St Johns Square, Wakefield house prices are built from 122 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 1 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £131,250. Across the 11 years from 2005 to 2016 the median moved +3.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -20.9%.
Median price paid
£131,250
Change in cash, 2005–2016
+3.2%
Change in real terms
-20.9%
Median per m²
£1,840
HM Land Registry122 sales39 with floor areaLatest sale 1 Dec 2025
Section 01
How St Johns Square, Wakefield prices moved
The chart tracks the median St Johns Square, Wakefield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2016. 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 | 1 | £66,000 | £146,551 |
| 2000s | 7 | £85,000 | £154,845 |
| 2010s | 1 | £137,750 | £194,228 |
The highest yearly median on record for St Johns Square, Wakefield is £170,000 in 2007; the lowest is £47,500 in 2002. Across the full 18-year record the cash median has moved from £66,000 to £137,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £134,480, so the real change over the whole record is +43.0% — about +2.13% 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: +3.2% in cash against -20.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 4 6 | 1 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| 4 | 8 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £176,000 | £179,826 |
| Flat 3 12 | 7 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 4 | 13 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £102,000 | £104,217 |
| Flat 3 7 | 5 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| Flat 2 5 | 28 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £307,931 |
| 15 | 30 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £129,995 | £140,454 |
| Flat 2 6 | 27 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £143,000 | £165,678 |
| Flat 3 12 | 4 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £150,616 |
| Flat 1 9 | 17 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £138,978 |
| Flat 5 9 | 10 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £145,296 |
| Flat 5 5 | 16 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £154,000 | £194,570 |
| 11a | 15 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| Flat 3 9 | 18 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £162,000 | £209,752 |
| Flat 1 6 | 21 Aug 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £144,500 | £187,094 |
| Flat 4 6 | 24 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £200,689 |
| 13 | 24 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £161,846 |
| Flat 5 5 | 20 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £150,417 |
| Flat 3 7 | 8 Jan 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £209,276 |
| Flat 5 9 | 18 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £159,924 |
| Flat 6 9 | 3 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £176,000 | £234,556 |
| 4 | 27 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £193,242 |
| Flat 4 7 | 1 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £146,000 | £194,575 |
| 11 | 23 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £215,000 | £292,616 |
| Flat 5 6 | 24 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £183,736 |
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 St Johns Square, Wakefield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 4 6 St Johns Square | £152,250 (2016) | £180,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -1.6% |
| 4 St Johns Square | £95,000 (2002) | £176,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| FLAT 3 12 St Johns Square | £130,000 (2022) | £160,000 (2025) | +7.2% | +2.8% |
| FLAT 3 7 St Johns Square | £47,500 (2002) | £185,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.5% |
| FLAT 2 5 St Johns Square | £15,000 (2005) | £285,000 (2023) | +17.8% | +14.4% |
| 15 St Johns Square | £63,000 (1996) | £129,995 (2023) | +2.7% | +0.1% |
| FLAT 5 9 St Johns Square | £56,000 (2002) | £115,000 (2021) | +3.9% | +1.6% |
| FLAT 5 5 St Johns Square | £150,000 (2007) | £154,000 (2021) | +0.2% | -2.1% |
| 11A St Johns Square | £147,000 (2015) | £235,000 (2021) | +8.1% | +6.2% |
| FLAT 1 6 St Johns Square | £143,000 (2016) | £144,500 (2020) | +0.3% | -1.6% |
| 13 St Johns Square | £67,000 (1997) | £125,000 (2020) | +2.7% | +0.6% |
| FLAT 6 9 St Johns Square | £65,000 (2002) | £176,000 (2018) | +6.4% | +4.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. St Johns Square, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 103 | 84.4% | £132,500 | £15,000 – £499,950 |
| Terraced | 16 | 13.1% | £110,000 | £67,000 – £350,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3 | 2.5% | £147,000 | £78,995 – £165,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in St Johns Square, Wakefield
112 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10 freehold — 91.8% 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 £130,000 and the median freehold sale £152,250 — a gap of +17.1%. 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 | 112 | 91.8% | £130,000 |
| Freehold | 10 | 8.2% | £152,250 |
| New build | 8 | 6.6% | £157,000 |
| Existing home | 114 | 93.4% | £129,998 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +20.8%. 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 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 St Johns Square, Wakefield
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 £131,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.29% 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 WF1, 629 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 244 violent, 16 burglary, 21 vehicle-related and 69 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.8 times busier.
