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Almondbury market report HD5 8, Huddersfield
The standing HD5 8 (Almondbury) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 7,049 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in HD5 8 (Huddersfield) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in HD5 8 (Huddersfield) sold for £170,000 in 2026, the median of 79 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £224,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,240 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,049 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
HD5 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside HD5 (Huddersfield). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where HD5 8 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 HD5 8
Across 79 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) HD5 8 home went for £170,000. The mean is £224,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
HD5 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of HD5 8 home has cost about £2,240 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts HD5 8 40% below the country at large.
A typical HD5 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 79 |
| 2025 | £182,500 | £186,864 | 173 |
| 2024 | £181,000 | £192,440 | 173 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 193 |
| 2022 | £169,000 | £198,172 | 218 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 253 |
| 2020 | £152,000 | £197,223 | 212 |
| 2019 | £131,500 | £172,365 | 192 |
| 2018 | £132,500 | £176,625 | 199 |
| 2017 | £132,000 | £180,035 | 197 |
| 2016 | £133,000 | £186,068 | 217 |
| 2015 | £118,500 | £167,441 | 206 |
| 2014 | £118,000 | £167,404 | 175 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 161 |
| 2012 | £105,000 | £154,547 | 145 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 129 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 133 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 153 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 158 |
| 2007 | £117,400 | £199,143 | 386 |
| 2006 | £118,000 | £204,833 | 361 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 332 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 315 |
| 2003 | £71,500 | £131,720 | 323 |
| 2002 | £53,200 | £100,095 | 315 |
| 2001 | £46,200 | £88,817 | 270 |
| 2000 | £43,000 | £84,388 | 229 |
| 1999 | £43,500 | £86,693 | 239 |
| 1998 | £49,500 | £99,919 | 227 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 244 |
| 1996 | £42,200 | £88,998 | 220 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 222 |
In cash terms the typical HD5 8 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 56%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the HD5 8 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 (+34.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What HD5 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.8% | −9.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
HD5 8 recorded 79 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 316 sales a year before the financial crisis and 167 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around HD5 8
HD5 8 falls under Kirklees, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£775 a month is £9,300 a year, which against the £170,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. 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.
Asked and answered: HD5 8 (Almondbury)
Are property prices falling in HD5 8 (Almondbury)?
Is HD5 8 (Almondbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HD5 8 (Almondbury)?
What happens to HD5 8 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 HD5 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 72 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HD5 district, not just HD5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Dalton, Huddersfield, Huddersfield
- Wakefield Road, Huddersfield
- Old School Lane, 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 HD5 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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
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 HD5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are HD5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HD5 0 | £236,500 | 35 |
| HD5 9 | £172,500 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full HD5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HD5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in HD5 8? 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 HD5 8'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim HD5 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HD5 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual HD5 8 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.