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Heckmondwike market report WF16 0
The WF16 0 (Heckmondwike) 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: 2,285 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF16 0 (Heckmondwike) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WF16 0 (Heckmondwike) home changed hands for £193,000 in 2026 (median of 15 registered sales, up 44% on five years earlier), with the mean at £195,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,030 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,285 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WF16 0 is a single group of streets within WF16 (Heckmondwike), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WF16 0 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 WF16 0 homes really sell for
15 sales were registered in WF16 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £193,000. The mean works out at £195,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in WF16 0
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WF16 0 sales average about £2,030 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 WF16 0 32% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WF16 0 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £193,000 | £193,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £158,000 | £161,778 | 43 |
| 2024 | £151,500 | £161,076 | 52 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 53 |
| 2022 | £152,500 | £178,824 | 51 |
| 2021 | £134,000 | £169,661 | 79 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 85 |
| 2019 | £137,500 | £180,230 | 62 |
| 2018 | £109,000 | £145,299 | 43 |
| 2017 | £111,000 | £151,393 | 36 |
| 2016 | £111,000 | £155,290 | 69 |
| 2015 | £111,000 | £156,843 | 72 |
| 2014 | £97,000 | £137,611 | 56 |
| 2013 | £108,800 | £156,552 | 56 |
| 2012 | £107,000 | £157,491 | 36 |
| 2011 | £96,000 | £144,923 | 43 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 37 |
| 2009 | £104,000 | £167,181 | 47 |
| 2008 | £113,500 | £186,050 | 54 |
| 2007 | £123,200 | £208,982 | 140 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 143 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 125 |
| 2004 | £96,500 | £175,263 | 111 |
| 2003 | £76,500 | £140,932 | 111 |
| 2002 | £59,700 | £112,325 | 132 |
| 2001 | £51,600 | £99,198 | 89 |
| 2000 | £51,500 | £101,069 | 124 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 89 |
| 1998 | £46,200 | £93,258 | 63 |
| 1997 | £44,000 | £90,235 | 64 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 54 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 51 |
In cash terms the typical WF16 0 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £193,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 91%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 8% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF16 0 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 (+28.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−20.0%). 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) | +22.2% | +19.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.6% | +2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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, 15 sales completed in WF16 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 122 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 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.
The rental side of WF16 0
For renting purposes WF16 0 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.
Set against the £193,000 median sold price, £775 a month is £9,300 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market WF16 0 is
Only 15 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF16 0 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.
Common questions on WF16 0 (Heckmondwike)
Are property prices falling in WF16 0 (Heckmondwike)?
Is WF16 0 (Heckmondwike) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF16 0 (Heckmondwike)?
Where do WF16 0 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 44% over five years in cash and up 14% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in WF16 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 21 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF16 district, not just WF16 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
- 1a Eldon Street, Heckmondwike, Heckmondwike
- Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every WF16 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WF
Real sold prices by size across the WF area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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.
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 WF16
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF16's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF16 9 | £201,500 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full WF16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WF16 0? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF16 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF16 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF16 0 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WF16 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF16 0.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF16 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF16 0 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.
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.