Halifax house prices are built from 62,725 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £97,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +36.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.3%.
Median price paid
£97,500
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+36.4%
Change in real terms
-2.3%
Median per m²
£1,231
HM Land Registry62,725 sales10,607 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Halifax prices moved
The chart tracks the median Halifax house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 | 5 | £43,950 | £97,590 |
| 2000s | 10 | £89,350 | £162,769 |
| 2010s | 10 | £124,950 | £176,180 |
| 2020s | 7 | £162,000 | £165,522 |
The highest yearly median on record for Halifax is £188,500 in 2025; the lowest is £40,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £40,000 to £180,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,819, so the real change over the whole record is +102.7% — about +2.30% 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: +36.4% in cash against -2.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Westfield Avenue | 22 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 9 Tewit Green | 19 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £222,000 | £222,000 |
| 166 Illingworth Road | 18 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 11 Mulberry Way | 18 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £277,000 | £277,000 |
| 44 Newlands Road | 17 Jun 2026 | Detached | £515,000 | £515,000 |
| 1 Broadley Crescent | 15 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| 11 Lee Mount Gardens | 15 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £147,000 | £147,000 |
| 23 Scar Top | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 14 Hebble View | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 70 Essex Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £116,500 | £116,500 |
| 49 Parkinson Lane | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 4 Unity Terrace | 11 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £130,000 | £130,000 |
| 4 Sun Buildings | 10 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| 52 Upper Washer Lane | 10 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £248,000 | £248,000 |
| 95 Gleanings Avenue | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £192,500 | £192,500 |
| 7 SOUTH VIEW Warley Wood | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £182,000 | £182,000 |
| 44 Club Lane | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 13 Myrtle Drive | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 19 John Street | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| COCKER FARM Pepper Hill | 4 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £352,000 | £352,000 |
| 1 Lower Bank Houses | 4 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £262,000 | £262,000 |
| 37 Back Clough | 2 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £252,000 | £252,000 |
| 23 Hoults Lane | 2 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £202,000 | £202,000 |
| 22 Willowfield Terrace | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £155,000 | £155,000 |
| 33 St Georges Road | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £151,000 | £151,000 |
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 Halifax values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Westfield Avenue | £165,000 (2003) | £280,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.5% |
| 9 Tewit Green | £175,000 (2025) | £222,000 (2026) | +26.9% | +24.2% |
| 166 Illingworth Road | £85,000 (1999) | £370,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 11 Mulberry Way | £209,995 (2005) | £277,000 (2026) | +1.3% | -1.5% |
| 44 Newlands Road | £192,500 (2002) | £515,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 11 Lee Mount Gardens | £127,000 (2024) | £147,000 (2026) | +7.6% | +4.9% |
| 14 Hebble View | £113,000 (2008) | £165,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 23 Scar Top | £50,000 (1996) | £195,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +2.0% |
| 70 Essex Street | £45,500 (2004) | £116,500 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| 4 Unity Terrace | £41,000 (2003) | £130,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 49 Parkinson Lane | £75,000 (2017) | £160,000 (2026) | +8.8% | +5.1% |
| 4 Sun Buildings | £39,950 (1998) | £310,000 (2026) | +7.6% | +4.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Halifax 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 | 32,723 | 52.2% | £74,000 | £2,000 – £810,921 |
| Semi-detached | 17,242 | 27.5% | £123,000 | £5,000 – £850,000 |
| Detached | 8,425 | 13.4% | £218,500 | £8,000 – £2,150,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4,335 | 6.9% | £110,000 | £3,800 – £499,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Halifax
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 15,824 certificates cover Halifax, and their median floor area is 71 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -6.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 71 m² | about 764 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 56 m² | about 603 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 90 m² | about 969 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 29.1% | 4,603 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 6.4% | 1,014 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Halifax
