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Darrington market report WF8, Pontefract
The standing WF8 (Darrington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 16,346 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF8 (Pontefract) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WF8 (Pontefract) came in at £221,000, out of 150 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £242,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,390 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 16,346 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WF8 is a postcode district covering Darrington, Kirk Smeaton, Little Smeaton 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 WF8 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 sold prices: where the market stands
150 sales were registered in WF8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £221,000. The mean works out at £242,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WF8
Per square metre, WF8 homes have averaged around £2,390 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WF8 22% below the country at large.
The price of a typical WF8 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 | £221,000 | £221,000 | 150 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 507 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 529 |
| 2023 | £192,500 | £211,510 | 422 |
| 2022 | £205,500 | £240,972 | 567 |
| 2021 | £199,000 | £251,960 | 781 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 536 |
| 2019 | £173,000 | £226,762 | 668 |
| 2018 | £165,000 | £219,948 | 704 |
| 2017 | £173,000 | £235,955 | 772 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 647 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 611 |
| 2014 | £127,000 | £180,172 | 441 |
| 2013 | £128,500 | £184,899 | 371 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 327 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 251 |
| 2010 | £130,500 | £204,658 | 250 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 291 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 352 |
| 2007 | £136,500 | £231,542 | 685 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 591 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 490 |
| 2004 | £118,000 | £214,311 | 545 |
| 2003 | £92,000 | £169,486 | 493 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 662 |
| 2001 | £63,000 | £121,114 | 699 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 641 |
| 1999 | £58,000 | £115,591 | 720 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 484 |
| 1997 | £52,500 | £107,667 | 419 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 383 |
| 1995 | £48,100 | £104,562 | 357 |
In cash terms the typical WF8 home went from £48,100 in 1995 to £221,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 111%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF8 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 (+31.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.4%). 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) | +0.5% | −1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £345,500 against £92,200 for a flat, 3.7 times the price.
Median by property type, WF8
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 | £345,500 | 54 | 5,379 |
| Semi-detached | £206,000 | 62 | 7,334 |
| Terraced | £153,500 | 22 | 2,770 |
| Flats | £92,200 | 12 | 863 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 370 sales completed in WF8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 601 sales a year before the financial crisis and 435 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.
What kind of market WF8 is
Among the 17 measurable districts of its area, WF8 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Rents around WF8
WF8 falls under Wakefield, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £794 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£794 a month is £9,528 a year, which against the £221,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
Common questions on WF8 (Darrington)
How much did a house sell for in WF8 (Darrington)?
Are property prices falling in WF8 (Darrington)?
Is WF8 (Darrington) a good place to buy a house?
Are WF8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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
Everything above is what homes in WF8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 143 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the WF8 median sold price.
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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in WF
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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WF8 ranks 13 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.
WF area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WF8, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WF8 1 | £171,500 | 20 |
| WF8 2 | £203,800 | 70 |
| WF8 3 | £320,000 | 25 |
| WF8 4 | £280,000 | 35 |
How WF8 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 (this report) | £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 | £187,500 | +2% |
| WF10 | £182,500 | +13% |
| WF9 | £167,800 | +12% |
| WF13 | £140,000 | +27% |
Selling in WF8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WF8, open the average prices map and zoom from the WF8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WF8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Dig further
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See every individual WF8 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.