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Badsworth market report WF9 4, Pontefract
The standing WF9 4 (Badsworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,009 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF9 4 (Pontefract) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 48 registered 2026 sales put the WF9 4 (Pontefract) median at £165,800, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £178,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,000 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,009 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like WF9 4 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 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 a home in WF9 4 sells for
In the WF9 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £165,800, from 48 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £178,500, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WF9 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WF9 4 sales average about £2,000 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 4 sits 42% below the national market.
WF9 4's median sold price, 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 | £165,800 | £165,800 | 48 |
| 2025 | £188,500 | £193,008 | 150 |
| 2024 | £155,000 | £164,797 | 95 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 94 |
| 2022 | £172,500 | £202,276 | 159 |
| 2021 | £161,000 | £203,847 | 187 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 117 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 129 |
| 2018 | £110,000 | £146,632 | 133 |
| 2017 | £116,000 | £158,212 | 107 |
| 2016 | £118,000 | £165,083 | 118 |
| 2015 | £87,500 | £123,638 | 91 |
| 2014 | £107,000 | £151,798 | 90 |
| 2013 | £101,500 | £146,048 | 92 |
| 2012 | £88,800 | £130,703 | 74 |
| 2011 | £87,500 | £132,091 | 62 |
| 2010 | £93,200 | £146,162 | 62 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 84 |
| 2008 | £100,800 | £165,232 | 132 |
| 2007 | £107,500 | £182,350 | 238 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 204 |
| 2005 | £79,200 | £140,944 | 188 |
| 2004 | £72,000 | £130,766 | 197 |
| 2003 | £45,000 | £82,901 | 203 |
| 2002 | £38,000 | £71,497 | 167 |
| 2001 | £36,200 | £69,593 | 128 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 100 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 126 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 121 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 119 |
| 1996 | £34,800 | £73,392 | 99 |
| 1995 | £39,000 | £84,780 | 95 |
In cash terms the typical WF9 4 home went from £39,000 in 1995 to £165,800 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 96%: 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 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF9 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 2004 (+60.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−18.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WF9 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.0% | −14.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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 4
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.
WF9 4 recorded 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 178 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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 homes rent for around WF9 4
The local authority for WF9 4 is Wakefield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £165,800 median sold price, £794 a month is £9,528 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How WF9 4 trades
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WF9 4 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.
Asked and answered: WF9 4 (Badsworth)
Is WF9 4 (Badsworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF9 4 (Badsworth)?
Are property prices falling in WF9 4 (Badsworth)?
Will WF9 4 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in WF9 today
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WF: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WF area, 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
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 2 | £157,500 | 44 |
| WF9 3 | £176,500 | 32 |
| 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 4? 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 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WF9 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WF9 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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See every individual WF9 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.