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Badsworth market report WF9 1, Pontefract
The standing WF9 1 (Badsworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,416 registered sales in WF9 1 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical WF9 1 (Pontefract) home changed hands for £174,800 in 2026 (median of 30 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £206,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,200 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,416 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WF9 1 is a single group of streets within WF9 (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 WF9 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.
What WF9 1 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for WF9 1 is £174,800, taken from 30 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £206,500, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in WF9 1
Per square metre, WF9 1 homes have averaged around £2,200 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WF9 1 runs 39% below it.
WF9 1's median sold price, 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 | £174,800 | £174,800 | 30 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 117 |
| 2024 | £165,000 | £175,429 | 86 |
| 2023 | £163,500 | £179,647 | 76 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 107 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 127 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 73 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 135 |
| 2018 | £126,000 | £167,960 | 123 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 118 |
| 2016 | £132,200 | £184,949 | 150 |
| 2015 | £134,000 | £189,342 | 108 |
| 2014 | £119,000 | £168,822 | 82 |
| 2013 | £101,500 | £146,048 | 68 |
| 2012 | £98,000 | £144,244 | 59 |
| 2011 | £85,800 | £129,525 | 56 |
| 2010 | £101,200 | £158,708 | 40 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 50 |
| 2008 | £104,000 | £170,478 | 79 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 137 |
| 2006 | £102,500 | £177,927 | 146 |
| 2005 | £93,500 | £166,392 | 95 |
| 2004 | £86,200 | £156,556 | 158 |
| 2003 | £75,200 | £138,537 | 184 |
| 2002 | £69,000 | £129,823 | 157 |
| 2001 | £56,200 | £108,042 | 118 |
| 2000 | £64,200 | £125,993 | 150 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 162 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 137 |
| 1997 | £38,700 | £79,366 | 80 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 121 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 87 |
In cash terms the typical WF9 1 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £174,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 109%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF9 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 1996 (+24.7% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−19.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF9 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.9% | −5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 30 WF9 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 143 sales a year before the financial crisis and 83 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 homes rent for around WF9 1
For renting purposes WF9 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.
Against the £174,800 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 5.5% 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.
Reading the WF9 1 market
This is a thin market: 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Asked and answered: WF9 1 (Badsworth)
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Will WF9 1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
What is for sale in WF9 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 113 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF9 district, not just WF9 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- South Elmsall, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, Pontefract
- South Elmsall, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, Pontefract
- Upton, Pontefract, Pontefract
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 WF9 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WF
Real sold prices by size across the WF area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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 WF9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WF9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF9 2 | £157,500 | 44 |
| WF9 3 | £176,500 | 32 |
| WF9 4 | £165,800 | 48 |
| WF9 5 | £170,000 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full WF9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF9 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WF9 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WF9 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF9 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF9 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WF9 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF9 1.
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Two maps carry on from here: every WF9 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.
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.