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Birstall market report WF17 0, Batley
The WF17 0 (Birstall) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,727 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF17 0 (Batley) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 49 registered 2026 sales put the WF17 0 (Batley) median at £250,000, up 24% on five years earlier, with a mean of £293,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,530 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,727 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WF17 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WF17 (Batley). 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 WF17 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 a home in WF17 0 sells for
In the WF17 0 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £250,000, from 49 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £293,900, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in WF17 0
A square metre of WF17 0 home has cost about £2,530 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF17 0 sits 12% below the national market.
A typical WF17 0 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 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £222,500 | £227,821 | 90 |
| 2024 | £227,000 | £241,348 | 85 |
| 2023 | £229,000 | £251,615 | 94 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 108 |
| 2021 | £201,800 | £255,505 | 136 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 108 |
| 2019 | £156,000 | £204,479 | 117 |
| 2018 | £170,000 | £226,613 | 97 |
| 2017 | £154,200 | £210,313 | 114 |
| 2016 | £156,200 | £218,525 | 126 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 101 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 118 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 97 |
| 2012 | £133,500 | £196,495 | 68 |
| 2011 | £124,500 | £187,947 | 58 |
| 2010 | £127,500 | £199,953 | 74 |
| 2009 | £134,200 | £215,728 | 54 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 74 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 197 |
| 2006 | £137,000 | £237,814 | 175 |
| 2005 | £112,000 | £199,315 | 136 |
| 2004 | £123,000 | £223,392 | 155 |
| 2003 | £96,000 | £176,855 | 171 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 165 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 174 |
| 2000 | £71,800 | £140,908 | 178 |
| 1999 | £56,200 | £112,004 | 147 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 119 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 119 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 117 |
| 1995 | £48,200 | £104,779 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical WF17 0 home went from £48,200 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 139%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the WF17 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 2004 (+28.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.5%). 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) | +12.4% | +9.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in WF17 0
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 49 sales completed in WF17 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 169 sales a year before the financial crisis and 85 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.
Rents around WF17 0
The local authority for WF17 0 is Kirklees, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £775 a month (£9,300 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
How WF17 0 trades
This is a thin market: 49 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. Within WF17, this sector trades 33% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
WF17 0 (Birstall): the questions that come up
Is WF17 0 (Birstall) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF17 0 (Birstall)?
Are property prices falling in WF17 0 (Birstall)?
Are WF17 0 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in WF17 today
The live side of the market holds 100 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF17 district, not just WF17 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Batley, West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
- Tichbourne Street, Staincliffe Batley, Batley
- Broomsdale Road, Soothill, Batley, Batley
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every WF17 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
Real sold prices by size across the WF area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the WF area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WF area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WF17
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WF17, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF17 5 | £150,000 | 5 |
| WF17 6 | £170,000 | 24 |
| WF17 7 | £170,000 | 21 |
| WF17 8 | £158,000 | 45 |
| WF17 9 | £185,500 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full WF17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF17 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WF17 0? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF17 0's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WF17 0.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WF17 0. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WF17 0 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.
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.