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Altofts market report WF6 2, Normanton
The standing WF6 2 (Altofts) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,571 registered sales in WF6 2 (Normanton) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WF6 2 (Normanton) home changed hands for £205,000 in 2026 (median of 51 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £225,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,400 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,571 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WF6 2 is one sector of WF6 (Normanton): 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 WF6 2 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 WF6 2 homes really sell for
Across 51 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WF6 2 home went for £205,000. The mean is £225,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in WF6 2
By floor space, homes in WF6 2 have sold for about £2,400 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WF6 2 28% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WF6 2 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £205,000 | £205,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £210,000 | £215,022 | 167 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 139 |
| 2023 | £187,500 | £206,017 | 130 |
| 2022 | £196,000 | £229,832 | 217 |
| 2021 | £194,000 | £245,629 | 244 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 153 |
| 2019 | £169,000 | £221,519 | 200 |
| 2018 | £151,000 | £201,286 | 164 |
| 2017 | £142,000 | £193,674 | 139 |
| 2016 | £124,000 | £173,477 | 143 |
| 2015 | £126,800 | £179,168 | 141 |
| 2014 | £133,000 | £188,684 | 144 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 112 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 106 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 91 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 74 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 86 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 111 |
| 2007 | £121,000 | £205,250 | 203 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 240 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 165 |
| 2004 | £99,000 | £179,803 | 229 |
| 2003 | £85,500 | £157,512 | 250 |
| 2002 | £67,000 | £126,060 | 263 |
| 2001 | £54,000 | £103,812 | 246 |
| 2000 | £52,000 | £102,050 | 232 |
| 1999 | £52,000 | £103,633 | 275 |
| 1998 | £52,500 | £105,975 | 221 |
| 1997 | £51,000 | £104,591 | 256 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 207 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 172 |
In cash terms the typical WF6 2 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £205,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 96%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF6 2 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 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF6 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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
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.
WF6 2 recorded 51 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 229 sales a year before the financial crisis and 141 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 WF6 2
WF6 2 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.
Set against the £205,000 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 WF6 2 market
Only 51 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF6 2 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.
Common questions on WF6 2 (Altofts)
Is WF6 2 (Altofts) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF6 2 (Altofts)?
Are property prices falling in WF6 2 (Altofts)?
Will WF6 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% 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
This is what you could actually buy today: 41 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF6 district, not just WF6 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% 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 WF6 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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WF area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WF area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 1 | £180,000 | 51 |
Zoom out to the full WF6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF6 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WF6 2? 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 WF6 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF6 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF6 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WF6 2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF6 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF6 2 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.