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Ackworth Moor Top market report WF7 5, Pontefract

The WF7 5 (Ackworth Moor Top) 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: 3,231 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF7 5 (Pontefract) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: the 2026 median for WF7 5 (Pontefract) is £203,800, from 40 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier; the mean is £211,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,150 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,231 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

WF7 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WF7 (Pontefract). 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.

WF7 5 sold prices: where the market stands

The WF7 5 median stands at £203,800 for 2026, built from 40 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £211,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.

What a square metre costs in WF7 5

By floor space, homes in WF7 5 have sold for about £2,150 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.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WF7 5 trades 28% below the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical WF7 5 home went from £39,300 in 1995 to £203,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 139%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+41.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−17.8%). 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

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.

The turnover behind the prices

The register shows 40 WF7 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 109 sales a year recently, against 110 a year before 2008. 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 WF7 5

For renting purposes WF7 5 sits in Wakefield. The ONS average private rent there is £794 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £567 a month here against £1,200 for four or more bedrooms.

Against the £203,800 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 4.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.

Reading the WF7 5 market

This is a thin market: 40 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 WF7, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

Common questions on WF7 5 (Ackworth Moor Top)

Are WF7 5 prices heading up or down?

Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.

What you could buy in WF7 now

Bedroom by bedroom: WF prices by size

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the WF area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in WF7

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WF7, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full WF7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF7 compares with its neighbours.

Selling a home in WF7 5? Price it on the evidence

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Two maps carry on from here: every WF7 5 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.

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.