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Bedale market report DL8, Leyburn
The DL8 (Bedale) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 10,579 registered sales in DL8 (Leyburn) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical DL8 (Leyburn) home changed hands for £290,000 in 2026 (median of 117 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £331,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,150 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 10,579 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DL8 is the postcode district covering Leyburn, Bedale in Leyburn. 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 DL8 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 DL8 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for DL8 is £290,000, taken from 117 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £331,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
DL8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, DL8 homes have averaged around £3,150 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DL8 trades 2% above the country as a whole.
DL8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 117 |
| 2025 | £287,500 | £294,375 | 330 |
| 2024 | £307,500 | £326,936 | 325 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 311 |
| 2022 | £312,500 | £366,442 | 341 |
| 2021 | £282,500 | £357,681 | 418 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 318 |
| 2019 | £246,000 | £322,447 | 297 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 323 |
| 2017 | £237,800 | £324,335 | 340 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 332 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 344 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 337 |
| 2013 | £205,000 | £294,975 | 265 |
| 2012 | £212,500 | £312,773 | 225 |
| 2011 | £204,000 | £307,962 | 233 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 261 |
| 2009 | £201,000 | £323,109 | 231 |
| 2008 | £238,000 | £390,132 | 229 |
| 2007 | £236,800 | £401,679 | 334 |
| 2006 | £213,100 | £369,914 | 400 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 339 |
| 2004 | £192,500 | £349,618 | 373 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 433 |
| 2002 | £117,000 | £220,134 | 571 |
| 2001 | £104,800 | £201,473 | 403 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | £168,775 | 401 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 407 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 364 |
| 1997 | £70,500 | £144,581 | 357 |
| 1996 | £67,200 | £141,722 | 345 |
| 1995 | £66,500 | £144,561 | 275 |
In cash terms the typical DL8 home went from £66,500 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 101%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 28% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DL8 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 2004 (+28.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £395,000 against £90,000 for a flat, 4.4 times the price.
Median by property type, DL8
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 | £395,000 | 51 | 4,747 |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | 35 | 3,174 |
| Terraced | £245,500 | 25 | 2,219 |
| Flats | £90,000 | 6 | 431 |
What DL8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.9% | −1.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in DL8
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
DL8 recorded 260 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 407 sales a year before the financial crisis and 285 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market DL8 is
DL8 sits 2 of 17 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What tenants pay around DL8
For renting purposes DL8 sits in North Yorkshire. The ONS average private rent there is £833 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £582 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,333, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, North Yorkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £290,000 median sold price, £833 a month is £9,996 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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.
What people ask about DL8 (Bedale)
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What happens to DL8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
DL8's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DL8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 133 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 55% above the DL8 median sold price.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every DL8 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in DL
Real sold prices by size across the DL area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £205,000 | £282,250 (+38%) | £444,995 (+58%) | £625,000 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £147,250 | £147,000 (0%) | £185,000 (+26%) | £282,000 (+52%) | £380,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £104,750 | £92,999 (-11%) | £112,749 (+21%) | £180,000 (+60%) | £317,000 (+76%) |
| Flat | £85,000 | £118,000 (+39%) | £205,000 (+74%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DL8 ranks 14 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside DL8, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL8 1 | £260,000 | 36 |
| DL8 2 | £290,500 | 18 |
| DL8 3 | £420,000 | 14 |
| DL8 4 | £320,000 | 25 |
| DL8 5 | £285,000 | 24 |
How DL8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DL11 | £342,500 | +9% |
| DL8 (this report) | £290,000 | +3% |
| DL10 | £260,000 | +16% |
| DL7 | £255,000 | +6% |
| DL2 | £251,200 | +9% |
| DL6 | £245,000 | +2% |
| DL12 | £214,000 | -3% |
| DL5 | £180,000 | +14% |
| DL3 | £173,000 | +5% |
| DL9 | £156,600 | +5% |
| DL13 | £147,500 | +5% |
| DL1 | £142,500 | +16% |
| DL16 | £138,000 | +0% |
| DL14 | £126,000 | +15% |
| DL15 | £118,400 | +6% |
| DL17 | £105,000 | +17% |
| DL4 | £85,000 | +37% |
Before you sell in DL8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DL8'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DL8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DL8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DL8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.