That is the middle of 3,500 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.8 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
3,500 homes sold in three years: 1,057 detached houses, 1,396 semi-detached houses, 744 terraced houses and 303 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£358K
median sale · 1,057 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£415K
Last 12 months
£360K291 sold
New build
£386K
Semi-detached houses£220K
median sale · 1,396 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£256K
Last 12 months
£225K363 sold
New build
£252K
Terraced houses£163K
median sale · 744 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£130K–£200K
Last 12 months
£170K218 sold
New build
£203K
Flats and maisonettes£110K
median sale · 303 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£86K–£130K
Last 12 months
£105K88 sold
New build
£111K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 40% of sales
Detached houses30%
Semi-detached houses40%
Terraced houses21%
Flats and maisonettes9%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Wakefield’s homes sold for between £160K and £310K
One sale in ten was under £115K and one in ten over £400K. 58% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £227,500, sits in the £200–250K band
3,500 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.8 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £46,997 in 1995 to £227,750 in the last 12 months (£175,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
960 sales in the last 12 months, against 1,946 in 2007, the busiest year, and 659 in 2009. Sales fell by 66% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 53% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Wakefield costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Wakefield, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£80K
£96K
£224K
£225K
£246K
£295K
£360K
Semi-detached houses
£49K
£55K
£125K
£125K
£135K
£174K
£225K
Terraced houses
£36K
£39K
£99K
£105K
£110K
£135K
£170K
Flats and maisonettes
£35K
£36K
£117K
£93K
£83K
£93K
£105K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
5% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
6,539 new homes have been sold in Wakefield since 1995; the share peaked at 27% in 2022.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £304,950
against £210,000 for a home sold on, 45% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
11% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.4% sold leasehold in Wakefield. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Park Hill Way is Wakefield’s busiest street, with 56 sales in three years
233 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 59 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Park Hill Way
WF1
56
£277,498
Mixed · new builds
2
Leeds Road (WF1)
WF1
52
£202,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
Twine Road
WF2
31
£251,995
Mixed · new builds
4
George Street
WF1
28
£114,000
Mostly flats
5
Sanderson Way
WF3
25
£389,496
Mostly detached houses · new builds
6
Potters Close
WF1
24
£247,450
Mixed · new builds
7
Woodlands Village
WF1
24
£95,000
Mostly flats
8
Wrenthorpe Lane
WF2
21
£235,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
Elm Crescent
WF3
20
£345,795
Mostly detached houses · new builds
10
Thornes Road
WF2
20
£286,975
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Jasmine Mews
WF1
19
£429,950
Mostly detached houses · new builds
12
Horbury Road
WF2
19
£312,000
Mixed
13
Delft Road
WF1
19
£249,950
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
14
Canal Lane
WF3
19
£215,000
Mixed
15
Pelagos Drive
WF3
18
£425,180
Mostly detached houses · new builds
Dearest streets
Woodthorpe Grove: £1,300,000
Wakefield median£228K
Woodthorpe Grove£1.3M
Hill Top Road£1,000K
Woodthorpe Lane£750K
Woodthorpe Park Drive£540K
Manygates Lane (WF2)£495K
Cheapest streets
Dunbar Street: £62,500
Wakefield median£228K
Dunbar Street£63K
Ings Road£70K
Elizabeth Gardens£80K
Sandal Hall Mews£85K
Navigation Walk£88K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 20.8 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across West Yorkshire
Wakefield is the 45th most expensive of 91 towns in West Yorkshire
Wakefield is in the middle of West Yorkshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Wakefield
What is the average house price in Wakefield?
The median home in Wakefield sold for £227,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 3,500 standard sales (£227,750 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £358,000, semi-detached houses £220,000, terraced houses £162,750 and flats and maisonettes £110,000.
Are house prices going up in Wakefield?
The median was £237,000 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£225,000), and £227,750 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Wakefield each year?
960 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 1,401 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Wakefield?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Woodthorpe Grove (WF2, £1,300,000), Hill Top Road (WF2, £999,950) and Woodthorpe Lane (WF2, £750,000).
How much does a new build cost in Wakefield?
New homes sold for a median £304,950 over three years, against £210,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 13% of sales.
Is Wakefield expensive for West Yorkshire?
Wakefield is the 44th most expensive of 91 towns of 2,500 or more in West Yorkshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Photo: Tim Green from Bradford · CC BY 2.0