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Heckmondwike market report WF16
The WF16 (Heckmondwike) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,901 registered sales in WF16 (Heckmondwike) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 39 registered 2026 sales put the WF16 (Heckmondwike) median at £193,000, up 40% on five years earlier, with a mean of £196,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,080 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,901 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WF16 is the postcode district covering Heckmondwike in Heckmondwike. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WF16 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 a home in WF16 sells for
39 sales were registered in WF16 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £193,000. The mean works out at £196,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in WF16
Per square metre, WF16 homes have averaged around £2,080 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WF16 32% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WF16 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year 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 | 39 |
| 2025 | £170,000 | £174,065 | 134 |
| 2024 | £164,800 | £175,216 | 142 |
| 2023 | £159,000 | £174,702 | 126 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 146 |
| 2021 | £137,500 | £174,093 | 186 |
| 2020 | £142,000 | £184,248 | 168 |
| 2019 | £129,500 | £169,744 | 162 |
| 2018 | £113,500 | £151,298 | 148 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 125 |
| 2016 | £119,000 | £166,482 | 176 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 170 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 138 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 133 |
| 2012 | £120,500 | £177,361 | 118 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 129 |
| 2010 | £123,300 | £193,366 | 140 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 109 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 162 |
| 2007 | £120,500 | £204,402 | 306 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 281 |
| 2005 | £99,000 | £176,180 | 288 |
| 2004 | £89,000 | £161,641 | 283 |
| 2003 | £72,000 | £132,641 | 301 |
| 2002 | £57,000 | £107,245 | 314 |
| 2001 | £49,000 | £94,200 | 252 |
| 2000 | £51,000 | £100,088 | 250 |
| 1999 | £52,500 | £104,630 | 240 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 202 |
| 1997 | £45,500 | £93,311 | 199 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 171 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 163 |
In cash terms the typical WF16 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £193,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 97%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF16 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 (+26.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−21.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £248,500 against £70,000 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, WF16
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £230,000 | 13 | 989 |
| Semi-detached | £187,000 | 20 | 2,472 |
| Terraced | £128,000 | 5 | 2,149 |
| Flats | £70,000 (2025) | – | 269 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +13.5% | +10.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.0% | +2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 97 WF16 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 284 sales a year before the financial crisis and 117 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 shape of the WF16 market
Only 97 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF16 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around WF16
The local authority for WF16 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 £193,000 median purchase price, a rent of £775 a month (£9,300 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
Asked and answered: WF16 (Heckmondwike)
Is WF16 (Heckmondwike) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF16 (Heckmondwike)?
Are property prices falling in WF16 (Heckmondwike)?
Are WF16 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 40% over five years in cash and up 11% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WF16 right now
Everything above is what homes in WF16 sold for. The live side of the market holds 21 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% below the WF16 median sold price.
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.
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"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.
What another bedroom costs in WF
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WF area, 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WF16 ranks 1 of 17 in the WF area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside WF16, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF16 0 | £193,000 | 15 |
| WF16 9 | £201,500 | 24 |
How WF16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WF area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WF14 | £240,000 | +23% |
| WF3 | £235,000 | +16% |
| WF4 | £230,000 | +24% |
| WF2 | £225,000 | +7% |
| WF8 | £221,000 | +11% |
| WF5 | £207,500 | +13% |
| WF1 | £200,000 | -7% |
| WF15 | £199,500 | +21% |
| WF6 | £195,000 | +5% |
| WF12 | £195,000 | +15% |
| WF16 (this report) | £193,000 | +40% |
| WF11 | £190,000 | +31% |
| WF17 | £188,000 | +30% |
| WF7 | £187,500 | +2% |
| WF10 | £182,500 | +13% |
| WF9 | £167,800 | +12% |
| WF13 | £140,000 | +27% |
Selling a home in WF16? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF16, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF16 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF16 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
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The live map plots every individual WF16 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.
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.