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Briestfield market report WF12 8, Dewsbury
The WF12 8 (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: 2,839 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF12 8 (Dewsbury) 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: a typical WF12 8 (Dewsbury) home changed hands for £157,500 in 2026 (median of 40 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier), with the mean at £168,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,000 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,839 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WF12 8 is a single group of streets within WF12 (Dewsbury), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WF12 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.
WF12 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for WF12 8 is £157,500, taken from 40 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £168,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WF12 8
A square metre of WF12 8 home has cost about £2,000 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF12 8 sits 45% below the national market.
The price of a typical WF12 8 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 | £157,500 | £157,500 | 40 |
| 2025 | £165,000 | £168,946 | 79 |
| 2024 | £152,000 | £161,607 | 89 |
| 2023 | £153,000 | £168,110 | 69 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 83 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 103 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 75 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 95 |
| 2018 | £117,000 | £155,963 | 101 |
| 2017 | £118,800 | £162,031 | 72 |
| 2016 | £105,500 | £147,596 | 84 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 50 |
| 2014 | £95,000 | £134,774 | 73 |
| 2013 | £99,000 | £142,451 | 43 |
| 2012 | £92,000 | £135,413 | 51 |
| 2011 | £107,000 | £161,529 | 71 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 77 |
| 2009 | £105,200 | £169,110 | 44 |
| 2008 | £115,400 | £189,165 | 102 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 159 |
| 2006 | £104,000 | £180,531 | 169 |
| 2005 | £88,800 | £158,028 | 98 |
| 2004 | £71,000 | £128,950 | 130 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 135 |
| 2002 | £46,000 | £86,549 | 137 |
| 2001 | £47,700 | £91,701 | 146 |
| 2000 | £38,500 | £75,556 | 90 |
| 1999 | £37,800 | £75,333 | 70 |
| 1998 | £36,500 | £73,678 | 95 |
| 1997 | £36,000 | £73,829 | 63 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 71 |
| 1995 | £36,200 | £78,693 | 75 |
In cash terms the typical WF12 8 home went from £36,200 in 1995 to £157,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 100%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF12 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 (+30.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−14.0%). 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) | −4.5% | −6.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in WF12 8
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 40 sales completed in WF12 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 133 sales a year before the financial crisis and 72 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.
What tenants pay around WF12 8
For renting purposes WF12 8 sits in Kirklees. The ONS average private rent there is £775 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £578 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,221 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Kirklees
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£775 a month is £9,300 a year, which against the £157,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the WF12 8 market
This is a thin market: 40 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 19% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
WF12 8 (Briestfield): the questions that come up
Is WF12 8 (Briestfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF12 8 (Briestfield)?
Are property prices falling in WF12 8 (Briestfield)?
Will WF12 8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% 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.
What is for sale in WF12 right now
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 8: 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 →
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WF area, 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%) | — | — |
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 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 7 | £226,500 | 45 |
| 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.
Before you sell in WF12 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WF12 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF12 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF12 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WF12 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF12 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WF12 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.
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.