Local market reports › WF area › WF12
Briestfield market report WF12, Dewsbury
The WF12 (Briestfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 13,230 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF12 (Dewsbury) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WF12 (Dewsbury) came in at £195,000, out of 127 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £212,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 13,230 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district WF12 covering Briestfield, Chickenley, Dewsbury sits in Dewsbury. 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 WF12 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.
The going rate for a home in WF12
Across 127 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WF12 home went for £195,000. The mean is £212,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WF12
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WF12 sales average about £2,250 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WF12 32% below the national figure.
WF12's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £195,000 | £195,000 | 127 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 391 |
| 2024 | £186,500 | £198,288 | 426 |
| 2023 | £177,300 | £194,809 | 330 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 414 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 491 |
| 2020 | £157,000 | £203,711 | 389 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 416 |
| 2018 | £138,000 | £183,957 | 408 |
| 2017 | £141,000 | £192,310 | 446 |
| 2016 | £137,000 | £191,664 | 451 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 318 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 341 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 281 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 272 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 287 |
| 2010 | £114,500 | £179,565 | 274 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 222 |
| 2008 | £124,000 | £203,262 | 314 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 570 |
| 2006 | £112,700 | £195,633 | 564 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 476 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 555 |
| 2003 | £74,500 | £137,247 | 585 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 645 |
| 2001 | £54,000 | £103,812 | 580 |
| 2000 | £51,000 | £100,088 | 473 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 501 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 464 |
| 1997 | £44,500 | £91,261 | 420 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 431 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 368 |
In cash terms the typical WF12 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 114%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 9% 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 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 (+24.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−4.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF12 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £320,000 against £110,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, WF12
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 | £295,000 | 26 | 3,018 |
| Semi-detached | £195,500 | 59 | 5,456 |
| Terraced | £156,000 | 40 | 4,409 |
| Flats | £110,000 (2025) | – | 331 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 269 WF12 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 556 sales a year before the financial crisis and 338 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 WF12
For renting purposes WF12 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.
Against the £195,000 median purchase price, a rent of £775 a month (£9,300 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
Asked and answered: WF12 (Briestfield)
Is WF12 (Briestfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF12 (Briestfield)?
Are property prices falling in WF12 (Briestfield)?
Are WF12 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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
Everything above is what homes in WF12 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 138 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the WF12 median sold price.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Foxroyd Lane, Dewsbury, Dewsbury
- Ullswater Avenue, Hanging Heaton,Dewsbury, Dewsbury
- Kingfisher Way, Dewsbury, Dewsbury
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WF area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
WF12 ranks 9 of 17 in the WF 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.
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.
Inside WF12, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WF12 0 | £185,000 | 32 |
| WF12 7 | £226,500 | 45 |
| WF12 8 | £157,500 | 40 |
| WF12 9 | £168,500 | 10 |
How WF12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WF area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WF14 | £240,000 | +23% |
| WF3 | £235,000 | +16% |
| WF4 | £230,000 | +24% |
| WF2 | £225,000 | +7% |
| WF8 | £221,000 | +11% |
| WF5 | £207,500 | +13% |
| WF1 | £200,000 | -7% |
| WF15 | £199,500 | +21% |
| WF6 | £195,000 | +5% |
| WF12 (this report) | £195,000 | +15% |
| WF16 | £193,000 | +40% |
| WF11 | £190,000 | +31% |
| WF17 | £188,000 | +30% |
| WF7 | £187,500 | +2% |
| WF10 | £182,500 | +13% |
| WF9 | £167,800 | +12% |
| WF13 | £140,000 | +27% |
Thinking of selling in WF12? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WF12, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF12's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF12 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WF12: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF12.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF12 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WF12 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.