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Briestfield market report WF12 0, Dewsbury
The WF12 0 (Briestfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,571 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF12 0 (Dewsbury) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 32 registered 2026 sales put the WF12 0 (Dewsbury) median at £185,000, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £238,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,190 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,571 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WF12 0 is one sector of WF12 (Dewsbury): 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 WF12 0 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.
WF12 0 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 32 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WF12 0 home went for £185,000. The mean is £238,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in WF12 0
A square metre of WF12 0 home has cost about £2,190 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 WF12 0 35% below the country at large.
WF12 0's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £193,500 | £198,127 | 94 |
| 2024 | £182,500 | £194,035 | 90 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 71 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 113 |
| 2021 | £183,000 | £231,702 | 147 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 89 |
| 2019 | £143,500 | £188,094 | 105 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 113 |
| 2017 | £137,500 | £187,536 | 117 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 133 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 103 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 96 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 77 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 88 |
| 2011 | £114,000 | £172,096 | 65 |
| 2010 | £109,000 | £170,940 | 63 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 56 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 83 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 156 |
| 2006 | £117,500 | £203,965 | 158 |
| 2005 | £103,500 | £184,188 | 128 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 160 |
| 2003 | £68,500 | £126,194 | 169 |
| 2002 | £58,000 | £109,126 | 207 |
| 2001 | £54,000 | £103,812 | 159 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 129 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 132 |
| 1998 | £49,800 | £100,525 | 122 |
| 1997 | £45,500 | £93,311 | 118 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 113 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical WF12 0 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 98%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF12 0 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 2004 (+24.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−19.3%). 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) | −4.4% | −6.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
WF12 0 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 158 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around WF12 0
For renting purposes WF12 0 sits in Kirklees. The ONS average private rent there is £775 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £578 a month here against £1,221 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Kirklees
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £185,000 median purchase price, a rent of £775 a month (£9,300 a year) works out at a 5.0% 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.
How WF12 0 trades
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF12 0 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.
Asked and answered: WF12 0 (Briestfield)
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How much did a house sell for in WF12 0 (Briestfield)?
Are property prices falling in WF12 0 (Briestfield)?
Where do WF12 0 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WF12's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 138 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF12 district, not just WF12 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Foxroyd Lane, Dewsbury, Dewsbury
- Ullswater Avenue, Hanging Heaton,Dewsbury, Dewsbury
- Kingfisher Way, Dewsbury, Dewsbury
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 WF12 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WF
Real sold prices by size across the WF area, straight 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 | — | £242,000 | £332,000 (+37%) | £473,725 (+43%) | £650,000 (+37%) |
| Semi-detached | £170,000 | £184,000 (+8%) | £228,000 (+24%) | £282,000 (+24%) | £362,500 (+29%) |
| Terraced | £125,000 | £144,000 (+15%) | £171,000 (+19%) | £225,250 (+32%) | £291,000 (+29%) |
| Flat | £92,500 | £125,000 (+35%) | £165,000 (+32%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WF area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, WF area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WF12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF12's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF12 7 | £226,500 | 45 |
| WF12 8 | £157,500 | 40 |
| WF12 9 | £168,500 | 10 |
Zoom out to the full WF12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF12 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WF12 0? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF12 0'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 WF12 0.
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The live map plots every individual WF12 0 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.
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.