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Birstall market report WF17 9, Batley
The WF17 9 (Birstall) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,928 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF17 9 (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. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical WF17 9 (Batley) home changed hands for £188,500 in 2026 (median of 43 registered sales, up 40% on five years earlier), with the mean at £211,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,240 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,928 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WF17 9 is a single group of streets within WF17 (Batley), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WF17 9 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 9 sells for
In the WF17 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £188,500, from 43 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £211,500, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WF17 9
By floor space, homes in WF17 9 have sold for about £2,240 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF17 9 sits 34% below the national market.
The price of a typical WF17 9 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £188,500 | £188,500 | 43 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 101 |
| 2024 | £169,000 | £179,682 | 72 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 83 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 85 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 107 |
| 2020 | £132,200 | £171,532 | 100 |
| 2019 | £117,000 | £153,359 | 89 |
| 2018 | £116,500 | £155,297 | 86 |
| 2017 | £118,000 | £160,940 | 102 |
| 2016 | £122,800 | £171,798 | 98 |
| 2015 | £111,000 | £156,843 | 100 |
| 2014 | £111,200 | £157,757 | 72 |
| 2013 | £96,000 | £138,134 | 71 |
| 2012 | £105,000 | £154,547 | 80 |
| 2011 | £101,000 | £152,471 | 102 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 67 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 53 |
| 2008 | £112,500 | £184,411 | 50 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 118 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 111 |
| 2005 | £99,500 | £177,070 | 90 |
| 2004 | £74,000 | £134,398 | 111 |
| 2003 | £72,800 | £134,115 | 126 |
| 2002 | £51,000 | £95,956 | 135 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 111 |
| 2000 | £42,500 | £83,406 | 107 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 112 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 98 |
| 1997 | £36,200 | £74,239 | 86 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 92 |
| 1995 | £38,800 | £84,345 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical WF17 9 home went from £38,800 in 1995 to £188,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 123%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 7% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF17 9 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 (+42.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF17 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +7.7% | +5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.9% | +2.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +6.1% | +1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
The register shows 43 WF17 9 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 114 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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 kind of market WF17 9 is
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF17 9 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.
What homes rent for around WF17 9
WF17 9 falls under Kirklees, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £188,500 median purchase price, a rent of £775 a month (£9,300 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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: WF17 9 (Birstall)
Is WF17 9 (Birstall) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF17 9 (Birstall)?
Are property prices falling in WF17 9 (Birstall)?
Where do WF17 9 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 40% over five years in cash and up 10% 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.
On the market in WF17 today
The live side of the market holds 77 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF17 district, not just WF17 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 14% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Tichbourne Street, Staincliffe Batley, Batley
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- Chapel Fold, Batley, Batley
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WF prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WF area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | £205,000 | £235,000 (+15%) | £280,000 (+19%) | £350,000 (+25%) | £434,997 (+24%) |
| Semi-detached | £165,000 | £175,000 (+6%) | £190,000 (+9%) | £245,000 (+29%) | £285,000 (+16%) |
| Terraced | £110,000 | £140,000 (+27%) | £150,000 (+7%) | £195,000 (+30%) | £230,000 (+18%) |
| Flat | £85,000 | £107,000 (+26%) | £142,500 (+33%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WF17
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WF17, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF17 0 | £250,000 | 55 |
| WF17 5 | £152,000 | 8 |
| WF17 6 | £170,000 | 29 |
| WF17 7 | £170,000 | 23 |
| WF17 8 | £160,500 | 54 |
Zoom out to the full WF17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF17 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WF17 9? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF17 9'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.
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See every individual WF17 9 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.
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.