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Central market report HG1 4, Harrogate
The standing HG1 4 (Central) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,411 HM Land Registry entries for HG1 4 (Harrogate), 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 91 registered 2026 sales put the HG1 4 (Harrogate) median at £257,500, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £267,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,250 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,411 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like HG1 4 is a single group of streets within HG1 (Harrogate), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where HG1 4 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.
The going rate for a home in HG1 4
91 sales were registered in HG1 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £257,500. The mean works out at £267,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
HG1 4 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of HG1 4 sales average about £3,250 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, HG1 4 runs 10% below it.
A typical HG1 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £257,500 | £257,500 | 91 |
| 2025 | £262,500 | £268,777 | 253 |
| 2024 | £255,000 | £271,117 | 263 |
| 2023 | £262,500 | £288,423 | 267 |
| 2022 | £257,800 | £302,300 | 294 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 375 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 207 |
| 2019 | £218,000 | £285,746 | 250 |
| 2018 | £212,000 | £282,600 | 253 |
| 2017 | £216,000 | £294,602 | 266 |
| 2016 | £202,500 | £283,300 | 281 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 265 |
| 2014 | £174,500 | £247,559 | 278 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 218 |
| 2012 | £166,000 | £244,331 | 213 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 181 |
| 2010 | £159,200 | £249,667 | 200 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 207 |
| 2008 | £162,200 | £265,880 | 176 |
| 2007 | £177,500 | £301,089 | 313 |
| 2006 | £155,200 | £269,407 | 417 |
| 2005 | £143,200 | £254,838 | 318 |
| 2004 | £139,000 | £252,451 | 373 |
| 2003 | £122,000 | £224,754 | 327 |
| 2002 | £98,700 | £185,703 | 346 |
| 2001 | £77,400 | £148,798 | 324 |
| 2000 | £67,000 | £131,488 | 281 |
| 1999 | £57,700 | £114,993 | 248 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 213 |
| 1997 | £47,200 | £96,798 | 305 |
| 1996 | £45,200 | £95,325 | 243 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 165 |
In cash terms the typical HG1 4 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £257,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 158%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HG1 4 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 (+27.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.6%). 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 years (since 2025) | −1.9% | −4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in HG1 4
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 91 sales completed in HG1 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 337 sales a year before the financial crisis and 234 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around HG1 4
For renting purposes HG1 4 sits in North Yorkshire. The ONS average private rent there is £833 a month (May 2026). 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.
£833 a month is £9,996 a year, which against the £257,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
HG1 4 (Central): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in HG1 4 (Central)?
Is HG1 4 (Central) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HG1 4 (Central)?
Are HG1 4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in HG1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 329 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HG1 district, not just HG1 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Kings Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
- Lime Street, Harrogate, Harrogate
- Connaught Court, Harrogate, Harrogate
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 HG1 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: HG prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the HG 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 | — | £325,000 | £469,995 (+45%) | £701,995 (+49%) | £980,000 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £229,475 | £265,000 (+15%) | £335,000 (+26%) | £502,250 (+50%) | £755,000 (+50%) |
| Terraced | £190,000 | £230,000 (+21%) | £277,000 (+20%) | £399,500 (+44%) | £549,950 (+38%) |
| Flat | £136,000 | £220,000 (+62%) | £355,000 (+61%) | £625,000 (+76%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
Other sectors in HG1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are HG1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HG1 1 | £87,500 | 1 |
| HG1 2 | £310,000 | 57 |
| HG1 3 | £275,000 | 47 |
| HG1 5 | £215,000 | 59 |
Zoom out to the full HG1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HG1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in HG1 4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HG1 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the HG1 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HG1 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim HG1 4.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HG1 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HG1 4 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.