Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield house prices are built from 132 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 28 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £135,000. Across the 13 years from 2009 to 2022 the median moved +50.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.4%.
Median price paid
£135,000
Change in cash, 2009–2022
+50.9%
Change in real terms
+6.4%
HM Land Registry132 salesLatest sale 28 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield prices moved
The chart tracks the median Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. 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 | £51,498 | £114,349 |
| 2000s | 3 | £129,450 | £235,820 |
| 2010s | 4 | £129,950 | £183,230 |
| 2020s | 3 | £195,000 | £199,239 |
The highest yearly median on record for Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield is £207,500 in 2022; the lowest is £46,500 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £52,000 to £207,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £115,465, so the real change over the whole record is +108.2% — about +2.75% 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: +50.9% in cash against +6.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 28 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 49 | 13 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 23 | 16 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 49 | 23 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 86 | 21 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £132,000 | £134,870 |
| 63 | 13 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 66 | 25 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 62 | 27 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £232,000 | £244,119 |
| 53 | 26 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 62 | 1 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £226,000 | £244,184 |
| 39 | 27 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 31 | 31 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £153,500 | £165,851 |
| 6 | 17 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £237,000 | £274,585 |
| 98 | 10 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 34 | 5 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £242,000 | £280,378 |
| 60 | 15 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £225,924 |
| 40 | 21 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £225,924 |
| 1 | 20 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £162,500 | £188,270 |
| 69 | 3 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £174,995 | £221,096 |
| 34 | 24 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £170,565 |
| 6 | 3 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £179,950 | £227,356 |
| 17 | 2 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £199,000 | £251,425 |
| 38 | 1 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 30 | 10 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| 29 | 22 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £233,737 |
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 Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 Wharfedale Rise | £49,200 (1998) | £260,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 23 Wharfedale Rise | £159,000 (2018) | £225,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +1.2% |
| 62 Wharfedale Rise | £52,000 (1995) | £232,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 39 Wharfedale Rise | £149,500 (2006) | £290,000 (2023) | +4.0% | +1.0% |
| 6 Wharfedale Rise | £39,500 (1996) | £237,000 (2022) | +7.1% | +4.6% |
| 34 Wharfedale Rise | £135,000 (2021) | £242,000 (2022) | +79.3% | +64.4% |
| 60 Wharfedale Rise | £47,450 (1995) | £195,000 (2022) | +5.4% | +2.9% |
| 69 Wharfedale Rise | £124,000 (2004) | £174,995 (2021) | +2.0% | -0.2% |
| 17 Wharfedale Rise | £111,000 (2009) | £199,000 (2021) | +5.0% | +2.7% |
| 38 Wharfedale Rise | £154,000 (2021) | £225,000 (2021) | +46.1% | +46.1% |
| 29 Wharfedale Rise | £126,000 (2017) | £185,000 (2021) | +10.1% | +8.0% |
| 92 Wharfedale Rise | £150,000 (2018) | £205,000 (2021) | +11.0% | +9.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wharfedale Rise, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 121 | 91.7% | £134,000 | £39,500 – £290,000 |
| Detached | 11 | 8.3% | £170,000 | £54,000 – £272,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 132 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 | 132 | 100.0% | £135,000 |
A further 1 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 Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Kirklees, 38.7% of 198,495 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 861 | 0.4% |
| B | 15,279 | 7.7% |
| C | 60,657 | 30.6% |
| D | 82,930 | 41.8% |
| E | 30,047 | 15.1% |
| F | 6,444 | 3.2% |
| G | 2,277 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Kirklees at £780 a month as of Jun 2026 — £582 for a one-bedroom home and £864 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £135,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.93% 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 WF3, 70 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 32 violent, 1 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 13 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.4 times quieter.
Against the 433,216 residents the 2021 census counted in Kirklees, that is 0.16 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 Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield
The 2021 census counted 433,216 residents in Kirklees across 177,989 households. 65.9% of those households own their home and 33.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a WF3 postcode: 10 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodkirk Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,769 |
| Rodillian Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,615 |
| Westerton Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 664 |
| Outwood Primary Academy Lofthouse Gate | Primary | Academy converter | 438 |
| Robin Hood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 420 |
| East Ardsley Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 417 |
| Carlton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 323 |
| Stanley St Peters Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 298 |
| Blackgates Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 233 |
| Stanley Grove Primary and Nursery Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 233 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Outwood Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Wakefield Westgate Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Morley Rail Station | Rail | 5.3 km |
| Wakefield Kirkgate Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
Section 09
How Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield sits below that national figure — -14.3%.
Within Wakefield the street ranks 993 of 2147 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £123,000 (+9.8%).
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 £39,500 to £290,000. 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.
Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield sits in Kirklees, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Kirklees at 6.3 times median local earnings of £33,613 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
- Leeds Road£117,000 median
- Aberford Road£110,000 median
- Canal Lane£101,250 median
- Batley Road£145,000 median
- Westerton Road£135,000 median
- Haigh Moor Road£135,900 median
- Scampston Drive£107,000 median
- Common Lane£105,000 median
- Potovens Lane£135,475 median
- Bottom Boat Road£97,500 median
- Turnberry Gardens£110,000 median
- Queen Street£100,000 median
- Gainsborough Way£89,000 median
- Lee Moor Road£108,975 median
- Bidder Drive£89,950 median
- Chapel Street£100,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 6 Wharfedale Rise6 sales
- 49 Wharfedale Rise4 sales
- 62 Wharfedale Rise4 sales
- 47 Wharfedale Rise4 sales
- 39 Wharfedale Rise3 sales
- 92 Wharfedale Rise3 sales
- 55 Wharfedale Rise3 sales
- 42 Wharfedale Rise3 sales
- 37 Wharfedale Rise3 sales
- 9 Wharfedale Rise3 sales
- 51 Wharfedale Rise3 sales
- 23 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 34 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 60 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 69 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 17 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 38 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 29 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 122 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 25 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 13 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 28 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 84 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
- 52 Wharfedale Rise2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield?
The median price paid in Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield across every sale on the register is £135,000. 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 Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield?
132 sales are on record for Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield, the most recent completing on 28 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +50.9% between 2009 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Wharfedale Rise, Wakefield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £207,500, set in 2022. 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 Wharfedale Rise, 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 28 Jan 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, “Wharfedale Rise, 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.