Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge house prices are built from 206 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 21 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £143,975. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved 0.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -26.6%.
Median price paid
£143,975
Change in cash, 2014–2024
0.0%
Change in real terms
-26.6%
HM Land Registry206 salesLatest sale 21 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge prices moved
The chart tracks the median Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | 5 | £48,500 | £107,693 |
| 2000s | 8 | £151,000 | £275,078 |
| 2010s | 6 | £166,500 | £234,765 |
| 2020s | 5 | £196,000 | £200,261 |
The highest yearly median on record for Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge is £260,000 in 2009; the lowest is £34,500 in 1995. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £34,500 to £125,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £76,606, so the real change over the whole record is +72.4% — about +1.90% 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: 0.0% in cash against -26.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 21 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 96 | 30 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 25 | 11 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £310,000 | £316,739 |
| 92 | 17 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 115 | 15 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £92,000 | £96,806 |
| Flat 1 103 | 12 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £65,500 | £68,922 |
| 68 | 11 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £343,000 | £360,918 |
| Flat 2 103 | 15 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £66,000 | £69,448 |
| 117 | 8 May 2024 | Terraced | £85,000 | £89,440 |
| 186 | 16 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 242 | 16 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £159,000 | £167,306 |
| 33 | 12 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 76 | 9 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| 112 | 9 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £174,500 | £188,540 |
| 3 Chestnut Court | 23 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £86,437 |
| 168 | 14 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £256,000 | £276,598 |
| 192 | 3 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £179,950 | £194,429 |
| 164 | 2 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £228,000 | £264,158 |
| 67 | 2 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 104 | 22 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £201,000 | £232,876 |
| 118 | 8 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 152 | 6 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £209,500 | £242,724 |
| 2 | 30 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £440,000 | £555,914 |
| 5 Chestnut Court | 13 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £81,000 | £102,339 |
| 150 | 6 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £196,000 | £247,634 |
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 Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Halifax Road | £93,500 (2012) | £150,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.7% |
| 96 Halifax Road | £54,000 (1995) | £205,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.9% |
| 25 Halifax Road | £115,000 (2014) | £310,000 (2025) | +9.4% | +6.1% |
| 115 Halifax Road | £93,000 (2006) | £92,000 (2024) | -0.1% | -2.9% |
| 117 Halifax Road | £38,000 (1999) | £85,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.6% |
| 186 Halifax Road | £47,000 (2000) | £225,000 (2024) | +6.7% | +3.9% |
| 33 Halifax Road | £141,500 (2004) | £170,000 (2024) | +0.9% | -1.9% |
| 76 Halifax Road | £150,000 (2021) | £250,000 (2023) | +29.1% | +19.4% |
| 3 CHESTNUT COURT Halifax Road | £29,500 (1995) | £80,000 (2023) | +3.6% | +1.0% |
| 67 Halifax Road | £82,000 (2000) | £475,000 (2022) | +8.3% | +5.7% |
| 104 Halifax Road | £113,000 (2009) | £201,000 (2022) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 118 Halifax Road | £39,000 (1997) | £225,000 (2022) | +7.3% | +4.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 98 | 47.6% | £120,000 | £19,500 – £325,000 |
| Semi-detached | 48 | 23.3% | £175,000 | £42,000 – £620,000 |
| Detached | 36 | 17.5% | £268,000 | £21,000 – £630,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 24 | 11.7% | £72,500 | £29,500 – £115,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge
24 of the sales on record are leasehold and 182 freehold — 11.7% 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 £72,750 and the median freehold sale £152,500 — a gap of +109.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 24 | 11.7% | £72,750 |
| Freehold | 182 | 88.3% | £152,500 |
A further 14 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 Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 251 | 0.2% |
| B | 6,612 | 5.9% |
| C | 30,952 | 27.8% |
| D | 43,917 | 39.5% |
| E | 22,673 | 20.4% |
| F | 4,831 | 4.3% |
| G | 2,076 | 1.9% |
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 £143,975 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.27% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryburn Valley High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,589 |
| Trinity Academy Grammar | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 968 |
| Bolton Brow Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 227 |
| New Road Primary School | Primary | Community school | 182 |
| Triangle CofE VC Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 173 |
| Ripponden Junior and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 171 |
| St John's Primary School In Rishworth | Primary | Academy converter | 152 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 150 |
| Trinity Academy St Peter's | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 94 |
| Christ Church Sowerby Bridge CofE (VA) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 70 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Sowerby Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Mytholmroyd Rail Station | Rail | 5.0 km |
| Hebden Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 7.0 km |
| Slaithwaite Rail Station | Rail | 8.7 km |
Section 09
How Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge sits below that national figure — -8.6%.
Within Sowerby Bridge the street ranks 124 of 385 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £110,000 (+30.9%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £19,500 to £630,000. 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.
Halifax Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Oldham Road£125,000 median
- Rochdale Road£140,000 median
- Rishworth Mill Lane£75,000 median
- Wharf Street£55,500 median
- Chapel Lane£102,500 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
- 118 Halifax Road7 sales
- 3, CHESTNUT COURT Halifax Road6 sales
- 186 Halifax Road5 sales
- 41 Halifax Road5 sales
- 2 Halifax Road4 sales
- RISHDENE Halifax Road4 sales
- RYBURN HOUSE COTTAGE Halifax Road4 sales
- 9 Halifax Road3 sales
- 25 Halifax Road3 sales
- 115 Halifax Road3 sales
- 117 Halifax Road3 sales
- 5, CHESTNUT COURT Halifax Road3 sales
- 158 Halifax Road3 sales
- 72A Halifax Road3 sales
- 182 Halifax Road3 sales
- 4 Halifax Road3 sales
- 140 Halifax Road3 sales
- 84 Halifax Road3 sales
- 111 Halifax Road3 sales
- 166 Halifax Road3 sales
- 184 Halifax Road3 sales
- 2, CHESTNUT COURT Halifax Road3 sales
- SCHIEHALLION Halifax Road3 sales
- 54 Halifax Road3 sales
Back to Sowerby Bridge house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge?
The median price paid in Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge across every sale on the register is £143,975. 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 Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge?
206 sales are on record for Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge, the most recent completing on 21 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose 0.0% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -26.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £260,000, set in 2009. 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 Halifax Road, Sowerby Bridge?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 21 Nov 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, “Halifax Road, 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.