 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,578 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like HD3 3 is a single group of streets within HD3 (Huddersfield), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where HD3 3 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 HD3 3
105 sales were registered in HD3 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £230,000. The mean works out at £243,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in HD3 3
The last five years of sales put HD3 3 at roughly £2,630 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts HD3 3 19% below the country at large.
The price of a typical HD3 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 105 |
| 2025 | £234,600 | £240,210 | 248 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 249 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 218 |
| 2022 | £217,000 | £254,457 | 308 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 415 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 287 |
| 2019 | £187,000 | £245,112 | 313 |
| 2018 | £195,000 | £259,939 | 365 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 402 |
| 2016 | £172,500 | £241,329 | 366 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 315 |
| 2014 | £169,500 | £240,465 | 282 |
| 2013 | £144,500 | £207,921 | 282 |
| 2012 | £142,500 | £209,742 | 205 |
| 2011 | £152,000 | £229,462 | 214 |
| 2010 | £155,000 | £243,080 | 252 |
| 2009 | £144,500 | £232,285 | 242 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 201 |
| 2007 | £152,500 | £258,682 | 399 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 479 |
| 2005 | £132,000 | £234,907 | 386 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 342 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 402 |
| 2002 | £78,200 | £147,133 | 368 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 309 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 303 |
| 1999 | £56,800 | £113,199 | 280 |
| 1998 | £57,500 | £116,068 | 253 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 300 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 259 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 229 |
In cash terms the typical HD3 3 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 107%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HD3 3 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 2003 (+40.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−6.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What HD3 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 105 HD3 3 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 374 sales a year before the financial crisis and 226 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.
How HD3 3 trades
Within HD3, this sector trades 12% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around HD3 3
HD3 3 falls under Kirklees, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£775 a month is £9,300 a year, which against the £230,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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 people ask about HD3 3 (Ainley Top)
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Where do HD3 3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat 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.
On the market in HD3 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 199 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HD3 district, not just HD3 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
46% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 HD3 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.
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%) | — | — |
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.
HD area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in HD3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of HD3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HD3 2 | £335,000 | 3 |
| HD3 4 | £185,800 | 86 |
Zoom out to the full HD3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HD3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in HD3 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at HD3 3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim HD3 3.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to HD3 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual HD3 3 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.