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Alverthorpe market report WF2 0, Wakefield
The standing WF2 0 (Alverthorpe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,460 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF2 0 (Wakefield) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for WF2 0 (Wakefield) is £228,000, from 65 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £262,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,740 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,460 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WF2 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WF2 (Wakefield). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WF2 0 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 a home in WF2 0 sells for
65 sales were registered in WF2 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £228,000. The mean works out at £262,900, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in WF2 0
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WF2 0 costs about £2,740 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF2 0 sits 20% below the national market.
The price of a typical WF2 0 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 | £228,000 | £228,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 153 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 141 |
| 2023 | £222,000 | £243,924 | 127 |
| 2022 | £226,000 | £265,011 | 160 |
| 2021 | £212,200 | £268,673 | 168 |
| 2020 | £194,200 | £251,979 | 140 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 218 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 219 |
| 2017 | £172,000 | £234,591 | 215 |
| 2016 | £154,000 | £215,448 | 148 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 207 |
| 2014 | £155,000 | £219,895 | 161 |
| 2013 | £138,800 | £199,719 | 98 |
| 2012 | £132,800 | £195,465 | 114 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 64 |
| 2010 | £142,200 | £223,006 | 70 |
| 2009 | £142,200 | £228,588 | 80 |
| 2008 | £123,500 | £202,443 | 111 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 201 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 214 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 156 |
| 2004 | £127,000 | £230,657 | 189 |
| 2003 | £104,500 | £192,514 | 202 |
| 2002 | £83,500 | £157,105 | 236 |
| 2001 | £73,200 | £140,723 | 290 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 219 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 251 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 230 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 241 |
| 1996 | £58,800 | £124,007 | 223 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 149 |
In cash terms the typical WF2 0 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £228,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 110%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF2 0 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 1997 (+31.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−24.7%). 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) | −6.9% | −9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WF2 0
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 65 sales completed in WF2 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 213 sales a year before the financial crisis and 129 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 WF2 0 market
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.
What tenants pay around WF2 0
WF2 0 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.
Against the £228,000 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
Common questions on WF2 0 (Alverthorpe)
How much did a house sell for in WF2 0 (Alverthorpe)?
Are property prices falling in WF2 0 (Alverthorpe)?
Is WF2 0 (Alverthorpe) a good place to buy a house?
Are WF2 0 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
WF2's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 122 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF2 district, not just WF2 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Castle View, Wakefield
- Walton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Wakefield
- Kirkhamgate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Wakefield
"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 WF2 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WF: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WF area, from the Land Registry record. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 WF2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF2 6 | £297,500 | 29 |
| WF2 7 | £205,000 | 20 |
| WF2 8 | £207,500 | 38 |
| WF2 9 | £195,000 | 47 |
Zoom out to the full WF2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WF2 0? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF2 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF2 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF2 0 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WF2 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF2 0.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF2 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF2 0 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.