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Akroydon market report HX3 7, Halifax
The HX3 7 (Akroydon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,469 HM Land Registry entries for HX3 7 (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: 50 registered 2026 sales put the HX3 7 (Halifax) median at £277,200, up 35% on five years earlier, with a mean of £331,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,700 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,469 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
HX3 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside HX3 (Halifax). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where HX3 7 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 HX3 7 homes really sell for
The HX3 7 median stands at £277,200 for 2026, built from 50 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £331,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in HX3 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HX3 7 costs about £2,700 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts HX3 7 3% below the country at large.
The price of a typical HX3 7 home, 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 | £277,200 | £277,200 | 50 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 182 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 127 |
| 2023 | £207,800 | £228,321 | 114 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 137 |
| 2021 | £204,600 | £259,050 | 202 |
| 2020 | £186,800 | £242,377 | 144 |
| 2019 | £181,000 | £237,248 | 196 |
| 2018 | £190,500 | £253,940 | 196 |
| 2017 | £165,500 | £225,725 | 150 |
| 2016 | £160,800 | £224,961 | 177 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 177 |
| 2014 | £154,000 | £218,476 | 166 |
| 2013 | £147,000 | £211,518 | 120 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 105 |
| 2011 | £138,200 | £208,629 | 114 |
| 2010 | £162,500 | £254,842 | 121 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 102 |
| 2008 | £157,000 | £257,356 | 124 |
| 2007 | £168,500 | £285,823 | 272 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 271 |
| 2005 | £152,000 | £270,499 | 259 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 245 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 195 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 229 |
| 2001 | £67,500 | £129,765 | 174 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 228 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 213 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 191 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 165 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 152 |
| 1995 | £51,500 | £111,953 | 171 |
In cash terms the typical HX3 7 home went from £51,500 in 1995 to £277,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 148%, 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 3% 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 HX3 7 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 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.0%). 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) | +18.0% | +15.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.3% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 HX3 7
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
HX3 7 recorded 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 234 sales a year before the financial crisis and 122 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.
The rental side of HX3 7
HX3 7 falls under Calderdale, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £277,200 median purchase price, a rent of £750 a month (£9,000 a year) works out at a 3.2% 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.
Reading the HX3 7 market
This is a thin market: 50 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. Against the HX3 district median, HX3 7 sits 50% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: HX3 7 (Akroydon)
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Will HX3 7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 35% over five years in cash and up 7% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in HX3 today
The live side of the market holds 139 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HX3 district, not just HX3 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"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 HX3 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.
Moving up a bedroom in HX: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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 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.
Other sectors in HX3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are HX3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HX3 0 | £205,000 | 37 |
| HX3 5 | £156,800 | 32 |
| HX3 6 | £142,000 | 39 |
| HX3 8 | £254,500 | 40 |
| HX3 9 | £170,000 | 55 |
Zoom out to the full HX3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HX3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in HX3 7: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at HX3 7'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 HX3 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HX3 7.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to HX3 7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual HX3 7 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.
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.