4,835 of the sales on record are leasehold and 57,890 freehold — 7.7% 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 £106,500 and the median freehold sale £96,000 — a gap of -9.9%. 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 | 4,835 | 7.7% | £106,500 |
| Freehold | 57,890 | 92.3% | £96,000 |
| New build | 4,421 | 7.0% | £134,995 |
| Existing home | 58,304 | 93.0% | £94,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +42.9%. 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 4,133 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 Halifax
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bradford, 33.4% of 286,120 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 422 | 0.1% |
| B | 18,442 | 6.4% |
| C | 76,666 | 26.8% |
| D | 115,020 | 40.2% |
| E | 60,186 | 21.0% |
| F | 10,848 | 3.8% |
| G | 4,536 | 1.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bradford at £750 a month as of Jun 2026 — £553 for a one-bedroom home and £814 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £97,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.23% 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 HX3, 313 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 108 violent, 8 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 35 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 546,412 residents the 2021 census counted in Bradford, that is 0.57 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 Halifax
The 2021 census counted 546,412 residents in Bradford across 209,867 households. 62.2% of those households own their home and 37.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
17 state and independent schools have a HX3 postcode: 14 primary, 3 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Crossley Heath School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,179 |
| Lightcliffe Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 788 |
| Park Lane Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 481 |
| Northowram Primary School | Primary | Community school | 451 |
| Lightcliffe C of E Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 370 |
| Withinfields Primary School | Primary | Community school | 338 |
| Copley Primary School | Primary | Community school | 309 |
| Lee Mount Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 274 |
| Shelf Junior and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 221 |
| All Saints' CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 208 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Sowerby Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Brighouse Rail Station | Rail | 5.3 km |
| Low Moor Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
| Deighton Rail Station | Rail | 8.9 km |
Section 09
How Halifax compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Halifax sits below that national figure — -38.1%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,231 per square metre, across 10,607 of the 62,725 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £2,000 to £2,150,000. 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.
Halifax sits in Bradford, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bradford at 5.2 times median local earnings of £35,213 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 in Halifax
- Stainland Road455 sales
- Rochdale Road429 sales
- Keighley Road389 sales
- Claremount Road338 sales
- Wakefield Road319 sales
- Saddleworth Road297 sales
- Green Lane278 sales
- Moor End Road256 sales
- Warley Road229 sales
- Highroad Well Lane228 sales
- Beestonley Lane222 sales
- Heath Lea207 sales
- Burnley Road205 sales
- Dean House Lane205 sales
- Green Park Road205 sales
- Roils Head Road200 sales
- Towngate188 sales
- Gibbet Street183 sales
- Albert Promenade182 sales
- Bradshaw Lane179 sales
- Stonelea178 sales
- Prescott Street176 sales
- Queens Road174 sales
- Bradley View172 sales
- Bramley Lane168 sales
- Charlotte Close168 sales
- Shay Lane164 sales
- West View164 sales
- Heathmoor Park Road159 sales
- Spring Hall Lane159 sales
- Woodside View159 sales
- Cobblestones Drive152 sales
- Clough Lane151 sales
- Dudwell Lane151 sales
- Gleanings Avenue151 sales
- Halifax Road150 sales
- Upper Hall View148 sales
- Siddal Lane147 sales
- Mixenden Road142 sales
- Huddersfield Road139 sales
- Glen Terrace138 sales
- Skircoat Green Road138 sales
- Backhold Drive136 sales
- Keswick Close135 sales
- Savile Park Road135 sales
- Broadway131 sales
- Cooper Lane129 sales
- Pellon Lane128 sales
- Ravenstone Drive127 sales
- Gibraltar Avenue120 sales
- Sunnybank Road120 sales
- Vegal Crescent120 sales
- Cousin Lane119 sales
- Woodside Place119 sales
- Shelf Hall Lane118 sales
- Ripon Street117 sales
- Princeton Close116 sales
- Hebble Vale Drive113 sales
- Smith House Lane113 sales
- Illingworth Road112 sales
Postcode districts covering Halifax
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Halifax?
The median price paid in Halifax across every sale on the register is £97,500. 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 Halifax?
62,725 sales are on record for Halifax, the most recent completing on 22 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Halifax house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +36.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Halifax house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £188,500, set in 2025. 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 Halifax?
£1,231 per square metre, from the 10,607 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 22 Jun 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, “Halifax 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.