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Ackworth Moor Top market report WF7 7, Pontefract
The WF7 7 (Ackworth Moor Top) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,309 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF7 7 (Pontefract) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WF7 7 (Pontefract) home changed hands for £213,500 in 2026 (median of 38 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £228,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,520 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,309 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WF7 7 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.
Where WF7 7 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.
WF7 7 sold prices: where the market stands
In the WF7 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £213,500, from 38 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £228,100, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in WF7 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WF7 7 costs about £2,520 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WF7 7 25% below the country at large.
A typical WF7 7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £213,500 | £213,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £238,000 | £243,691 | 139 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 113 |
| 2023 | £228,800 | £251,395 | 104 |
| 2022 | £239,000 | £280,255 | 121 |
| 2021 | £212,000 | £268,419 | 201 |
| 2020 | £212,500 | £275,723 | 149 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 160 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 171 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 184 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 155 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 135 |
| 2014 | £158,000 | £224,151 | 183 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 138 |
| 2012 | £153,000 | £225,197 | 94 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 85 |
| 2010 | £160,000 | £250,921 | 108 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 77 |
| 2008 | £138,600 | £227,195 | 90 |
| 2007 | £147,000 | £249,353 | 204 |
| 2006 | £143,000 | £248,230 | 171 |
| 2005 | £149,500 | £266,050 | 133 |
| 2004 | £126,000 | £228,841 | 174 |
| 2003 | £96,000 | £176,855 | 175 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 163 |
| 2001 | £79,400 | £152,642 | 156 |
| 2000 | £61,200 | £120,105 | 108 |
| 1999 | £57,800 | £115,192 | 116 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 106 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 125 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 125 |
| 1995 | £53,500 | £116,301 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical WF7 7 home went from £53,500 in 1995 to £213,500 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 84%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 24% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF7 7 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 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−21.9%). 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
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.3% | −12.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in WF7 7
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 38 sales completed in WF7 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 161 sales a year before the financial crisis and 103 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.
The rental side of WF7 7
WF7 7 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.
Against the £213,500 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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 7 market
This is a thin market: 38 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. 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. Within WF7, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about WF7 7 (Ackworth Moor Top)
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Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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
This is what you could actually buy today: 68 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF7 district, not just WF7 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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%) | — | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, WF area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 6 | £176,500 | 32 |
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 7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF7 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF7 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF7 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WF7 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF7 7.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF7 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WF7 7 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.