Somerset Road, Huddersfield house prices

Somerset Road, Huddersfield house prices are built from 220 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 19 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £134,975. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +115.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +59.3%.

HM Land Registry220 sales35 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jan 2026

The chart tracks the median Somerset Road, Huddersfield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2023. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Somerset Road, Huddersfield is £279,500 in 2023; the lowest is £46,000 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £46,000 to £279,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,785, so the real change over the whole record is +202.6% — about +4.19% 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: +115.0% in cash against +59.3% 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.

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.

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 Somerset Road, Huddersfield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Somerset Road, Huddersfield is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

164 of the sales on record are leasehold and 56 freehold — 74.5% 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 £133,975 and the median freehold sale £143,725 — a gap of +7.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +35.9%. 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 23 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Calderdale, 34.0% of 111,312 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Calderdale at £752 a month as of Jun 2026 — £545 for a one-bedroom home and £812 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £134,975 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.69% 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 HD5, 236 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 93 violent, 6 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 33 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times busier.

Against the 206,631 residents the 2021 census counted in Calderdale, that is 1.14 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.

The 2021 census counted 206,631 residents in Calderdale across 90,476 households. 65.0% of those households own their home and 34.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

10 state and independent schools have a HD5 postcode: 9 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Somerset Road, Huddersfield sits below that national figure — -14.3%.

Within Huddersfield the street ranks 993 of 2342 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £112,500 (+20.0%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,255 per square metre, across 35 of the 220 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 £28,000 to £500,000. 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.

Somerset Road, Huddersfield sits in Calderdale, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Calderdale at 5.4 times median local earnings of £34,966 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.

Streets nearby

• Greenlea Court£142,000 median
• Long Lane£108,000 median
• Church Lane£93,500 median
• Almondbury Bank£75,000 median
• Town End£80,800 median
• Ravensknowle Road£65,500 median
• Lowerhouses Lane£87,500 median
• Dalton Green Lane£95,000 median
• Fleminghouse Lane£118,475 median
• Lascelles Hall Road£140,000 median
• Coniston Avenue£101,250 median
• Kaye Lane£165,000 median
• Beaumont Street£76,000 median
• Westgate£79,000 median
• Sunnymead£98,000 median
• Hill Top Road£70,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 117 Somerset Road5 sales
• 191A Somerset Road5 sales
• 242 Somerset Road4 sales
• 47 Somerset Road4 sales
• 102 Somerset Road4 sales
• 121 Somerset Road4 sales
• 212 Somerset Road4 sales
• 72 Somerset Road3 sales
• 159 Somerset Road3 sales
• 66 Somerset Road3 sales
• 100 Somerset Road3 sales
• 62 Somerset Road3 sales
• 156 Somerset Road3 sales
• 211 Somerset Road3 sales
• 19 Somerset Road3 sales
• 191 Somerset Road3 sales
• 107 Somerset Road3 sales
• 244 Somerset Road3 sales
• APARTMENT 17, SOMERSBURY COURT, 262 Somerset Road2 sales
• APARTMENT 3, SOMERSBURY COURT, 262 Somerset Road2 sales
• WINDY RIDGE Somerset Road2 sales
• APARTMENT 19, SOMERSBURY COURT, 262 Somerset Road2 sales
• APARTMENT 20, SOMERSBURY COURT, 262 Somerset Road2 sales
• 201 Somerset Road2 sales

Back to Huddersfield house prices.

What is the average house price in Somerset Road, Huddersfield?

The median price paid in Somerset Road, Huddersfield across every sale on the register is £134,975. 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 Somerset Road, Huddersfield?

220 sales are on record for Somerset Road, Huddersfield, the most recent completing on 19 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Somerset Road, Huddersfield house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +115.0% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +59.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Somerset Road, Huddersfield house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £279,500, set in 2023. 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 Somerset Road, Huddersfield?

£1,255 per square metre, from the 35 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 19 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, “Somerset Road, Huddersfield 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.