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Ackworth Moor Top market report WF7, Pontefract
The WF7 (Ackworth Moor Top) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 10,435 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF7 (Pontefract) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 110 registered 2026 sales put the WF7 (Pontefract) median at £187,500, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £209,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,270 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 10,435 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WF7 is a postcode district covering Ackworth Moor Top, Ackton, Featherstone in Pontefract. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WF7 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.
Today's WF7 prices, from the sold record
110 sales were registered in WF7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £187,500. The mean works out at £209,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WF7
The last five years of sales put WF7 at roughly £2,270 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF7 sits 34% below the national market.
WF7's median sold price, 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 | £187,500 | £187,500 | 110 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 342 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 282 |
| 2023 | £197,800 | £217,334 | 288 |
| 2022 | £180,800 | £212,009 | 378 |
| 2021 | £183,000 | £231,702 | 483 |
| 2020 | £160,000 | £207,603 | 352 |
| 2019 | £158,000 | £207,100 | 363 |
| 2018 | £154,000 | £205,285 | 414 |
| 2017 | £155,000 | £211,404 | 415 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 427 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 354 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 303 |
| 2013 | £133,000 | £191,374 | 234 |
| 2012 | £116,200 | £171,032 | 196 |
| 2011 | £112,000 | £169,077 | 218 |
| 2010 | £126,500 | £198,385 | 192 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 167 |
| 2008 | £120,500 | £197,525 | 224 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 459 |
| 2006 | £117,500 | £203,965 | 436 |
| 2005 | £118,200 | £210,348 | 418 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 491 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 390 |
| 2002 | £57,000 | £107,245 | 397 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 354 |
| 2000 | £46,500 | £91,256 | 299 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 281 |
| 1998 | £45,200 | £91,239 | 280 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 327 |
| 1996 | £43,200 | £91,107 | 314 |
| 1995 | £44,200 | £96,084 | 247 |
In cash terms the typical WF7 home went from £44,200 in 1995 to £187,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 95%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF7 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 (+40.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−11.5%). 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) | −8.5% | −10.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £318,000 against £110,500 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, WF7
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 | £320,000 | 17 | 2,421 |
| Semi-detached | £215,000 | 39 | 3,552 |
| Terraced | £164,500 | 52 | 4,283 |
| Flats | £110,500 (2024) | – | 135 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 240 WF7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 406 sales a year before the financial crisis and 280 a year over the last five. 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.
The rental side of WF7
For renting purposes WF7 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 £187,500 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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 market
Among the 17 measurable districts of its area, WF7 ranks 14 by median price: towards the affordable end.
WF7 (Ackworth Moor Top): the questions that come up
Is WF7 (Ackworth Moor Top) a good place to buy a house?
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Are property prices falling in WF7 (Ackworth Moor Top)?
Are WF7 prices heading up or down?
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 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WF7 right now
Everything above is what homes in WF7 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 68 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% above the WF7 median sold price.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Newstead Avenue, Fitzwilliam, Pontefract, WF9
- Priory Road, Featherstone, Pontefract
- Crossley Street, Featherstone, Pontefract, West Yorkshire
"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 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
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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WF7 ranks 16 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.
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.
Inside WF7, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF7 5 | £203,800 | 40 |
| WF7 6 | £176,500 | 32 |
| WF7 7 | £213,500 | 38 |
How WF7 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 | £195,000 | +5% |
| WF12 | £195,000 | +15% |
| WF16 | £193,000 | +40% |
| WF11 | £190,000 | +31% |
| WF17 | £188,000 | +30% |
| WF7 (this report) | £187,500 | +2% |
| WF10 | £182,500 | +13% |
| WF9 | £167,800 | +12% |
| WF13 | £140,000 | +27% |
Selling a home in WF7? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF7's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WF7.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WF7 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.