# 1 bedroom apartment for sale (WF5 8BT)

## Property Details

| Key | Value |
|-----|-------|
| Address | 2, WHITAKER GRANGE, NEW STREET, OSSETT, WEST YORKSHIRE WF5 8BT |
| Price | £249,999 |
| Bedrooms | 1 |
| Bathrooms | 1 |
| Council tax | C |
| Last sold | £189,000 Sep 2023 |

## Description

A beautifully presented one bedroom, ground floor retirement apartment that is situated close to the restaurant that serves hot meals daily. This open plan apartment benefits from a peaceful patio area overlooking the communal grounds.

**Summary** - Our development of retirement properties in Ossett is only a couple of minutes from the town's centre, where you'll find a range of shops, boutiques and restaurants that are the perfect place to spend an afternoon. Elsewhere in the town centre, you'll find a range of banks, a couple of supermarkets, a pharmacy and a medical practice. If you fancy a tipple, then Ossett is also home to two breweries. 

Exclusively for the over 70s, Whitaker Grange offers apartments designed to make life easier, with the reassurance that staff are on-site 24 hours a day. With a range of domestic and support services on hand when you need it, and a bistro style restaurant serving hot or cold lunches every day, this really is life made easy. 

There's no need to worry about being weighed down by maintenance costs either as the service charge covers the cost of external maintenance, gardening and landscaping, window cleaning, buildings insurance, water rates, security and energy costs of the laundry, homeowners lounge with kitchen facilities and other communal areas.

**Entrance Hallway** - Front door with spy hole leads to the large entrance hall - the 24-hour Tunstall emergency response pull cord system is situated in the hall. From the hallway there are doors leading to the lounge, bedroom, shower room and also the walk-in storage cupboard/airing cupboard. Illuminated light switches, smoke detector, apartment security door entry system with intercom and emergency pull cord located in the hall.

**Lounge** - A bright spacious open plan lounge with the benefit of French doors opening onto a beautiful and peaceful patio area, with some space for outdoors furniture. TV and telephone points, two ceiling lights, fitted carpets and raised electric power sockets. Partially glazed door leads onto the kitchen.

**Kitchen** - Stylish fitted kitchen with a range of modern cream low and eye level units and drawers with a roll top work surface. Stainless steel sink with mono lever tap, drainer and splash back. UPVC double glazed window. Built-in oven, ceramic hob with extractor hood and fitted integrated fridge, freezer and under pelmet lighting.

**Bedroom** - A good sized double bedroom with a door leading to a walk-in wardrobe housing shelving and hanging rails, with a South Easterly facing aspect the bedroom window allows in plenty of light.  Ceiling light, TV phone point, fitted carpets and raised electric power sockets.

**Shower Room** - Fully tiled and fitted with modern suite comprising of a walk-in shower, low level WC, vanity unit with sink and mirror above, heater and emergency pull cord for assistance. Chrome heated towel rail.

**Car Parking** - Please contact resales for availably.

**Service Charge** - • Cleaning of communal windows 

• Water rates for communal areas and apartments

• Electricity, heating, lighting and power to communal areas

• 24-hour emergency call system

• Upkeep of gardens and grounds

• Repairs and maintenance to the interior and exterior communal areas

• Contingency fund including internal and external redecoration of communal areas

• Buildings insurance

The annual service charge is £11,198.72 for financial year ending 28/02/2027.  

The service charge does not cover external costs such as your Council Tax, electricity or TV. To find out more about service charges please contact your Property Consultant or House Manager.

**Leasehold Information** - Lease: 999 years from 01/01/2023

Managed by: Your Life Management Services

It is a condition of the purchase that the resident is of the age of 70 or over.

**Additional Information & Services** - • Ultrafast Full Fibre Broadband available

• Mains water and electricity

• Electric room heating

• Mains drainage

## Property Photos

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## Floorplans

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## EPC Graphs

- ![EE Rating](/listings/photos/167471249/201064) - EE Rating

## Sales History

*Recorded sales for this property. Data from Land Registry Price Paid.*

| Address | Price | Date | Type |
|---------|-------|------|------|
| WHITAKER GRANGE 2 NEW STREET, OSSETT, WAKEFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF5 8BT | £189,000 | 13/09/2023 | Flat |

