Cliff Road, Wakefield house prices are built from 134 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 27 May 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £109,500. Across the 12 years from 2008 to 2020 the median moved -6.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -28.1%.
Median price paid
£109,500
Change in cash, 2008–2020
-6.8%
Change in real terms
-28.1%
HM Land Registry134 salesLatest sale 27 May 2025
Section 01
How Cliff Road, Wakefield prices moved
The chart tracks the median Cliff Road, Wakefield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2020. 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 | 4 | £39,975 | £88,763 |
| 2000s | 5 | £80,000 | £145,736 |
| 2010s | 3 | £128,000 | £180,480 |
| 2020s | 1 | £123,000 | £125,674 |
The highest yearly median on record for Cliff Road, Wakefield is £140,000 in 2014; the lowest is £38,500 in 1996. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £38,500 to £123,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £83,515, so the real change over the whole record is +90.7% — about +2.73% 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: -6.8% in cash against -28.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 27 May 2025 | Terraced | £199,450 | £203,786 |
| 160 | 6 Jan 2025 | Detached | £481,000 | £491,457 |
| 97 | 1 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £189,600 | £199,504 |
| 72 | 16 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| 112 | 27 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £100,000 | £105,224 |
| 5 | 1 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £195,000 | £210,690 |
| 80 | 31 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £221,494 |
| 54 | 31 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 3 | 15 Mar 2023 | Detached | £285,000 | £307,931 |
| 14 | 2 Dec 2022 | Detached | £407,500 | £472,124 |
| 113a | 24 Oct 2022 | Detached | £1,000,000 | £1,158,587 |
| 100 | 29 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £175,000 | £221,102 |
| 125 | 30 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £128,750 | £162,668 |
| 88 | 14 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £123,000 | £159,256 |
| 110 | 7 May 2020 | Terraced | £130,000 | £168,320 |
| 135 | 3 Feb 2020 | Detached | £365,000 | £472,590 |
| 124 | 24 Jan 2020 | Terraced | £109,000 | £141,129 |
| 56 | 10 Jan 2020 | Terraced | £120,000 | £155,372 |
| 79 | 22 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £196,197 |
| 97 | 21 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £145,000 | £189,657 |
| 117 | 3 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £90,000 | £117,718 |
| 75 | 15 Feb 2019 | Terraced | £155,000 | £202,737 |
| 121 | 17 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £213,233 |
| 72 | 14 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £128,000 | £170,586 |
| 116 | 27 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £114,000 | £151,928 |
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 Cliff Road, Wakefield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 Cliff Road | £37,950 (1997) | £199,450 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 97 Cliff Road | £92,000 (2015) | £189,600 (2024) | +8.4% | +4.9% |
| 72 Cliff Road | £38,500 (1996) | £180,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 112 Cliff Road | £30,000 (1998) | £100,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 5 Cliff Road | £49,000 (2000) | £195,000 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 54 Cliff Road | £42,500 (1998) | £165,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 3 Cliff Road | £70,000 (2013) | £285,000 (2023) | +15.1% | +11.7% |
| 14 Cliff Road | £144,950 (2002) | £407,500 (2022) | +5.3% | +2.7% |
| 100 Cliff Road | £125,000 (2018) | £175,000 (2021) | +11.9% | +9.9% |
| 88 Cliff Road | £43,000 (1996) | £123,000 (2020) | +4.5% | +2.3% |
| 110 Cliff Road | £115,000 (2004) | £130,000 (2020) | +0.8% | -1.5% |
| 135 Cliff Road | £223,500 (2005) | £365,000 (2020) | +3.3% | +1.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cliff Road, Wakefield 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 | 77 | 57.5% | £95,000 | £25,000 – £199,450 |
| Detached | 33 | 24.6% | £225,000 | £70,000 – £1,000,000 |
| Semi-detached | 24 | 17.9% | £110,000 | £20,000 – £205,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cliff Road, Wakefield
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 134 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 134 | 100.0% | £109,500 |
| New build | 5 | 3.7% | £142,950 |
| Existing home | 129 | 96.3% | £109,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +31.1%. 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 Cliff Road, Wakefield
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 712 | 0.6% |
| B | 13,385 | 10.9% |
| C | 38,632 | 31.5% |
| D | 51,125 | 41.6% |
| E | 15,142 | 12.3% |
| F | 2,976 | 2.4% |
| G | 820 | 0.7% |
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 £109,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.52% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Cliff Road, Wakefield
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horbury Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,070 |
| Crofton Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,045 |
| Horbury Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 435 |
| Horbury St Peter's and Clifton CofE (VC) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 369 |
| Crigglestone Dane Royd Junior and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 355 |
| Crigglestone St James CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 296 |
| Sharlston Community School | Primary | Academy converter | 239 |
| Shay Lane Primary (J and I) School | Primary | Community school | 233 |
| Crofton Junior School | Primary | Community school | 231 |
| Ryhill Junior, Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 225 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Sandal & Agbrigg Rail Station | Rail | 3.1 km |
| Wakefield Kirkgate Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Wakefield Westgate Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Darton Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
Section 09
How Cliff Road, Wakefield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cliff Road, Wakefield sits below that national figure — -30.5%.
Within Wakefield the street ranks 1388 of 2147 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £123,000 (-11.0%).
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 £20,000 to £1,000,000. 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.
Cliff Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Doncaster Road£102,000 median
- High Street£115,000 median
- Weeland Road£71,000 median
- Hollin Drive£119,950 median
- Denby Dale Road£128,000 median
- New Road£143,800 median
- Green Lane£130,500 median
- Hollin Lane£113,000 median
- Mill Lane£79,500 median
- Greenfield Crescent£144,995 median
- Greenside Park£79,950 median
- Cow Lane£80,000 median
- Parklands Drive£84,473 median
- Painthorpe Lane£75,000 median
- Coxley View£125,000 median
- Church Lane£122,995 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 72 Cliff Road7 sales
- 52 Cliff Road4 sales
- 5 Cliff Road4 sales
- 135 Cliff Road4 sales
- 56 Cliff Road4 sales
- 121 Cliff Road4 sales
- 12 Cliff Road4 sales
- 97 Cliff Road3 sales
- 54 Cliff Road3 sales
- 3 Cliff Road3 sales
- 110 Cliff Road3 sales
- 124 Cliff Road3 sales
- 75 Cliff Road3 sales
- 134 Cliff Road3 sales
- 123 Cliff Road3 sales
- 78 Cliff Road3 sales
- 113C Cliff Road3 sales
- 105 Cliff Road3 sales
- 74 Cliff Road3 sales
- 76 Cliff Road3 sales
- 112 Cliff Road2 sales
- 14 Cliff Road2 sales
- 100 Cliff Road2 sales
- 88 Cliff Road2 sales
Back to Wakefield house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cliff Road, Wakefield?
The median price paid in Cliff Road, Wakefield across every sale on the register is £109,500. 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 Cliff Road, Wakefield?
134 sales are on record for Cliff Road, Wakefield, the most recent completing on 27 May 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Cliff Road, Wakefield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -6.8% between 2008 and 2020. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -28.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Cliff Road, Wakefield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £140,000, set in 2014. 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 Cliff Road, Wakefield?
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 27 May 2025. 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, “Cliff Road, 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.