Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge house prices

Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge house prices are built from 190 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2002 and the most recent on 20 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £102,500. Across the 16 years from 2009 to 2025 the median moved +36.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.4%.

HM Land Registry190 sales36 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2002 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge is £145,000 in 2023; the lowest is £69,500 in 2002. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £69,500 to £132,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £134,056, so the real change over the whole record is +0.6% — about +0.03% 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: +36.1% in cash against -15.4% 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 Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

190 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -28.6%. 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 3 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 £102,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.80% 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 HX6, 61 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 23 violent, 4 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 4 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.7 times quieter.

Against the 206,631 residents the 2021 census counted in Calderdale, that is 0.30 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.

12 state and independent schools have a HX6 postcode: 10 primary, 2 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. Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge sits below that national figure — -34.9%.

Within Sowerby Bridge the street ranks 207 of 385 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £110,000 (-6.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,737 per square metre, across 36 of the 190 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 £61,500 to £165,000. 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.

Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge 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

• Oldham Road£125,000 median
• Rochdale Road£140,000 median
• Rishworth Mill Lane£75,000 median
• Wharf Street£55,500 median
• Halifax Road£143,975 median
• Stepping Stones£138,000 median
• Industrial Road£83,000 median
• Rylands Park£267,000 median
• Stones Drive£225,000 median
• Silk Mill Chase£129,995 median
• Spinners Hollow£118,500 median
• Edward Street£86,000 median
• Union Street£50,000 median
• Clifton Street£75,000 median
• Upper Fountain Street£63,000 median
• Beck Road£215,995 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• APARTMENT 25, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane6 sales
• APARTMENT 73, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane6 sales
• APARTMENT 9, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane5 sales
• APARTMENT 34, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane5 sales
• APARTMENT 47, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane5 sales
• APARTMENT 41, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane4 sales
• APARTMENT 67, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane4 sales
• APARTMENT 35, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane4 sales
• APARTMENT 44, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane4 sales
• APARTMENT 22, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane4 sales
• APARTMENT 57, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane4 sales
• APARTMENT 24, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane4 sales
• APARTMENT 65, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane4 sales
• APARTMENT 70, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane4 sales
• APARTMENT 12, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane3 sales
• APARTMENT 37, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane3 sales
• APARTMENT 58, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane3 sales
• APARTMENT 48, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane3 sales
• APARTMENT 68, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane3 sales
• APARTMENT 59, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane3 sales
• APARTMENT 74, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane3 sales
• APARTMENT 55, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane3 sales
• APARTMENT 10, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane3 sales
• APARTMENT 8, the RIVERINE Chapel Lane3 sales

Back to Sowerby Bridge house prices.

What is the average house price in Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge?

The median price paid in Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge across every sale on the register is £102,500. 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 Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge?

190 sales are on record for Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge, the most recent completing on 20 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +36.1% between 2009 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £145,000, 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 Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge?

£1,737 per square metre, from the 36 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 20 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, “Chapel Lane, Sowerby Bridge 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.