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Alverthorpe market report WF2 8, Wakefield
The standing WF2 8 (Alverthorpe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,269 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF2 8 (Wakefield) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WF2 8 (Wakefield) home changed hands for £207,500 in 2026 (median of 38 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £213,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,480 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,269 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WF2 8 is a single group of streets within WF2 (Wakefield), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WF2 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.
What a home in WF2 8 sells for
The WF2 8 median stands at £207,500 for 2026, built from 38 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £213,900, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in WF2 8
Per square metre, WF2 8 homes have averaged around £2,480 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WF2 8 trades 27% below the country as a whole.
WF2 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £207,500 | £207,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 108 |
| 2024 | £212,500 | £225,931 | 152 |
| 2023 | £215,000 | £236,233 | 134 |
| 2022 | £211,000 | £247,422 | 185 |
| 2021 | £191,000 | £241,831 | 187 |
| 2020 | £183,000 | £237,446 | 141 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 114 |
| 2018 | £168,800 | £225,014 | 138 |
| 2017 | £136,500 | £186,172 | 108 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 153 |
| 2015 | £130,200 | £183,973 | 124 |
| 2014 | £128,000 | £181,590 | 111 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 100 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 69 |
| 2011 | £96,200 | £145,225 | 66 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 65 |
| 2009 | £109,000 | £175,218 | 54 |
| 2008 | £124,000 | £203,262 | 74 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 158 |
| 2006 | £116,000 | £201,361 | 162 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 162 |
| 2004 | £108,000 | £196,149 | 156 |
| 2003 | £93,000 | £171,329 | 187 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 261 |
| 2001 | £53,000 | £101,890 | 183 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 146 |
| 1999 | £46,800 | £93,270 | 156 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 135 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 155 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 126 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 161 |
In cash terms the typical WF2 8 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £207,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 105%, 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 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF2 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 2002 (+41.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−23.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.8% | +1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
WF2 8 recorded 38 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 123 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How WF2 8 trades
This is a thin market: 38 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the WF2 district median, WF2 8 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around WF2 8
For renting purposes WF2 8 sits in Wakefield. The ONS average private rent there is £794 a month (May 2026). 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 £207,500 median sold price, £794 a month is £9,528 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: 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.
Common questions on WF2 8 (Alverthorpe)
Is WF2 8 (Alverthorpe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF2 8 (Alverthorpe)?
Are property prices falling in WF2 8 (Alverthorpe)?
What happens to WF2 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in WF2 right now
The live side of the market holds 122 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF2 district, not just WF2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Castle View, Wakefield
- Walton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Wakefield
- Kirkhamgate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Wakefield
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 WF2 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. 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%) | — | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, WF area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WF2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WF2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF2 0 | £228,000 | 65 |
| WF2 6 | £297,500 | 29 |
| WF2 7 | £205,000 | 20 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WF2 8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF2 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF2 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF2 8 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 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF2 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF2 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF2 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.
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.