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Badsworth market report WF9 3, Pontefract
The WF9 3 (Badsworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,209 registered sales in WF9 3 (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 WF9 3 (Pontefract) came in at £176,500, out of 32 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £185,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,980 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,209 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WF9 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WF9 (Pontefract). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WF9 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.
Today's WF9 3 prices, from the sold record
The WF9 3 median stands at £176,500 for 2026, built from 32 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £185,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
WF9 3 prices by floor area
Per square metre, WF9 3 homes have averaged around £1,980 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 WF9 3 38% below the country at large.
WF9 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £176,500 | £176,500 | 32 |
| 2025 | £167,000 | £170,993 | 99 |
| 2024 | £165,000 | £175,429 | 79 |
| 2023 | £155,000 | £170,307 | 74 |
| 2022 | £154,000 | £180,583 | 123 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 131 |
| 2020 | £133,500 | £173,219 | 78 |
| 2019 | £117,800 | £154,408 | 100 |
| 2018 | £123,000 | £163,961 | 94 |
| 2017 | £97,800 | £133,389 | 96 |
| 2016 | £123,000 | £172,078 | 98 |
| 2015 | £115,000 | £162,495 | 86 |
| 2014 | £109,000 | £154,636 | 93 |
| 2013 | £102,500 | £147,487 | 78 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 57 |
| 2011 | £89,000 | £134,356 | 49 |
| 2010 | £102,500 | £160,746 | 50 |
| 2009 | £106,500 | £171,200 | 42 |
| 2008 | £104,000 | £170,478 | 81 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 115 |
| 2006 | £98,200 | £170,463 | 132 |
| 2005 | £94,000 | £167,282 | 102 |
| 2004 | £91,000 | £165,274 | 228 |
| 2003 | £70,500 | £129,878 | 174 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 169 |
| 2001 | £44,900 | £86,318 | 118 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 107 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 92 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 110 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 101 |
| 1996 | £42,800 | £90,263 | 138 |
| 1995 | £41,700 | £90,649 | 83 |
In cash terms the typical WF9 3 home went from £41,700 in 1995 to £176,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 95%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 4% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF9 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 (+56.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−20.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.7% | +3.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WF9 3
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in WF9 3. 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 81 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 WF9 3 is
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF9 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around WF9 3
The local authority for WF9 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.
Against the £176,500 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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.
Asked and answered: WF9 3 (Badsworth)
Are property prices falling in WF9 3 (Badsworth)?
Is WF9 3 (Badsworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF9 3 (Badsworth)?
Are WF9 3 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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.
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
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 →
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
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WF9
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WF9's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF9 1 | £174,800 | 30 |
| WF9 2 | £157,500 | 44 |
| 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 3? 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 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.
Estate agents working WF9 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WF9 3.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WF9 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WF9 3 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.