WF1 4TL

Last sold £63,500 in July 1998

57, Forest Close, Wakefield

Property type: Detached
Tenure: Freehold

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Price history in context

Date	Price	Change	Base rate at sale	Position
Today	Show me today's estimate
July 1998	£63,500		7.5%

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Jul 1998 — £63,500

paid below the local norm at the time

vs 56 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km

The life around it

Outwood Academy City Fields 616m
Ivy Lane School 559m
Wakefield Kirkgate station 1.8km
Woodland 4.9km
The coast (coastline) 23.9km
Stanley Ferry Flash 713m
Pond 360m
Canal 784m
River Calder 1.2km
Public Park 406m
Play Area 236m
Stars Mini Market 1.1km
Harewood Rd Halton Road 181m

Broadband

Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises

Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data

Commute by train

From Wakefield Kirkgate, 1.9km away

17 min Leeds
40 min Sheffield
63 min Manchester
95 min Nottingham

Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.

Schools nearby

1 Ivy Lane School 0.3 miles State
2 Outwood Academy City Fields · Secondary 0.4 miles State Ofsted Good Attainment 8: 38.6 (2023)
3 Meadowcroft School 0.5 miles State Attainment 8: 2.6 (2023)
4 Outwood Primary Academy Park Hill · Primary 0.5 miles State Ofsted Good
5 Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) School · Primary 0.6 miles State
6 Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill · Primary 0.7 miles State
7 St Austin's Catholic Primary School · Primary · Roman Catholic 0.7 miles State
8 Stanley Grove Primary and Nursery Academy · Primary 0.9 miles State
9 Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School · Primary · Church of England 1.0 miles State
10 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School · Boys 1.0 miles Independent

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Crime

Above average for England & Wales — 90 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data

Map

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Nearby sold homes

49, Forest Close, Wakefield £49,100 · 1995
61, Forest Close, Wakefield £46,000 · 1995
1, Forest Close, Wakefield £54,000 · 1998
3, Forest Close, Wakefield £54,000 · 1998
8, Forest Close, Wakefield £75,000 · 1999
20, Forest Close, Wakefield £81,215 · 2000

Planning activity nearby

Permitted Two storey extension to rear Jun 2026 source
Permitted Single storey rear extension. May 2026 source
Permitted Single storey extension to rear Jan 2026 source
Permitted Proposed two-storey extension to front Mar 2026 source
Permitted Non-material change to approved application ref: 25/02390/FUL dated 03/03/2026 (Proposed… Jun 2026 source

Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.

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