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Crigglestone market report WF4, Wakefield
The WF4 (Crigglestone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 21,673 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF4 (Wakefield) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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 typical home in WF4 (Wakefield) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 216 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier. The mean was £260,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,590 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 21,673 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WF4 is the postcode district covering Crigglestone, Crofton, Durkar in Wakefield. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WF4 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 WF4 sells for
The WF4 median stands at £230,000 for 2026, built from 216 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £260,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WF4
Per square metre, WF4 homes have averaged around £2,590 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WF4 19% below the national figure.
WF4'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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 216 |
| 2025 | £222,500 | £227,821 | 605 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 526 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 470 |
| 2022 | £202,000 | £236,868 | 605 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 812 |
| 2020 | £182,500 | £236,798 | 611 |
| 2019 | £168,500 | £220,863 | 685 |
| 2018 | £168,800 | £225,014 | 720 |
| 2017 | £159,500 | £217,542 | 715 |
| 2016 | £156,000 | £218,246 | 749 |
| 2015 | £153,000 | £216,189 | 667 |
| 2014 | £148,000 | £209,964 | 628 |
| 2013 | £133,000 | £191,374 | 493 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 407 |
| 2011 | £133,500 | £201,534 | 360 |
| 2010 | £143,600 | £225,202 | 368 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 416 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 404 |
| 2007 | £143,000 | £242,568 | 816 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 902 |
| 2005 | £128,000 | £227,788 | 786 |
| 2004 | £118,000 | £214,311 | 927 |
| 2003 | £98,000 | £180,540 | 869 |
| 2002 | £79,400 | £149,390 | 1,054 |
| 2001 | £64,500 | £123,998 | 998 |
| 2000 | £62,000 | £121,675 | 942 |
| 1999 | £57,500 | £114,594 | 980 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 809 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 769 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 738 |
| 1995 | £53,200 | £115,649 | 626 |
In cash terms the typical WF4 home went from £53,200 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 99%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 5% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF4 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 (+23.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.7%). 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, 39% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £345,000 against £126,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, WF4
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 | £359,500 | 68 | 6,928 |
| Semi-detached | £221,000 | 94 | 8,516 |
| Terraced | £157,500 | 52 | 5,673 |
| Flats | £126,500 (2025) | – | 552 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 483 sales completed in WF4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 912 sales a year before the financial crisis and 484 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
The local authority for WF4 is Wakefield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £230,000 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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 WF4 is
WF4 sits 3 of 17 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: WF4 (Crigglestone)
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Will WF4 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in WF4 now
Everything above is what homes in WF4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 110 homes at the moment, listed by 15 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% above the WF4 median sold price.
21% 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.
- 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 →
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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WF4 ranks 5 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.
Five-year change in the median, WF area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WF4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WF4 1 | £217,500 | 49 |
| WF4 2 | £175,000 | 25 |
| WF4 3 | £258,800 | 48 |
| WF4 4 | £220,000 | 43 |
| WF4 5 | £224,000 | 34 |
| WF4 6 | £300,000 | 17 |
How WF4 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 (this report) | £230,000 | +24% |
| WF2 | £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% |
Thinking of selling in WF4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF4, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WF4.
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Two maps carry on from here: every WF4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.