Ossett house prices

Ossett house prices are built from 11,050 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £120,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +51.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +8.5%.

HM Land Registry11,050 sales2,523 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Ossett 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Ossett is £225,000 in 2025; the lowest is £47,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £47,000 to £207,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £104,362, so the real change over the whole record is +98.8% — about +2.24% 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: +51.5% in cash against +8.5% 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 Ossett values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,807 certificates cover Ossett, and their median floor area is 70 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -7.9%. 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.

885 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10,165 freehold — 8.0% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £106,750 and the median freehold sale £123,000 — a gap of +15.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -0.4%. 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 631 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 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.

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 £120,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.80% 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 WF5, 122 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 51 violent, 1 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 22 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times quieter.

Against the 433,216 residents the 2021 census counted in Kirklees, that is 0.28 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 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.

10 state and independent schools have a WF5 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. Ossett sits below that national figure — -23.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,654 per square metre, across 2,523 of the 11,050 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 £7,000 to £925,000. 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.

Ossett 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.

Streets in Ossett

• Kingsway214 sales
• Manor Road202 sales
• Dewsbury Road177 sales
• Towngate175 sales
• Holly Approach166 sales
• Springstone Avenue164 sales
• Queens Drive153 sales
• High Street152 sales
• Wakefield Road146 sales
• Moorcroft144 sales
• Station Road139 sales
• South Parade134 sales
• Ryecroft Street130 sales
• Healey Road129 sales
• Millfields118 sales
• Sowood Avenue116 sales
• Broomcroft Road110 sales
• Whitley Spring Crescent100 sales
• Church Street96 sales
• Branstone Grove93 sales
• New Street88 sales
• Horbury Road87 sales
• Ingfield Avenue87 sales
• Broadowler Lane83 sales
• Teall Court82 sales
• Woodbine Street78 sales
• Berryfield Garth76 sales
• Teall Street76 sales
• Westfield Street76 sales
• Holly Dene75 sales
• Dale Street74 sales
• Dimple Gardens74 sales
• Ashbrook Close72 sales
• Sunnydale Gardens72 sales
• Wycliffe Street72 sales
• Wesley Street68 sales
• Deneside67 sales
• Holly Mede65 sales
• Intake Lane65 sales
• Junction Lane64 sales
• Brookdale Avenue63 sales
• Headlands Road63 sales
• Longlands Road63 sales
• Trinity View63 sales
• Woodhead Close63 sales
• Grove Street61 sales
• Mayfield Gardens61 sales
• Nettleton Street61 sales
• The Green61 sales
• Constable Drive60 sales
• Moorcroft Court59 sales
• Oldfield Close59 sales
• Spa Croft Road58 sales
• Ashmore Drive56 sales
• Healey Drive56 sales
• Bridle Lane55 sales
• Ashleigh Gardens54 sales
• Shearburn Close54 sales
• Athold Drive52 sales
• Fearnley Drive52 sales

Postcode districts covering Ossett

• WF5£120,775 median

What is the average house price in Ossett?

The median price paid in Ossett across every sale on the register is £120,000. 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 Ossett?

11,050 sales are on record for Ossett, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Ossett house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +51.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +8.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Ossett house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £225,000, 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 Ossett?

£1,654 per square metre, from the 2,523 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 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, “Ossett 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.