WF3 house prices are built from 19,577 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £127,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +58.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +13.4%.
Median price paid
£127,500
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+58.3%
Change in real terms
+13.4%
Median per m²
£3,026
HM Land Registry19,577 sales354 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How WF3 prices moved
The chart tracks the median WF3 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 | 5 | £52,450 | £116,464 |
| 2000s | 10 | £128,000 | £233,178 |
| 2010s | 10 | £142,950 | £201,560 |
| 2020s | 7 | £237,500 | £242,663 |
The highest yearly median on record for WF3 is £250,398 in 2025; the lowest is £51,950 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £51,975 to £237,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £115,409, so the real change over the whole record is +105.8% — about +2.36% 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: +58.3% in cash against +13.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Tree Top Drive | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 4 Springfield Crescent | 19 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 3 Orange Tree Grove | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 10 Springwell Court | 16 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 39 Reservoir View | 15 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £289,000 | £289,000 |
| 6 Moorland Place | 15 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £175,500 | £175,500 |
| 10 BRODSWORTH COURT, 4 Ripley Close | 15 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £130,000 |
| 65 Potovens Lane | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £239,950 | £239,950 |
| 4 Tippler Drive | 8 Jun 2026 | Detached | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 7 Common Lane | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £166,000 | £166,000 |
| 25 Moor Knoll Fold | 4 Jun 2026 | Detached | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 27 Ash Grove | 1 Jun 2026 | Detached | £493,000 | £493,000 |
| 16 Longwood Road | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 66 Eastleigh Drive | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 4 St Marys Close | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £252,000 | £252,000 |
| 29 Queen Street | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £183,000 | £183,000 |
| 12 GRANTHAM COURT, 20 Scampston Drive | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £139,000 | £139,000 |
| 29 Rosedale Drive | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £115,500 | £115,500 |
| 85 Lee Moor Road | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 28 Stanley Parkway | 26 May 2026 | Detached | £420,000 | £420,000 |
| 11 Serenity Close | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £282,950 | £282,950 |
| 5 Syke Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 12 Bottom Boat Road | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £154,000 | £154,000 |
| 43 Wordsworth Grove | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| 1 Newlands Drive | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £175,000 | £175,000 |
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 WF3 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Springfield Crescent | £134,950 (2013) | £210,000 (2026) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| 24 Tree Top Drive | £354,995 (2022) | £375,000 (2026) | +1.4% | -2.3% |
| 3 Orange Tree Grove | £43,995 (2000) | £160,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 10 Springwell Court | £59,950 (1995) | £245,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +2.0% |
| 6 Moorland Place | £99,950 (2004) | £175,500 (2026) | +2.6% | -0.2% |
| 10 BRODSWORTH COURT, 4 Ripley Close | £92,500 (2019) | £130,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +1.0% |
| 39 Reservoir View | £285,000 (2023) | £289,000 (2026) | +0.5% | -2.1% |
| 65 Potovens Lane | £100,000 (2009) | £239,950 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.3% |
| 4 Tippler Drive | £354,995 (2021) | £450,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +0.1% |
| 7 Common Lane | £36,500 (1996) | £166,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 25 Moor Knoll Fold | £350,000 (2021) | £375,000 (2026) | +1.4% | -3.2% |
| 27 Ash Grove | £122,000 (1999) | £493,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. WF3 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 | 6,975 | 35.6% | £128,667 | £8,000 – £432,000 |
| Detached | 6,209 | 31.7% | £200,000 | £500 – £965,000 |
| Terraced | 5,468 | 27.9% | £104,000 | £10,000 – £522,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 925 | 4.7% | £96,000 | £17,000 – £350,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in WF3
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,440 certificates cover WF3, and their median floor area is 80 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +5.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 80 m² | about 861 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 67 m² | about 721 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 104 m² | about 1,119 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 15.8% | 700 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 4.7% | 207 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in WF3
1,183 of the sales on record are leasehold and 18,394 freehold — 6.0% 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 £97,000 and the median freehold sale £130,500 — a gap of +34.5%. 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 | 1,183 | 6.0% | £97,000 |
| Freehold | 18,394 | 94.0% | £130,500 |
| New build | 2,881 | 14.7% | £155,000 |
| Existing home | 16,696 | 85.3% | £125,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +24.0%. 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 948 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 WF3
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 £127,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.34% 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 WF3
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 WF3 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. WF3 sits below that national figure — -19.0%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,026 per square metre, across 354 of the 19,577 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 £500 to £965,000. 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.
WF3 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
Sectors inside WF3
The closest districts
- LS104.4 km · £110,000
- WF14.4 km · £117,500
- WF25.7 km · £124,995
- LS265.8 km · £138,500
- WF55.9 km · £120,775
- LS276.0 km · £116,500
- WF127.7 km · £104,950
- WF177.8 km · £92,000
This district mostly covers Wakefield.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in WF3?
The median price paid in WF3 across every sale on the register is £127,500. 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 WF3?
19,577 sales are on record for WF3, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have WF3 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +58.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +13.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were WF3 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £250,398, set in 2025. 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 WF3?
£3,026 per square metre, from the 354 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 19 Jun 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, “WF3 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.