New Street, Ossett house prices

New Street, Ossett house prices are built from 88 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2023 and the most recent on 24 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £175,000.

HM Land Registry88 sales59 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Mar 2026

There are too few years of sales in New Street, Ossett to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.

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 New Street, 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. New Street, Ossett is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

83 of the sales on record are leasehold and 5 freehold — 94.3% 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 £182,000 and the median freehold sale £48,000 — a gap of -73.6%. 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 — +47.0%. 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 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.

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 £175,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.35% 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. New Street, Ossett sits above that national figure — +11.1%.

Within Ossett the street ranks 60 of 322 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £120,000 (+45.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,277 per square metre, across 59 of the 88 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 £35,000 to £290,000. 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.

New Street, 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 nearby

• Kingsway£172,625 median
• Manor Road£115,000 median
• Dewsbury Road£88,000 median
• Towngate£140,000 median
• Holly Approach£96,000 median
• Springstone Avenue£103,475 median
• Queens Drive£169,950 median
• High Street£102,250 median
• Wakefield Road£85,500 median
• Moorcroft£116,750 median
• Station Road£124,995 median
• South Parade£116,250 median
• Ryecroft Street£92,500 median
• Healey Road£120,000 median
• Millfields£83,000 median
• Sowood Avenue£115,750 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• APARTMENT 4, PROSPECT PLACE New Street5 sales
• APARTMENT 13, PROSPECT PLACE New Street4 sales
• APARTMENT 2, PROSPECT PLACE New Street4 sales
• APARTMENT 12, PROSPECT PLACE New Street4 sales
• APARTMENT 11, PROSPECT PLACE New Street3 sales
• APARTMENT 3, PROSPECT PLACE New Street3 sales
• 10 New Street3 sales
• APARTMENT 14, PROSPECT PLACE New Street3 sales
• APARTMENT 15, PROSPECT PLACE New Street3 sales
• APARTMENT 22, PROSPECT PLACE New Street3 sales
• 60, WHITAKER GRANGE New Street2 sales
• 44, WHITAKER GRANGE New Street2 sales
• 52, WHITAKER GRANGE New Street2 sales
• APARTMENT 5, PROSPECT PLACE New Street2 sales
• APARTMENT 1, PROSPECT PLACE New Street2 sales

Back to Ossett house prices.

What is the average house price in New Street, Ossett?

The median price paid in New Street, Ossett across every sale on the register is £175,000. 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 New Street, Ossett?

88 sales are on record for New Street, Ossett, the most recent completing on 24 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

When were New Street, Ossett house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £250,000, 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 New Street, Ossett?

£3,277 per square metre, from the 59 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 24 Mar 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, “New Street, 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.