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Hartshead market report WF15 6, Liversedge
The standing WF15 6 (Hartshead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,570 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF15 6 (Liversedge) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: the middle 2026 sale in WF15 6 (Liversedge) came in at £199,500, out of 26 registered, up 38% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £229,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,270 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,570 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WF15 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WF15 (Liversedge). 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 WF15 6 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 buyers actually paid in WF15 6
The WF15 6 median stands at £199,500 for 2026, built from 26 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £229,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in WF15 6
By floor space, homes in WF15 6 have sold for about £2,270 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF15 6 sits 30% below the national market.
A typical WF15 6 home, priced year by year (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 | £199,500 | £199,500 | 26 |
| 2025 | £170,000 | £174,065 | 67 |
| 2024 | £165,000 | £175,429 | 69 |
| 2023 | £140,000 | £153,826 | 50 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 81 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 96 |
| 2020 | £131,000 | £169,975 | 71 |
| 2019 | £128,000 | £167,777 | 85 |
| 2018 | £112,500 | £149,965 | 66 |
| 2017 | £121,500 | £165,714 | 84 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 62 |
| 2015 | £113,000 | £159,669 | 73 |
| 2014 | £96,000 | £136,193 | 69 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 46 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 52 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 40 |
| 2010 | £102,000 | £159,962 | 56 |
| 2009 | £113,500 | £182,452 | 52 |
| 2008 | £107,800 | £176,707 | 72 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 115 |
| 2006 | £117,500 | £203,965 | 130 |
| 2005 | £103,800 | £184,722 | 100 |
| 2004 | £87,000 | £158,009 | 97 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 133 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 115 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 107 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 85 |
| 1999 | £42,500 | £84,700 | 91 |
| 1998 | £39,700 | £80,137 | 90 |
| 1997 | £42,400 | £86,954 | 96 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 83 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical WF15 6 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £199,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 129%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the WF15 6 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 (+33.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−12.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +17.4% | +14.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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, 26 sales completed in WF15 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 110 sales a year before the financial crisis and 59 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.
How WF15 6 trades
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF15 6 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.
The rental side of WF15 6
WF15 6 falls under Kirklees, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £775 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£775 a month is £9,300 a year, which against the £199,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. 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.
Common questions on WF15 6 (Hartshead)
Is WF15 6 (Hartshead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF15 6 (Hartshead)?
Are property prices falling in WF15 6 (Hartshead)?
Are WF15 6 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% 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 WF15 now
The live side of the market holds 51 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF15 district, not just WF15 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 WF15 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.
What another bedroom costs in WF
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WF area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
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 WF15
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF15's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF15 7 | £202,500 | 46 |
| WF15 8 | £187,000 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full WF15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF15 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WF15 6? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF15 6'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 WF15 6.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WF15 6. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WF15 6 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.