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Darrington market report WF8 3, Pontefract
The WF8 3 (Darrington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,840 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF8 3 (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: the middle 2026 sale in WF8 3 (Pontefract) came in at £320,000, out of 25 registered, up 28% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £334,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,810 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,840 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WF8 3 is one sector of WF8 (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 WF8 3 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 WF8 3
25 sales were registered in WF8 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £320,000. The mean works out at £334,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
WF8 3 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WF8 3 sales average about £2,810 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF8 3 sits 12% above the national market.
The price of a typical WF8 3 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 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 91 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 97 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 64 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 92 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 137 |
| 2020 | £210,000 | £272,479 | 83 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 105 |
| 2018 | £270,000 | £359,915 | 98 |
| 2017 | £211,000 | £287,783 | 103 |
| 2016 | £218,000 | £304,984 | 93 |
| 2015 | £187,000 | £264,231 | 100 |
| 2014 | £220,500 | £312,818 | 98 |
| 2013 | £189,500 | £272,672 | 102 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 71 |
| 2011 | £173,500 | £261,918 | 62 |
| 2010 | £198,500 | £311,299 | 52 |
| 2009 | £172,500 | £277,295 | 60 |
| 2008 | £205,000 | £336,038 | 51 |
| 2007 | £246,200 | £417,624 | 114 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 99 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 90 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 95 |
| 2003 | £151,200 | £278,547 | 91 |
| 2002 | £109,700 | £206,400 | 106 |
| 2001 | £84,800 | £163,024 | 128 |
| 2000 | £91,200 | £178,980 | 92 |
| 1999 | £79,000 | £157,443 | 103 |
| 1998 | £73,000 | £147,356 | 92 |
| 1997 | £65,700 | £134,737 | 100 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 76 |
| 1995 | £70,500 | £153,256 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical WF8 3 home went from £70,500 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 109%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 23% 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 3 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 (+37.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−18.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
WF8 3 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 102 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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 WF8 3
The local authority for WF8 3 is Wakefield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £794 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£794 a month is £9,528 a year, which against the £320,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the WF8 3 market
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF8 3 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 3 sits 45% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on WF8 3 (Darrington)
How much did a house sell for in WF8 3 (Darrington)?
Are property prices falling in WF8 3 (Darrington)?
Is WF8 3 (Darrington) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WF8 3 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in WF8 right now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 WF8 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WF prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WF area, 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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £203,800 | 70 |
| 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 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF8 3'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 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF8 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WF8 3 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.