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Golcar market report HD7, Huddersfield
The standing HD7 (Golcar) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 13,302 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in HD7 (Huddersfield) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in HD7 (Huddersfield) came in at £217,000, out of 147 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £251,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,540 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 13,302 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district HD7 covering Golcar, Linthwaite, Marsden sits in Huddersfield. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where HD7 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.
Today's HD7 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for HD7 is £217,000, taken from 147 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £251,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in HD7
By floor space, homes in HD7 have sold for about £2,540 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, HD7 sits 24% below the national market.
The price of a typical HD7 home, 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 | £217,000 | £217,000 | 147 |
| 2025 | £222,000 | £227,309 | 393 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 329 |
| 2023 | £195,000 | £214,257 | 323 |
| 2022 | £187,800 | £220,217 | 366 |
| 2021 | £178,000 | £225,371 | 529 |
| 2020 | £168,000 | £217,983 | 431 |
| 2019 | £162,500 | £212,999 | 445 |
| 2018 | £163,200 | £217,549 | 492 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 423 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 395 |
| 2015 | £126,900 | £179,310 | 394 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 357 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 318 |
| 2012 | £122,500 | £180,305 | 289 |
| 2011 | £117,500 | £177,380 | 276 |
| 2010 | £122,200 | £191,641 | 250 |
| 2009 | £121,800 | £195,795 | 258 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 348 |
| 2007 | £130,000 | £220,516 | 559 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 581 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 497 |
| 2004 | £103,500 | £187,976 | 554 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 605 |
| 2002 | £62,500 | £117,593 | 603 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 548 |
| 2000 | £52,500 | £103,031 | 477 |
| 1999 | £47,500 | £94,665 | 488 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 429 |
| 1997 | £42,500 | £87,159 | 459 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 363 |
| 1995 | £39,600 | £86,084 | 376 |
In cash terms the typical HD7 home went from £39,600 in 1995 to £217,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 152%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2025; the current median sits about 5% below that. Someone who bought at the 2025 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HD7 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 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.3%). 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, 53% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £395,000 against £112,500 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, HD7
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 | £395,000 | 24 | 2,337 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | 30 | 3,235 |
| Terraced | £205,000 | 82 | 7,093 |
| Flats | £112,500 | 11 | 637 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.3% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in HD7
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.
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.
HD7 recorded 327 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 553 sales a year before the financial crisis and 312 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.
What homes rent for around HD7
HD7 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 £217,000 median sold price, £775 a month is £9,300 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
How HD7 trades
HD7 sits 3 of 9 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
HD7 (Golcar): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in HD7 (Golcar)?
Are property prices falling in HD7 (Golcar)?
Is HD7 (Golcar) a good place to buy a house?
Are HD7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in HD7 today
Everything above is what homes in HD7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 187 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% below the HD7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 44% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Swallow Lane, Golcar, Huddersfield, Huddersfield
- Cross Street Slaithwaite, Huddersfield, Huddersfield
- Thorpe Green Drive, Golcar, 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 HD7 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in HD
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
HD7 ranks 1 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 HD7, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| HD7 4 | £225,000 | 50 |
| HD7 5 | £205,000 | 71 |
| HD7 6 | £217,500 | 26 |
How HD7 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 (this report) | £217,000 | +22% |
| HD6 | £211,500 | +16% |
| HD3 | £205,000 | +8% |
| HD2 | £183,200 | +3% |
| HD5 | £180,000 | +19% |
| HD4 | £173,000 | +18% |
| HD1 | £145,500 | +18% |
Thinking of selling in HD7? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HD7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HD7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HD7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim HD7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HD7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual HD7 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.
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.