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Ainley Top market report HD3, Huddersfield
The HD3 (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: 17,581 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HD3 (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: a typical HD3 (Huddersfield) home changed hands for £210,000 in 2026 (median of 231 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £230,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,450 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 17,581 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
HD3 is a postcode district covering Ainley Top, Birchencliffe, Lindley in Huddersfield. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where HD3 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
In the HD3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £210,000, from 231 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £230,100, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in HD3
A square metre of HD3 home has cost about £2,450 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so HD3 trades 26% below the country as a whole.
HD3'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 | £210,000 | £210,000 | 231 |
| 2025 | £210,000 | £215,022 | 443 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 463 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 419 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 538 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 721 |
| 2020 | £172,200 | £223,433 | 508 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 570 |
| 2018 | £155,000 | £206,618 | 596 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 644 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 596 |
| 2015 | £137,500 | £194,288 | 541 |
| 2014 | £129,200 | £183,293 | 504 |
| 2013 | £128,000 | £184,179 | 452 |
| 2012 | £122,000 | £179,569 | 395 |
| 2011 | £123,500 | £186,438 | 353 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 398 |
| 2009 | £129,700 | £208,494 | 388 |
| 2008 | £121,000 | £198,345 | 397 |
| 2007 | £131,000 | £222,212 | 818 |
| 2006 | £128,500 | £223,060 | 869 |
| 2005 | £119,200 | £212,128 | 722 |
| 2004 | £107,500 | £195,241 | 711 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 836 |
| 2002 | £60,800 | £114,395 | 754 |
| 2001 | £54,000 | £103,812 | 628 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 611 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 585 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 489 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 542 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 455 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 404 |
In cash terms the typical HD3 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £210,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 115%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HD3 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 (+39.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.6%). 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, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £375,000 against £111,500 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, HD3
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 | £375,000 | 44 | 3,245 |
| Semi-detached | £245,400 | 73 | 5,479 |
| Terraced | £158,000 | 88 | 7,022 |
| Flats | £111,500 | 26 | 1,835 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.4% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 383 sales completed in HD3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 744 sales a year before the financial crisis and 419 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.
Rents around HD3
HD3 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 £210,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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 (Ainley Top)
How much did a house sell for in HD3 (Ainley Top)?
Are property prices falling in HD3 (Ainley Top)?
Is HD3 (Ainley Top) a good place to buy a house?
Where do HD3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in HD3 now
Everything above is what homes in HD3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 187 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 36% below the HD3 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (383 in HD3), the 187 homes listed here amount to about 6 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Maplin Drive, Salendine Nook, Hudderfield, Hudderfield
- New Hey Road, Salindine Nook, Salindine Nook
- George Street, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield, 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 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.
Listed against sold: the HD3 mix
Terraced homes are 73% of what is listed in HD3 but 37% of what sold over 2024 and 2025: the market is being offered more of them than it has been taking, which tends to give a buyer of one room to talk.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 0% | 16% |
| Semi-detached | 27% | 36% |
| Terraced | 73% | 37% |
| Flats | 0% | 11% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side (23 of them here).
Month by month: when HD3 sells
Across the 2,584 sales completed in HD3 from 2021 to 2025, September was the busiest month for completions (9.9% of the total) and January the quietest (6.5%). 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 | 169 | 6.5% |
| February | 191 | 7.4% |
| March | 245 | 9.5% |
| April | 210 | 8.1% |
| May | 185 | 7.2% |
| June | 227 | 8.8% |
| July | 200 | 7.7% |
| August | 222 | 8.6% |
| September | 256 | 9.9% |
| October | 241 | 9.3% |
| November | 217 | 8.4% |
| December | 221 | 8.6% |
Moving up a bedroom in HD: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the HD area, 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 | £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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
HD3 ranks 6 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside HD3, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How HD3 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 (this report) | £210,000 | +11% |
| HD2 | £195,000 | +10% |
| HD4 | £180,800 | +23% |
| HD5 | £180,000 | +19% |
| HD1 | £148,000 | +21% |
Thinking of selling in HD3? 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 HD3'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.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to HD3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual HD3 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.