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Romanby market report DL7, Northallerton
The standing DL7 (Romanby) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,043 HM Land Registry entries for DL7 (Northallerton), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 95 registered 2026 sales put the DL7 (Northallerton) median at £255,000, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £280,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,790 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,043 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DL7 is the postcode district covering Northallerton (west), Romanby, Leeming Bar in Northallerton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where DL7 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What DL7 homes really sell for
Take the 95 registered 2026 sales in DL7 and the middle price, the median, is £255,000. The mean lands at £280,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in DL7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DL7 costs about £2,790 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DL7 11% below the national figure.
DL7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 95 |
| 2025 | £249,800 | £255,773 | 232 |
| 2024 | £248,000 | £263,675 | 219 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 212 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 216 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 299 |
| 2020 | £226,000 | £293,240 | 165 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 243 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 260 |
| 2017 | £217,500 | £296,648 | 305 |
| 2016 | £203,500 | £284,699 | 276 |
| 2015 | £215,500 | £304,502 | 292 |
| 2014 | £188,000 | £266,711 | 259 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 235 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 168 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 146 |
| 2010 | £187,000 | £293,264 | 171 |
| 2009 | £166,100 | £267,007 | 178 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 193 |
| 2007 | £194,000 | £329,078 | 293 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 320 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 248 |
| 2004 | £172,500 | £313,294 | 286 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 258 |
| 2002 | £112,400 | £211,480 | 350 |
| 2001 | £87,500 | £168,214 | 361 |
| 2000 | £82,300 | £161,514 | 319 |
| 1999 | £68,200 | £135,919 | 290 |
| 1998 | £67,500 | £136,254 | 312 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 289 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 297 |
| 1995 | £57,800 | £125,648 | 256 |
In cash terms the typical DL7 home went from £57,800 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 103%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2005, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2005 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DL7 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+28.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.0% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £348,800 against £120,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, DL7
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £348,800 | 29 | 3,194 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 37 | 2,598 |
| Terraced | £227,500 | 23 | 1,657 |
| Flats | £120,000 | 6 | 594 |
Sales activity in DL7
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
DL7 recorded 180 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 304 sales a year before the financial crisis and 195 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around DL7
The local authority for DL7 is North Yorkshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £833 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £582 a month here against £1,333 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, North Yorkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £255,000 median sold price, £833 a month is £9,996 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the DL7 market
Among the 17 measurable districts of its area, DL7 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Asked and answered: DL7 (Romanby)
How much did a house sell for in DL7 (Romanby)?
Are property prices falling in DL7 (Romanby)?
Is DL7 (Romanby) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to DL7 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
DL7's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DL7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 48 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% below the DL7 median sold price.
DL7 registered 180 sales in the last twelve months; the 48 homes listed now would take about 3 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
13% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every DL7 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
DL7: the homes on offer and the homes that go
Sellers of flats in DL7 have company: 47% of current listings against 11% of recent sales. When a type is offered faster than it sells, the buyer usually holds the better hand.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 40% | 37% |
| Semi-detached | 13% | 33% |
| Terraced | 0% | 19% |
| Flats | 47% | 11% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares.
Month by month: when DL7 sells
Across the 1,178 sales completed in DL7 from 2021 to 2025, September was the busiest month for completions (11.2% of the total) and January the quietest (6.0%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 71 | 6.0% |
| February | 75 | 6.4% |
| March | 112 | 9.5% |
| April | 74 | 6.3% |
| May | 112 | 9.5% |
| June | 121 | 10.3% |
| July | 92 | 7.8% |
| August | 113 | 9.6% |
| September | 132 | 11.2% |
| October | 99 | 8.4% |
| November | 85 | 7.2% |
| December | 92 | 7.8% |
Bedroom by bedroom: DL prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DL area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £182,250 | £201,997 (+11%) | £233,000 (+15%) | £298,000 (+28%) | £375,000 (+26%) |
| Semi-detached | £145,000 | £145,000 (0%) | £161,000 (+11%) | £205,000 (+27%) | £275,000 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £104,250 | £91,000 (-13%) | £103,999 (+14%) | £145,000 (+39%) | £240,000 (+66%) |
| Flat | £75,000 | £108,125 (+44%) | £182,500 (+69%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
DL7 ranks 11 of 17 in the DL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, DL area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside DL7, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How DL7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DL11 | £340,000 | +8% |
| DL8 | £289,000 | +2% |
| DL7 (this report) | £255,000 | +6% |
| DL2 | £252,500 | +10% |
| DL10 | £250,800 | +11% |
| DL6 | £243,800 | +2% |
| DL12 | £214,500 | -2% |
| DL5 | £174,000 | +10% |
| DL3 | £173,000 | +5% |
| DL9 | £160,000 | +7% |
| DL13 | £145,000 | +4% |
| DL16 | £145,000 | +5% |
| DL1 | £142,500 | +16% |
| DL14 | £125,500 | +14% |
| DL15 | £120,000 | +7% |
| DL17 | £105,000 | +17% |
| DL4 | £86,500 | +39% |
Selling a home in DL7? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DL7's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DL7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DL7 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.