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Akroydon market report HX3 8, Halifax
The standing HX3 8 (Akroydon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,243 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HX3 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: 40 registered 2026 sales put the HX3 8 (Halifax) median at £254,500, up 16% on five years earlier, with a mean of £309,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,760 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,243 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like HX3 8 is a single group of streets within HX3 (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 HX3 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 HX3 8 homes really sell for
Across 40 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) HX3 8 home went for £254,500. The mean is £309,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
HX3 8 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HX3 8 costs about £2,760 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so HX3 8 trades 11% below the country as a whole.
A typical HX3 8 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 | £254,500 | £254,500 | 40 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 122 |
| 2024 | £279,900 | £297,591 | 132 |
| 2023 | £265,000 | £291,170 | 107 |
| 2022 | £283,100 | £331,967 | 126 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 190 |
| 2020 | £212,500 | £275,723 | 101 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 133 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 121 |
| 2017 | £189,200 | £258,050 | 160 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 124 |
| 2015 | £146,500 | £207,005 | 132 |
| 2014 | £161,500 | £229,116 | 191 |
| 2013 | £158,000 | £227,346 | 172 |
| 2012 | £159,000 | £234,028 | 84 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 101 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 75 |
| 2009 | £114,800 | £184,542 | 86 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 87 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 155 |
| 2006 | £153,000 | £265,588 | 159 |
| 2005 | £132,500 | £235,797 | 160 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 152 |
| 2003 | £92,500 | £170,407 | 168 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 190 |
| 2001 | £69,000 | £132,649 | 144 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 161 |
| 1999 | £57,500 | £114,594 | 143 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 153 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 138 |
| 1996 | £47,800 | £100,808 | 136 |
| 1995 | £48,200 | £104,779 | 100 |
In cash terms the typical HX3 8 home went from £48,200 in 1995 to £254,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 143%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 23% 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 HX3 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 2016 (+43.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−23.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What HX3 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.1% | −11.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
HX3 8 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 161 sales a year before the financial crisis and 105 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 HX3 8 market
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HX3 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 HX3 district median, HX3 8 sits 37% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around HX3 8
For renting purposes HX3 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.
Set against the £254,500 median sold price, £750 a month is £9,000 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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.
The questions people bring to HX3 8 (Akroydon)
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, HX3 8ER among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
HX3 8 (Akroydon): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in HX3 8 (Akroydon)?
Are property prices falling in HX3 8 (Akroydon)?
Is HX3 8 (Akroydon) a good place to buy a house?
Are HX3 8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in HX3 right now
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% 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.
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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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 HX3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of HX3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HX3 0 | £205,000 | 37 |
| HX3 5 | £156,800 | 32 |
| HX3 6 | £142,000 | 39 |
| HX3 7 | £277,200 | 50 |
| 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.
Selling a home in HX3 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HX3 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HX3 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HX3 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working HX3 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HX3 8.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about HX3 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual HX3 8 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.
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.