Wakefield Road, Ossett house prices are built from 146 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 9 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £85,500. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +36.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +1.0%.
Median price paid
£85,500
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+36.4%
Change in real terms
+1.0%
Median per m²
£1,187
HM Land Registry146 sales24 with floor areaLatest sale 9 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Wakefield Road, Ossett prices moved
The chart tracks the median Wakefield Road, Ossett house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 to 2023. 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 | 8 | £56,500 | £102,926 |
| 2010s | 4 | £110,000 | £155,100 |
| 2020s | 2 | £106,750 | £109,071 |
The highest yearly median on record for Wakefield Road, Ossett is £159,000 in 2007; the lowest is £33,000 in 2000. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £33,000 to £120,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £66,000, so the real change over the whole record is +96.4% — about +2.98% 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: +36.4% in cash against +1.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 139 | 9 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £112,550 | £112,550 |
| 548 | 27 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 268 | 16 May 2025 | Terraced | £105,000 | £107,283 |
| 86 | 14 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £108,217 | £110,570 |
| 566 | 23 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £137,000 | £144,157 |
| 20 | 15 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £345,747 |
| 260 | 7 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £85,000 | £91,839 |
| 35 | 4 Aug 2023 | Detached | £226,088 | £244,279 |
| 246 | 30 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| 244 | 22 May 2023 | Terraced | £106,500 | £115,069 |
| 142 | 10 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £190,000 | £220,131 |
| 151 | 10 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £95,000 | £120,027 |
| 268 | 3 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £96,000 | £121,290 |
| 246 | 19 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £117,500 | £148,454 |
| 140 | 24 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £135,000 | £170,565 |
| 566 | 27 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £39,990 | £50,525 |
| 108 | 15 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £208,468 |
| 147 | 28 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £78,000 | £100,992 |
| 35 | 17 Jul 2020 | Detached | £125,000 | £161,846 |
| 24 | 7 Feb 2020 | Detached | £280,000 | £362,534 |
| 138 | 6 Dec 2019 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £183,117 |
| 145 | 25 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £75,000 | £98,098 |
| 153 | 12 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £58,000 | £77,297 |
| 218 | 26 Oct 2018 | Detached | £310,000 | £413,138 |
| 248 | 10 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £100,000 | £133,270 |
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 Wakefield Road, Ossett values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 139 Wakefield Road | £50,000 (2011) | £112,550 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.6% |
| 548 Wakefield Road | £143,000 (2006) | £250,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.0% |
| 268 Wakefield Road | £26,000 (2001) | £105,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.1% |
| 86 Wakefield Road | £96,000 (2013) | £108,217 (2025) | +1.0% | -1.9% |
| 566 Wakefield Road | £39,990 (2021) | £137,000 (2024) | +50.7% | +41.8% |
| 20 Wakefield Road | £145,000 (2015) | £320,000 (2023) | +10.4% | +6.8% |
| 260 Wakefield Road | £17,000 (1999) | £85,000 (2023) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 35 Wakefield Road | £125,000 (2020) | £226,088 (2023) | +21.8% | +14.7% |
| 246 Wakefield Road | £86,000 (2006) | £120,000 (2023) | +2.0% | -1.0% |
| 244 Wakefield Road | £73,500 (2012) | £106,500 (2023) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| 142 Wakefield Road | £86,500 (2012) | £190,000 (2022) | +8.2% | +5.5% |
| 140 Wakefield Road | £25,000 (1996) | £135,000 (2021) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wakefield Road, Ossett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 99 | 67.8% | £74,000 | £20,000 – £350,000 |
| Semi-detached | 32 | 21.9% | £130,000 | £17,000 – £550,000 |
| Detached | 15 | 10.3% | £125,000 | £50,000 – £490,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Wakefield Road, Ossett
1 of the sales on record are leasehold and 145 freehold — 0.7% 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 £70,000 and the median freehold sale £86,000 — a gap of +22.9%. 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 | 1 | 0.7% | £70,000 |
| Freehold | 145 | 99.3% | £86,000 |
| New build | 5 | 3.4% | £150,000 |
| Existing home | 141 | 96.6% | £85,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +76.5%. 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 13 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 Wakefield Road, Ossett
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Kirklees, 38.7% of 198,495 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 861 | 0.4% |
| B | 15,279 | 7.7% |
| C | 60,657 | 30.6% |
| D | 82,930 | 41.8% |
| E | 30,047 | 15.1% |
| F | 6,444 | 3.2% |
| G | 2,277 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Kirklees at £780 a month as of Jun 2026 — £582 for a one-bedroom home and £864 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £85,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.95% 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 WF5, 122 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 51 violent, 1 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 22 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times quieter.
Against the 433,216 residents the 2021 census counted in Kirklees, that is 0.28 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 Wakefield Road, Ossett
The 2021 census counted 433,216 residents in Kirklees across 177,989 households. 65.9% of those households own their home and 33.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a WF5 postcode: 9 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ossett Academy and Sixth Form College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,699 |
| Ossett South Parade Primary | Primary | Community school | 418 |
| Ossett Holy Trinity CofE VA Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 341 |
| Ossett Southdale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 336 |
| Towngate Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 311 |
| Gawthorpe Community Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 231 |
| Dimple Well Infant School and Nursery | Primary | Foundation school | 161 |
| St Ignatius Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 138 |
| Ossett Flushdyke Junior and Infant School | Primary | Foundation school | 111 |
| South Ossett Infant Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 71 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Dewsbury Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
| Batley Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
| Wakefield Westgate Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Ravensthorpe Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
Section 09
How Wakefield Road, Ossett compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wakefield Road, Ossett sits below that national figure — -45.7%.
Within Ossett the street ranks 289 of 322 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £120,000 (-28.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,187 per square metre, across 24 of the 146 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £17,000 to £550,000. 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.
Wakefield Road, Ossett sits in Kirklees, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Kirklees at 6.3 times median local earnings of £33,613 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
- Kingsway£172,625 median
- Manor Road£115,000 median
- Dewsbury Road£88,000 median
- Towngate£140,000 median
- Holly Approach£96,000 median
- Springstone Avenue£103,475 median
- Queens Drive£169,950 median
- High Street£102,250 median
- Moorcroft£116,750 median
- Station Road£124,995 median
- South Parade£116,250 median
- Ryecroft Street£92,500 median
- Healey Road£120,000 median
- Millfields£83,000 median
- Sowood Avenue£115,750 median
- Broomcroft Road£95,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 254 Wakefield Road5 sales
- 268 Wakefield Road4 sales
- 98 Wakefield Road4 sales
- 548 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 86 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 246 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 138 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 248 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 256 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 232 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 544A Wakefield Road3 sales
- 37 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 560 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 568 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 234 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 264 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 262 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 242 Wakefield Road3 sales
- 139 Wakefield Road2 sales
- 566 Wakefield Road2 sales
- 20 Wakefield Road2 sales
- 260 Wakefield Road2 sales
- 35 Wakefield Road2 sales
- 244 Wakefield Road2 sales
Back to Ossett house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Wakefield Road, Ossett?
The median price paid in Wakefield Road, Ossett across every sale on the register is £85,500. 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 Wakefield Road, Ossett?
146 sales are on record for Wakefield Road, Ossett, the most recent completing on 9 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Wakefield Road, Ossett house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +36.4% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +1.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Wakefield Road, Ossett house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £159,000, set in 2007. 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 Wakefield Road, Ossett?
£1,187 per square metre, from the 24 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 9 Jan 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, “Wakefield Road, Ossett 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.