Shay Lane, Halifax house prices are built from 164 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £69,973. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +80.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +30.8%.
Median price paid
£69,973
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+80.6%
Change in real terms
+30.8%
Median per m²
£1,068
HM Land Registry164 sales50 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Shay Lane, Halifax prices moved
The chart tracks the median Shay Lane, Halifax house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | £35,000 | £77,717 |
| 2000s | 6 | £64,498 | £117,495 |
| 2010s | 4 | £77,500 | £109,275 |
| 2020s | 3 | £116,000 | £118,522 |
The highest yearly median on record for Shay Lane, Halifax is £130,000 in 2025; the lowest is £31,000 in 1998. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £34,000 to £130,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £75,496, so the real change over the whole record is +75.9% — about +1.90% 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: +80.6% in cash against +30.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 232 | 27 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £110,000 | £112,391 |
| 98 | 7 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 78 | 24 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £171,000 | £174,717 |
| 309 | 21 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £130,000 | £132,826 |
| 153 | 7 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 74 | 11 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 84 | 4 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £137,500 | £144,683 |
| 177 – 179 | 11 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 299 | 25 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £76,000 | £82,115 |
| 106 | 17 Jul 2023 | Detached | £185,000 | £199,885 |
| 169 | 1 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £109,000 | £117,770 |
| 183 | 22 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £62,500 | £72,412 |
| 23 | 9 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £49,000 | £56,771 |
| 92 | 11 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £116,000 | £134,396 |
| 88 | 22 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £130,000 | £150,616 |
| 84 | 30 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £130,000 | £150,616 |
| 13 | 25 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £106,000 | £122,810 |
| 11 | 7 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 86 | 29 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £120,000 | £151,613 |
| 232 | 29 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £82,500 | £104,234 |
| 295 | 24 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £105,000 | £132,661 |
| 72 | 29 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £110,350 | £139,421 |
| 169 | 7 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £55,000 | £69,489 |
| 309 | 25 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £95,000 | £123,003 |
| 84 | 10 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £110,000 | £142,424 |
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 Shay Lane, Halifax values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 232 Shay Lane | £50,500 (2003) | £110,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| 78 Shay Lane | £47,000 (2002) | £171,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +2.9% |
| 309 Shay Lane | £49,950 (2003) | £130,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 153 Shay Lane | £36,000 (1998) | £270,000 (2025) | +7.7% | +5.0% |
| 74 Shay Lane | £88,000 (2005) | £160,000 (2024) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
| 84 Shay Lane | £35,500 (1998) | £137,500 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 177 – 179 Shay Lane | £38,500 (1996) | £170,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.8% |
| 169 Shay Lane | £35,500 (1995) | £109,000 (2023) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| 183 Shay Lane | £21,000 (1998) | £62,500 (2022) | +4.6% | +2.1% |
| 88 Shay Lane | £27,000 (1996) | £130,000 (2022) | +6.2% | +3.7% |
| 13 Shay Lane | £55,000 (2004) | £106,000 (2022) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 86 Shay Lane | £34,500 (1999) | £120,000 (2021) | +5.8% | +3.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Shay Lane, 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 | 141 | 86.0% | £68,000 | £13,000 – £325,000 |
| Semi-detached | 19 | 11.6% | £130,000 | £36,000 – £270,000 |
| Detached | 4 | 2.4% | £76,000 | £27,500 – £185,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Shay Lane, Halifax
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 164 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 164 | 100.0% | £69,973 |
A further 26 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 Shay Lane, 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 £69,973 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.86% 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 Shay Lane, 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 Shay Lane, Halifax compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Shay Lane, Halifax sits below that national figure — -55.6%.
Within Halifax the street ranks 1398 of 1914 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £97,500 (-28.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,068 per square metre, across 50 of the 164 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 £13,000 to £325,000. 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.
Shay Lane, 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 nearby
- Claremount Road£94,250 median
- Wakefield Road£155,000 median
- Green Park Road£152,000 median
- Albert Promenade£149,998 median
- Bramley Lane£155,000 median
- Dudwell Lane£151,000 median
- Halifax Road£110,553 median
- Upper Hall View£156,950 median
- Siddal Lane£80,200 median
- Huddersfield Road£149,000 median
- Glen Terrace£97,400 median
- Skircoat Green Road£169,225 median
- Backhold Drive£65,000 median
- Keswick Close£85,000 median
- Broadway£92,000 median
- Cooper Lane£100,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 232 Shay Lane5 sales
- 309 Shay Lane5 sales
- 88 Shay Lane5 sales
- 84 Shay Lane4 sales
- 86 Shay Lane4 sales
- 29 Shay Lane4 sales
- 68 Shay Lane4 sales
- 207 Shay Lane4 sales
- 78 Shay Lane3 sales
- 153 Shay Lane3 sales
- 74 Shay Lane3 sales
- 177 – 179 Shay Lane3 sales
- 169 Shay Lane3 sales
- 183 Shay Lane3 sales
- 13 Shay Lane3 sales
- 75 Shay Lane3 sales
- 271 Shay Lane3 sales
- 173 Shay Lane3 sales
- 311 Shay Lane3 sales
- 71 Shay Lane3 sales
- 76 Shay Lane3 sales
- 73 Shay Lane3 sales
- 175 Shay Lane3 sales
- 79 Shay Lane3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Shay Lane, Halifax?
The median price paid in Shay Lane, Halifax across every sale on the register is £69,973. 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 Shay Lane, Halifax?
164 sales are on record for Shay Lane, Halifax, the most recent completing on 27 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Shay Lane, Halifax house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +80.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +30.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Shay Lane, Halifax house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £130,000, 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 Shay Lane, Halifax?
£1,068 per square metre, from the 50 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 27 Nov 2025. 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, “Shay Lane, 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.