Local market reports › HX area › HX6 › HX6 3
Norland market report HX6 3, Sowerby Bridge
The standing HX6 3 (Norland) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 1,840 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in HX6 3 (Sowerby Bridge) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical HX6 3 (Sowerby Bridge) home changed hands for £175,000 in 2026 (median of 17 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £210,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,410 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,840 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
HX6 3 is one sector of HX6 (Sowerby Bridge): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where HX6 3 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 HX6 3 homes really sell for
In the HX6 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £175,000, from 17 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £210,000, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in HX6 3
Per square metre, HX6 3 homes have averaged around £2,410 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts HX6 3 39% below the country at large.
The price of a typical HX6 3 home, 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 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £187,500 | £191,984 | 69 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 51 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 42 |
| 2022 | £195,000 | £228,660 | 51 |
| 2021 | £186,000 | £235,500 | 64 |
| 2020 | £178,000 | £230,959 | 45 |
| 2019 | £159,500 | £209,066 | 46 |
| 2018 | £207,500 | £276,601 | 49 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 53 |
| 2016 | £147,500 | £206,354 | 46 |
| 2015 | £177,000 | £250,101 | 40 |
| 2014 | £140,200 | £198,898 | 44 |
| 2013 | £132,000 | £189,935 | 49 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 45 |
| 2011 | £135,500 | £204,553 | 36 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 41 |
| 2009 | £132,000 | £212,191 | 49 |
| 2008 | £149,000 | £244,242 | 34 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 79 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 123 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 95 |
| 2004 | £111,000 | £201,598 | 80 |
| 2003 | £85,500 | £157,512 | 133 |
| 2002 | £70,500 | £132,645 | 94 |
| 2001 | £59,500 | £114,386 | 75 |
| 2000 | £55,200 | £108,330 | 57 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 52 |
| 1998 | £49,500 | £99,919 | 56 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 44 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 42 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 39 |
In cash terms the typical HX6 3 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 87%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 37% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HX6 3 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 2018 (+48.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−23.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What HX6 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.7% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.1% | −1.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 17 sales completed in HX6 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 92 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 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.
Rents around HX6 3
HX6 3 falls under Calderdale, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £175,000 median sold price, £750 a month is £9,000 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
What kind of market HX6 3 is
Only 17 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HX6 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Asked and answered: HX6 3 (Norland)
Are property prices falling in HX6 3 (Norland)?
Is HX6 3 (Norland) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HX6 3 (Norland)?
Are HX6 3 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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 HX6 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 44 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HX6 district, not just HX6 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% 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.
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 HX6 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
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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Winners and losers across the HX area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in HX6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of HX6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HX6 1 | £160,000 | 24 |
| HX6 2 | £167,800 | 40 |
| HX6 4 | £240,500 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full HX6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HX6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in HX6 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HX6 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the HX6 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HX6 3 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 HX6 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HX6 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HX6 3 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.