Pontefract Road, Pontefract house prices are built from 447 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £106,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +39.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +1.3%.
Median price paid
£106,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+39.8%
Change in real terms
+1.3%
Median per m²
£773
HM Land Registry447 sales7 with floor areaLatest sale 18 May 2026
Section 01
How Pontefract Road, Pontefract prices moved
The chart tracks the median Pontefract Road, Pontefract house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £44,500 | £98,811 |
| 2000s | 10 | £87,000 | £158,488 |
| 2010s | 10 | £146,875 | £207,094 |
| 2020s | 6 | £165,000 | £168,587 |
The highest yearly median on record for Pontefract Road, Pontefract is £273,500 in 2017; the lowest is £36,000 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £45,000 to £245,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,921, so the real change over the whole record is +150.5% — about +3.11% 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: +39.8% in cash against +1.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190 | 18 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 202 | 7 Apr 2026 | Detached | £318,000 | £318,000 |
| 3 Mews Cottages, 62 | 25 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 140 | 12 Nov 2025 | Detached | £565,000 | £577,283 |
| The Stable Ackworth Park Farm | 12 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £482,500 | £492,989 |
| 50 | 29 Oct 2025 | Detached | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 87c | 15 Aug 2025 | Detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 137 | 26 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £135,000 | £137,935 |
| 161a | 20 Jun 2025 | Detached | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 120 | 30 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 87 | 23 May 2025 | Detached | £485,000 | £495,543 |
| 108 | 22 May 2025 | Terraced | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 200 | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £228,000 | £232,957 |
| 317 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £110,000 | £112,391 |
| 289 | 27 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £135,000 | £137,935 |
| 95a | 14 Mar 2025 | Detached | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 68 | 28 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 2 Mews Cottages, 62 | 6 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| Foxwood House, 85a | 8 Nov 2024 | Detached | £810,000 | £852,313 |
| 339 | 28 Oct 2024 | Detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 361 | 17 Oct 2024 | Detached | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 14 Hardistry-le Court | 8 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £114,000 | £119,955 |
| 161 | 31 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £123,000 | £129,425 |
| 131 | 5 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £106,000 | £111,537 |
| 103 | 31 Oct 2023 | Detached | £830,000 | £896,782 |
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 Pontefract Road, Pontefract values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190 Pontefract Road | £232,500 (2019) | £370,000 (2026) | +6.9% | +2.8% |
| 202 Pontefract Road | £180,000 (2019) | £318,000 (2026) | +8.5% | +4.4% |
| 3 MEWS COTTAGES, 62 Pontefract Road | £220,000 (2011) | £255,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| THE STABLE ACKWORTH PARK FARM Pontefract Road | £430,000 (2017) | £482,500 (2025) | +1.5% | -2.1% |
| 140 Pontefract Road | £375,000 (2022) | £565,000 (2025) | +14.6% | +9.9% |
| 50 Pontefract Road | £85,000 (1998) | £330,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 137 Pontefract Road | £33,000 (1997) | £135,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 161A Pontefract Road | £37,500 (1997) | £220,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 120 Pontefract Road | £66,500 (2001) | £220,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 87 Pontefract Road | £60,000 (1995) | £485,000 (2025) | +7.2% | +4.5% |
| 108 Pontefract Road | £60,000 (2000) | £235,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 317 Pontefract Road | £41,000 (1999) | £110,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Pontefract Road, Pontefract 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 | 211 | 47.2% | £77,000 | £13,000 – £360,000 |
| Detached | 115 | 25.7% | £278,000 | £34,250 – £3,000,000 |
| Semi-detached | 104 | 23.3% | £123,000 | £15,980 – £482,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 17 | 3.8% | £109,995 | £19,000 – £135,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Pontefract Road, Pontefract
15 of the sales on record are leasehold and 432 freehold — 3.4% 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 £110,000 and the median freehold sale £105,090 — a gap of -4.5%. 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 | 15 | 3.4% | £110,000 |
| Freehold | 432 | 96.6% | £105,090 |
| New build | 14 | 3.1% | £425,000 |
| Existing home | 433 | 96.9% | £105,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +304.8%. 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 33 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 Pontefract Road, Pontefract
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Wakefield, 42.4% of 207,299 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,703 | 0.8% |
| B | 21,377 | 10.3% |
| C | 64,757 | 31.2% |
| D | 92,936 | 44.8% |
| E | 21,178 | 10.2% |
| F | 4,191 | 2.0% |
| G | 1,157 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Wakefield at £797 a month as of Jun 2026 — £570 for a one-bedroom home and £859 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £106,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.02% 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 WF7, 78 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 35 violent, 0 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 9 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.1 times quieter.
Against the 353,368 residents the 2021 census counted in Wakefield, that is 0.22 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 Pontefract Road, Pontefract
The 2021 census counted 353,368 residents in Wakefield across 153,075 households. 63.4% of those households own their home and 36.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a WF7 postcode: 9 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Wilfrid's Catholic High School & Sixth Form College: A Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,470 |
| The Featherstone Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 556 |
| Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 338 |
| Outwood Primary Academy Bell Lane | Primary | Academy converter | 320 |
| Featherstone Purston St Thomas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 314 |
| Ackworth Howard Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 229 |
| Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 227 |
| Ackworth Mill Dam School | Primary | Academy converter | 225 |
| Featherstone Purston Infant School | Primary | Community school | 203 |
| Streethouse Junior, Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 105 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Featherstone Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Streethouse Rail Station | Rail | 3.3 km |
| Pontefract Tanshelf Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Fitzwilliam Rail Station | Rail | 4.0 km |
Section 09
How Pontefract Road, Pontefract compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Pontefract Road, Pontefract sits below that national figure — -32.7%.
Within Pontefract the street ranks 736 of 1302 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £109,950 (-3.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £773 per square metre, across 7 of the 447 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 £13,000 to £3,000,000. 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.
Pontefract Road, Pontefract sits in Wakefield, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wakefield at 5.6 times median local earnings of £35,838 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
- Featherstone Lane£86,250 median
- Barnsdale Way£130,995 median
- Station Road£160,000 median
- Katrina Grove£119,995 median
- Mill Gate£87,975 median
- Bell Lane£98,250 median
- Turnberry Avenue£213,475 median
- Seals Drive£237,998 median
- Stoborough Crescent£148,000 median
- Hayfield Way£120,000 median
- Girnhill Lane£116,473 median
- Post Office Road£64,475 median
- Green Lane£82,000 median
- Silkstone Road£161,998 median
- Whinney Lane£87,000 median
- Madison Close£184,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 81 Pontefract Road6 sales
- 223 Pontefract Road5 sales
- 58 Pontefract Road5 sales
- 321 Pontefract Road5 sales
- 155 Pontefract Road5 sales
- 289 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 68 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 2, MEWS COTTAGES, 62 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 103 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 373 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 82 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 76 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 173 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 77 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 110 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 177 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 52 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 72 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 171 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 215 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 221 Pontefract Road4 sales
- GROVE COTTAGE Pontefract Road4 sales
- 56 Pontefract Road4 sales
- 130 Pontefract Road4 sales
Back to Pontefract house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Pontefract Road, Pontefract?
The median price paid in Pontefract Road, Pontefract across every sale on the register is £106,000. 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 Pontefract Road, Pontefract?
447 sales are on record for Pontefract Road, Pontefract, the most recent completing on 18 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Pontefract Road, Pontefract house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +39.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +1.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Pontefract Road, Pontefract house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £273,500, set in 2017. 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 Pontefract Road, Pontefract?
£773 per square metre, from the 7 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 18 May 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, “Pontefract Road, Pontefract 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.