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Gawthorpe market report WF5 0, Ossett
The standing WF5 0 (Gawthorpe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,016 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF5 0 (Ossett) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 36 registered 2026 sales put the WF5 0 (Ossett) median at £225,000, up 18% on five years earlier, with a mean of £265,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,760 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,016 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WF5 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WF5 (Ossett). 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 WF5 0 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 WF5 0 prices, from the sold record
36 sales were registered in WF5 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £225,000. The mean works out at £265,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in WF5 0
A square metre of WF5 0 home has cost about £2,760 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WF5 0 trades 21% below the country as a whole.
WF5 0's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £237,500 | £243,179 | 100 |
| 2024 | £225,800 | £240,072 | 94 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 87 |
| 2022 | £217,500 | £255,044 | 133 |
| 2021 | £191,000 | £241,831 | 116 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 132 |
| 2019 | £179,500 | £235,282 | 132 |
| 2018 | £179,000 | £238,610 | 128 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 126 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 161 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 141 |
| 2014 | £149,800 | £212,517 | 132 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 107 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 103 |
| 2011 | £133,500 | £201,534 | 80 |
| 2010 | £129,000 | £202,305 | 69 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 69 |
| 2008 | £149,000 | £244,242 | 88 |
| 2007 | £141,200 | £239,515 | 140 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 174 |
| 2005 | £128,000 | £227,788 | 136 |
| 2004 | £125,500 | £227,933 | 176 |
| 2003 | £111,800 | £205,963 | 146 |
| 2002 | £78,000 | £146,756 | 168 |
| 2001 | £71,000 | £136,494 | 183 |
| 2000 | £58,600 | £115,003 | 196 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 147 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 152 |
| 1997 | £51,500 | £105,616 | 119 |
| 1996 | £48,900 | £103,128 | 129 |
| 1995 | £49,100 | £106,736 | 116 |
In cash terms the typical WF5 0 home went from £49,100 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 111%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF5 0 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 (+43.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−8.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.3% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WF5 0
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
WF5 0 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 165 sales a year before the financial crisis and 90 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.
What kind of market WF5 0 is
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF5 0 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 WF5, this sector trades 8% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of WF5 0
For renting purposes WF5 0 sits in Wakefield. The ONS average private rent there is £794 a month (May 2026). 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.
What people ask about WF5 0 (Gawthorpe)
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What happens to WF5 0 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
WF5's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 30 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF5 district, not just WF5 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 WF5 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WF5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WF5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF5 8 | £225,000 | 46 |
| WF5 9 | £183,000 | 43 |
Zoom out to the full WF5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WF5 0? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF5 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF5 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF5 0 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 WF5 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF5 0.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF5 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF5 0 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.