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Darrington market report WF8 1, Pontefract
The WF8 1 (Darrington) 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: 3,048 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF8 1 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WF8 1 (Pontefract) sold for £171,500 in 2026, the median of 20 registered sales, up 39% on five years earlier. The mean was £163,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,150 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,048 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WF8 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WF8 (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 WF8 1 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.
WF8 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 20 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WF8 1 home went for £171,500. The mean is £163,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in WF8 1
Per square metre, WF8 1 homes have averaged around £2,150 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF8 1 sits 40% below the national market.
The price of a typical WF8 1 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 | £171,500 | £171,500 | 20 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 76 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 79 |
| 2023 | £139,000 | £152,727 | 59 |
| 2022 | £163,500 | £191,722 | 82 |
| 2021 | £123,800 | £156,747 | 96 |
| 2020 | £147,500 | £191,384 | 81 |
| 2019 | £153,000 | £200,546 | 113 |
| 2018 | £133,000 | £177,292 | 131 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 132 |
| 2016 | £97,500 | £136,403 | 87 |
| 2015 | £143,400 | £202,624 | 120 |
| 2014 | £119,000 | £168,822 | 73 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 77 |
| 2012 | £102,000 | £150,131 | 76 |
| 2011 | £102,000 | £153,981 | 53 |
| 2010 | £122,000 | £191,327 | 53 |
| 2009 | £119,000 | £191,294 | 52 |
| 2008 | £132,500 | £217,195 | 121 |
| 2007 | £133,600 | £226,623 | 177 |
| 2006 | £124,200 | £215,595 | 128 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 109 |
| 2004 | £93,500 | £169,814 | 91 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 106 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 122 |
| 2001 | £57,000 | £109,580 | 116 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 135 |
| 1999 | £52,200 | £104,032 | 182 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 111 |
| 1997 | £51,000 | £104,591 | 75 |
| 1996 | £44,500 | £93,849 | 54 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 61 |
In cash terms the typical WF8 1 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £171,500 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 64%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 24% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF8 1 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−32.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF8 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.7% | +1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.8% | +2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in WF8 1
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
WF8 1 recorded 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 123 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WF8 1
For renting purposes WF8 1 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Wakefield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £171,500 median sold price, £794 a month is £9,528 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How WF8 1 trades
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF8 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the WF8 district median, WF8 1 sits 22% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on WF8 1 (Darrington)
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What happens to WF8 1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 39% over five years in cash and up 9% 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 WF8 today
The live side of the market holds 143 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF8 district, not just WF8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 WF8 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WF area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WF area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WF8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF8 2 | £203,800 | 70 |
| WF8 3 | £320,000 | 25 |
| WF8 4 | £280,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full WF8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WF8 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF8 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF8 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF8 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WF8 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF8 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WF8 1 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.