Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield house prices are built from 173 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £145,000. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +71.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +26.7%.
Median price paid
£145,000
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+71.0%
Change in real terms
+26.7%
HM Land Registry173 salesLatest sale 20 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield prices moved
The chart tracks the median Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £65,125 | £144,608 |
| 2000s | 7 | £89,500 | £163,043 |
| 2010s | 7 | £200,000 | £282,000 |
| 2020s | 3 | £316,500 | £323,380 |
The highest yearly median on record for Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield is £342,000 in 2023; the lowest is £47,000 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £65,125 to £342,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £144,608, so the real change over the whole record is +155.5% — about +3.41% 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: +71.0% in cash against +26.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | 20 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £143,000 | £143,000 |
| 153 | 17 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £307,500 | £314,185 |
| 149 | 10 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £385,000 | £393,370 |
| 70 | 30 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £352,500 | £360,163 |
| 165 | 14 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 104 | 13 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £435,000 | £457,724 |
| 163 | 28 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 23 | 28 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 100 | 29 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £430,000 | £452,463 |
| 93 | 11 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £178,000 | £192,322 |
| 69 | 8 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £78,500 | £84,816 |
| 129 | 14 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £342,000 | £369,517 |
| 56 | 23 Jun 2023 | Detached | £530,000 | £572,644 |
| 149 | 3 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £379,750 | £410,305 |
| 127 | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 185 | 22 Jul 2022 | Detached | £485,000 | £561,915 |
| 62 | 19 Jul 2022 | Detached | £381,000 | £441,422 |
| 81 | 25 May 2022 | Terraced | £212,000 | £245,620 |
| 165 | 10 May 2022 | Terraced | £280,000 | £324,404 |
| 135 | 29 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £331,000 | £383,492 |
| 79 | 14 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| 25 | 24 Mar 2022 | Detached | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 157 | 18 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 107 | 10 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £347,576 |
| 78a | 15 Dec 2021 | Detached | £420,000 | £530,645 |
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 Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 Oakenshaw Lane | £49,000 (2000) | £143,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 153 Oakenshaw Lane | £67,000 (1995) | £307,500 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 149 Oakenshaw Lane | £64,500 (1998) | £385,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| 70 Oakenshaw Lane | £197,500 (2012) | £352,500 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.5% |
| 165 Oakenshaw Lane | £64,825 (1997) | £350,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 104 Oakenshaw Lane | £233,809 (2007) | £435,000 (2024) | +3.7% | +0.7% |
| 163 Oakenshaw Lane | £94,000 (1995) | £315,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 23 Oakenshaw Lane | £63,000 (1998) | £275,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 100 Oakenshaw Lane | £83,000 (1996) | £430,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 93 Oakenshaw Lane | £140,000 (2018) | £178,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +0.6% |
| 69 Oakenshaw Lane | £37,000 (1997) | £78,500 (2023) | +2.9% | +0.3% |
| 129 Oakenshaw Lane | £52,000 (1995) | £342,000 (2023) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Oakenshaw Lane, 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 | 102 | 59.0% | £125,000 | £37,000 – £385,000 |
| Semi-detached | 36 | 20.8% | £133,000 | £37,000 – £435,000 |
| Detached | 35 | 20.2% | £275,000 | £70,000 – £530,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 173 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 | 173 | 100.0% | £145,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.2% | £262,000 |
| Existing home | 171 | 98.8% | £143,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +83.2%. 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 3 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 Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Leeds, 41.9% of 434,292 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,837 | 0.4% |
| B | 41,544 | 9.6% |
| C | 138,728 | 31.9% |
| D | 167,040 | 38.5% |
| E | 65,138 | 15.0% |
| F | 14,639 | 3.4% |
| G | 5,366 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Leeds at £1,135 a month as of Jun 2026 — £775 for a one-bedroom home and £1,128 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £145,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.39% 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 WF2, 522 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 200 violent, 15 burglary, 10 vehicle-related and 61 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.1 times busier.
Against the 811,956 residents the 2021 census counted in Leeds, that is 0.64 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 Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield
The 2021 census counted 811,956 residents in Leeds across 341,466 households. 57.6% of those households own their home and 42.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
17 state and independent schools have a WF2 postcode: 14 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kettlethorpe High School | Secondary | Community school | 1,616 |
| Trinity Academy Cathedral | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,028 |
| St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 762 |
| Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 608 |
| Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary School | Primary | Community school | 601 |
| St Michael's CofE Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 470 |
| Wakefield Lawefield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 437 |
| Hendal Primary School | Primary | Community school | 410 |
| Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 387 |
| Walton Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 336 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Wakefield Westgate Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Wakefield Kirkgate Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Sandal & Agbrigg Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Outwood Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
Section 09
How Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield sits below that national figure — -7.9%.
Within Wakefield the street ranks 871 of 2147 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £123,000 (+17.9%).
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 £37,000 to £530,000. 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.
Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield sits in Leeds, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Leeds at 6.5 times median local earnings of £37,821 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
- Barnsley Road£150,000 median
- Dewsbury Road£104,000 median
- Horbury Road£165,000 median
- Mill Chase Road£99,748 median
- Lincoln Street£70,000 median
- Wrenthorpe Lane£140,000 median
- Oakwood Avenue£110,000 median
- Airedale Heights£81,000 median
- Fernleigh Court£88,125 median
- Manygates Lane£202,000 median
- Thornes Road£180,000 median
- Alverthorpe Road£74,475 median
- Silcoates Lane£142,000 median
- Woolgreaves Drive£162,000 median
- Wrenthorpe Road£114,000 median
- Larkspur Way£127,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 83 Oakenshaw Lane5 sales
- 149 Oakenshaw Lane4 sales
- 163 Oakenshaw Lane4 sales
- 69 Oakenshaw Lane4 sales
- 129 Oakenshaw Lane4 sales
- 79 Oakenshaw Lane4 sales
- 123 Oakenshaw Lane4 sales
- 141 Oakenshaw Lane4 sales
- 87 Oakenshaw Lane4 sales
- 137 Oakenshaw Lane4 sales
- 61A Oakenshaw Lane4 sales
- 101 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 153 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 165 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 104 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 100 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 56 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 62 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 181 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 159 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 58 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 147 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 179 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
- 77 Oakenshaw Lane3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield?
The median price paid in Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield across every sale on the register is £145,000. 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 Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield?
173 sales are on record for Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield, the most recent completing on 20 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +71.0% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +26.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Oakenshaw Lane, Wakefield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £342,000, 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 Oakenshaw Lane, 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 20 Feb 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, “Oakenshaw Lane, 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.