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Halifax Town Centre market report HX1 3, Halifax
The HX1 3 (Halifax Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,350 HM Land Registry entries for HX1 3 (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.
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 HX1 3 (Halifax) sold for £135,000 in 2026, the median of 36 registered sales, up 49% on five years earlier. The mean was £158,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,360 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,350 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like HX1 3 is a single group of streets within HX1 (Halifax), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where HX1 3 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 HX1 3
Across 36 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) HX1 3 home went for £135,000. The mean is £158,800, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
HX1 3 prices by floor area
Per square metre, HX1 3 homes have averaged around £1,360 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, HX1 3 sits 53% below the national market.
A typical HX1 3 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 | £135,000 | £135,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £110,000 | £112,630 | 64 |
| 2024 | £103,500 | £110,042 | 88 |
| 2023 | £111,200 | £122,182 | 70 |
| 2022 | £93,500 | £109,639 | 94 |
| 2021 | £90,800 | £114,965 | 98 |
| 2020 | £72,000 | £93,421 | 78 |
| 2019 | £75,000 | £98,307 | 69 |
| 2018 | £76,000 | £101,309 | 87 |
| 2017 | £80,000 | £109,112 | 101 |
| 2016 | £66,000 | £92,335 | 65 |
| 2015 | £70,500 | £99,617 | 93 |
| 2014 | £72,000 | £102,145 | 85 |
| 2013 | £72,600 | £104,464 | 87 |
| 2012 | £68,000 | £100,088 | 97 |
| 2011 | £68,000 | £102,654 | 67 |
| 2010 | £76,000 | £119,188 | 81 |
| 2009 | £77,000 | £123,778 | 113 |
| 2008 | £80,000 | £131,137 | 108 |
| 2007 | £83,200 | £141,130 | 220 |
| 2006 | £79,500 | £138,002 | 238 |
| 2005 | £64,500 | £114,784 | 233 |
| 2004 | £45,000 | £81,729 | 319 |
| 2003 | £35,200 | £64,847 | 278 |
| 2002 | £33,000 | £62,089 | 233 |
| 2001 | £31,500 | £60,557 | 190 |
| 2000 | £31,000 | £60,838 | 207 |
| 1999 | £27,000 | £53,810 | 180 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 185 |
| 1997 | £27,000 | £55,372 | 165 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 151 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 170 |
In cash terms the typical HX1 3 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £135,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 107%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 4% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HX1 3 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 2005 (+43.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +22.7% | +19.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.3% | +3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.4% | +3.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 36 sales completed in HX1 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 240 sales a year before the financial crisis and 70 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 HX1 3
The local authority for HX1 3 is Calderdale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £750 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £543 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,116 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Calderdale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £135,000 median sold price, £750 a month is £9,000 a year, a gross yield of 6.7%: 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 HX1 3 is
This is a thin market: 36 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. 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.
Asked and answered: HX1 3 (Halifax Town Centre)
How much did a house sell for in HX1 3 (Halifax Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in HX1 3 (Halifax Town Centre)?
Is HX1 3 (Halifax Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
Are HX1 3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 49% over five years in cash and up 17% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in HX1 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 51 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HX1 district, not just HX1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every HX1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in HX
Real sold prices by size across the HX area, straight 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the HX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
HX area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in HX1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of HX1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HX1 1 | £110,000 | 7 |
| HX1 2 | £161,200 | 26 |
| HX1 4 | £95,500 | 16 |
| HX1 5 | £110,000 | 5 |
Zoom out to the full HX1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HX1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in HX1 3? 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 HX1 3'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 HX1 3.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about HX1 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HX1 3 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.
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.