High Street, Wakefield house prices are built from 306 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £115,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved -14.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -39.0%.
Median price paid
£115,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
-14.9%
Change in real terms
-39.0%
HM Land Registry306 salesLatest sale 22 May 2026
Section 01
How High Street, Wakefield prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Street, 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £47,000 | £104,362 |
| 2000s | 9 | £87,475 | £159,354 |
| 2010s | 8 | £135,000 | £190,350 |
| 2020s | 6 | £153,000 | £156,326 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Wakefield is £203,500 in 2023; the lowest is £36,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £36,000 to £117,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £79,937, so the real change over the whole record is +46.4% — about +1.24% 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: -14.9% in cash against -39.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 54 | 27 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 102 | 20 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £115,000 | £115,000 |
| 92 | 4 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £108,000 | £108,000 |
| 86 | 23 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £117,000 | £117,000 |
| 112 | 28 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £150,500 | £153,772 |
| 44 | 7 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 134 | 15 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £177,500 | £181,359 |
| 1 | 9 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £262,000 | £267,696 |
| 138 | 14 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £152,000 | £155,304 |
| 10 | 16 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 84 | 6 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £248,000 | £260,955 |
| 16 | 25 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £268,000 | £282,000 |
| 19 | 29 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £80,000 | £84,179 |
| 6 | 27 Aug 2024 | Detached | £595,000 | £626,082 |
| 76 | 27 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| 90 | 24 May 2024 | Terraced | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| 8 | 5 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| 11 | 11 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £198,000 | £208,343 |
| 48 | 4 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £197,000 | £212,851 |
| 23 | 11 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £189,080 |
| 42 | 4 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £135,000 | £145,862 |
| 132 | 13 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £178,000 | £192,322 |
| 76 | 11 Jul 2023 | Detached | £210,000 | £226,897 |
| 147 | 7 Jun 2023 | Detached | £390,000 | £421,379 |
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 High Street, Wakefield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 High Street | £37,000 (1998) | £180,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 54 High Street | £129,995 (2012) | £195,000 (2026) | +2.9% | +0.0% |
| 102 High Street | £21,000 (1995) | £115,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +3.0% |
| 92 High Street | £29,995 (2001) | £108,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 86 High Street | £24,500 (2002) | £117,000 (2026) | +6.7% | +3.8% |
| 112 High Street | £18,000 (2000) | £150,500 (2025) | +8.9% | +6.0% |
| 44 High Street | £149,995 (2013) | £150,000 (2025) | +0.0% | -2.9% |
| 134 High Street | £131,000 (2005) | £177,500 (2025) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| 1 High Street | £155,000 (2014) | £262,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +1.7% |
| 138 High Street | £34,000 (2000) | £152,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 16 High Street | £45,500 (2001) | £268,000 (2024) | +8.0% | +5.1% |
| 19 High Street | £55,000 (2014) | £80,000 (2024) | +3.8% | +0.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Street, 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 | 153 | 50.0% | £79,500 | £16,000 – £371,000 |
| Semi-detached | 91 | 29.7% | £134,000 | £27,000 – £352,600 |
| Detached | 56 | 18.3% | £188,750 | £23,000 – £1,675,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 6 | 2.0% | £87,000 | £59,950 – £265,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Street, Wakefield
3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 303 freehold — 1.0% 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.
The median leasehold sale is £97,500 and the median freehold sale £115,000 — a gap of +17.9%. 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 | 3 | 1.0% | £97,500 |
| Freehold | 303 | 99.0% | £115,000 |
| New build | 20 | 6.5% | £140,000 |
| Existing home | 286 | 93.5% | £112,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +25.0%. 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 30 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 High Street, 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 £115,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.16% 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 High Street, 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 High Street, Wakefield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Wakefield sits below that national figure — -27.0%.
Within Wakefield the street ranks 1287 of 2147 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £123,000 (-6.5%).
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 £16,000 to £1,675,000. 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.
High Street, 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
- 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
- Cliff Road£109,500 median
- Church Lane£122,995 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 102 High Street9 sales
- 112 High Street8 sales
- 78 High Street7 sales
- 90 High Street6 sales
- 86 High Street6 sales
- 16 High Street6 sales
- 23 High Street6 sales
- 50 High Street5 sales
- 138 High Street4 sales
- 8 High Street4 sales
- 11 High Street4 sales
- 25 High Street4 sales
- 118 High Street4 sales
- 142 High Street4 sales
- 124 High Street4 sales
- 106 High Street4 sales
- 43 High Street4 sales
- 37 High Street4 sales
- 108 High Street4 sales
- 39 High Street4 sales
- 54 High Street3 sales
- 134 High Street3 sales
- 48 High Street3 sales
- 42 High Street3 sales
Back to Wakefield house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Street, Wakefield?
The median price paid in High Street, Wakefield across every sale on the register is £115,000. 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 High Street, Wakefield?
306 sales are on record for High Street, Wakefield, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have High Street, Wakefield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -14.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -39.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Street, Wakefield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £203,500, set in 2023. 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 High Street, 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 22 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, “High Street, 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.