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Wakefield market report WF
The standing WF (Wakefield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 243,641 HM Land Registry entries for the WF postcode area (Wakefield), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the WF postcode area (Wakefield) came in at £200,000, out of 2,923 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £226,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,390 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 243,641 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WF is the postcode area centred on Wakefield, taking in 17 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where WF sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
Today's WF prices, from the sold record
The WF median stands at £200,000 for 2026, built from 2,923 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £226,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
WF prices by floor area
Per square metre, WF homes have averaged around £2,390 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF sits 30% below the national market.
WF's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £200,000 | £200,000 | 2,923 |
| 2025 | £207,000 | £211,950 | 7,209 |
| 2024 | £197,000 | £209,451 | 6,894 |
| 2023 | £186,000 | £204,369 | 6,175 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 8,213 |
| 2021 | £176,000 | £222,839 | 9,598 |
| 2020 | £160,000 | £207,603 | 6,963 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 8,069 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 8,210 |
| 2017 | £143,400 | £195,583 | 8,442 |
| 2016 | £138,000 | £193,063 | 8,244 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 7,331 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 6,759 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 5,547 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 4,834 |
| 2011 | £117,000 | £176,625 | 4,629 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 4,428 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 4,363 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 5,521 |
| 2007 | £128,500 | £217,972 | 10,906 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 10,477 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 8,628 |
| 2004 | £101,800 | £184,889 | 10,401 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 10,376 |
| 2002 | £66,000 | £124,178 | 11,335 |
| 2001 | £56,000 | £107,657 | 10,203 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 8,946 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 8,867 |
| 1998 | £49,500 | £99,919 | 7,993 |
| 1997 | £47,500 | £97,413 | 7,746 |
| 1996 | £45,500 | £95,957 | 7,167 |
| 1995 | £44,500 | £96,736 | 6,244 |
In cash terms the typical WF home went from £44,500 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 107%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+28.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−6.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −3.4% | −5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.8% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £340,000 against £110,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, WF
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £340,000 | 683 | 60,584 |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | 1,178 | 92,096 |
| Terraced | £156,500 | 903 | 79,300 |
| Flats | £110,000 | 159 | 11,661 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
WF recorded 5,381 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 10,159 sales a year before the financial crisis and 6,283 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around WF
The local authority for WF is Wakefield, the local authority covering most of the WF area (parts fall under Kirklees and Leeds, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £794 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £567 a month here against £1,200 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wakefield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £200,000 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 4.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on WF (Wakefield)
How much did a house sell for in WF (Wakefield)?
Are property prices falling in WF (Wakefield)?
Is WF (Wakefield) a good place to buy a house?
Will WF prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WF's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WF sold for. The live side of the market holds 1,010 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% above the WF median sold price.
Set against 5,381 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 1,010 homes on the market here are roughly 2 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
12% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every WF home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
When homes in WF change hands
March is when WF changes hands most (9.8% of the 38,089 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.4%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2,428 | 6.4% |
| February | 2,848 | 7.5% |
| March | 3,731 | 9.8% |
| April | 2,658 | 7.0% |
| May | 2,942 | 7.7% |
| June | 3,695 | 9.7% |
| July | 3,218 | 8.4% |
| August | 3,330 | 8.7% |
| September | 3,670 | 9.6% |
| October | 3,236 | 8.5% |
| November | 3,131 | 8.2% |
| December | 3,202 | 8.4% |
The price of an extra bedroom in WF
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WF area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £205,000 | £235,000 (+15%) | £280,000 (+19%) | £350,000 (+25%) | £434,997 (+24%) |
| Semi-detached | £165,000 | £175,000 (+6%) | £190,000 (+9%) | £245,000 (+29%) | £285,000 (+16%) |
| Terraced | £110,000 | £140,000 (+27%) | £150,000 (+7%) | £195,000 (+30%) | £230,000 (+18%) |
| Flat | £85,000 | £107,000 (+26%) | £142,500 (+33%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WF area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WF area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable WF district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| WF14 Battyeford, Hopton | £240,000 | +23% | 132 |
| WF3 Bottom Boat, Carlton | £235,000 | +16% | 233 |
| WF4 Crigglestone, Crofton | £230,000 | +24% | 257 |
| WF2 Alverthorpe, Carr Gate | £227,500 | +8% | 245 |
| WF8 Darrington, Kirk Smeaton | £219,000 | +10% | 174 |
| WF5 Gawthorpe, Healey | £206,500 | +13% | 149 |
| WF1 Agbrigg, Belle Vue | £200,000 | -7% | 219 |
| WF6 Altofts, Normanton | £198,000 | +7% | 122 |
| WF7 Ackworth Moor Top, Ackton | £196,200 | +7% | 130 |
| WF15 Hartshead, Hightown | £195,000 | +18% | 109 |
| WF16 Heckmondwike | £191,800 | +39% | 49 |
| WF12 Briestfield, Chickenley | £190,000 | +12% | 160 |
| WF11 Brotherton, Byram | £188,800 | +31% | 126 |
| WF17 Birstall, Batley | £188,000 | +30% | 212 |
| WF10 Airedale, Allerton Bywater | £185,000 | +14% | 322 |
| WF9 Badsworth, Fitzwilliam | £165,000 | +10% | 204 |
| WF13 Dewsbury Moor, Ravensthorpe | £143,000 | +30% | 80 |
Selling a home in WF? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.