Kirkgate, Batley house prices are built from 132 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 23 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £100,000. Across the 17 years from 2007 to 2024 the median moved +8.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -34.3%.
Median price paid
£100,000
Change in cash, 2007–2024
+8.6%
Change in real terms
-34.3%
HM Land Registry132 salesLatest sale 23 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Kirkgate, Batley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Kirkgate, Batley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £35,500 | £78,827 |
| 2000s | 7 | £70,725 | £128,840 |
| 2010s | 2 | £143,000 | £201,630 |
| 2020s | 2 | £157,000 | £160,413 |
The highest yearly median on record for Kirkgate, Batley is £190,000 in 2024; the lowest is £35,500 in 1998. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £35,500 to £190,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £73,610, so the real change over the whole record is +171.6% — about +3.92% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +8.6% in cash against -34.3% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 23 Jan 2026 | Detached | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 61 | 26 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 8 | 19 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 8 Grove Farm | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £475,000 | £485,326 |
| 62 | 11 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £163,000 | £171,515 |
| 21b | 7 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £187,000 | £196,769 |
| 12 | 30 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £195,000 | £205,187 |
| 21a | 30 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| 9 | 8 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| Days Yard, 39 | 27 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £103,500 | £111,828 |
| 29 | 7 Sep 2023 | Detached | £260,000 | £280,920 |
| 23 | 31 May 2023 | Terraced | £95,000 | £102,644 |
| 67 | 20 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £77,000 | £83,195 |
| 27 | 28 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £150,250 | £174,078 |
| 50 | 19 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £113,000 | £130,920 |
| 23 | 14 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £65,000 | £75,308 |
| 3 | 17 Dec 2021 | Detached | £215,000 | £271,640 |
| Days Yard, 39 | 3 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £85,000 | £107,392 |
| 30 | 21 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £137,000 | £173,091 |
| 57 | 24 Sep 2021 | Detached | £157,000 | £198,360 |
| 48 | 17 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £202,151 |
| 78 | 22 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £157,000 | £198,360 |
| 57 | 29 Jun 2020 | Detached | £107,313 | £138,945 |
| 40 | 9 Apr 2020 | Terraced | £65,000 | £84,160 |
| 51 | 7 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £205,000 | £268,135 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Kirkgate, Batley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 Kirkgate | £18,500 (1995) | £140,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 8 Kirkgate | £155,000 (2016) | £190,000 (2025) | +2.3% | -1.2% |
| 8 GROVE FARM Kirkgate | £279,950 (2004) | £475,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| 21B Kirkgate | £43,000 (1997) | £187,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 12 Kirkgate | £148,000 (2017) | £195,000 (2024) | +4.0% | +0.3% |
| 21A Kirkgate | £42,000 (2001) | £190,000 (2024) | +6.8% | +3.9% |
| 9 Kirkgate | £200,000 (2008) | £235,000 (2024) | +1.0% | -1.9% |
| DAYS YARD, 39 Kirkgate | £45,000 (2003) | £103,500 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
| 29 Kirkgate | £84,000 (1997) | £260,000 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.8% |
| 23 Kirkgate | £34,500 (2002) | £95,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 67 Kirkgate | £52,500 (2003) | £77,000 (2023) | +1.9% | -0.9% |
| 27 Kirkgate | £44,000 (2000) | £150,250 (2022) | +5.7% | +3.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Kirkgate, Batley is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 70 | 53.0% | £65,000 | £15,500 – £249,000 |
| Semi-detached | 30 | 22.7% | £106,000 | £43,000 – £370,000 |
| Detached | 25 | 18.9% | £115,000 | £30,000 – £475,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 7 | 5.3% | £155,000 | £107,000 – £340,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Kirkgate, Batley
42 of the sales on record are leasehold and 90 freehold — 31.8% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £89,500 and the median freehold sale £104,500 — a gap of +16.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 42 | 31.8% | £89,500 |
| Freehold | 90 | 68.2% | £104,500 |
| New build | 15 | 11.4% | £220,000 |
| Existing home | 117 | 88.6% | £89,995 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +144.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 9 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Kirkgate, Batley
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Kirklees, 38.7% of 198,495 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 861 | 0.4% |
| B | 15,279 | 7.7% |
| C | 60,657 | 30.6% |
| D | 82,930 | 41.8% |
| E | 30,047 | 15.1% |
| F | 6,444 | 3.2% |
| G | 2,277 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Kirklees at £780 a month as of Jun 2026 — £582 for a one-bedroom home and £864 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £100,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.36% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of WF17, 314 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 127 violent, 17 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 40 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.
Against the 433,216 residents the 2021 census counted in Kirklees, that is 0.72 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Kirkgate, Batley
The 2021 census counted 433,216 residents in Kirklees across 177,989 households. 65.9% of those households own their home and 33.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
22 state and independent schools have a WF17 postcode: 19 primary, 2 secondary, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batley Girls' High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,415 |
| Batley Grammar School | All-through | Free schools | 980 |
| Upper Batley High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 784 |
| Windmill CofE (VC) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 415 |
| Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 402 |
| Warwick Road Primary School | Primary | Community school | 362 |
| Carlinghow Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 304 |
| Lydgate Junior and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 297 |
| Staincliffe Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 274 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 258 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Batley Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Dewsbury Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Morley Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
| Ravensthorpe Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
Section 09
How Kirkgate, Batley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Kirkgate, Batley sits below that national figure — -36.5%.
Within Batley the street ranks 211 of 507 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £92,000 (+8.7%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £15,500 to £475,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Kirkgate, Batley sits in Kirklees, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Kirklees at 6.3 times median local earnings of £33,613 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Bradford Road£75,000 median
- Commonside£66,000 median
- Soothill Lane£87,725 median
- Carlinghow Lane£78,000 median
- High Street£93,000 median
- Healey Lane£78,000 median
- White Lee Road£135,000 median
- Millers Croft£125,000 median
- Lansdowne Close£58,950 median
- Grange Road£75,000 median
- Leeds Road£96,000 median
- Upper Batley Lane£147,500 median
- Phoenix Court£98,250 median
- Raikes Lane£125,500 median
- Brow Wood Road£175,000 median
- Foxglove Road£106,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 50 Kirkgate5 sales
- 21B Kirkgate4 sales
- DAYS YARD, 39 Kirkgate4 sales
- 23 Kirkgate4 sales
- 57 Kirkgate4 sales
- 48 Kirkgate4 sales
- 61 Kirkgate3 sales
- 21A Kirkgate3 sales
- 29 Kirkgate3 sales
- 67 Kirkgate3 sales
- 27 Kirkgate3 sales
- 68 Kirkgate3 sales
- 36 Kirkgate3 sales
- 63 Kirkgate3 sales
- 32 Kirkgate3 sales
- 51A Kirkgate3 sales
- 5, GROVE FARM Kirkgate3 sales
- 38 Kirkgate3 sales
- 54 Kirkgate3 sales
- 4 – 6 Kirkgate3 sales
- 8 Kirkgate2 sales
- 8, GROVE FARM Kirkgate2 sales
- 12 Kirkgate2 sales
- 9 Kirkgate2 sales
Back to Batley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Kirkgate, Batley?
The median price paid in Kirkgate, Batley across every sale on the register is £100,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Kirkgate, Batley?
132 sales are on record for Kirkgate, Batley, the most recent completing on 23 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Kirkgate, Batley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +8.6% between 2007 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -34.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Kirkgate, Batley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £190,000, set in 2024. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Kirkgate, Batley?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 23 Jan 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Kirkgate, Batley house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.