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Gawthorpe market report WF5, Ossett
The standing WF5 (Gawthorpe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 11,117 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF5 (Ossett) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WF5 (Ossett) home changed hands for £207,500 in 2026 (median of 125 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £236,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,640 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 11,117 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WF5 is the postcode district covering Gawthorpe, Healey in Ossett. 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 WF5 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 sells for
In the WF5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £207,500, from 125 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £236,900, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WF5
The last five years of sales put WF5 at roughly £2,640 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WF5 trades 27% below the country as a whole.
A typical WF5 home, priced year by year (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 | £207,500 | £207,500 | 125 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 279 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 297 |
| 2023 | £209,500 | £230,189 | 252 |
| 2022 | £205,000 | £240,386 | 325 |
| 2021 | £183,000 | £231,702 | 378 |
| 2020 | £162,500 | £210,847 | 312 |
| 2019 | £172,000 | £225,451 | 335 |
| 2018 | £170,000 | £226,613 | 357 |
| 2017 | £155,000 | £211,404 | 328 |
| 2016 | £138,000 | £193,063 | 444 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 363 |
| 2014 | £142,800 | £202,587 | 322 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 279 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 236 |
| 2011 | £128,000 | £193,231 | 193 |
| 2010 | £133,000 | £208,578 | 194 |
| 2009 | £146,200 | £235,018 | 196 |
| 2008 | £136,000 | £222,933 | 243 |
| 2007 | £138,000 | £234,086 | 447 |
| 2006 | £134,800 | £233,996 | 466 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 450 |
| 2004 | £118,000 | £214,311 | 526 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 428 |
| 2002 | £73,800 | £138,854 | 504 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 450 |
| 2000 | £55,500 | £108,919 | 488 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 392 |
| 1998 | £53,600 | £108,195 | 470 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 399 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 309 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 330 |
In cash terms the typical WF5 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £207,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 103%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF5 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 (+35.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−9.0%). 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, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £336,500 against £114,500 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, WF5
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 | £336,500 | 32 | 2,525 |
| Semi-detached | £225,000 | 44 | 4,563 |
| Terraced | £179,000 | 36 | 3,440 |
| Flats | £114,500 | 13 | 582 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.8% | −9.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WF5 recorded 235 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 470 sales a year before the financial crisis and 256 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 homes rent for around WF5
The local authority for WF5 is Wakefield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £794 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £207,500 median sold price, £794 a month is £9,528 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the WF5 market
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.
Asked and answered: WF5 (Gawthorpe)
Are property prices falling in WF5 (Gawthorpe)?
Is WF5 (Gawthorpe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF5 (Gawthorpe)?
Will WF5 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in WF5 now
Everything above is what homes in WF5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 30 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% above the WF5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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
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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WF5 ranks 10 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.
WF area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WF5, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF5 0 | £225,000 | 36 |
| WF5 8 | £225,000 | 46 |
| WF5 9 | £183,000 | 43 |
How WF5 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 | £230,000 | +24% |
| WF2 | £225,000 | +7% |
| WF8 | £221,000 | +11% |
| WF5 (this report) | £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% |
Selling a home in WF5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF5 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 WF5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF5 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.