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Airedale market report WF10 3, Castleford
The standing WF10 3 (Airedale) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,265 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF10 3 (Castleford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WF10 3 (Castleford) came in at £200,000, out of 47 registered, up 31% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £221,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,265 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like WF10 3 is a single group of streets within WF10 (Castleford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WF10 3 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 3
47 sales were registered in WF10 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £200,000. The mean works out at £221,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
WF10 3 prices by floor area
Per square metre, WF10 3 homes have averaged around £2,250 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WF10 3 30% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WF10 3 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £200,000 | £200,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 141 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 133 |
| 2023 | £180,000 | £197,776 | 125 |
| 2022 | £156,500 | £183,514 | 130 |
| 2021 | £153,000 | £193,718 | 140 |
| 2020 | £138,000 | £179,058 | 115 |
| 2019 | £128,200 | £168,040 | 146 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 125 |
| 2017 | £127,200 | £173,488 | 138 |
| 2016 | £133,000 | £186,068 | 137 |
| 2015 | £122,500 | £173,093 | 144 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 114 |
| 2013 | £114,500 | £164,754 | 111 |
| 2012 | £113,000 | £166,322 | 111 |
| 2011 | £117,500 | £177,380 | 89 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 107 |
| 2009 | £127,500 | £204,957 | 82 |
| 2008 | £121,500 | £199,164 | 136 |
| 2007 | £133,200 | £225,944 | 220 |
| 2006 | £107,000 | £185,738 | 157 |
| 2005 | £93,000 | £165,503 | 124 |
| 2004 | £107,000 | £194,333 | 164 |
| 2003 | £95,000 | £175,013 | 141 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 213 |
| 2001 | £60,500 | £116,308 | 188 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 156 |
| 1999 | £51,200 | £102,039 | 138 |
| 1998 | £51,200 | £103,351 | 128 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 121 |
| 1996 | £49,700 | £104,815 | 132 |
| 1995 | £52,200 | £113,475 | 112 |
In cash terms the typical WF10 3 home went from £52,200 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 76%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF10 3 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 (+35.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−13.1%). 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) | +5.3% | +2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.5% | +0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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 register shows 47 WF10 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 170 sales a year before the financial crisis and 115 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.
Rents around WF10 3
WF10 3 falls under Wakefield, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
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.
How WF10 3 trades
Only 47 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF10 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the WF10 district median, WF10 3 sits 10% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about WF10 3 (Airedale)
Are property prices falling in WF10 3 (Airedale)?
Is WF10 3 (Airedale) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF10 3 (Airedale)?
What happens to WF10 3 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 31% over five years in cash and up 3% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in WF10 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 158 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF10 district, not just WF10 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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
Real sold prices by size across the WF area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WF10
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WF10, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF10 1 | £165,000 | 16 |
| WF10 2 | £177,000 | 48 |
| 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 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF10 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF10 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF10 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WF10 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF10 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF10 3 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.