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Gawthorpe market report WF5 8, Ossett
The standing WF5 8 (Gawthorpe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,260 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF5 8 (Ossett) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for WF5 8 (Ossett) is £225,000, from 46 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £259,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,770 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,260 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WF5 8 is one sector of WF5 (Ossett): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WF5 8 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 WF5 8 sells for
The WF5 8 median stands at £225,000 for 2026, built from 46 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £259,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
WF5 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, WF5 8 homes have averaged around £2,770 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WF5 8 runs 21% below it.
A typical WF5 8 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £228,000 | £233,452 | 96 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 97 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 91 |
| 2022 | £206,500 | £242,145 | 92 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 128 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 87 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 89 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 109 |
| 2017 | £156,800 | £213,859 | 66 |
| 2016 | £144,800 | £202,577 | 132 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 101 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 83 |
| 2013 | £145,200 | £208,928 | 94 |
| 2012 | £134,000 | £197,231 | 65 |
| 2011 | £132,500 | £200,024 | 53 |
| 2010 | £160,500 | £251,705 | 62 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 83 |
| 2008 | £148,700 | £243,751 | 80 |
| 2007 | £146,000 | £247,657 | 145 |
| 2006 | £139,800 | £242,675 | 124 |
| 2005 | £125,500 | £223,339 | 123 |
| 2004 | £117,000 | £212,495 | 117 |
| 2003 | £123,000 | £226,596 | 139 |
| 2002 | £81,200 | £152,777 | 148 |
| 2001 | £63,000 | £121,114 | 121 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 135 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 123 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 114 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 120 |
| 1996 | £51,200 | £107,979 | 92 |
| 1995 | £50,500 | £109,779 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical WF5 8 home went from £50,500 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 105%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2009, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2009 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF5 8 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 (+51.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−17.4%). 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) | −1.3% | −3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 46 WF5 8 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 132 sales a year before the financial crisis and 84 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market WF5 8 is
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF5 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the WF5 district median, WF5 8 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around WF5 8
For renting purposes WF5 8 sits in Wakefield. The ONS average private rent there is £794 a month (May 2026). 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 £225,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
WF5 8 (Gawthorpe): the questions that come up
Is WF5 8 (Gawthorpe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF5 8 (Gawthorpe)?
Are property prices falling in WF5 8 (Gawthorpe)?
Where do WF5 8 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
What you could buy in WF5 now
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 →
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
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 0 | £225,000 | 36 |
| 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 a home in WF5 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF5 8'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 WF5 8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WF5 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WF5 8 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.
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.