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Norland market report HX6, Sowerby Bridge
The standing HX6 (Norland) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 11,548 registered sales in HX6 (Sowerby Bridge) 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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in HX6 (Sowerby Bridge) sold for £183,000 in 2026, the median of 119 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £228,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,240 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 11,548 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
HX6 is a postcode district covering Norland, Ripponden, Rishworth in Sowerby Bridge. 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 HX6 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 HX6
The 2026 median for HX6 is £183,000, taken from 119 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £228,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in HX6
Per square metre, HX6 homes have averaged around £2,240 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so HX6 trades 36% below the country as a whole.
HX6's median sold price, 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 | £183,000 | £183,000 | 119 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 338 |
| 2024 | £172,000 | £182,871 | 299 |
| 2023 | £172,800 | £189,865 | 284 |
| 2022 | £173,000 | £202,862 | 341 |
| 2021 | £171,000 | £216,508 | 395 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 258 |
| 2019 | £168,000 | £220,208 | 397 |
| 2018 | £153,000 | £203,952 | 365 |
| 2017 | £147,000 | £200,493 | 354 |
| 2016 | £134,800 | £188,587 | 317 |
| 2015 | £128,000 | £180,864 | 337 |
| 2014 | £124,000 | £175,916 | 342 |
| 2013 | £119,500 | £171,949 | 258 |
| 2012 | £121,500 | £178,833 | 226 |
| 2011 | £118,500 | £178,889 | 260 |
| 2010 | £127,400 | £199,796 | 248 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 253 |
| 2008 | £127,000 | £208,180 | 273 |
| 2007 | £138,000 | £234,086 | 576 |
| 2006 | £125,500 | £217,852 | 610 |
| 2005 | £117,000 | £208,213 | 449 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 504 |
| 2003 | £81,000 | £149,222 | 605 |
| 2002 | £61,500 | £115,712 | 557 |
| 2001 | £52,000 | £99,967 | 484 |
| 2000 | £46,600 | £91,453 | 412 |
| 1999 | £43,800 | £87,291 | 383 |
| 1998 | £43,700 | £88,212 | 333 |
| 1997 | £45,400 | £93,106 | 335 |
| 1996 | £39,700 | £83,726 | 294 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 342 |
In cash terms the typical HX6 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £183,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 110%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HX6 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 2003 (+31.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.7% | −5.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 51% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £436,200 against £128,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, HX6
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 | £436,200 | 18 | 1,794 |
| Semi-detached | £239,200 | 26 | 2,175 |
| Terraced | £167,500 | 62 | 5,912 |
| Flats | £128,000 | 13 | 1,667 |
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
HX6 recorded 261 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 525 sales a year before the financial crisis and 276 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 tenants pay around HX6
For renting purposes HX6 sits in Calderdale. The ONS average private rent there is £750 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £183,000 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.
Common questions on HX6 (Norland)
Is HX6 (Norland) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HX6 (Norland)?
Are property prices falling in HX6 (Norland)?
Will HX6 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in HX6 now
Everything above is what homes in HX6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 44 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the HX6 median sold price.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 →
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
HX6 ranks 5 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside HX6, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HX6 1 | £160,000 | 24 |
| HX6 2 | £167,800 | 40 |
| HX6 3 | £175,000 | 17 |
| HX6 4 | £240,500 | 38 |
How HX6 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 | £185,100 | +7% |
| HX2 | £184,200 | +27% |
| HX6 (this report) | £183,000 | +7% |
| HX5 | £175,000 | +13% |
| HX1 | £130,000 | +43% |
Selling in HX6? 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 HX6'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.
Estate agents working HX6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HX6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HX6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual HX6 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.