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Alverthorpe market report WF2, Wakefield
The standing WF2 (Alverthorpe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 21,327 registered sales in WF2 (Wakefield) 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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WF2 (Wakefield) is £225,000, from 199 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £252,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,610 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 21,327 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WF2 is a postcode district covering Alverthorpe, Carr Gate, Flanshaw in Wakefield. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WF2 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.
WF2 sold prices: where the market stands
The WF2 median stands at £225,000 for 2026, built from 199 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £252,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WF2
By floor space, homes in WF2 have sold for about £2,610 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WF2 runs 21% below it.
A typical WF2 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 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 199 |
| 2025 | £245,000 | £250,859 | 599 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 600 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 518 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 761 |
| 2021 | £210,000 | £265,887 | 896 |
| 2020 | £195,000 | £253,017 | 608 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 745 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 732 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 752 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 752 |
| 2015 | £153,500 | £216,896 | 698 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 623 |
| 2013 | £132,800 | £191,086 | 442 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 393 |
| 2011 | £133,000 | £200,779 | 364 |
| 2010 | £139,000 | £217,988 | 326 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 313 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 404 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 829 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 822 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 690 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 816 |
| 2003 | £103,000 | £189,751 | 919 |
| 2002 | £81,000 | £152,401 | 1,039 |
| 2001 | £68,700 | £132,072 | 958 |
| 2000 | £63,000 | £123,638 | 765 |
| 1999 | £56,700 | £113,000 | 815 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 767 |
| 1997 | £64,200 | £131,661 | 855 |
| 1996 | £57,200 | £120,632 | 709 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 618 |
In cash terms the typical WF2 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 99%, 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 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 (+27.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−13.8%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £377,500 against £110,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, WF2
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 | £377,500 | 56 | 6,750 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 85 | 8,711 |
| Terraced | £165,000 | 47 | 4,916 |
| Flats | £110,000 | 11 | 950 |
What WF2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.2% | −10.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −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.
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 468 WF2 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 855 sales a year before the financial crisis and 535 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
The local authority for WF2 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.
Against the £225,000 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.
The shape of the WF2 market
Among the 17 measurable districts of its area, WF2 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Common questions on WF2 (Alverthorpe)
How much did a house sell for in WF2 (Alverthorpe)?
Are property prices falling in WF2 (Alverthorpe)?
Is WF2 (Alverthorpe) a good place to buy a house?
Will WF2 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WF2 right now
Everything above is what homes in WF2 sold for. The live side of the market holds 122 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% above the WF2 median sold price.
36% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WF
Real sold prices by size across the WF area, straight 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
WF2 ranks 14 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.
Winners and losers across the WF area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WF2, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| WF2 9 | £195,000 | 47 |
How WF2 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 (this report) | £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 | £182,500 | +13% |
| WF9 | £167,800 | +12% |
| WF13 | £140,000 | +27% |
Before you sell in WF2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF2'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WF2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF2 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.