Wakelam Drive, Doncaster house prices are built from 139 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2006 and the most recent on 24 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £129,995. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +20.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -12.5%.
Median price paid
£129,995
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+20.7%
Change in real terms
-12.5%
HM Land Registry139 salesLatest sale 24 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Wakelam Drive, Doncaster prices moved
The chart tracks the median Wakelam Drive, Doncaster house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2006 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2 | £116,498 | £212,224 |
| 2010s | 2 | £129,750 | £182,948 |
| 2020s | 4 | £115,000 | £117,500 |
The highest yearly median on record for Wakelam Drive, Doncaster is £175,000 in 2025; the lowest is £103,000 in 2022. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £136,995 to £175,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £243,893, so the real change over the whole record is -26.7% — about -1.62% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +20.7% in cash against -12.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | 24 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 91 | 24 Oct 2025 | Detached | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| 49 | 30 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £87,000 | £88,891 |
| 58 | 29 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £178,804 |
| 54 | 12 Feb 2025 | Detached | £253,000 | £258,500 |
| 42 | 4 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £86,848 |
| 20 | 25 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £163,097 |
| 24 | 24 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £99,963 |
| 77 | 5 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| 2 | 22 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £108,046 |
| 71 | 6 Sep 2023 | Detached | £240,500 | £259,851 |
| 39 | 1 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £98,000 | £105,885 |
| 7 | 6 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £98,000 | £105,885 |
| 5 | 21 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £110,066 |
| 97 | 19 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £185,000 | £214,339 |
| 44 | 19 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £103,000 | £119,334 |
| 11 | 29 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £104,000 | £120,493 |
| 45 | 25 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £102,500 | £118,755 |
| 68 | 7 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £177,000 | £205,070 |
| 38 | 28 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £110,066 |
| 32 | 24 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £120,027 |
| 6 | 9 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £107,392 |
| 36 | 2 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £84,000 | £106,129 |
| 75 | 8 Apr 2021 | Detached | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| 58 | 30 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £195,833 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Wakelam Drive, Doncaster values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97 Wakelam Drive | £145,000 (2008) | £190,000 (2026) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| 91 Wakelam Drive | £160,525 (2007) | £195,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.9% |
| 49 Wakelam Drive | £104,995 (2007) | £87,000 (2025) | -1.0% | -3.9% |
| 58 Wakelam Drive | £156,750 (2007) | £175,000 (2025) | +0.6% | -2.3% |
| 54 Wakelam Drive | £206,000 (2007) | £253,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| 42 Wakelam Drive | £102,500 (2006) | £85,000 (2025) | -1.0% | -3.8% |
| 20 Wakelam Drive | £122,761 (2007) | £155,000 (2024) | +1.4% | -1.6% |
| 24 Wakelam Drive | £105,000 (2008) | £95,000 (2024) | -0.6% | -3.5% |
| 77 Wakelam Drive | £157,995 (2006) | £185,000 (2024) | +0.9% | -2.0% |
| 71 Wakelam Drive | £177,995 (2006) | £240,500 (2023) | +1.8% | -1.2% |
| 39 Wakelam Drive | £113,000 (2007) | £98,000 (2023) | -0.9% | -3.8% |
| 7 Wakelam Drive | £112,995 (2007) | £98,000 (2023) | -0.9% | -3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wakelam Drive, Doncaster is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 55 | 39.6% | £104,995 | £83,000 – £131,000 |
| Detached | 35 | 25.2% | £180,495 | £135,000 – £280,000 |
| Terraced | 26 | 18.7% | £134,999 | £99,995 – £190,000 |
| Semi-detached | 23 | 16.5% | £135,000 | £115,500 – £185,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Wakelam Drive, Doncaster
58 of the sales on record are leasehold and 81 freehold — 41.7% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £104,995 and the median freehold sale £157,000 — a gap of +49.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 58 | 41.7% | £104,995 |
| Freehold | 81 | 58.3% | £157,000 |
| New build | 68 | 48.9% | £122,378 |
