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Airedale market report WF10, Castleford
The standing WF10 (Airedale) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 24,192 HM Land Registry entries for WF10 (Castleford), 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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 267 registered 2026 sales put the WF10 (Castleford) median at £182,500, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £198,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,180 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 24,192 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district WF10 covering Airedale, Allerton Bywater, Castleford sits in Castleford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WF10 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 sold prices: where the market stands
267 sales were registered in WF10 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £182,500. The mean works out at £198,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WF10
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WF10 sales average about £2,180 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF10 sits 36% below the national market.
A typical WF10 home, priced year by year (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 | £182,500 | £182,500 | 267 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 664 |
| 2024 | £189,000 | £200,946 | 741 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 659 |
| 2022 | £178,000 | £208,725 | 958 |
| 2021 | £162,000 | £205,113 | 1,031 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 798 |
| 2019 | £154,000 | £201,857 | 977 |
| 2018 | £147,000 | £195,954 | 965 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 977 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 866 |
| 2015 | £122,500 | £173,093 | 820 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 762 |
| 2013 | £107,000 | £153,962 | 620 |
| 2012 | £111,000 | £163,378 | 512 |
| 2011 | £108,500 | £163,793 | 502 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 502 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 451 |
| 2008 | £112,000 | £183,592 | 625 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 1,033 |
| 2006 | £107,200 | £186,086 | 1,042 |
| 2005 | £96,000 | £170,841 | 776 |
| 2004 | £87,000 | £158,009 | 937 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 971 |
| 2002 | £61,200 | £115,147 | 1,152 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 924 |
| 2000 | £46,200 | £90,668 | 777 |
| 1999 | £43,000 | £85,697 | 685 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 563 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 565 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 611 |
| 1995 | £36,500 | £79,345 | 459 |
In cash terms the typical WF10 home went from £36,500 in 1995 to £182,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 130%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF10 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 (+30.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.6%). 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, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £296,500 against £140,000 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, WF10
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 | £296,500 | 50 | 4,814 |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | 106 | 8,798 |
| Terraced | £136,800 | 104 | 10,018 |
| Flats | £140,000 | 7 | 551 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.9% | −6.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in WF10
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 552 WF10 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 952 sales a year before the financial crisis and 658 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 shape of the WF10 market
In its area's price order WF10 comes 15 of 17, towards the cheaper end of the table.
The rental side of WF10
WF10 falls under Wakefield, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£794 a month is £9,528 a year, which against the £182,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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.
Common questions on WF10 (Airedale)
Is WF10 (Airedale) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF10 (Airedale)?
Are property prices falling in WF10 (Airedale)?
Where do WF10 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in WF10 today
Everything above is what homes in WF10 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 158 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the WF10 median sold price.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Hollin Hurst, Allerton Bywater
- Crowther Street, Castleford, Castleford
- Meadowcroft Crescent, Castleford, Castleford
"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 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.
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. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WF10 ranks 11 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 WF10, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| WF10 5 | £207,000 | 96 |
How WF10 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 | £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 (this report) | £182,500 | +13% |
| WF9 | £167,800 | +12% |
| WF13 | £140,000 | +27% |
Selling in WF10? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF10's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working WF10: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF10.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF10 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WF10 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.
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.