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Alverthorpe market report WF2 9, Wakefield
The WF2 9 (Alverthorpe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,531 HM Land Registry entries for WF2 9 (Wakefield), 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WF2 9 (Wakefield) came in at £195,000, out of 47 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £208,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,210 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,531 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WF2 9 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 9 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 WF2 9 prices, from the sold record
Across 47 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WF2 9 home went for £195,000. The mean is £208,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in WF2 9
By floor space, homes in WF2 9 have sold for about £2,210 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WF2 9 trades 32% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WF2 9 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £195,000 | £195,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 107 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 105 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 93 |
| 2022 | £161,000 | £188,791 | 170 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 217 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 116 |
| 2019 | £145,600 | £190,847 | 120 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 113 |
| 2017 | £137,000 | £186,854 | 173 |
| 2016 | £154,000 | £215,448 | 175 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 143 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 143 |
| 2013 | £112,500 | £161,876 | 67 |
| 2012 | £104,000 | £153,075 | 68 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 83 |
| 2010 | £103,000 | £161,531 | 60 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 53 |
| 2008 | £117,000 | £191,788 | 95 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 193 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 203 |
| 2005 | £107,500 | £191,307 | 146 |
| 2004 | £98,000 | £177,987 | 240 |
| 2003 | £95,000 | £175,013 | 275 |
| 2002 | £73,000 | £137,349 | 296 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 203 |
| 2000 | £44,000 | £86,350 | 127 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 146 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 143 |
| 1997 | £40,500 | £83,057 | 145 |
| 1996 | £44,700 | £94,270 | 144 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 122 |
In cash terms the typical WF2 9 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 124%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2015; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2015 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF2 9 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 (+32.7% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−16.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF2 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.4% | +2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WF2 9
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
WF2 9 recorded 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 210 sales a year before the financial crisis and 104 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of WF2 9
The local authority for WF2 9 is Wakefield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £195,000 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
What kind of market WF2 9 is
Only 47 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF2 9 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. Within WF2, this sector trades 13% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
WF2 9 (Alverthorpe): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WF2 9 (Alverthorpe)?
Is WF2 9 (Alverthorpe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF2 9 (Alverthorpe)?
What happens to WF2 9 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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 WF2 today
Turning to what is actually available: 122 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF2 district, not just WF2 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Castle View, Wakefield
- Walton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Wakefield
- Kirkhamgate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Wakefield
"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 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WF area. 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.
WF area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 8 | £207,500 | 38 |
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 9? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF2 9'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 WF2 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF2 9.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WF2 9. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WF2 9 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.
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.