Against the 353,368 residents the 2021 census counted in Wakefield, that is 1.78 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 St Johns Square, Wakefield
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.
15 state and independent schools have a WF1 postcode: 10 primary, 2 16 plus, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outwood Grange Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,900 |
| Outwood Academy City Fields | Secondary | Academy converter | 928 |
| CAPA College | 16 plus | Free schools 16 to 19 | 502 |
| Outwood Primary Academy Ledger Lane | Primary | Academy converter | 456 |
| Outwood Primary Academy Park Hill | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 452 |
| Rooks Nest Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 368 |
| Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) School | Primary | Community school | 359 |
| Newton Hill Community School | Primary | Community school | 338 |
| St Austin's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 306 |
| Sandal Magna Community Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 255 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Wakefield Westgate Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Wakefield Kirkgate Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Sandal & Agbrigg Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
| Outwood Rail Station | Rail | 3.3 km |
Section 09
How St Johns Square, Wakefield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St Johns Square, Wakefield sits below that national figure — -16.7%.
Within Wakefield the street ranks 1039 of 2147 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £123,000 (+6.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,840 per square metre, across 39 of the 122 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 £15,000 to £499,950. 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.
St Johns Square, Wakefield 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
- Bradford Road£139,950 median
- Howden Way£57,750 median
- George Street£94,000 median
- Park Avenue£95,000 median
- Ings Road£151,250 median
- Tuke Grove£124,000 median
- Chaloner Grove£106,000 median
- Woodlands Village£110,000 median
- Agbrigg Road£85,000 median
- Parkinson Close£105,000 median
- Rooks Nest Road£125,000 median
- Meadow Vale£135,500 median
- Coach Road£100,000 median
- Regent Street£80,000 median
- Royal Troon Mews£120,000 median
- First Avenue£140,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 15 St Johns Square6 sales
- FLAT 5, 9 St Johns Square6 sales
- 13 St Johns Square6 sales
- 4 St Johns Square5 sales
- FLAT 3, 7 St Johns Square5 sales
- FLAT 5, 5 St Johns Square4 sales
- FLAT 2, 3 St Johns Square4 sales
- FLAT 4, 3 St Johns Square4 sales
- FLAT 3, 3 St Johns Square4 sales
- FLAT 4, 6 St Johns Square3 sales
- FLAT 2, 5 St Johns Square3 sales
- FLAT 6, 9 St Johns Square3 sales
- FLAT 4, 7 St Johns Square3 sales
- 11 St Johns Square3 sales
- FLAT 2, 9 St Johns Square3 sales
- FLAT 3, 5 St Johns Square3 sales
- BASEMENT FLAT, 20 St Johns Square3 sales
- FLAT 4, 5 St Johns Square3 sales
- 21 St Johns Square3 sales
- FLAT 3, 12 St Johns Square2 sales
- 11A St Johns Square2 sales
- FLAT 1, 6 St Johns Square2 sales
- FLAT 3, 21 St Johns Square2 sales
- FLAT 1, 21 St Johns Square2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in St Johns Square, Wakefield?
The median price paid in St Johns Square, Wakefield across every sale on the register is £131,250. 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 St Johns Square, Wakefield?
122 sales are on record for St Johns Square, Wakefield, the most recent completing on 1 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have St Johns Square, Wakefield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +3.2% between 2005 and 2016. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -20.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were St Johns Square, Wakefield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £170,000, set in 2007. 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 St Johns Square, Wakefield?
£1,840 per square metre, from the 39 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 1 Dec 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, “St Johns Square, 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.