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Badsworth market report WF9 5, Pontefract
The WF9 5 (Badsworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 1,938 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WF9 5 (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: the typical home in WF9 5 (Pontefract) sold for £170,000 in 2026, the median of 22 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier. The mean was £176,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,040 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,938 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WF9 5 is one sector of WF9 (Pontefract): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WF9 5 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 5 sells for
Take the 22 registered 2026 sales in WF9 5 and the middle price, the median, is £170,000. The mean lands at £176,900, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in WF9 5
By floor space, homes in WF9 5 have sold for about £2,040 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WF9 5 40% below the national figure.
WF9 5'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 22 |
| 2025 | £170,000 | £174,065 | 66 |
| 2024 | £165,000 | £175,429 | 64 |
| 2023 | £155,000 | £170,307 | 50 |
| 2022 | £146,000 | £171,202 | 69 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 57 |
| 2020 | £136,000 | £176,463 | 76 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 84 |
| 2018 | £126,000 | £167,960 | 94 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 103 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 102 |
| 2015 | £99,500 | £140,594 | 102 |
| 2014 | £88,500 | £125,553 | 36 |
| 2013 | £70,000 | £100,723 | 34 |
| 2012 | £72,000 | £105,975 | 29 |
| 2011 | £75,000 | £113,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | £84,200 | £132,047 | 24 |
| 2009 | £86,500 | £139,049 | 32 |
| 2008 | £109,000 | £178,674 | 35 |
| 2007 | £86,400 | £146,558 | 69 |
| 2006 | £90,000 | £156,229 | 50 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 59 |
| 2004 | £63,000 | £114,420 | 112 |
| 2003 | £49,000 | £90,270 | 84 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 113 |
| 2001 | £43,200 | £83,050 | 102 |
| 2000 | £45,000 | £88,313 | 57 |
| 1999 | £28,000 | £55,803 | 51 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 35 |
| 1997 | £31,000 | £63,575 | 44 |
| 1996 | £31,500 | £66,432 | 30 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 30 |
In cash terms the typical WF9 5 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 130%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 5% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WF9 5 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 2000 (+60.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2003 (−24.6%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.7% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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, 22 sales completed in WF9 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 81 sales a year before the financial crisis and 54 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 5 is
This is a thin market: 22 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.
What homes rent for around WF9 5
WF9 5 falls under Wakefield, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £794 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £170,000 median purchase price, a rent of £794 a month (£9,528 a year) works out at a 5.6% 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 5 (Badsworth)
Is WF9 5 (Badsworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WF9 5 (Badsworth)?
Are property prices falling in WF9 5 (Badsworth)?
Are WF9 5 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 26% over five years in cash and flat 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.
What you could buy in WF9 now
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 5: 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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every WF9 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the WF area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
WF area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WF9
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WF9, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WF9 1 | £174,800 | 30 |
| WF9 2 | £157,500 | 44 |
| WF9 3 | £176,500 | 32 |
| WF9 4 | £165,800 | 48 |
Zoom out to the full WF9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WF9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WF9 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF9 5'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WF9 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WF9 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WF9 5 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.
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.