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Airedale market report WF10 1, Castleford
The WF10 1 (Airedale) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 1,850 registered sales in WF10 1 (Castleford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WF10 1 (Castleford) home changed hands for £165,000 in 2026 (median of 16 registered sales, down 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £165,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,210 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,850 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WF10 1 is one sector of WF10 (Castleford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WF10 1 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.
What buyers actually paid in WF10 1
Take the 16 registered 2026 sales in WF10 1 and the middle price, the median, is £165,000. The mean lands at £165,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
WF10 1 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put WF10 1 at roughly £2,210 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF10 1 sits 42% below the national market.
WF10 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £165,000 | £165,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £202,200 | £207,035 | 52 |
| 2024 | £201,000 | £213,704 | 76 |
| 2023 | £186,000 | £204,369 | 57 |
| 2022 | £208,200 | £244,138 | 128 |
| 2021 | £187,500 | £237,399 | 128 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 106 |
| 2019 | £146,500 | £192,026 | 80 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 103 |
| 2017 | £156,000 | £212,768 | 103 |
| 2016 | £127,000 | £177,674 | 89 |
| 2015 | £121,200 | £171,256 | 70 |
| 2014 | £112,000 | £158,892 | 79 |
| 2013 | £80,000 | £115,112 | 33 |
| 2012 | £78,000 | £114,806 | 12 |
| 2011 | £73,500 | £110,957 | 24 |
| 2010 | £81,500 | £127,813 | 15 |
| 2009 | £82,500 | £132,619 | 17 |
| 2008 | £97,000 | £159,003 | 41 |
| 2007 | £98,400 | £166,914 | 50 |
| 2006 | £91,000 | £157,964 | 67 |
| 2005 | £85,500 | £152,156 | 47 |
| 2004 | £74,800 | £135,851 | 64 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 61 |
| 2002 | £40,500 | £76,200 | 54 |
| 2001 | £36,000 | £69,208 | 63 |
| 2000 | £31,000 | £60,838 | 31 |
| 1999 | £30,000 | £59,788 | 44 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 33 |
| 1997 | £29,700 | £60,909 | 34 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 54 |
| 1995 | £30,500 | £66,302 | 19 |
In cash terms the typical WF10 1 home went from £30,500 in 1995 to £165,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 149%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 32% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF10 1 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 (+48.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −18.4% | −20.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.5% | −7.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in WF10 1
The year-by-year sales count
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.
WF10 1 recorded 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 66 sales a year over the last five years against 55 before the financial crisis. 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.
What kind of market WF10 1 is
This is a thin market: 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within WF10, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around WF10 1
For renting purposes WF10 1 sits in Wakefield. The ONS average private rent there is £794 a month (May 2026). 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 £165,000 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 5.8% 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.
What people ask about WF10 1 (Airedale)
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Where do WF10 1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 12% over five years in cash but down 30% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WF10's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 158 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF10 district, not just WF10 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Hollin Hurst, Allerton Bywater
- Crowther Street, Castleford, Castleford
- Meadowcroft Crescent, Castleford, Castleford
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 WF10 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WF: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WF area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WF area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WF area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WF10
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WF10, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF10 2 | £177,000 | 48 |
| WF10 3 | £200,000 | 47 |
| WF10 4 | £173,500 | 60 |
| WF10 5 | £207,000 | 96 |
Zoom out to the full WF10 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF10 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WF10 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WF10 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF10 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF10 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WF10 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF10 1.
Keep digging
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See every individual WF10 1 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.