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Birstall market report WF17 7, Batley
The WF17 7 (Birstall) 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: 2,718 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF17 7 (Batley) 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: 21 registered 2026 sales put the WF17 7 (Batley) median at £170,000, up 48% on five years earlier, with a mean of £204,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,840 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,718 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WF17 7 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 7 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.
Today's WF17 7 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for WF17 7 is £170,000, taken from 21 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £204,300, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in WF17 7
A square metre of WF17 7 home has cost about £1,840 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WF17 7 40% below the country at large.
The price of a typical WF17 7 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £135,300 | £138,535 | 38 |
| 2024 | £150,000 | £159,481 | 55 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 45 |
| 2022 | £138,000 | £161,821 | 52 |
| 2021 | £115,000 | £145,605 | 74 |
| 2020 | £128,000 | £166,083 | 75 |
| 2019 | £105,000 | £137,630 | 61 |
| 2018 | £106,500 | £141,967 | 72 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 84 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 48 |
| 2015 | £95,000 | £134,235 | 58 |
| 2014 | £90,800 | £128,816 | 72 |
| 2013 | £112,000 | £161,157 | 58 |
| 2012 | £93,000 | £136,884 | 56 |
| 2011 | £94,000 | £141,904 | 65 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 62 |
| 2009 | £107,000 | £172,003 | 53 |
| 2008 | £109,500 | £179,494 | 82 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 125 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 129 |
| 2005 | £92,000 | £163,723 | 116 |
| 2004 | £83,500 | £151,652 | 147 |
| 2003 | £59,300 | £109,245 | 146 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 149 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 141 |
| 2000 | £42,800 | £83,995 | 112 |
| 1999 | £40,200 | £80,117 | 96 |
| 1998 | £39,000 | £78,724 | 118 |
| 1997 | £38,400 | £78,751 | 117 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 96 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 95 |
In cash terms the typical WF17 7 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 123%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF17 7 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 (+40.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−18.9%). 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) | +25.6% | +22.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.1% | +3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −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.
How many homes change hands in WF17 7
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.
WF17 7 recorded 21 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 133 sales a year before the financial crisis and 42 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the WF17 7 market
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF17 7 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. Within WF17, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around WF17 7
For renting purposes WF17 7 sits in Kirklees. The ONS average private rent there is £775 a month (May 2026). 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.
£775 a month is £9,300 a year, which against the £170,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. 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.
WF17 7 (Birstall): the questions that come up
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Where do WF17 7 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 48% over five years in cash and up 17% 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.
What is for sale in WF17 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 100 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF17 district, not just WF17 7: 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in WF: the cost
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WF17
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF17's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF17 0 | £250,000 | 49 |
| WF17 5 | £150,000 | 5 |
| WF17 6 | £170,000 | 24 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WF17 7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF17 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF17 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF17 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WF17 7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WF17 7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WF17 7 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.
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.