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Barkisland market report HX4 8, Halifax
The HX4 8 (Barkisland) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,599 registered sales in HX4 8 (Halifax) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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: a typical HX4 8 (Halifax) home changed hands for £194,000 in 2026 (median of 38 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £228,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,550 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,599 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like HX4 8 is a single group of streets within HX4 (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 HX4 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 HX4 8 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for HX4 8 is £194,000, taken from 38 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £228,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in HX4 8
The last five years of sales put HX4 8 at roughly £2,550 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving HX4 8 32% below the national figure.
The price of a typical HX4 8 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £194,000 | £194,000 | 38 |
| 2025 | £259,000 | £265,193 | 104 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 102 |
| 2023 | £182,000 | £199,974 | 91 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 97 |
| 2021 | £187,500 | £237,399 | 130 |
| 2020 | £170,500 | £221,227 | 92 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 116 |
| 2018 | £146,000 | £194,621 | 102 |
| 2017 | £143,500 | £195,720 | 86 |
| 2016 | £154,400 | £216,007 | 96 |
| 2015 | £141,800 | £200,363 | 110 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 124 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 117 |
| 2012 | £133,500 | £196,495 | 94 |
| 2011 | £139,500 | £210,591 | 70 |
| 2010 | £144,000 | £225,829 | 82 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 69 |
| 2008 | £134,700 | £220,802 | 78 |
| 2007 | £130,000 | £220,516 | 141 |
| 2006 | £134,000 | £232,607 | 162 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 137 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 150 |
| 2003 | £78,500 | £144,616 | 154 |
| 2002 | £69,200 | £130,199 | 144 |
| 2001 | £59,800 | £114,962 | 142 |
| 2000 | £57,500 | £112,844 | 124 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 131 |
| 1998 | £49,800 | £100,525 | 141 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 137 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 135 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 103 |
In cash terms the typical HX4 8 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £194,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 90%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2025. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HX4 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 2025 (+29.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−25.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What HX4 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −25.1% | −26.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in HX4 8
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
HX4 8 recorded 38 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 144 sales a year before the financial crisis and 86 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.
What homes rent for around HX4 8
The local authority for HX4 8 is Calderdale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £750 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £543 a month here against £1,116 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £194,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
The shape of the HX4 8 market
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HX4 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Common questions on HX4 8 (Barkisland)
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How much did a house sell for in HX4 8 (Barkisland)?
Are HX4 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 3% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.
On the market in HX4 today
Turning to what is actually available: 34 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HX4 district, not just HX4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every HX4 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: HX prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the HX area. 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 HX4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of HX4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HX4 0 | £260,000 | 8 |
| HX4 9 | £210,000 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full HX4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HX4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in HX4 8? 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 HX4 8'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim HX4 8.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about HX4 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual HX4 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.