Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,201 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF16 (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 April 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
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
Click the map to open WF16 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£215,000median sold price, 2026
+59%five-year change (cash)
127sales in the last 12 months
4.3%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in WF16 sells for
The 2026 median in WF16 is £215,000, from 23 registered sales; the mean, £201,900, sits below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so WF16 trades 22% below the country as a whole.
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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£215,000
£215,000
23
2025
£165,000
£165,000
158
2024
£161,500
£167,698
170
2023
£152,000
£163,110
160
2022
£150,000
£171,784
173
2021
£135,000
£166,935
211
2020
£137,000
£173,609
193
2019
£125,000
£160,019
202
2018
£110,000
£143,208
167
2017
£119,000
£158,514
157
2016
£118,000
£161,228
192
2015
£103,000
£142,140
191
2014
£102,000
£141,325
155
2013
£95,000
£133,503
139
2012
£121,000
£173,938
119
2011
£110,000
£162,179
129
2010
£123,300
£188,850
140
2009
£115,000
£180,546
109
2008
£125,000
£200,116
162
2007
£121,000
£200,456
307
2006
£115,000
£194,963
281
2005
£99,000
£172,065
288
2004
£89,000
£157,866
283
2003
£72,000
£129,544
301
2002
£57,000
£104,740
314
2001
£49,000
£92,000
252
2000
£51,000
£97,750
250
1999
£52,500
£102,186
240
1998
£48,000
£94,629
202
1997
£45,500
£91,132
199
1996
£43,000
£88,567
171
1995
£45,000
£95,538
163
In cash terms the typical WF16 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 125%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
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 2026 (+30.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−21.5%). 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)
+30.3%
+30.3%
5 years (since 2021)
+9.8%
+5.2%
10 years (since 2016)
+6.2%
+2.9%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.2%
+0.5%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WF16 recorded 127 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 285 sales a year before the financial crisis and 137 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
WF16 falls under Kirklees, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £215,000 median sold price, £775 a month is £9,300 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Will WF16 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 59% over five years in cash and up 29% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and 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.
Five-year change in the median, WF area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WF16, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.