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Highroad Well market report HX2 8, Halifax
The HX2 8 (Highroad Well) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,017 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HX2 8 (Halifax) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for HX2 8 (Halifax) is £165,000, from 37 registered sales, up 104% on five years earlier; the mean is £203,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,920 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,017 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 HX2 8 is a single group of streets within HX2 (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 HX2 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.
The going rate for a home in HX2 8
In the HX2 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £165,000, from 37 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £203,100, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
HX2 8 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put HX2 8 at roughly £1,920 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, HX2 8 runs 42% below it.
A typical HX2 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £165,000 | £165,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £153,500 | £157,171 | 94 |
| 2024 | £132,500 | £140,875 | 98 |
| 2023 | £144,100 | £158,331 | 85 |
| 2022 | £153,000 | £179,410 | 121 |
| 2021 | £81,000 | £102,556 | 170 |
| 2020 | £114,000 | £147,917 | 79 |
| 2019 | £116,500 | £152,704 | 81 |
| 2018 | £92,500 | £123,304 | 80 |
| 2017 | £96,000 | £130,934 | 87 |
| 2016 | £81,000 | £113,320 | 75 |
| 2015 | £85,000 | £120,105 | 77 |
| 2014 | £86,500 | £122,715 | 78 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 72 |
| 2012 | £111,500 | £164,114 | 70 |
| 2011 | £91,000 | £137,375 | 80 |
| 2010 | £73,000 | £114,483 | 55 |
| 2009 | £75,000 | £120,563 | 40 |
| 2008 | £78,500 | £128,678 | 50 |
| 2007 | £102,000 | £173,020 | 179 |
| 2006 | £80,000 | £138,870 | 241 |
| 2005 | £72,000 | £128,131 | 139 |
| 2004 | £65,000 | £118,053 | 105 |
| 2003 | £52,000 | £95,797 | 118 |
| 2002 | £37,000 | £69,615 | 120 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 123 |
| 2000 | £31,000 | £60,838 | 105 |
| 1999 | £29,200 | £58,194 | 88 |
| 1998 | £31,000 | £62,576 | 67 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 72 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 65 |
| 1995 | £31,000 | £67,389 | 66 |
In cash terms the typical HX2 8 home went from £31,000 in 1995 to £165,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 145%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 8% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HX2 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 2022 (+88.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−28.9%). 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) | +7.5% | +5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +15.3% | +10.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.4% | +3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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 HX2 8
The year-by-year sales count
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, 37 sales completed in HX2 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 141 sales a year before the financial crisis and 87 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How HX2 8 trades
Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HX2 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the HX2 district median, HX2 8 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around HX2 8
For renting purposes HX2 8 sits in Calderdale. The ONS average private rent there is £750 a month (May 2026). 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.
£750 a month is £9,000 a year, which against the £165,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
HX2 8 (Highroad Well): the questions that come up
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What happens to HX2 8 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 104% over five years in cash and up 61% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
HX2's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 90 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HX2 district, not just HX2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 17% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 HX2 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in HX
Real sold prices by size across the HX area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
HX area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in HX2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are HX2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HX2 0 | £180,000 | 47 |
| HX2 6 | £229,200 | 30 |
| HX2 7 | £210,000 | 33 |
| HX2 9 | £192,000 | 47 |
Zoom out to the full HX2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HX2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in HX2 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HX2 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the HX2 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HX2 8 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 HX2 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about HX2 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HX2 8 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.