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Hartshead market report WF15 8, Liversedge
The standing WF15 8 (Hartshead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 1,914 HM Land Registry entries for WF15 8 (Liversedge), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WF15 8 (Liversedge) sold for £187,000 in 2026, the median of 24 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £264,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,530 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,914 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WF15 8 is one sector of WF15 (Liversedge): 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 WF15 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.
Today's WF15 8 prices, from the sold record
The WF15 8 median stands at £187,000 for 2026, built from 24 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £264,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in WF15 8
The last five years of sales put WF15 8 at roughly £2,530 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WF15 8 trades 34% below the country as a whole.
A typical WF15 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £187,000 | £187,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £249,000 | £254,954 | 65 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 71 |
| 2023 | £186,000 | £204,369 | 59 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 65 |
| 2021 | £168,500 | £213,343 | 77 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 44 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 52 |
| 2018 | £151,200 | £201,552 | 56 |
| 2017 | £153,500 | £209,359 | 46 |
| 2016 | £142,000 | £198,659 | 59 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 63 |
| 2014 | £162,500 | £230,535 | 78 |
| 2013 | £139,000 | £200,007 | 43 |
| 2012 | £141,500 | £208,270 | 30 |
| 2011 | £121,000 | £182,663 | 49 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 47 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 39 |
| 2008 | £106,500 | £174,576 | 60 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 90 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 68 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 69 |
| 2004 | £133,000 | £241,554 | 98 |
| 2003 | £101,400 | £186,803 | 90 |
| 2002 | £68,000 | £127,941 | 87 |
| 2001 | £58,000 | £111,502 | 58 |
| 2000 | £50,500 | £99,106 | 58 |
| 1999 | £54,000 | £107,619 | 41 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 61 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 51 |
| 1996 | £49,200 | £103,761 | 62 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 54 |
In cash terms the typical WF15 8 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £187,000 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 83%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2015; the current median sits about 34% below that. Someone who bought at the 2015 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF15 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 (+49.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−29.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF15 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −24.9% | −26.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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
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, 24 sales completed in WF15 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 77 sales a year before the financial crisis and 57 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 homes rent for around WF15 8
The local authority for WF15 8 is Kirklees, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £775 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £187,000 median purchase price, a rent of £775 a month (£9,300 a year) works out at a 5.0% 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.
Reading the WF15 8 market
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. 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.
WF15 8 (Hartshead): the questions that come up
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Are WF15 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 WF15 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 51 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF15 district, not just WF15 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 WF15 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. 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%) | — | — |
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 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 6 | £199,500 | 26 |
| WF15 7 | £202,500 | 46 |
Zoom out to the full WF15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF15 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WF15 8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF15 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF15 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF15 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WF15 8.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WF15 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WF15 8 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.
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.