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Heckmondwike market report WF16 9
The WF16 9 (Heckmondwike) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,616 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF16 9 (Heckmondwike) 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: 24 registered 2026 sales put the WF16 9 (Heckmondwike) median at £201,500, up 44% on five years earlier, with a mean of £197,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,110 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,616 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WF16 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WF16 (Heckmondwike). 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 WF16 9 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 9 homes really sell for
Take the 24 registered 2026 sales in WF16 9 and the middle price, the median, is £201,500. The mean lands at £197,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in WF16 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WF16 9 costs about £2,110 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WF16 9 29% below the country at large.
The price of a typical WF16 9 home, 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 | £201,500 | £201,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 91 |
| 2024 | £172,500 | £183,403 | 90 |
| 2023 | £155,500 | £170,857 | 73 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 95 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 107 |
| 2020 | £126,500 | £164,136 | 83 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 100 |
| 2018 | £117,500 | £156,630 | 105 |
| 2017 | £124,900 | £170,351 | 89 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 107 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 98 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 82 |
| 2013 | £94,000 | £135,257 | 77 |
| 2012 | £127,500 | £187,664 | 82 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 86 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 103 |
| 2009 | £124,800 | £200,617 | 62 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 108 |
| 2007 | £119,000 | £201,857 | 166 |
| 2006 | £114,500 | £198,757 | 138 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 163 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 172 |
| 2003 | £69,500 | £128,036 | 190 |
| 2002 | £55,500 | £104,423 | 182 |
| 2001 | £47,500 | £91,316 | 163 |
| 2000 | £50,500 | £99,106 | 126 |
| 1999 | £52,000 | £103,633 | 151 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 139 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 135 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 117 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 112 |
In cash terms the typical WF16 9 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £201,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 116%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the WF16 9 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 (+25.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−26.3%). 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) | +15.1% | +12.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.6% | +2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +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
Sales per year, counted
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 WF16 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 163 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 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 homes rent for around WF16 9
WF16 9 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.
£775 a month is £9,300 a year, which against the £201,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
What kind of market WF16 9 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.
Asked and answered: WF16 9 (Heckmondwike)
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Where do WF16 9 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 44% over five years in cash and up 14% 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.
On the market in WF16 today
The live side of the market holds 21 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF16 district, not just WF16 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
- 1a Eldon Street, Heckmondwike, Heckmondwike
- Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
"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 WF16 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WF: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WF area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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 WF16
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WF16, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF16 0 | £193,000 | 15 |
Zoom out to the full WF16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WF16 9? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WF16 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF16 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF16 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WF16 9.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF16 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF16 9 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.
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.