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Birstall market report WF17 6, Batley
The standing WF17 6 (Birstall) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,762 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF17 6 (Batley) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WF17 6 (Batley) home changed hands for £170,000 in 2026 (median of 24 registered sales, up 37% on five years earlier), with the mean at £186,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,180 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,762 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WF17 6 is one sector of WF17 (Batley): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WF17 6 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 buyers actually paid in WF17 6
The 2026 median for WF17 6 is £170,000, taken from 24 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £186,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WF17 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WF17 6 costs about £2,180 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WF17 6 40% below the national figure.
WF17 6's median sold price, 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 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £232,700 | £238,265 | 120 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 101 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 90 |
| 2022 | £143,500 | £168,270 | 72 |
| 2021 | £124,000 | £157,000 | 90 |
| 2020 | £123,500 | £160,244 | 52 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 77 |
| 2018 | £113,000 | £150,631 | 84 |
| 2017 | £111,000 | £151,393 | 92 |
| 2016 | £117,000 | £163,684 | 63 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 49 |
| 2014 | £99,000 | £140,449 | 75 |
| 2013 | £108,000 | £155,401 | 52 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 39 |
| 2011 | £109,000 | £164,548 | 54 |
| 2010 | £118,000 | £185,054 | 37 |
| 2009 | £118,000 | £189,686 | 41 |
| 2008 | £119,000 | £195,066 | 68 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 118 |
| 2006 | £107,000 | £185,738 | 112 |
| 2005 | £97,500 | £173,511 | 111 |
| 2004 | £79,200 | £143,843 | 134 |
| 2003 | £72,500 | £133,563 | 118 |
| 2002 | £48,000 | £90,312 | 143 |
| 2001 | £44,400 | £85,357 | 128 |
| 2000 | £43,500 | £85,369 | 112 |
| 1999 | £45,500 | £90,679 | 118 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 109 |
| 1997 | £34,600 | £70,958 | 114 |
| 1996 | £34,200 | £72,126 | 64 |
| 1995 | £32,800 | £71,302 | 101 |
In cash terms the typical WF17 6 home went from £32,800 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 138%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2024. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF17 6 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 (+51.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−26.9%). 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) | −26.9% | −28.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.5% | +1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.4% |
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
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 WF17 6. 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 81 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.
What kind of market WF17 6 is
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF17 6 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. Within WF17, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around WF17 6
WF17 6 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 £170,000 median sold price, £775 a month is £9,300 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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 people ask about WF17 6 (Birstall)
Is WF17 6 (Birstall) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF17 6 (Birstall)?
Are property prices falling in WF17 6 (Birstall)?
Where do WF17 6 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 37% over five years in cash and up 8% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in WF17 right now
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in WF
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WF area. 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%) | — | — |
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.
WF area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 0 | £250,000 | 49 |
| WF17 5 | £150,000 | 5 |
| 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 6? 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 6'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 6.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WF17 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WF17 6 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.