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Altofts market report WF6, Normanton
The WF6 (Altofts) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 11,150 HM Land Registry entries for WF6 (Normanton), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 102 registered 2026 sales put the WF6 (Normanton) median at £195,000, up 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £220,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,280 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 11,150 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WF6 is the postcode district covering Altofts, Normanton in Normanton. 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 WF6 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 WF6 sells for
Take the 102 registered 2026 sales in WF6 and the middle price, the median, is £195,000. The mean lands at £220,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
WF6 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WF6 costs about £2,280 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WF6 32% below the national figure.
The price of a typical WF6 home, 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 | £195,000 | £195,000 | 102 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 305 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 263 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 237 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 380 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 443 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 265 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 324 |
| 2018 | £140,000 | £186,623 | 325 |
| 2017 | £132,500 | £180,717 | 289 |
| 2016 | £122,500 | £171,379 | 298 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 296 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 307 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 237 |
| 2012 | £121,000 | £178,097 | 215 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 205 |
| 2010 | £119,000 | £186,623 | 178 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 191 |
| 2008 | £122,200 | £200,312 | 204 |
| 2007 | £123,000 | £208,642 | 481 |
| 2006 | £119,000 | £206,569 | 509 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 366 |
| 2004 | £97,000 | £176,171 | 524 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 575 |
| 2002 | £71,700 | £134,903 | 686 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 663 |
| 2000 | £54,500 | £106,956 | 479 |
| 1999 | £55,300 | £110,210 | 497 |
| 1998 | £49,400 | £99,717 | 368 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 357 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 319 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 262 |
In cash terms the typical WF6 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 114%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF6 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 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−4.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
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, 37% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £320,000 against £97,500 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, WF6
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 | £322,500 | 26 | 2,944 |
| Semi-detached | £198,000 | 45 | 4,068 |
| Terraced | £150,000 | 29 | 3,826 |
| Flats | £97,500 (2025) | – | 295 |
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 237 sales completed in WF6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 535 sales a year before the financial crisis and 257 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 homes rent for around WF6
For renting purposes WF6 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.
£794 a month is £9,528 a year, which against the £195,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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.
Common questions on WF6 (Altofts)
Is WF6 (Altofts) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF6 (Altofts)?
Are property prices falling in WF6 (Altofts)?
What happens to WF6 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% 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.
WF6's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WF6 sold for. The live side of the market holds 41 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the WF6 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 25% 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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"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 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.
What another bedroom costs in WF
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WF area. 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WF6 ranks 15 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WF6, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF6 1 | £180,000 | 51 |
| WF6 2 | £205,000 | 51 |
How WF6 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 | £207,500 | +13% |
| WF1 | £200,000 | -7% |
| WF15 | £199,500 | +21% |
| WF6 (this report) | £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 in WF6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF6, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF6 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.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every WF6 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.
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.