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Agbrigg market report WF1, Wakefield
The WF1 (Agbrigg) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 17,166 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF1 (Wakefield) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WF1 (Wakefield) is £200,000, from 183 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £228,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,450 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,166 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WF1 is the postcode district covering Agbrigg, Belle Vue, Eastmoor in Wakefield. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WF1 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.
WF1 sold prices: where the market stands
In the WF1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £200,000, from 183 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £228,600, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WF1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WF1 costs about £2,450 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WF1 30% below the country at large.
A typical WF1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £200,000 | £200,000 | 183 |
| 2025 | £213,000 | £218,093 | 501 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 501 |
| 2023 | £195,000 | £214,257 | 558 |
| 2022 | £225,000 | £263,838 | 751 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 767 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 504 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 631 |
| 2018 | £170,800 | £227,680 | 684 |
| 2017 | £153,000 | £208,677 | 670 |
| 2016 | £148,000 | £207,053 | 589 |
| 2015 | £124,000 | £175,212 | 463 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 388 |
| 2013 | £118,200 | £170,078 | 330 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 341 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 330 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 272 |
| 2009 | £117,500 | £188,882 | 291 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 378 |
| 2007 | £133,600 | £226,623 | 1,033 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 727 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 611 |
| 2004 | £110,000 | £199,781 | 713 |
| 2003 | £87,500 | £161,196 | 687 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 678 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 630 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 608 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 484 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 528 |
| 1997 | £43,500 | £89,210 | 466 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 476 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 393 |
In cash terms the typical WF1 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 119%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF1 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 (+45.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−13.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £360,000 against £96,500 for a flat, 3.7 times the price.
Median by property type, WF1
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 | £360,000 | 43 | 3,580 |
| Semi-detached | £207,800 | 66 | 5,354 |
| Terraced | £166,500 | 42 | 5,721 |
| Flats | £96,500 | 32 | 2,511 |
What WF1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.1% | −8.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 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.
Sales activity in WF1
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 390 sales completed in WF1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 711 sales a year before the financial crisis and 499 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of WF1
The local authority for WF1 is Wakefield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £794 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £567 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,200, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wakefield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £200,000 median sold price, £794 a month is £9,528 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the WF1 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Common questions on WF1 (Agbrigg)
How much did a house sell for in WF1 (Agbrigg)?
Are property prices falling in WF1 (Agbrigg)?
Is WF1 (Agbrigg) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WF1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in WF1 now
Everything above is what homes in WF1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 99 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% above the WF1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every WF1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in WF: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WF area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £242,000 | £332,000 (+37%) | £473,725 (+43%) | £650,000 (+37%) |
| Semi-detached | £170,000 | £184,000 (+8%) | £228,000 (+24%) | £282,000 (+24%) | £362,500 (+29%) |
| Terraced | £125,000 | £144,000 (+15%) | £171,000 (+19%) | £225,250 (+32%) | £291,000 (+29%) |
| Flat | £92,500 | £125,000 (+35%) | £165,000 (+32%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WF1 ranks 17 of 17 in the WF area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
WF area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WF1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF1 1 | £64,400 | 5 |
| WF1 2 | £225,000 | 71 |
| WF1 3 | £264,500 | 42 |
| WF1 4 | £163,000 | 33 |
| WF1 5 | £177,800 | 32 |
How WF1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WF area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WF14 | £240,000 | +23% |
| WF3 | £235,000 | +16% |
| WF4 | £230,000 | +24% |
| WF2 | £225,000 | +7% |
| WF8 | £221,000 | +11% |
| WF5 | £207,500 | +13% |
| WF1 (this report) | £200,000 | -7% |
| WF15 | £199,500 | +21% |
| WF6 | £195,000 | +5% |
| WF12 | £195,000 | +15% |
| WF16 | £193,000 | +40% |
| WF11 | £190,000 | +31% |
| WF17 | £188,000 | +30% |
| WF7 | £187,500 | +2% |
| WF10 | £182,500 | +13% |
| WF9 | £167,800 | +12% |
| WF13 | £140,000 | +27% |
Selling in WF1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF1, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual WF1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.