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Gawthorpe market report WF5 9, Ossett
The WF5 9 (Gawthorpe) 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: 3,841 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF5 9 (Ossett) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WF5 9 (Ossett) is £183,000, from 43 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier; the mean is £188,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,390 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,841 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WF5 9 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 9 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.
WF5 9 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 43 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WF5 9 home went for £183,000. The mean is £188,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in WF5 9
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WF5 9 sales average about £2,390 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WF5 9 36% below the country at large.
WF5 9'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £183,000 | £183,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 83 |
| 2024 | £178,200 | £189,463 | 106 |
| 2023 | £190,000 | £208,764 | 74 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 100 |
| 2021 | £155,200 | £196,503 | 134 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 93 |
| 2019 | £147,400 | £193,206 | 114 |
| 2018 | £158,800 | £211,683 | 120 |
| 2017 | £150,000 | £204,585 | 136 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 151 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 121 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 107 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 78 |
| 2012 | £106,500 | £156,755 | 68 |
| 2011 | £119,000 | £179,644 | 60 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 63 |
| 2009 | £117,000 | £188,078 | 44 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 75 |
| 2007 | £124,000 | £210,339 | 162 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 168 |
| 2005 | £123,500 | £219,780 | 191 |
| 2004 | £115,000 | £208,862 | 233 |
| 2003 | £88,000 | £162,117 | 143 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 188 |
| 2001 | £52,500 | £100,929 | 146 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 157 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 122 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 204 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 160 |
| 1996 | £41,500 | £87,522 | 88 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical WF5 9 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £183,000 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. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF5 9 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 2017 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−18.5%). 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) | +1.7% | −0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in WF5 9
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 43 sales completed in WF5 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 174 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WF5 9
WF5 9 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 £183,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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.
What kind of market WF5 9 is
This is a thin market: 43 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. Against the WF5 district median, WF5 9 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
WF5 9 (Gawthorpe): the questions that come up
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Are WF5 9 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
WF5's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 30 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF5 district, not just WF5 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every WF5 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in WF
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WF area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, WF area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WF5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WF5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF5 0 | £225,000 | 36 |
| WF5 8 | £225,000 | 46 |
Zoom out to the full WF5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WF5 9? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WF5 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF5 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF5 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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See every individual WF5 9 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.