WF9 house prices are built from 17,530 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 £90,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +42.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.4%.
Median price paid
£90,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+42.9%
Change in real terms
+2.4%
Median per m²
£2,252
HM Land Registry17,530 sales57 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How WF9 prices moved
The chart tracks the median WF9 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 | £38,000 | £84,378 |
| 2000s | 10 | £78,000 | £142,093 |
| 2010s | 10 | £107,000 | £150,870 |
| 2020s | 7 | £160,000 | £163,478 |
The highest yearly median on record for WF9 is £174,000 in 2025; the lowest is £36,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £36,000 to £171,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £79,937, so the real change over the whole record is +114.5% — about +2.49% 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: +42.9% in cash against +2.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67 Highfield Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £131,800 | £131,800 |
| 23 Ings Holt | 17 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £162,000 | £162,000 |
| 156 Smeaton Road | 8 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 69 Conisborough Way | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £164,000 | £164,000 |
| 19 Ebberton Close | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| 52 Ringwood Way | 4 Jun 2026 | Detached | £197,000 | £197,000 |
| 22 Excalibur Drive | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £338,000 | £338,000 |
| 50 Woodlands Crescent | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 35 Willow Garth | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £171,500 | £171,500 |
| 2 Lavender Court | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 112 Beech Street | 28 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £125,000 |
| 6 Cottam Croft | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £240,500 | £240,500 |
| 34 Woodlands Crescent | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 119 Barnsley Road | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 4 Elmsdale Close | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £155,000 | £155,000 |
| 25 West Street | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £100,000 | £100,000 |
| 4 Lavender Way | 19 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| 6 Jacks Way | 15 May 2026 | Detached | £305,000 | £305,000 |
| 2 Vissett Close | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 33 Conisborough Way | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £112,500 | £112,500 |
| 14 Ebberton Close | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £88,000 | £88,000 |
| 139 Southmoor Road | 11 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 33A White Apron Street | 8 May 2026 | Detached | £337,500 | £337,500 |
| 26 Clayton Holt | 8 May 2026 | Detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 8 Sharp Way | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £189,000 | £189,000 |
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 WF9 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67 Highfield Road | £76,000 (2004) | £131,800 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| 23 Ings Holt | £50,000 (2002) | £162,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 156 Smeaton Road | £120,000 (2023) | £150,000 (2026) | +7.7% | +5.0% |
| 69 Conisborough Way | £149,999 (2006) | £164,000 (2026) | +0.4% | -2.4% |
| 50 Woodlands Crescent | £54,000 (2001) | £190,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 2 Lavender Court | £115,000 (2007) | £170,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.9% |
| 22 Excalibur Drive | £165,000 (2003) | £338,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| 35 Willow Garth | £117,000 (2019) | £171,500 (2026) | +5.6% | +1.6% |
| 112 Beech Street | £24,000 (1999) | £125,000 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 34 Woodlands Crescent | £45,000 (1996) | £235,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 33 Mill Lane | £94,400 (2005) | £148,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| 25 West Street | £57,995 (2003) | £100,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. WF9 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 | 6,634 | 37.8% | £99,950 | £9,500 – £965,000 |
| Terraced | 6,012 | 34.3% | £61,000 | £1,000 – £500,000 |
| Detached | 4,503 | 25.7% | £150,000 | £7,500 – £909,480 |
| Flat or maisonette | 381 | 2.2% | £68,500 | £9,500 – £250,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in WF9
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 6,394 certificates cover WF9, and their median floor area is 76 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — 0.0%. 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 | 76 m² | about 818 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 59 m² | about 635 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 87 m² | about 936 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 26.2% | 1,675 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 1.8% | 117 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in WF9
459 of the sales on record are leasehold and 17,071 freehold — 2.6% 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 £68,000 and the median freehold sale £90,000 — a gap of +32.4%. 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 | 459 | 2.6% | £68,000 |
| Freehold | 17,071 | 97.4% | £90,000 |
| New build | 2,654 | 15.1% | £111,995 |
| Existing home | 14,876 | 84.9% | £85,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +31.8%. 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 1,320 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 WF9
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 £90,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.63% 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 WF9, 51 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 20 violent, 2 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 11 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.3 times quieter.
Against the 353,368 residents the 2021 census counted in Wakefield, that is 0.14 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 WF9
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.
17 state and independent schools have a WF9 postcode: 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minsthorpe Community College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,609 |
| Outwood Academy Hemsworth | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,101 |
| South Elmsall Carlton Junior and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 454 |
| Upton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 453 |
| Northfield Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 348 |
| Ash Grove Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 265 |
| Grove Lea Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 244 |
| King's Meadow Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 234 |
| Fitzwilliam Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 224 |
| Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion Resource | Primary | Community school | 216 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Moorthorpe Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| South Elmsall Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Fitzwilliam Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
| Thurnscoe Rail Station | Rail | 6.9 km |
Section 09
How WF9 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. WF9 sits below that national figure — -42.9%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,252 per square metre, across 57 of the 17,530 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 £1,000 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.
WF9 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
Sectors inside WF9
The closest districts
- S725.5 km · £91,950
- WF77.0 km · £117,950
- WF89.0 km · £125,000
- DN69.5 km · £90,000
- S719.6 km · £95,000
- S639.7 km · £88,000
- S7310.3 km · £92,000
- DN512.3 km · £97,650
This district mostly covers Pontefract.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in WF9?
The median price paid in WF9 across every sale on the register is £90,000. 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 WF9?
17,530 sales are on record for WF9, 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 WF9 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +42.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were WF9 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £174,000, 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 WF9?
£2,252 per square metre, from the 57 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, “WF9 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.