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Darrington market report WF8 2, Pontefract
The standing WF8 2 (Darrington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,707 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF8 2 (Pontefract) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WF8 2 (Pontefract) is £203,800, from 70 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £214,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,270 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,707 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WF8 2 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 2 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 2 sold prices: where the market stands
In the WF8 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £203,800, from 70 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £214,900, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WF8 2
A square metre of WF8 2 home has cost about £2,270 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WF8 2 runs 28% below it.
A typical WF8 2 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £203,800 | £203,800 | 70 |
| 2025 | £193,800 | £198,434 | 200 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 203 |
| 2023 | £183,000 | £201,072 | 193 |
| 2022 | £195,000 | £228,660 | 261 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 347 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 213 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 293 |
| 2018 | £153,000 | £203,952 | 317 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 304 |
| 2016 | £129,600 | £181,312 | 234 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 197 |
| 2014 | £118,200 | £167,687 | 190 |
| 2013 | £105,500 | £151,804 | 117 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 106 |
| 2011 | £107,500 | £162,284 | 81 |
| 2010 | £116,200 | £182,232 | 106 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 105 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 115 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 267 |
| 2006 | £118,000 | £204,833 | 253 |
| 2005 | £110,500 | £196,645 | 202 |
| 2004 | £108,500 | £197,057 | 244 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 210 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 295 |
| 2001 | £59,500 | £114,386 | 323 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 299 |
| 1999 | £57,400 | £114,395 | 336 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 188 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 141 |
| 1996 | £45,500 | £95,957 | 166 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 131 |
In cash terms the typical WF8 2 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £203,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 113%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF8 2 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 (+30.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF8 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.2% | +2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WF8 2
The year-by-year sales count
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, 70 sales completed in WF8 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 262 sales a year before the financial crisis and 185 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.
What tenants pay around WF8 2
For renting purposes WF8 2 sits in Wakefield. The ONS average private rent there is £794 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £567 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,200 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wakefield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £203,800 median sold price, £794 a month is £9,528 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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 2 trades
Against the WF8 district median, WF8 2 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about WF8 2 (Darrington)
Are property prices falling in WF8 2 (Darrington)?
Is WF8 2 (Darrington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF8 2 (Darrington)?
Where do WF8 2 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in WF8 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 143 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF8 district, not just WF8 2: 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.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WF8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WF8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF8 1 | £171,500 | 20 |
| 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.
Before you sell in WF8 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF8 2'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WF8 2.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WF8 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual WF8 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.