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Cragg Vale market report HX7 5, Hebden Bridge
The HX7 5 (Cragg Vale) 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: 2,721 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in HX7 5 (Hebden 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 typical home in HX7 5 (Hebden Bridge) sold for £230,300 in 2026, the median of 36 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £264,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,560 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,721 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like HX7 5 is a single group of streets within HX7 (Hebden Bridge), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where HX7 5 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.
HX7 5 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 36 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) HX7 5 home went for £230,300. The mean is £264,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in HX7 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HX7 5 costs about £2,560 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, HX7 5 runs 19% below it.
HX7 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,300 | £230,300 | 36 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 87 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 75 |
| 2023 | £201,000 | £220,850 | 76 |
| 2022 | £188,000 | £220,451 | 74 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 122 |
| 2020 | £177,500 | £230,310 | 46 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 57 |
| 2018 | £157,500 | £209,950 | 91 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 84 |
| 2016 | £130,200 | £182,151 | 89 |
| 2015 | £138,800 | £196,124 | 68 |
| 2014 | £136,000 | £192,940 | 87 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 78 |
| 2012 | £139,400 | £205,179 | 48 |
| 2011 | £137,500 | £207,572 | 60 |
| 2010 | £134,000 | £210,147 | 58 |
| 2009 | £129,000 | £207,369 | 72 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 45 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 121 |
| 2006 | £124,200 | £215,595 | 106 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 134 |
| 2004 | £127,000 | £230,657 | 114 |
| 2003 | £92,000 | £169,486 | 117 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 117 |
| 2001 | £69,000 | £132,649 | 97 |
| 2000 | £47,500 | £93,219 | 94 |
| 1999 | £52,200 | £104,032 | 112 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 79 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 95 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 91 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 91 |
In cash terms the typical HX7 5 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £230,300 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 121%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HX7 5 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 2001 (+45.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−16.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.7% | +2.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.9% | +2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 36 sales completed in HX7 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 113 sales a year before the financial crisis and 70 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 HX7 5
The local authority for HX7 5 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.
Set against the £230,300 median sold price, £750 a month is £9,000 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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 HX7 5 is
This is a thin market: 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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: HX7 5 (Cragg Vale)
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Where do HX7 5 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in HX7 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 10 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HX7 district, not just HX7 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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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.
Moving up a bedroom in HX: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the HX area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the HX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, HX area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in HX7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of HX7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HX7 6 | £245,000 | 17 |
| HX7 7 | £272,500 | 14 |
| HX7 8 | £247,500 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full HX7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HX7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in HX7 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HX7 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HX7 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HX7 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual HX7 5 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.
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.