| Existing home | 71 | 51.1% | £135,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -9.3%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 5 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Wakelam Drive, Doncaster
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Doncaster, 38.8% of 155,404 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 649 | 0.4% |
| B | 15,448 | 9.9% |
| C | 44,227 | 28.5% |
| D | 65,682 | 42.3% |
| E | 22,894 | 14.7% |
| F | 4,994 | 3.2% |
| G | 1,510 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Doncaster at £690 a month as of Jun 2026 — £490 for a one-bedroom home and £752 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £129,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.37% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of DN3, 172 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 48 violent, 10 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 29 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 308,106 residents the 2021 census counted in Doncaster, that is 0.56 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Wakelam Drive, Doncaster
The 2021 census counted 308,106 residents in Doncaster across 133,480 households. 63.3% of those households own their home and 36.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a DN3 postcode: 10 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The McAuley Catholic High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,431 |
| Hungerhill School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,175 |
| Armthorpe Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 695 |
| Armthorpe Shaw Wood Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 462 |
| Tranmoor Primary | Primary | Academy converter | 426 |
| Kirk Sandall Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 309 |
| Southfield Primary | Primary | Academy converter | 248 |
| Canon Popham CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 239 |
| Barnby Dun Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 230 |
| Kirk Sandall Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 222 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Kirk Sandall Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Hatfield & Stainforth Rail Station | Rail | 5.3 km |
| Doncaster Rail Station | Rail | 6.0 km |
| Bentley (S Yorks) Rail Station | Rail | 6.1 km |
Section 09
How Wakelam Drive, Doncaster compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wakelam Drive, Doncaster sits below that national figure — -17.5%.
Within Doncaster the street ranks 1328 of 3403 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £105,000 (+23.8%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £83,000 to £280,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Wakelam Drive, Doncaster sits in Doncaster, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Doncaster at 5.2 times median local earnings of £33,802 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Reeves Way£157,250 median
- Mansfield Crescent£82,000 median
- Fiddlers Drive£87,500 median
- Edencroft Drive£71,000 median
- Fair Holme View£96,748 median
- Jenkinson Grove£109,140 median
- Brampton Lane£100,000 median
- Walstow Crescent£149,950 median
- Sargeson Road£145,000 median
- Nutwell Lane£118,750 median
- Elizabeth Avenue£99,475 median
- Park Avenue£106,000 median
- Long Field Drive£87,350 median
- Granby Court£73,950 median
- Harris Road£124,195 median
- Hatfield Lane£115,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 56 Wakelam Drive5 sales
- 97 Wakelam Drive4 sales
- 58 Wakelam Drive4 sales
- 77 Wakelam Drive4 sales
- 95 Wakelam Drive4 sales
- 83 Wakelam Drive4 sales
- 91 Wakelam Drive3 sales
- 49 Wakelam Drive3 sales
- 21 Wakelam Drive3 sales
- 64 Wakelam Drive3 sales
- 72 Wakelam Drive3 sales
- 60 Wakelam Drive3 sales
- 65 Wakelam Drive3 sales
- 89 Wakelam Drive3 sales
- 54 Wakelam Drive2 sales
- 42 Wakelam Drive2 sales
- 20 Wakelam Drive2 sales
- 24 Wakelam Drive2 sales
- 71 Wakelam Drive2 sales
- 39 Wakelam Drive2 sales
- 7 Wakelam Drive2 sales
- 5 Wakelam Drive2 sales
- 44 Wakelam Drive2 sales
- 11 Wakelam Drive2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Wakelam Drive, Doncaster?
The median price paid in Wakelam Drive, Doncaster across every sale on the register is £129,995. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Wakelam Drive, Doncaster?
139 sales are on record for Wakelam Drive, Doncaster, the most recent completing on 24 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Wakelam Drive, Doncaster house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +20.7% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -12.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Wakelam Drive, Doncaster house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £175,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Wakelam Drive, Doncaster?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 24 Apr 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Wakelam Drive, Doncaster house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.