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Ackworth Moor Top market report WF7 6, Pontefract
The standing WF7 6 (Ackworth Moor Top) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,895 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF7 6 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 32 registered 2026 sales put the WF7 6 (Pontefract) median at £176,500, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £185,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,090 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,895 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WF7 6 is one sector of WF7 (Pontefract): 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 WF7 6 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.
The going rate for a home in WF7 6
32 sales were registered in WF7 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £176,500. The mean works out at £185,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
WF7 6 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put WF7 6 at roughly £2,090 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 WF7 6 trades 38% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WF7 6 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £176,500 | £176,500 | 32 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 87 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 74 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 59 |
| 2022 | £139,000 | £162,993 | 87 |
| 2021 | £146,200 | £185,108 | 111 |
| 2020 | £123,000 | £159,595 | 92 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 70 |
| 2018 | £125,800 | £167,694 | 90 |
| 2017 | £117,500 | £160,258 | 70 |
| 2016 | £95,500 | £133,605 | 97 |
| 2015 | £106,000 | £149,778 | 71 |
| 2014 | £102,200 | £144,989 | 66 |
| 2013 | £95,200 | £136,983 | 58 |
| 2012 | £91,000 | £133,941 | 62 |
| 2011 | £114,500 | £172,851 | 78 |
| 2010 | £97,500 | £152,905 | 47 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 36 |
| 2008 | £107,800 | £176,707 | 60 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 131 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 152 |
| 2005 | £117,000 | £208,213 | 204 |
| 2004 | £89,500 | £162,549 | 165 |
| 2003 | £62,000 | £114,219 | 114 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 105 |
| 2001 | £38,400 | £73,822 | 102 |
| 2000 | £42,500 | £83,406 | 111 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 70 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 107 |
| 1997 | £36,000 | £73,829 | 99 |
| 1996 | £39,500 | £83,304 | 113 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 75 |
In cash terms the typical WF7 6 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £176,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 119%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF7 6 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 2004 (+44.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−20.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF7 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.9% | −1.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.3% | +2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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, 32 sales completed in WF7 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 136 sales a year before the financial crisis and 68 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.
How WF7 6 trades
This is a thin market: 32 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.
Rents around WF7 6
For renting purposes WF7 6 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.
Against the £176,500 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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.
Asked and answered: WF7 6 (Ackworth Moor Top)
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Where do WF7 6 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in WF7 today
The live side of the market holds 68 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF7 district, not just WF7 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Newstead Avenue, Fitzwilliam, Pontefract, WF9
- Priory Road, Featherstone, Pontefract
- Crossley Street, Featherstone, Pontefract, West Yorkshire
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every WF7 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WF area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WF7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WF7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF7 5 | £203,800 | 40 |
| WF7 7 | £213,500 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full WF7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF7 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WF7 6? 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 WF7 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF7 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF7 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WF7 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF7 6.
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The live map plots every individual WF7 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.