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Brotherton market report WF11 8, Knottingley
The WF11 8 (Brotherton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,765 registered sales in WF11 8 (Knottingley) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in WF11 8 (Knottingley) sold for £186,000 in 2026, the median of 40 registered sales, up 40% on five years earlier. The mean was £193,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,980 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,765 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WF11 8 is one sector of WF11 (Knottingley): 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 WF11 8 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.
Today's WF11 8 prices, from the sold record
40 sales were registered in WF11 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £186,000. The mean works out at £193,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
WF11 8 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put WF11 8 at roughly £1,980 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WF11 8 35% below the national figure.
WF11 8'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £186,000 | £186,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £175,500 | £179,697 | 83 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 78 |
| 2023 | £140,000 | £153,826 | 65 |
| 2022 | £156,500 | £183,514 | 88 |
| 2021 | £133,000 | £168,395 | 114 |
| 2020 | £134,000 | £173,868 | 78 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 101 |
| 2018 | £115,000 | £153,297 | 92 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 98 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 91 |
| 2015 | £99,000 | £139,887 | 74 |
| 2014 | £106,500 | £151,089 | 60 |
| 2013 | £97,000 | £139,573 | 61 |
| 2012 | £119,000 | £175,153 | 76 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 67 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 71 |
| 2009 | £128,000 | £205,761 | 85 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 83 |
| 2007 | £113,000 | £191,679 | 111 |
| 2006 | £102,000 | £177,059 | 111 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 74 |
| 2004 | £86,500 | £157,101 | 122 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 114 |
| 2002 | £51,500 | £96,897 | 122 |
| 2001 | £44,000 | £84,588 | 99 |
| 2000 | £42,500 | £83,406 | 93 |
| 1999 | £41,500 | £82,707 | 103 |
| 1998 | £39,000 | £78,724 | 84 |
| 1997 | £39,500 | £81,007 | 81 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 85 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 61 |
In cash terms the typical WF11 8 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £186,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 125%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2009, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2009 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF11 8 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 (+35.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−18.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF11 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.0% | +3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.9% | +2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 40 WF11 8 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 106 sales a year before the financial crisis and 71 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.
How WF11 8 trades
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF11 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around WF11 8
The local authority for WF11 8 is Wakefield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £186,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. 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.
WF11 8 (Brotherton): the questions that come up
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What happens to WF11 8 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 40% over five years in cash and up 10% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in WF11 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 75 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF11 district, not just WF11 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 17% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Ashdown Court, Knottingley
- Cherry Tree Walk, Knottingley, West Yorkshire
- Broomhill Avenue, Knottingley, Knottingley
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every WF11 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
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%) | — | — |
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. 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 WF11
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF11's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF11 0 | £195,000 | 41 |
| WF11 9 | £173,000 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full WF11 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF11 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WF11 8? 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 WF11 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF11 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF11 8 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 WF11 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WF11 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WF11 8 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.