That is the middle of 802 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.5 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
802 homes sold in three years: 174 detached houses, 321 semi-detached houses, 241 terraced houses and 66 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£334K
median sale · 174 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£265K–£415K
Last 12 months
£329K60 sold
Semi-detached houses£220K
median sale · 321 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£185K–£254K
Last 12 months
£225K95 sold
Terraced houses£172K
median sale · 241 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£145K–£195K
Last 12 months
£180K73 sold
Flats and maisonettes£131K
median sale · 66 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£103K–£175K
Last 12 months
£122K19 sold
New build
£250K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 40% of sales
Detached houses22%
Semi-detached houses40%
Terraced houses30%
Flats and maisonettes8%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Ossett’s homes sold for between £165K and £267K
One sale in ten was under £130K and one in ten over £362K. 69% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £210,000, sits in the £200–250K band
802 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.5 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £47,250 in 1995 to £214,000 in the last 12 months (£172,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
247 sales in the last 12 months, against 517 in 2004, the busiest year, and 191 in 2011. Sales fell by 56% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 20% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Ossett costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Ossett, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£75K
£94K
£200K
£221K
£225K
£265K
£329K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£58K
£131K
£137K
£150K
£170K
£225K
Terraced houses
£36K
£45K
£103K
£110K
£119K
£134K
£180K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£41K
£106K
£95K
£105K
£106K
£122K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
970 new homes have been sold in Ossett since 1995; the share peaked at 23% in 1998.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £250,000
against £210,000 for a home sold on, 19% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
11% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.4% sold leasehold in Ossett. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Kingsway is Ossett’s busiest street, with 21 sales in three years
52 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 11 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Kingsway
WF5
21
£292,000
Mixed
2
New Street
WF5
21
£225,000
Mostly flats · new builds
3
Towngate
WF5
14
£226,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Queens Drive
WF5
13
£370,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Springstone Avenue
WF5
13
£162,500
Mixed
6
Healey Road
WF5
11
£170,000
Mixed
7
Dewsbury Road
WF5
11
£155,000
Mixed
8
Whitley Spring Crescent
WF5
10
£250,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
Manor Road
WF5
10
£189,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
10
Holly Approach
WF5
10
£188,250
Mixed
11
Ryecroft Street
WF5
10
£180,500
Mostly terraced houses
12
Kendall Court
WF5
9
£271,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Deneside
WF5
9
£260,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Kingsway Close
WF5
9
£255,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Sowood Avenue
WF5
9
£200,000
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
West Wells Road: £470,000
Ossett median£210K
West Wells Road£470K
Queens Drive£370K
Southdale Road£295K
Kingsway£292K
Constable Drive£279K
Cheapest streets
Church Street: £102,500
Ossett median£210K
Church Street£103K
Field Lane£127K
Denholme Drive£128K
Pickersgill Street£140K
Moorcroft£140K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.6 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across West Yorkshire
Ossett is the 56th most expensive of 91 towns in West Yorkshire
Ossett is in the middle of West Yorkshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Ossett
What is the average house price in Ossett?
The median home in Ossett sold for £210,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 802 standard sales (£214,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £333,500, semi-detached houses £220,000, terraced houses £172,000 and flats and maisonettes £131,250.
Are house prices going up in Ossett?
The median was £225,000 in 2025, up 13% on 2024 (£199,500), and £214,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Ossett each year?
247 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 333 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Ossett?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: West Wells Road (WF5, £470,000), Queens Drive (WF5, £370,000) and Southdale Road (WF5, £295,000).
How much does a new build cost in Ossett?
New homes sold for a median £250,000 over three years, against £210,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 1.6% of sales.
Is Ossett expensive for West Yorkshire?
Ossett is the 55th most expensive of 91 towns of 2,500 or more in West Yorkshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.