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Almondbury market report HD5 9, Huddersfield
The HD5 9 (Almondbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,609 registered sales in HD5 9 (Huddersfield) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in HD5 9 (Huddersfield) sold for £172,500 in 2026, the median of 45 registered sales, up 33% on five years earlier. The mean was £176,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,080 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,609 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
HD5 9 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 9 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 9
Across 45 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) HD5 9 home went for £172,500. The mean is £176,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in HD5 9
A square metre of HD5 9 home has cost about £2,080 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 HD5 9 trades 39% below the country as a whole.
HD5 9's median sold price, 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 | £172,500 | £172,500 | 45 |
| 2025 | £169,000 | £173,041 | 131 |
| 2024 | £155,000 | £164,797 | 114 |
| 2023 | £153,500 | £168,659 | 110 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 140 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 118 |
| 2020 | £126,800 | £164,526 | 124 |
| 2019 | £118,500 | £155,325 | 136 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 142 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 130 |
| 2016 | £112,500 | £157,389 | 123 |
| 2015 | £111,500 | £157,550 | 140 |
| 2014 | £106,000 | £150,380 | 107 |
| 2013 | £99,200 | £142,739 | 108 |
| 2012 | £93,000 | £136,884 | 89 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 79 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 84 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 79 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 131 |
| 2007 | £116,500 | £197,616 | 228 |
| 2006 | £108,500 | £188,342 | 221 |
| 2005 | £90,200 | £160,520 | 172 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 211 |
| 2003 | £71,200 | £131,168 | 226 |
| 2002 | £51,200 | £96,332 | 224 |
| 2001 | £48,000 | £92,278 | 259 |
| 2000 | £47,000 | £92,238 | 185 |
| 1999 | £43,400 | £86,494 | 164 |
| 1998 | £42,500 | £85,789 | 175 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 165 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 136 |
| 1995 | £39,000 | £84,780 | 113 |
In cash terms the typical HD5 9 home went from £39,000 in 1995 to £172,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 103%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the HD5 9 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 (+39.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.1%). 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) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.8% | +0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.4% |
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 register shows 45 HD5 9 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 216 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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.
What homes rent for around HD5 9
HD5 9 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.
Set against the £172,500 median sold price, £775 a month is £9,300 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market HD5 9 is
This is a thin market: 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
HD5 9 (Almondbury): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in HD5 9 (Almondbury)?
Is HD5 9 (Almondbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HD5 9 (Almondbury)?
Are HD5 9 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in HD5 right now
The live side of the market holds 72 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HD5 district, not just HD5 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% 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.
- 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in HD
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the HD area. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 8 | £170,000 | 79 |
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 9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HD5 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the HD5 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HD5 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim HD5 9.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HD5 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual HD5 9 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.