## Sold Comparables

*Same street and nearby sales within 0.25 miles. Data from Land Registry Price Paid. Last 5 years.*

| Address | Price | Date | Type |
|---------|-------|------|------|
| PROSPECT PLACE APARTMENT 21 NEW STREET, OSSETT, WAKEFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF5 8BP | £117,000 | 19/10/2022 | Flat |
| PROSPECT PLACE APARTMENT 14 NEW STREET, OSSETT, WAKEFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF5 8BP | £170,000 | 25/07/2022 | Flat |
| PROSPECT PLACE APARTMENT 15 NEW STREET, OSSETT, WAKEFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF5 8BP | £175,000 | 06/12/2021 | Flat |
| PROSPECT PLACE APARTMENT 13 NEW STREET, OSSETT, WAKEFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF5 8BP | £145,000 | 30/09/2021 | Flat |

**Area average:** £151,750 (4 sales)

## Price vs local average

*Outcode + property type (HousePrices, last 2 years).*

- **Local average:** £132,500 (3 Flat, WF5, 2024–2026)
- **Deviation:** +88.7%

## Rental Range

*ONS Price Index of Private Rents (Yorkshire and The Humber). Low / Realistic / Optimistic = conservative / average / best case.*

- **Low:** £770/mo
- **Realistic:** £855/mo
- **Optimistic:** £941/mo

## LHA (Local Housing Allowance)

*VOA 30th percentile rent floor for Leeds (Apr 2025 – Mar 2026).*

- **LHA floor (this property size):** £673/mo

## Rental Comparables

*Residential lets from OpenRent and Rightmove for the area (same bedroom count). Use to validate rent estimates. Student lets are excluded.*

| Title | Rent | Beds | Distance | As seen on |
|------|------|------|------|------|
| 1 Bed Flat, Thompsons Yard, WF5 | £550/mo | 1 | 0.05 miles | OpenRent |
| 1 Bed Flat, Blue Butts, WF5 | £675/mo | 1 | 0.34 miles | OpenRent |
| 1 Bed Terraced House, Fairfield Terrace, WF5 | £750/mo | 1 | 0.42 miles | OpenRent |
| 1 Bed Flat, Millfields, WF5 | £545/mo | 1 | 0.42 miles | OpenRent |
| 1 Bed Flat, Woodhead Close, WF5 | £650/mo | 1 | 0.47 miles | OpenRent |
| 1 Bed Flat, Clifford Court, WF5 | £559/mo | 1 | 0.57 miles | OpenRent |
| 1 Bed Flat, Horbury Road, WF5 | £700/mo | 1 | 0.63 miles | OpenRent |

**Average rent: £633/mo (7 listings)**

## 1% Rule

- **Rent ratio:** 0.26% (weak for cashflow)
- **Max investor price (0.8%):** £81,250
- **Target investor price (1%):** £65,000

*Monthly rent ÷ price. 1%+ = strong, 0.8–1% = okay, <0.8% = weak. Max investor price = rent ÷ 0.8% (Stoke-style target). Target investor price = rent ÷ 1% (strong cashflow band). Based on OpenRent comparables.*

## Rent-driven metrics

*Based on OpenRent comparables (median £650/mo).*

- **Gross yield:** 3.1%
- **Cost-to-rent:** 32.1×
- **Monthly cashflow:** £-425/mo (75% LTV, 3.95% APR (5yr fixed), 25yr term)
- **Cash-on-cash ROI:** -7%

*Gross yield = annual rent as % of price (no costs). Cost-to-rent = price ÷ annual rent (from OpenRent comparables); under 14× = strong, 14–16× = acceptable, 17×+ = compressed. Cashflow = rent − mortgage − 10% maintenance − £25/mo compliance; assumes 75% LTV, 3.95% APR (5yr fixed), 25yr term. ROI = annual profit ÷ cash in (deposit + 4% purchase costs).*

## Capital growth trend

*Land Registry outcode average from sold prices: last 12 months vs 5y and 10y ago.*

- **5y growth:** 29.1%
- **10y growth:** 47.4%

## House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

*Official index for Yorkshire and The Humber; Flats and maisonettes series; as of March 2026.*

- **1y growth (index):** -7.3%
- **5y growth (index):** 5.9%
- **10y growth (index):** 32.5%

## Flood risk

- **Zone:** 1
- **Risk:** Low
- **Source:** Job (default Low)

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