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Badsworth market report WF9, Pontefract
The WF9 (Badsworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 17,590 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WF9 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WF9 (Pontefract) is £167,800, from 176 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £183,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,010 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,590 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district WF9 covering Badsworth, Fitzwilliam, Hemsworth sits in Pontefract. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WF9 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 prices, from the sold record
The WF9 median stands at £167,800 for 2026, built from 176 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £183,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in WF9
The last five years of sales put WF9 at roughly £2,010 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WF9 sits 41% below the national market.
The price of a typical WF9 home, 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 | £167,800 | £167,800 | 176 |
| 2025 | £174,500 | £178,673 | 594 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 429 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 415 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 610 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 677 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 481 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 596 |
| 2018 | £122,000 | £162,628 | 582 |
| 2017 | £115,000 | £156,848 | 613 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 674 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 557 |
| 2014 | £107,000 | £151,798 | 434 |
| 2013 | £99,000 | £142,451 | 351 |
| 2012 | £95,000 | £139,828 | 298 |
| 2011 | £87,000 | £131,337 | 263 |
| 2010 | £93,000 | £145,848 | 239 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 289 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 434 |
| 2007 | £97,000 | £164,539 | 787 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 757 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 670 |
| 2004 | £78,000 | £141,663 | 982 |
| 2003 | £58,000 | £106,850 | 938 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 944 |
| 2001 | £43,000 | £82,665 | 729 |
| 2000 | £42,000 | £82,425 | 556 |
| 1999 | £40,600 | £80,914 | 582 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 522 |
| 1997 | £36,500 | £74,854 | 478 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 521 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 412 |
In cash terms the typical WF9 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £167,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 114%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WF9 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 (+34.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−6.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £271,500 against £88,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, WF9
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £271,500 | 34 | 4,515 |
| Semi-detached | £171,500 | 85 | 6,666 |
| Terraced | £133,900 | 50 | 6,027 |
| Flats | £88,000 | 7 | 366 |
What WF9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.8% | −6.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +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.
How many homes change hands in WF9
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 408 sales completed in WF9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 795 sales a year before the financial crisis and 445 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market WF9 is
Among the 17 measurable districts of its area, WF9 ranks 16 by median price: towards the affordable end.
The rental side of WF9
The local authority for WF9 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.
£794 a month is £9,528 a year, which against the £167,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on WF9 (Badsworth)
How much did a house sell for in WF9 (Badsworth)?
Are property prices falling in WF9 (Badsworth)?
Is WF9 (Badsworth) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WF9 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in WF9 today
Everything above is what homes in WF9 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 113 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% above the WF9 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 →
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.
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WF9 ranks 12 of 17 in the WF area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside WF9, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| WF9 5 | £170,000 | 22 |
How WF9 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WF area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WF14 | £240,000 | +23% |
| WF3 | £235,000 | +16% |
| WF4 | £230,000 | +24% |
| WF2 | £225,000 | +7% |
| WF8 | £221,000 | +11% |
| WF5 | £207,500 | +13% |
| WF1 | £200,000 | -7% |
| WF15 | £199,500 | +21% |
| WF6 | £195,000 | +5% |
| WF12 | £195,000 | +15% |
| WF16 | £193,000 | +40% |
| WF11 | £190,000 | +31% |
| WF17 | £188,000 | +30% |
| WF7 | £187,500 | +2% |
| WF10 | £182,500 | +13% |
| WF9 (this report) | £167,800 | +12% |
| WF13 | £140,000 | +27% |
Thinking of selling in WF9? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WF9'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.
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Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WF9. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WF9 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.