Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge house prices are built from 84 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2001 and the most recent on 14 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £99,975. Across the 6 years from 2001 to 2007 the median moved +74.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +54.5%.
Median price paid
£99,975
Change in cash, 2001–2007
+74.3%
Change in real terms
+54.5%
Median per m²
£1,706
HM Land Registry84 sales19 with floor areaLatest sale 14 Jul 2025
Section 01
How Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge prices moved
The chart tracks the median Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2001 to 2007. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | £81,950 | £149,289 |
The highest yearly median on record for Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge is £165,975 in 2006; the lowest is £79,455 in 2001. Across the full 7-year record the cash median has moved from £79,455 to £138,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £155,816, so the real change over the whole record is +54.5% — about +7.52% 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: +74.3% in cash against +54.5% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 14 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £283,000 | £289,152 |
| 1 | 14 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 7 | 29 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £107,000 | £109,326 |
| 37 | 14 Mar 2025 | Detached | £286,500 | £292,728 |
| 27 | 5 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £222,000 | £239,862 |
| 3 | 24 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £108,046 |
| 31 | 25 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £238,000 | £275,744 |
| 53 | 29 Sep 2021 | Detached | £251,000 | £317,124 |
| 7 | 18 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £103,581 |
| 20 | 24 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £226,584 |
| 10 | 2 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £233,223 |
| 18 | 16 Dec 2016 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £244,307 |
| 53 | 14 Apr 2016 | Detached | £175,000 | £244,307 |
| 11 | 28 Aug 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £93,000 | £131,130 |
| 35 | 29 May 2015 | Detached | £182,500 | £257,325 |
| 25 | 29 May 2015 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £211,500 |
| 14 | 2 Apr 2015 | Detached | £182,500 | £257,325 |
| 27 | 31 Mar 2014 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £207,986 |
| 43 | 6 Dec 2013 | Detached | £168,000 | £244,964 |
| 20 | 12 Aug 2013 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £218,718 |
| 19 | 15 Jul 2013 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £218,718 |
| 10 | 9 Nov 2011 | Semi-detached | £152,000 | £232,957 |
| 51 | 21 Oct 2011 | Semi-detached | £167,500 | £256,712 |
| 47 | 12 Apr 2011 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £268,207 |
| 25 | 18 Oct 2010 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £263,477 |
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 Low Laithes, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Low Laithes | £56,950 (2002) | £100,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| 39 Low Laithes | £83,950 (2002) | £283,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| 7 Low Laithes | £54,950 (2002) | £107,000 (2025) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
| 27 Low Laithes | £80,800 (2001) | £222,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 3 Low Laithes | £55,950 (2002) | £100,000 (2023) | +2.8% | +0.0% |
| 31 Low Laithes | £75,600 (2001) | £238,000 (2022) | +5.6% | +3.0% |
| 53 Low Laithes | £83,750 (2002) | £251,000 (2021) | +5.9% | +3.6% |
| 20 Low Laithes | £76,950 (2002) | £175,000 (2020) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
| 10 Low Laithes | £76,950 (2002) | £175,000 (2018) | +5.3% | +2.9% |
| 18 Low Laithes | £87,950 (2002) | £175,000 (2016) | +5.0% | +2.6% |
| 11 Low Laithes | £54,950 (2002) | £93,000 (2015) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
| 35 Low Laithes | £79,950 (2001) | £182,500 (2015) | +6.1% | +3.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Low Laithes, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 48 | 57.1% | £95,000 | £74,500 – £283,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 17 | 20.2% | £97,000 | £54,950 – £110,000 |
| Detached | 15 | 17.9% | £168,000 | £76,950 – £286,500 |
| Terraced | 4 | 4.8% | £83,750 | £74,950 – £169,995 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge
17 of the sales on record are leasehold and 67 freehold — 20.2% 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 £97,000 and the median freehold sale £128,000 — a gap of +32.0%. 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 | 17 | 20.2% | £97,000 |
| Freehold | 67 | 79.8% | £128,000 |
| New build | 34 | 40.5% | £81,200 |
| Existing home | 50 | 59.5% | £161,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -49.6%. 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 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 Low Laithes, 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 £99,975 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.03% 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 Low Laithes, 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 Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge sits below that national figure — -36.5%.
Within Sowerby Bridge the street ranks 215 of 385 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £110,000 (-9.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,706 per square metre, across 19 of the 84 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 £54,950 to £286,500. 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.
Low Laithes, 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
- Halifax Road£143,975 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 1 Low Laithes4 sales
- 7 Low Laithes4 sales
- 53 Low Laithes4 sales
- 2 Low Laithes4 sales
- 27 Low Laithes3 sales
- 31 Low Laithes3 sales
- 20 Low Laithes3 sales
- 10 Low Laithes3 sales
- 18 Low Laithes3 sales
- 11 Low Laithes3 sales
- 25 Low Laithes3 sales
- 35 Low Laithes3 sales
- 51 Low Laithes3 sales
- 47 Low Laithes3 sales
- 23 Low Laithes3 sales
- 39 Low Laithes2 sales
- 3 Low Laithes2 sales
- 14 Low Laithes2 sales
- 43 Low Laithes2 sales
- 19 Low Laithes2 sales
- 16 Low Laithes2 sales
- 49 Low Laithes2 sales
- 5 Low Laithes2 sales
- 9 Low Laithes2 sales
Back to Sowerby Bridge house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge?
The median price paid in Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge across every sale on the register is £99,975. 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 Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge?
84 sales are on record for Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge, the most recent completing on 14 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +74.3% between 2001 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +54.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £165,975, set in 2006. 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 Low Laithes, Sowerby Bridge?
£1,706 per square metre, from the 19 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 14 Jul 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, “Low Laithes, 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.