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Crigglestone market report WF4 3, Wakefield
The WF4 3 (Crigglestone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,039 registered sales in WF4 3 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in WF4 3 (Wakefield) sold for £258,800 in 2026, the median of 48 registered sales, up 36% on five years earlier. The mean was £275,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,760 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,039 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like WF4 3 is a single group of streets within WF4 (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 WF4 3 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.
WF4 3 sold prices: where the market stands
In the WF4 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £258,800, from 48 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £275,200, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WF4 3
The last five years of sales put WF4 3 at roughly £2,760 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WF4 3 9% below the country at large.
WF4 3's median sold price, 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 | £258,800 | £258,800 | 48 |
| 2025 | £228,800 | £234,271 | 138 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 138 |
| 2023 | £207,000 | £227,442 | 113 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 140 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 195 |
| 2020 | £186,000 | £241,339 | 146 |
| 2019 | £162,000 | £212,343 | 121 |
| 2018 | £169,500 | £225,947 | 198 |
| 2017 | £167,200 | £228,044 | 186 |
| 2016 | £157,000 | £219,645 | 193 |
| 2015 | £160,800 | £227,210 | 188 |
| 2014 | £151,000 | £214,220 | 190 |
| 2013 | £138,500 | £199,288 | 110 |
| 2012 | £133,000 | £195,759 | 87 |
| 2011 | £124,000 | £187,192 | 77 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 76 |
| 2009 | £126,200 | £202,868 | 72 |
| 2008 | £131,000 | £214,737 | 82 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 149 |
| 2006 | £137,000 | £237,814 | 194 |
| 2005 | £149,900 | £266,762 | 168 |
| 2004 | £124,000 | £225,208 | 179 |
| 2003 | £104,000 | £191,593 | 203 |
| 2002 | £79,000 | £148,638 | 239 |
| 2001 | £64,000 | £123,037 | 209 |
| 2000 | £62,200 | £122,068 | 228 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 254 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 213 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 208 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 154 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 143 |
In cash terms the typical WF4 3 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £258,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 129%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the WF4 3 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 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +13.1% | +10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.4% | +1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in WF4 3
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 48 sales completed in WF4 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 196 sales a year before the financial crisis and 115 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 WF4 3
WF4 3 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.
£794 a month is £9,528 a year, which against the £258,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. 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.
Reading the WF4 3 market
This is a thin market: 48 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. Within WF4, this sector trades 13% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: WF4 3 (Crigglestone)
Are property prices falling in WF4 3 (Crigglestone)?
Is WF4 3 (Crigglestone) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF4 3 (Crigglestone)?
What happens to WF4 3 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 8% 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.
WF4's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 110 homes on the market right now, from 15 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF4 district, not just WF4 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Manor House, Flockton, Wakefield
- Hemmingway Close, Havercroft, Wakefield
- Horbury, 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 WF4 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WF
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WF4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF4 1 | £217,500 | 49 |
| WF4 2 | £175,000 | 25 |
| WF4 4 | £220,000 | 43 |
| WF4 5 | £224,000 | 34 |
| WF4 6 | £300,000 | 17 |
Zoom out to the full WF4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WF4 3: 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 WF4 3'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 WF4 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF4 3.
Keep digging
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See every individual WF4 3 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.