That is the middle of 916 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 4.9 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.
916 homes sold in three years: 211 detached houses, 435 semi-detached houses, 235 terraced houses and 35 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£396K
median sale · 211 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£325K–£525K
Last 12 months
£400K61 sold
New build
£800K
Semi-detached houses£240K
median sale · 435 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£210K–£283K
Last 12 months
£235K120 sold
New build
£395K
Terraced houses£206K
median sale · 235 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£245K
Last 12 months
£205K61 sold
New build
£300K
Flats and maisonettes£162K
median sale · 35 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£135K–£184K
Last 12 months
£150K11 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 47% of sales
Detached houses23%
Semi-detached houses47%
Terraced houses26%
Flats and maisonettes4%
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 Rothwell’s homes sold for between £204K and £321K
One sale in ten was under £170K and one in ten over £450K. 50% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £250,000, sits in the £250–300K band
916 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.9 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £50,000 in 1995 to £245,000 in the last 12 months (£182,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
253 sales in the last 12 months, against 582 in 1999, the busiest year, and 200 in 2011. Sales fell by 44% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 37% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Rothwell costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Rothwell, 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
£78K
£114K
£237K
£261K
£295K
£320K
£400K
Semi-detached houses
£52K
£63K
£137K
£135K
£150K
£195K
£235K
Terraced houses
£38K
£48K
£125K
£120K
£128K
£164K
£205K
Flats and maisonettes
£34K
£49K
£120K
£114K
£118K
£127K
£150K
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: 0.8% of sales in the last 12 months
1,257 new homes have been sold in Rothwell since 1995; the share peaked at 30% in 1999.
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 £395,000
against £243,975 for a home sold on, 62% 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.
4% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.5% sold leasehold in Rothwell. 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
Navigation Vale is Rothwell’s busiest street, with 42 sales in three years
61 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 13 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
Navigation Vale
LS26
42
£302,495
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
2
Wood Lane
LS26
27
£212,000
Mixed
3
Holmsley Lane
LS26
18
£313,750
Mixed
4
Stone Brig Lane
LS26
17
£287,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Langdale Road
LS26
16
£210,825
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Castle Lodge Avenue
LS26
15
£270,000
Mostly terraced houses
7
Haigh Road
LS26
15
£250,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
Carlton Lane
LS26
13
£240,000
Mixed
9
Aberford Road
LS26
12
£231,500
Mixed
10
Eshald Place
LS26
12
£220,000
Mostly terraced houses
11
Willans Avenue
LS26
11
£210,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Castle Lodge Gardens
LS26
10
£252,500
Mostly terraced houses
13
Queensway
LS26
10
£218,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Pottery Hill
LS26
9
£815,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
15
Oulton Lane
LS26
9
£390,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Pottery Hill: £815,000
Rothwell median£250K
Pottery Hill£815K
Park Road£535K
Pymont Drive£500K
Haigh Court£417K
Oulton Lane£390K
Cheapest streets
Woodland Crescent: £165,000
Rothwell median£250K
Woodland Crescent£165K
Castle Lodge Square£165K
Northfield Place£172K
Middleton Avenue£177K
Knavesmire£187K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.9 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
Rothwell is the 27th most expensive of 91 towns in West Yorkshire
Rothwell 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 Rothwell
What is the average house price in Rothwell?
The median home in Rothwell sold for £250,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 916 standard sales (£245,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £396,000, semi-detached houses £240,000, terraced houses £206,000 and flats and maisonettes £162,000.
Are house prices going up in Rothwell?
The median was £247,250 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£248,000), and £245,000 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 Rothwell each year?
253 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 345 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Rothwell?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Pottery Hill (LS26, £815,000), Park Road (LS26, £535,000) and Pymont Drive (LS26, £500,000).
How much does a new build cost in Rothwell?
New homes sold for a median £395,000 over three years, against £243,975 for homes sold on. New builds were 5.7% of sales.
Is Rothwell expensive for West Yorkshire?
Rothwell is the 27th 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.
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