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Airedale market report WF10 5, Castleford
The standing WF10 5 (Airedale) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,014 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF10 5 (Castleford) 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in WF10 5 (Castleford) sold for £207,000 in 2026, the median of 96 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier. The mean was £197,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,220 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,014 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like WF10 5 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 5 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.
WF10 5 sold prices: where the market stands
In the WF10 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £207,000, from 96 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £197,700, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in WF10 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WF10 5 costs about £2,220 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WF10 5 runs 27% below it.
WF10 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £207,000 | £207,000 | 96 |
| 2025 | £195,000 | £199,663 | 235 |
| 2024 | £213,800 | £227,313 | 280 |
| 2023 | £205,500 | £225,794 | 230 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 401 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 431 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 341 |
| 2019 | £173,000 | £226,762 | 436 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 387 |
| 2017 | £158,000 | £215,496 | 355 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 288 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 284 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 294 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 206 |
| 2012 | £107,800 | £158,668 | 168 |
| 2011 | £128,500 | £193,986 | 172 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 165 |
| 2009 | £128,600 | £206,726 | 196 |
| 2008 | £124,600 | £204,246 | 198 |
| 2007 | £130,000 | £220,516 | 307 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 341 |
| 2005 | £111,500 | £198,425 | 254 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 276 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 327 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 317 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 220 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 160 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 184 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 142 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 114 |
| 1996 | £34,500 | £72,759 | 111 |
| 1995 | £33,000 | £71,737 | 98 |
In cash terms the typical WF10 5 home went from £33,000 in 1995 to £207,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 189%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF10 5 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 2002 (+50.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−20.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF10 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.2% | +3.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 5
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 96 sales completed in WF10 5. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 248 sales a year recently, against 275 a year before 2008. 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.
What homes rent for around WF10 5
WF10 5 falls under Wakefield, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £794 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £567 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,200 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wakefield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£794 a month is £9,528 a year, which against the £207,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the WF10 5 market
Within WF10, this sector trades 13% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
WF10 5 (Airedale): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WF10 5 (Airedale)?
Is WF10 5 (Airedale) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF10 5 (Airedale)?
Are WF10 5 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% 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.
On the market in WF10 today
The live side of the market holds 158 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF10 district, not just WF10 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WF
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%) | — | — |
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.
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.
Other sectors in WF10
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF10's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF10 1 | £165,000 | 16 |
| WF10 2 | £177,000 | 48 |
| WF10 3 | £200,000 | 47 |
| WF10 4 | £173,500 | 60 |
Zoom out to the full WF10 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF10 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WF10 5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WF10 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF10 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF10 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WF10 5.
Go deeper
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See every individual WF10 5 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.