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Akroydon market report HX3, Halifax
The standing HX3 (Akroydon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 25,515 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HX3 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in HX3 (Halifax) came in at £185,100, out of 253 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £242,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,330 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 25,515 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
HX3 is a postcode district covering Akroydon, Boothtown, Copley in Halifax. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where HX3 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 HX3
Across 253 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) HX3 home went for £185,100. The mean is £242,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in HX3
By floor space, homes in HX3 have sold for about £2,330 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so HX3 trades 35% below the country as a whole.
A typical HX3 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,100 | £185,100 | 253 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 721 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 633 |
| 2023 | £176,000 | £193,381 | 608 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 688 |
| 2021 | £173,100 | £219,167 | 911 |
| 2020 | £160,000 | £207,603 | 582 |
| 2019 | £157,200 | £206,052 | 746 |
| 2018 | £154,500 | £205,951 | 766 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 771 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 727 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 748 |
| 2014 | £128,000 | £181,590 | 823 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 684 |
| 2012 | £121,500 | £178,833 | 538 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 532 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 494 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 474 |
| 2008 | £124,000 | £203,262 | 631 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 1,147 |
| 2006 | £124,000 | £215,248 | 1,274 |
| 2005 | £119,000 | £211,772 | 1,087 |
| 2004 | £105,000 | £190,701 | 1,335 |
| 2003 | £74,000 | £136,326 | 1,135 |
| 2002 | £58,500 | £110,067 | 1,164 |
| 2001 | £53,000 | £101,890 | 987 |
| 2000 | £51,400 | £100,873 | 994 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 924 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 892 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 807 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 751 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 688 |
In cash terms the typical HX3 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £185,100 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 108%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HX3 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 (+41.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−7.4%). 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) | −7.5% | −9.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 49% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £433,500 against £123,500 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, HX3
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 | £433,500 | 38 | 3,959 |
| Semi-detached | £231,000 | 68 | 7,597 |
| Terraced | £160,000 | 131 | 12,527 |
| Flats | £123,500 | 16 | 1,432 |
Sales activity in HX3
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 590 HX3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,140 sales a year before the financial crisis and 581 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.
What homes rent for around HX3
For renting purposes HX3 sits in Calderdale. The ONS average private rent there is £750 a month (May 2026). 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 £185,100 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.
Asked and answered: HX3 (Akroydon)
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Will HX3 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
What you could buy in HX3 now
Everything above is what homes in HX3 sold for. The live side of the market holds 139 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 32% above the HX3 median sold price.
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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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 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the HX area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
HX3 ranks 6 of 7 in the HX area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
HX area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside HX3, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 8 | £254,500 | 40 |
| HX3 9 | £170,000 | 55 |
How HX3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the HX area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| HX7 | £246,200 | +7% |
| HX4 | £201,000 | -4% |
| HX3 (this report) | £185,100 | +7% |
| HX2 | £184,200 | +27% |
| HX6 | £183,000 | +7% |
| HX5 | £175,000 | +13% |
| HX1 | £130,000 | +43% |
Before you sell in HX3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HX3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HX3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HX3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working HX3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HX3.
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The live map plots every individual HX3 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.