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Cragg Vale market report HX7, Hebden Bridge
The HX7 (Cragg Vale) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,171 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HX7 (Hebden Bridge) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in HX7 (Hebden Bridge) sold for £246,200 in 2026, the median of 98 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £277,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,750 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,171 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district HX7 covering Cragg Vale, Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall sits in Hebden Bridge. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where HX7 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 homes really sell for
In the HX7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £246,200, from 98 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £277,400, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
HX7 prices by floor area
A square metre of HX7 home has cost about £2,750 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts HX7 14% below the country at large.
The price of a typical HX7 home, 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 | £246,200 | £246,200 | 98 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 259 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 229 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 204 |
| 2022 | £210,500 | £246,835 | 236 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 334 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 193 |
| 2019 | £190,500 | £249,700 | 190 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 258 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 263 |
| 2016 | £172,000 | £240,630 | 251 |
| 2015 | £171,000 | £241,623 | 242 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 245 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 213 |
| 2012 | £139,000 | £204,591 | 159 |
| 2011 | £143,500 | £216,630 | 171 |
| 2010 | £155,000 | £243,080 | 183 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 184 |
| 2008 | £146,800 | £240,636 | 200 |
| 2007 | £162,600 | £275,815 | 324 |
| 2006 | £145,200 | £252,049 | 336 |
| 2005 | £132,000 | £234,907 | 312 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 304 |
| 2003 | £108,000 | £198,962 | 361 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 370 |
| 2001 | £72,000 | £138,416 | 330 |
| 2000 | £55,900 | £109,704 | 324 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 364 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 249 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 272 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 267 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 246 |
In cash terms the typical HX7 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £246,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 134%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the HX7 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 (+35.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.7%). 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) | −3.5% | −5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 60% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £520,000 against £160,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, HX7
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 | £520,000 | 13 | 1,120 |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | 9 | 1,484 |
| Terraced | £232,800 | 64 | 4,934 |
| Flats | £160,000 | 12 | 622 |
Transaction volumes
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 206 sales completed in HX7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 333 sales a year before the financial crisis and 205 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 HX7
For renting purposes HX7 sits in Calderdale. The ONS average private rent there is £750 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £543 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,116 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Calderdale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £246,200 median purchase price, a rent of £750 a month (£9,000 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
Reading the HX7 market
HX7 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
HX7 (Cragg Vale): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in HX7 (Cragg Vale)?
Is HX7 (Cragg Vale) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HX7 (Cragg Vale)?
Are HX7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in HX7 right now
Everything above is what homes in HX7 sold for. The live side of the market holds 10 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% above the HX7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: HX prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the HX area. 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%) | — | — |
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
HX7 ranks 4 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.
Winners and losers across the HX area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside HX7, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| HX7 5 | £230,300 | 36 |
| HX7 6 | £245,000 | 17 |
| HX7 7 | £272,500 | 14 |
| HX7 8 | £247,500 | 31 |
How HX7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the HX area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| HX7 (this report) | £246,200 | +7% |
| HX4 | £201,000 | -4% |
| HX3 | £185,100 | +7% |
| HX2 | £184,200 | +27% |
| HX6 | £183,000 | +7% |
| HX5 | £175,000 | +13% |
| HX1 | £130,000 | +43% |
Selling in HX7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HX7, open the average prices map and zoom from the HX7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HX7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working HX7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HX7.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to HX7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual HX7 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.