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Altofts market report WF6 1, Normanton
The WF6 1 (Altofts) 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: 5,579 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF6 1 (Normanton) 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WF6 1 (Normanton) came in at £180,000, out of 51 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £214,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,140 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,579 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WF6 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WF6 (Normanton). 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 WF6 1 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.
WF6 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 51 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WF6 1 home went for £180,000. The mean is £214,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in WF6 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WF6 1 sales average about £2,140 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WF6 1 37% below the national figure.
WF6 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 138 |
| 2024 | £166,000 | £176,492 | 124 |
| 2023 | £165,500 | £181,844 | 107 |
| 2022 | £145,000 | £170,029 | 163 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 199 |
| 2020 | £133,500 | £173,219 | 112 |
| 2019 | £124,800 | £163,583 | 124 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 161 |
| 2017 | £119,800 | £163,395 | 150 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 155 |
| 2015 | £118,500 | £167,441 | 155 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 163 |
| 2013 | £128,000 | £184,179 | 125 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 109 |
| 2011 | £117,000 | £176,625 | 114 |
| 2010 | £117,800 | £184,741 | 104 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 105 |
| 2008 | £116,000 | £190,148 | 93 |
| 2007 | £124,500 | £211,187 | 278 |
| 2006 | £118,000 | £204,833 | 269 |
| 2005 | £107,000 | £190,417 | 201 |
| 2004 | £96,500 | £175,263 | 295 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 325 |
| 2002 | £77,000 | £144,875 | 423 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 417 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 247 |
| 1999 | £66,500 | £132,531 | 222 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 147 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 101 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 112 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical WF6 1 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 130%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF6 1 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 1999 (+58.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF6 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.7% | −5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 51 sales completed in WF6 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 307 sales a year before the financial crisis and 117 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 WF6 1 is
This is a thin market: 51 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. 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 WF6, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around WF6 1
For renting purposes WF6 1 sits in Wakefield. The ONS average private rent there is £794 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £567 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,200, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wakefield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £180,000 median sold price, £794 a month is £9,528 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
What people ask about WF6 1 (Altofts)
Is WF6 1 (Altofts) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF6 1 (Altofts)?
Are property prices falling in WF6 1 (Altofts)?
What happens to WF6 1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
On the market in WF6 today
The live side of the market holds 41 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF6 district, not just WF6 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 WF6 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
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%) | — | — |
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.
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.
Other sectors in WF6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WF6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF6 2 | £205,000 | 51 |
Zoom out to the full WF6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WF6 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF6 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF6 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF6 1 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 WF6 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF6 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF6 1 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.