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Darrington market report WF8 4, Pontefract
The WF8 4 (Darrington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,751 registered sales in WF8 4 (Pontefract) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
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 4 (Pontefract) came in at £280,000, out of 35 registered, up 23% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £277,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,460 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,751 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like WF8 4 is a single group of streets within WF8 (Pontefract), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WF8 4 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.
What buyers actually paid in WF8 4
Take the 35 registered 2026 sales in WF8 4 and the middle price, the median, is £280,000. The mean lands at £277,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in WF8 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WF8 4 costs about £2,460 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WF8 4 runs 2% below it.
A typical WF8 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 140 |
| 2024 | £246,000 | £261,549 | 150 |
| 2023 | £238,500 | £262,053 | 106 |
| 2022 | £235,500 | £276,151 | 132 |
| 2021 | £228,100 | £288,804 | 201 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 159 |
| 2019 | £215,000 | £281,814 | 157 |
| 2018 | £189,000 | £251,941 | 158 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 233 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 233 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 194 |
| 2014 | £123,700 | £175,490 | 80 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 75 |
| 2012 | £121,000 | £178,097 | 74 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 55 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 39 |
| 2009 | £108,500 | £174,415 | 74 |
| 2008 | £124,500 | £204,082 | 65 |
| 2007 | £137,000 | £232,390 | 127 |
| 2006 | £123,000 | £213,512 | 111 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 89 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 115 |
| 2003 | £111,000 | £204,489 | 86 |
| 2002 | £73,500 | £138,290 | 139 |
| 2001 | £64,500 | £123,998 | 132 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 115 |
| 1999 | £53,500 | £106,623 | 99 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 93 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 103 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 87 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 95 |
In cash terms the typical WF8 4 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 143%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 5% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WF8 4 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 (+51.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.9%). 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) | +12.0% | +9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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 4
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 register shows 35 WF8 4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 113 sales a year recently, against 114 a year before 2008. 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 kind of market WF8 4 is
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF8 4 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. Within WF8, this sector trades 27% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around WF8 4
For renting purposes WF8 4 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.
Against the £280,000 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 3.4% 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.
WF8 4 (Darrington): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WF8 4 (Darrington)?
Are property prices falling in WF8 4 (Darrington)?
Is WF8 4 (Darrington) a good place to buy a house?
Will WF8 4 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in WF8 right now
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% 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.
"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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WF: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WF area, straight 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
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 1 | £171,500 | 20 |
| WF8 2 | £203,800 | 70 |
| WF8 3 | £320,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full WF8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WF8 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF8 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF8 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF8 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WF8 4.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF8 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF8 4 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.