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Norland market report HX6 4, Sowerby Bridge
The HX6 4 (Norland) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,449 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in HX6 4 (Sowerby Bridge) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in HX6 4 (Sowerby Bridge) came in at £240,500, out of 38 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £286,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,550 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,449 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
HX6 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside HX6 (Sowerby Bridge). 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 HX6 4 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 buyers actually paid in HX6 4
The HX6 4 median stands at £240,500 for 2026, built from 38 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £286,000, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in HX6 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HX6 4 costs about £2,550 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving HX6 4 16% below the national figure.
A typical HX6 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £240,500 | £240,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 85 |
| 2024 | £247,500 | £263,143 | 91 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 77 |
| 2022 | £227,800 | £267,121 | 100 |
| 2021 | £259,000 | £327,927 | 109 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 75 |
| 2019 | £192,000 | £251,666 | 101 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 98 |
| 2017 | £192,500 | £262,551 | 106 |
| 2016 | £176,000 | £246,226 | 88 |
| 2015 | £176,000 | £248,688 | 108 |
| 2014 | £162,500 | £230,535 | 116 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 69 |
| 2012 | £208,800 | £307,328 | 72 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 95 |
| 2010 | £199,000 | £312,083 | 81 |
| 2009 | £149,000 | £239,519 | 82 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 93 |
| 2007 | £181,500 | £307,875 | 184 |
| 2006 | £173,000 | £300,306 | 165 |
| 2005 | £188,700 | £335,810 | 130 |
| 2004 | £142,200 | £258,263 | 138 |
| 2003 | £124,000 | £228,438 | 153 |
| 2002 | £94,000 | £176,860 | 181 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 147 |
| 2000 | £69,200 | £135,805 | 122 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 118 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 99 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 97 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 90 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 141 |
In cash terms the typical HX6 4 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £240,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 121%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HX6 4 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 2012 (+39.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−25.8%). 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) | −3.8% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in HX6 4
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.
The register shows 38 HX6 4 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 153 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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 HX6 4
The local authority for HX6 4 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 £240,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. 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.
How HX6 4 trades
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HX6 4 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. Within HX6, this sector trades 31% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: HX6 4 (Norland)
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What happens to HX6 4 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
HX6's current homes for sale
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% 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.
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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in HX: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the HX area, 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
Winners and losers across the HX area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 3 | £175,000 | 17 |
Zoom out to the full HX6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HX6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in HX6 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HX6 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the HX6 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HX6 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim HX6 4.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HX6 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual HX6 4 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.