That is the middle of 98 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 5.6 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.
98 homes sold in three years: 38 detached houses, 40 semi-detached houses, 14 terraced houses and 6 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£378K
median sale · 38 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£440K
Last 12 months
£375K19 sold
Semi-detached houses£247K
median sale · 40 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£215K–£305K
Last 12 months
£256K10 sold
Terraced houses£215K
median sale · 14 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£170K–£308K
Last 12 months
£175K7 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 6 sold, median £108K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 41% of sales
Detached houses39%
Semi-detached houses41%
Terraced houses14%
Flats and maisonettes6%
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 Walton’s homes sold for between £219K and £380K
One sale in ten was under £152K and one in ten over £470K. 37% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £282,500, sits in the £250–300K band
98 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.6 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £54,250 in 1995 to £302,500 in the last 12 months (£215,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
38 sales in the last 12 months, against 93 in 2021, the busiest year, and 20 in 2008. Sales fell by 54% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 66% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Walton costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Walton, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£89K
£121K
£242K
£274K
£303K
£315K
£375K
Semi-detached houses
£47K
£62K
£146K
£130K
£150K
£204K
£256K
Terraced houses
£44K
£47K
£145K
£190K
£180K
£155K
£175K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 41% in 2019
132 new homes have been sold in Walton since 1995; the share peaked at 41% in 2019.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 7.6% sold leasehold in Walton. 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
Oakenshaw Lane is Walton’s busiest street, with 12 sales in three years
4 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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
Oakenshaw Lane
WF2
12
£332,500
Mixed
2
School Lane
WF2
10
£338,750
Mostly detached houses
3
Manor Rise
WF2
5
£259,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
The Grove
WF2
5
£87,500
Mostly 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
Walton is the 13th most expensive of 91 towns in West Yorkshire
Walton is one of West Yorkshire’s dearest 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 Walton
What is the average house price in Walton?
The median home in Walton sold for £282,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 98 standard sales (£302,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £377,500, semi-detached houses £247,250, terraced houses £215,000 and flats and maisonettes £107,500.
Are house prices going up in Walton?
The median was £325,000 in 2025, up 35% on 2024 (£240,000), and £302,500 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 Walton each year?
38 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 54 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Walton expensive for West Yorkshire?
Walton is the 13th 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.