Wakefield house prices

Wakefield house prices are built from 79,548 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £123,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +43.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.6%.

HM Land Registry79,548 sales7,632 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Wakefield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Wakefield is £236,500 in 2025; the lowest is £50,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £222,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £111,024, so the real change over the whole record is +100.0% — about +2.26% 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: +43.2% in cash against +2.6% 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.

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.

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 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wakefield is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 25,419 certificates cover Wakefield, and their median floor area is 74 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -2.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

6,280 of the sales on record are leasehold and 73,268 freehold — 7.9% 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 £99,000 and the median freehold sale £125,373 — a gap of +26.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +33.3%. 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 5,331 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Barnsley, 42.9% of 122,792 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Barnsley at £686 a month as of Jun 2026 — £499 for a one-bedroom home and £741 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £123,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.69% 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 WF4, 127 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 52 violent, 5 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 25 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times quieter.

Against the 244,572 residents the 2021 census counted in Barnsley, that is 0.52 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.

The 2021 census counted 244,572 residents in Barnsley across 108,053 households. 62.8% of those households own their home and 36.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

20 state and independent schools have a WF4 postcode: 17 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wakefield sits below that national figure — -21.9%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,602 per square metre, across 7,632 of the 79,548 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 £500 to £2,500,000. 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 sits in Barnsley, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Barnsley at 5.1 times median local earnings of £35,629 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.

Streets in Wakefield

• Leeds Road1,032 sales
• Bradford Road597 sales
• Barnsley Road480 sales
• Dewsbury Road388 sales
• Aberford Road352 sales
• Doncaster Road320 sales
• High Street306 sales
• Canal Lane300 sales
• Howden Way290 sales
• Weeland Road287 sales
• Batley Road285 sales
• Westerton Road279 sales
• Haigh Moor Road272 sales
• Scampston Drive262 sales
• Common Lane227 sales
• Horbury Road226 sales
• Hollin Drive225 sales
• George Street221 sales
• Mill Chase Road218 sales
• Potovens Lane216 sales
• Park Avenue213 sales
• Bottom Boat Road200 sales
• Denby Dale Road199 sales
• New Road199 sales
• Lincoln Street196 sales
• Turnberry Gardens196 sales
• Green Lane184 sales
• Hollin Lane183 sales
• Wrenthorpe Lane181 sales
• Ings Road180 sales
• Queen Street178 sales
• Oakwood Avenue177 sales
• Mill Lane174 sales
• Oakenshaw Lane173 sales
• Greenfield Crescent168 sales
• Gainsborough Way163 sales
• Airedale Heights162 sales
• Fernleigh Court162 sales
• Manygates Lane161 sales
• Tuke Grove159 sales
• Greenside Park155 sales
• Thornes Road155 sales
• Alverthorpe Road154 sales
• Chaloner Grove154 sales
• Woodlands Village154 sales
• Silcoates Lane153 sales
• Woolgreaves Drive153 sales
• Agbrigg Road151 sales
• Wrenthorpe Road150 sales
• Lee Moor Road148 sales
• Larkspur Way147 sales
• Cow Lane141 sales
• Parklands Drive140 sales
• Painthorpe Lane138 sales
• Coxley View137 sales
• Flanshaw Lane137 sales
• Bidder Drive136 sales
• Manor Road135 sales
• Parkinson Close135 sales
• Rooks Nest Road135 sales

Postcode districts covering Wakefield

• WF4£121,000 median
• WF2£124,995 median
• WF3£127,500 median
• WF1£117,500 median
• WF5£120,775 median

What is the average house price in Wakefield?

The median price paid in Wakefield across every sale on the register is £123,000. 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 Wakefield?

79,548 sales are on record for Wakefield, the most recent completing on 22 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Wakefield house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +43.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Wakefield house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £236,500, 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 Wakefield?

£1,602 per square metre, from the 7,632 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 22 Jun 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 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.