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Cragg Vale market report HX7 8, Hebden Bridge
The HX7 8 (Cragg Vale) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,416 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in HX7 8 (Hebden Bridge) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
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 HX7 8 (Hebden Bridge) came in at £247,500, out of 31 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £279,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,840 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,416 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
HX7 8 is one sector of HX7 (Hebden 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 HX7 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 HX7 8 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for HX7 8 is £247,500, taken from 31 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £279,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in HX7 8
A square metre of HX7 8 home has cost about £2,840 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so HX7 8 trades 13% below the country as a whole.
A typical HX7 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £247,500 | £247,500 | 31 |
| 2025 | £257,300 | £263,453 | 63 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 66 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 59 |
| 2022 | £195,000 | £228,660 | 72 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 90 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 63 |
| 2019 | £171,000 | £224,140 | 64 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 76 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 76 |
| 2016 | £185,800 | £259,936 | 81 |
| 2015 | £186,500 | £263,525 | 100 |
| 2014 | £162,500 | £230,535 | 64 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 63 |
| 2012 | £159,800 | £235,206 | 58 |
| 2011 | £121,500 | £183,418 | 50 |
| 2010 | £157,500 | £247,001 | 62 |
| 2009 | £141,200 | £226,980 | 46 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 77 |
| 2007 | £156,000 | £264,619 | 109 |
| 2006 | £145,200 | £252,049 | 98 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 83 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 91 |
| 2003 | £113,000 | £208,173 | 105 |
| 2002 | £74,200 | £139,607 | 99 |
| 2001 | £69,500 | £133,610 | 112 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 89 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 106 |
| 1998 | £53,600 | £108,195 | 62 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 65 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 72 |
| 1995 | £47,800 | £103,910 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical HX7 8 home went from £47,800 in 1995 to £247,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 138%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HX7 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 2003 (+52.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−24.7%). 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) | −3.8% | −6.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 HX7 8
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, 31 sales completed in HX7 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 98 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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 HX7 8
For renting purposes HX7 8 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 £247,500 median purchase price, a rent of £750 a month (£9,000 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
The shape of the HX7 8 market
This is a thin market: 31 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.
Common questions on HX7 8 (Cragg Vale)
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Searches that land here, answered
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: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £247,500 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
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Where do HX7 8 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
HX7's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 10 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HX7 district, not just HX7 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 HX7 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.
Moving up a bedroom in HX: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the HX area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in HX7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of HX7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HX7 5 | £230,300 | 36 |
| HX7 6 | £245,000 | 17 |
| HX7 7 | £272,500 | 14 |
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 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at HX7 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 HX7 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to HX7 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual HX7 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.