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Halifax market report HX
The HX (Halifax) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 88,004 HM Land Registry entries for the HX postcode area (Halifax), 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.
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 the HX postcode area (Halifax) came in at £185,000, out of 871 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £229,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,260 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 88,004 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The HX postcode area centred on Halifax covers 7 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where HX 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.
HX sold prices: where the market stands
Across 871 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) HX home went for £185,000. The mean is £229,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in HX
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HX costs about £2,260 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving HX 35% below the national figure.
The price of a typical HX home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 871 |
| 2025 | £195,000 | £199,663 | 2,380 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 2,203 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 2,083 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 2,424 |
| 2021 | £160,400 | £203,087 | 3,114 |
| 2020 | £152,000 | £197,223 | 2,040 |
| 2019 | £147,200 | £192,944 | 2,448 |
| 2018 | £140,000 | £186,623 | 2,634 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 2,560 |
| 2016 | £136,200 | £190,545 | 2,464 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 2,527 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 2,611 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 2,215 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 1,841 |
| 2011 | £118,000 | £178,135 | 1,798 |
| 2010 | £123,000 | £192,896 | 1,813 |
| 2009 | £118,000 | £189,686 | 1,818 |
| 2008 | £120,300 | £197,197 | 2,151 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 4,151 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 4,685 |
| 2005 | £111,700 | £198,781 | 3,910 |
| 2004 | £93,000 | £168,906 | 4,245 |
| 2003 | £73,000 | £134,484 | 4,148 |
| 2002 | £58,000 | £109,126 | 4,019 |
| 2001 | £52,500 | £100,929 | 3,585 |
| 2000 | £48,000 | £94,200 | 3,315 |
| 1999 | £46,000 | £91,676 | 3,187 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 2,863 |
| 1997 | £44,000 | £90,235 | 2,804 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 2,532 |
| 1995 | £41,500 | £90,215 | 2,565 |
In cash terms the typical HX home went from £41,500 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 105%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HX 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 (+27.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−5.1%). 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) | −5.1% | −7.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
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 £442,500 against £126,000 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, HX
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 | £442,500 | 114 | 12,100 |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | 232 | 22,476 |
| Terraced | £165,000 | 452 | 46,281 |
| Flats | £126,000 | 73 | 7,147 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
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, 1,927 sales completed in HX. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 4,007 sales a year before the financial crisis and 1,992 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 HX
HX falls under Calderdale, the local authority covering most of the HX area, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £750 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £543 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,116, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Calderdale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £185,000 median purchase price, a rent of £750 a month (£9,000 a year) works out at a 4.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about HX (Halifax)
How much did a house sell for in HX (Halifax)?
Are property prices falling in HX (Halifax)?
Is HX (Halifax) a good place to buy a house?
Where do HX prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
HX's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in HX sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 384 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% above the HX median sold price.
21% 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.
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 HX 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.
Moving up a bedroom in HX: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the HX 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 | — | £255,000 | £367,500 (+44%) | £510,000 (+39%) | £611,250 (+20%) |
| Semi-detached | £163,000 | £185,000 (+13%) | £240,500 (+30%) | £319,000 (+33%) | £430,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £123,000 | £137,600 (+12%) | £178,000 (+29%) | £240,000 (+35%) | £310,000 (+29%) |
| Flat | £101,000 | £137,500 (+36%) | £220,000 (+60%) | — | — |
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 HX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, HX area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
The spread inside HX matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| HX7 Cragg Vale, Hebden Bridge | £246,200 | +7% | 98 |
| HX4 Barkisland, Greetland | £201,000 | -4% | 66 |
| HX3 Akroydon, Boothtown | £185,100 | +7% | 253 |
| HX2 Highroad Well, Illingworth | £184,200 | +27% | 194 |
| HX6 Norland, Ripponden | £183,000 | +7% | 119 |
| HX5 Elland, Blackley | £175,000 | +13% | 58 |
| HX1 Halifax Town Centre, Savile Park | £130,000 | +43% | 83 |
Selling in HX? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at HX'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 HX: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HX.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every HX sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.