Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett house prices are built from 100 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 18 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £151,250. Across the 17 years from 2007 to 2024 the median moved +51.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -8.3%.
Median price paid
£151,250
Change in cash, 2007–2024
+51.5%
Change in real terms
-8.3%
Median per m²
£2,422
HM Land Registry100 sales30 with floor areaLatest sale 18 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett prices moved
The chart tracks the median Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2024. 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 | 2 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 4 | £75,950 | £138,359 |
| 2010s | 1 | £168,000 | £236,880 |
| 2020s | 1 | £250,000 | £255,435 |
The highest yearly median on record for Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett is £250,000 in 2024; the lowest is £60,000 in 1998. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £60,000 to £250,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £124,412, so the real change over the whole record is +111.4% — about +2.92% 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 -8.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 18 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 66 | 14 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £228,000 | £232,957 |
| 41 | 16 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £241,700 | £246,954 |
| 43 | 9 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 54 | 1 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 88 | 16 Aug 2024 | Detached | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 35 | 26 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| 27 | 5 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 59 | 15 Sep 2023 | Detached | £255,750 | £276,328 |
| 48 | 30 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £252,000 | £272,276 |
| 19 | 24 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £280,920 |
| 42 | 30 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| 40 | 2 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £220,131 |
| 3 | 21 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £382,334 |
| 31 | 6 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £364,955 |
| 25 | 29 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 50 | 14 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 22 | 26 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £171,500 | £216,680 |
| 28 | 12 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £208,468 |
| 25 | 7 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £100,000 | £129,477 |
| 65 | 24 Jul 2020 | Detached | £320,000 | £414,325 |
| 45 | 18 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £182,500 | £238,706 |
| 54 | 22 Aug 2019 | Semi-detached | £199,950 | £261,530 |
| 38 | 10 Aug 2017 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £156,515 |
| 59 | 26 May 2017 | Detached | £192,000 | £261,313 |
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 Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Whitley Spring Crescent | £170,000 (2016) | £280,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.1% |
| 66 Whitley Spring Crescent | £144,950 (2007) | £228,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| 41 Whitley Spring Crescent | £123,000 (2003) | £241,700 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
| 43 Whitley Spring Crescent | £57,000 (1998) | £210,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 54 Whitley Spring Crescent | £71,950 (2002) | £250,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +2.9% |
| 88 Whitley Spring Crescent | £155,000 (2016) | £250,000 (2024) | +6.2% | +2.5% |
| 27 Whitley Spring Crescent | £68,500 (1999) | £325,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 59 Whitley Spring Crescent | £186,000 (2006) | £255,750 (2023) | +1.9% | -1.1% |
| 48 Whitley Spring Crescent | £59,950 (1998) | £252,000 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 19 Whitley Spring Crescent | £60,000 (1998) | £260,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 42 Whitley Spring Crescent | £153,500 (2007) | £200,000 (2023) | +1.7% | -1.3% |
| 3 Whitley Spring Crescent | £73,000 (2000) | £330,000 (2022) | +7.1% | +4.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 76 | 76.0% | £147,000 | £14,250 – £330,000 |
| Detached | 22 | 22.0% | £155,000 | £60,000 – £320,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 2.0% | £47,500 | £47,500 – £245,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 100 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 | 100 | 100.0% | £151,250 |
A further 1 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 Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 861 | 0.4% |
| B | 15,279 | 7.7% |
| C | 60,657 | 30.6% |
| D | 82,930 | 41.8% |
| E | 30,047 | 15.1% |
| F | 6,444 | 3.2% |
| G | 2,277 | 1.1% |
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 £151,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.19% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ossett Academy and Sixth Form College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,699 |
| Ossett South Parade Primary | Primary | Community school | 418 |
| Ossett Holy Trinity CofE VA Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 341 |
| Ossett Southdale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 336 |
| Towngate Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 311 |
| Gawthorpe Community Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 231 |
| Dimple Well Infant School and Nursery | Primary | Foundation school | 161 |
| St Ignatius Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 138 |
| Ossett Flushdyke Junior and Infant School | Primary | Foundation school | 111 |
| South Ossett Infant Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 71 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Dewsbury Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
| Batley Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
| Wakefield Westgate Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Ravensthorpe Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
Section 09
How Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett sits below that national figure — -4.0%.
Within Ossett the street ranks 103 of 322 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £120,000 (+26.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,422 per square metre, across 30 of the 100 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 £14,250 to £330,000. 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.
Whitley Spring Crescent, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
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
- 19 Whitley Spring Crescent6 sales
- 43 Whitley Spring Crescent4 sales
- 4 Whitley Spring Crescent4 sales
- 66 Whitley Spring Crescent3 sales
- 54 Whitley Spring Crescent3 sales
- 27 Whitley Spring Crescent3 sales
- 59 Whitley Spring Crescent3 sales
- 3 Whitley Spring Crescent3 sales
- 31 Whitley Spring Crescent3 sales
- 20 Whitley Spring Crescent3 sales
- 9 Whitley Spring Crescent3 sales
- 23 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 41 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 88 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 48 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 42 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 25 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 50 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 22 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 28 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 33 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 57 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 58 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
- 6 Whitley Spring Crescent2 sales
Back to Ossett house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett?
The median price paid in Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett across every sale on the register is £151,250. 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 Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett?
100 sales are on record for Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett, the most recent completing on 18 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +51.5% between 2007 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -8.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Whitley Spring Crescent, 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 Whitley Spring Crescent, Ossett?
£2,422 per square metre, from the 30 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 18 Dec 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, “Whitley Spring Crescent, 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.