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Battyeford market report WF14 8, Mirfield
The WF14 8 (Battyeford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,619 registered sales in WF14 8 (Mirfield) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical WF14 8 (Mirfield) home changed hands for £215,500 in 2026 (median of 24 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier), with the mean at £234,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,680 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,619 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WF14 8 is one sector of WF14 (Mirfield): 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 WF14 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.
WF14 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for WF14 8 is £215,500, taken from 24 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £234,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WF14 8
A square metre of WF14 8 home has cost about £2,680 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WF14 8 trades 24% below the country as a whole.
WF14 8'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £215,500 | £215,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 88 |
| 2024 | £242,500 | £257,827 | 114 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 69 |
| 2022 | £227,500 | £266,770 | 87 |
| 2021 | £177,500 | £224,738 | 103 |
| 2020 | £177,500 | £230,310 | 73 |
| 2019 | £159,000 | £208,411 | 117 |
| 2018 | £202,000 | £269,270 | 81 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 93 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 69 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 61 |
| 2014 | £165,400 | £234,649 | 74 |
| 2013 | £182,800 | £263,031 | 52 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 45 |
| 2011 | £137,500 | £207,572 | 40 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 55 |
| 2009 | £127,500 | £204,957 | 61 |
| 2008 | £127,500 | £208,999 | 56 |
| 2007 | £132,500 | £224,757 | 170 |
| 2006 | £137,000 | £237,814 | 149 |
| 2005 | £131,800 | £234,551 | 103 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 91 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 86 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 89 |
| 2001 | £66,000 | £126,882 | 76 |
| 2000 | £79,000 | £155,038 | 94 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 119 |
| 1998 | £61,000 | £123,133 | 100 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 83 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 45 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical WF14 8 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £215,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 111%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2010, and today's median remains roughly 28% under it: a 2010 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF14 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 2010 (+49.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−27.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −15.5% | −17.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in WF14 8
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in WF14 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 107 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 a year over the last five. 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 tenants pay around WF14 8
WF14 8 falls under Kirklees, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £775 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £215,500 median purchase price, a rent of £775 a month (£9,300 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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.
What kind of market WF14 8 is
This is a thin market: 24 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the WF14 district median, WF14 8 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
WF14 8 (Battyeford): the questions that come up
Is WF14 8 (Battyeford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF14 8 (Battyeford)?
Are property prices falling in WF14 8 (Battyeford)?
What happens to WF14 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% 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 you could buy in WF14 now
Turning to what is actually available: 127 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF14 district, not just WF14 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 WF14 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.
What another bedroom costs 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the WF area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WF14
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF14's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF14 0 | £245,000 | 45 |
| WF14 9 | £242,000 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full WF14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF14 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WF14 8? 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 WF14 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF14 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF14 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 WF14 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF14 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF14 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.