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Briestfield market report WF12 7, Dewsbury
The WF12 7 (Briestfield) 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: 4,467 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF12 7 (Dewsbury) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WF12 7 (Dewsbury) sold for £226,500 in 2026, the median of 45 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £241,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,530 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,467 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WF12 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WF12 (Dewsbury). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WF12 7 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 a home in WF12 7 sells for
Take the 45 registered 2026 sales in WF12 7 and the middle price, the median, is £226,500. The mean lands at £241,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WF12 7
Per square metre, WF12 7 homes have averaged around £2,530 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 WF12 7 trades 21% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WF12 7 home, 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 | £226,500 | £226,500 | 45 |
| 2025 | £224,500 | £229,868 | 180 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 189 |
| 2023 | £202,000 | £221,949 | 152 |
| 2022 | £208,000 | £243,904 | 178 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 197 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 168 |
| 2019 | £164,000 | £214,965 | 167 |
| 2018 | £158,000 | £210,617 | 153 |
| 2017 | £162,000 | £220,952 | 193 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 180 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 129 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 115 |
| 2013 | £121,500 | £174,826 | 90 |
| 2012 | £116,200 | £171,032 | 70 |
| 2011 | £118,000 | £178,135 | 88 |
| 2010 | £116,000 | £181,918 | 70 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 65 |
| 2008 | £134,000 | £219,654 | 83 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 162 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 140 |
| 2005 | £130,500 | £232,237 | 146 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 151 |
| 2003 | £95,000 | £175,013 | 163 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 173 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 173 |
| 2000 | £56,500 | £110,881 | 139 |
| 1999 | £54,000 | £107,619 | 181 |
| 1998 | £50,200 | £101,332 | 128 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 130 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 150 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 119 |
In cash terms the typical WF12 7 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £226,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 117%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 8% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF12 7 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 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF12 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.9% | −1.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WF12 7
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 7 recorded 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 149 sales a year recently, against 156 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market WF12 7 is
This is a thin market: 45 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. Within WF12, this sector trades 16% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around WF12 7
For renting purposes WF12 7 sits in Kirklees. The ONS average private rent there is £775 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £578 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,221, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Kirklees
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £226,500 median sold price, £775 a month is £9,300 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
Common questions on WF12 7 (Briestfield)
Are property prices falling in WF12 7 (Briestfield)?
Is WF12 7 (Briestfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF12 7 (Briestfield)?
What happens to WF12 7 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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 WF12 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 138 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF12 district, not just WF12 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Foxroyd Lane, Dewsbury, Dewsbury
- Ullswater Avenue, Hanging Heaton,Dewsbury, Dewsbury
- Kingfisher Way, Dewsbury, Dewsbury
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every WF12 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in WF: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WF 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WF12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF12 0 | £185,000 | 32 |
| 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 7? 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 7'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 7.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WF12 7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WF12 7 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.