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Birdsedge market report HD8 8, Huddersfield
The HD8 8 (Birdsedge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,620 HM Land Registry entries for HD8 8 (Huddersfield), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for HD8 8 (Huddersfield) is £297,500, from 62 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £336,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,070 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,620 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 HD8 8 is a single group of streets within HD8 (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 HD8 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.
What a home in HD8 8 sells for
The 2026 median for HD8 8 is £297,500, taken from 62 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £336,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in HD8 8
The last five years of sales put HD8 8 at roughly £3,070 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, HD8 8 sits 4% above the national market.
HD8 8'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 | £297,500 | £297,500 | 62 |
| 2025 | £298,000 | £305,126 | 192 |
| 2024 | £267,000 | £283,876 | 189 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 172 |
| 2022 | £310,500 | £364,097 | 197 |
| 2021 | £266,200 | £337,044 | 254 |
| 2020 | £239,500 | £310,756 | 182 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 159 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 195 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 172 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 185 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 203 |
| 2014 | £190,800 | £270,683 | 216 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 180 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 149 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 136 |
| 2010 | £176,500 | £276,797 | 150 |
| 2009 | £196,500 | £315,875 | 148 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 167 |
| 2007 | £199,000 | £337,559 | 246 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 278 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 190 |
| 2004 | £162,000 | £294,224 | 249 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 275 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 304 |
| 2001 | £88,000 | £169,176 | 277 |
| 2000 | £84,000 | £164,850 | 300 |
| 1999 | £83,600 | £166,610 | 304 |
| 1998 | £65,200 | £131,611 | 246 |
| 1997 | £63,000 | £129,200 | 272 |
| 1996 | £63,700 | £134,340 | 214 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical HD8 8 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £297,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 136%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the HD8 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 (+42.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−17.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.2% | −2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in HD8 8
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.
HD8 8 recorded 62 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 265 sales a year before the financial crisis and 162 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.
Reading the HD8 8 market
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within HD8, this sector trades 12% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around HD8 8
For renting purposes HD8 8 sits in Kirklees. The ONS average private rent there is £775 a month (May 2026). 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 £297,500 median sold price, £775 a month is £9,300 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
Asked and answered: HD8 8 (Birdsedge)
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What happens to HD8 8 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 HD8 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 134 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HD8 district, not just HD8 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% 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.
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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 HD8 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: HD prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the HD area. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in HD8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are HD8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HD8 0 | £270,000 | 73 |
| HD8 9 | £245,000 | 71 |
Zoom out to the full HD8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HD8 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in HD8 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 HD8 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.
Estate agents working HD8 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HD8 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to HD8 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual HD8 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.
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.