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Badsworth market report WF9 2, Pontefract
The WF9 2 (Badsworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,018 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF9 2 (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: 44 registered 2026 sales put the WF9 2 (Pontefract) median at £157,500, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £174,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,910 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,018 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WF9 2 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 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.
The going rate for a home in WF9 2
Take the 44 registered 2026 sales in WF9 2 and the middle price, the median, is £157,500. The mean lands at £174,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
WF9 2 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WF9 2 sales average about £1,910 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, WF9 2 sits 45% below the national market.
The price of a typical WF9 2 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £157,500 | £157,500 | 44 |
| 2025 | £169,200 | £173,246 | 162 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 105 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 121 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 152 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 175 |
| 2020 | £117,000 | £151,810 | 137 |
| 2019 | £125,500 | £164,500 | 148 |
| 2018 | £121,200 | £161,562 | 138 |
| 2017 | £117,000 | £159,576 | 189 |
| 2016 | £118,000 | £165,083 | 206 |
| 2015 | £114,000 | £161,082 | 170 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 133 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 79 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 79 |
| 2011 | £92,000 | £138,885 | 73 |
| 2010 | £84,000 | £131,734 | 63 |
| 2009 | £92,000 | £147,891 | 81 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 107 |
| 2007 | £92,400 | £156,736 | 228 |
| 2006 | £78,000 | £135,398 | 225 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 226 |
| 2004 | £70,000 | £127,134 | 287 |
| 2003 | £52,000 | £95,797 | 293 |
| 2002 | £37,000 | £69,615 | 338 |
| 2001 | £40,000 | £76,898 | 263 |
| 2000 | £36,000 | £70,650 | 142 |
| 1999 | £37,000 | £73,739 | 151 |
| 1998 | £32,400 | £65,402 | 119 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 134 |
| 1996 | £29,000 | £61,160 | 133 |
| 1995 | £31,500 | £68,476 | 117 |
In cash terms the typical WF9 2 home went from £31,500 in 1995 to £157,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF9 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 (+40.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−15.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.9% | −9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in WF9 2
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 44 sales completed in WF9 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 250 sales a year before the financial crisis and 117 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 kind of market WF9 2 is
Only 44 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF9 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What homes rent for around WF9 2
For renting purposes WF9 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.
Against the £157,500 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 6.0% 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.
What people ask about WF9 2 (Badsworth)
Is WF9 2 (Badsworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF9 2 (Badsworth)?
Are property prices falling in WF9 2 (Badsworth)?
What happens to WF9 2 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
WF9's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 113 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WF9 district, not just WF9 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% 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.
- South Elmsall, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, Pontefract
- South Elmsall, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, Pontefract
- Upton, Pontefract, Pontefract
"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 WF9 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WF area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the WF area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 1 | £174,800 | 30 |
| 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.
Selling a home in WF9 2? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF9 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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WF9 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WF9 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WF9 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.