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Scotton market report HG5 8, Knaresborough
The standing HG5 8 (Scotton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,861 registered sales in HG5 8 (Knaresborough) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical HG5 8 (Knaresborough) home changed hands for £435,000 in 2026 (median of 33 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £451,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,780 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,861 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
HG5 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside HG5 (Knaresborough). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where HG5 8 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 HG5 8 homes really sell for
33 sales were registered in HG5 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £435,000. The mean works out at £451,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in HG5 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HG5 8 costs about £3,780 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 HG5 8 53% above the national figure.
A typical HG5 8 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 | £435,000 | £435,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £375,000 | £383,967 | 75 |
| 2024 | £398,000 | £423,156 | 77 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 89 |
| 2022 | £395,000 | £463,183 | 103 |
| 2021 | £365,000 | £462,137 | 127 |
| 2020 | £319,000 | £413,909 | 81 |
| 2019 | £322,500 | £422,720 | 86 |
| 2018 | £288,500 | £384,576 | 82 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 93 |
| 2016 | £297,500 | £416,205 | 76 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 83 |
| 2014 | £277,500 | £393,682 | 94 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 66 |
| 2012 | £234,000 | £344,419 | 64 |
| 2011 | £277,600 | £419,069 | 73 |
| 2010 | £249,000 | £390,496 | 61 |
| 2009 | £217,500 | £349,633 | 83 |
| 2008 | £297,500 | £487,665 | 66 |
| 2007 | £257,500 | £436,792 | 116 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 116 |
| 2005 | £235,000 | £418,205 | 105 |
| 2004 | £212,500 | £385,942 | 104 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 104 |
| 2002 | £170,500 | £320,794 | 110 |
| 2001 | £119,800 | £230,309 | 96 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 107 |
| 1999 | £95,800 | £190,924 | 88 |
| 1998 | £89,800 | £181,268 | 82 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 135 |
| 1996 | £78,500 | £165,553 | 117 |
| 1995 | £73,800 | £160,430 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical HG5 8 home went from £73,800 in 1995 to £435,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 171%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HG5 8 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 (+42.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−26.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +16.0% | +13.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in HG5 8
How many homes change hands
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.
HG5 8 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 107 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 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.
The rental side of HG5 8
HG5 8 falls under North Yorkshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £833 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £582 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,333 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £435,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.3%. 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.
What kind of market HG5 8 is
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HG5 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the HG5 district median, HG5 8 sits 24% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on HG5 8 (Scotton)
How much did a house sell for in HG5 8 (Scotton)?
Are property prices falling in HG5 8 (Scotton)?
Is HG5 8 (Scotton) a good place to buy a house?
Where do HG5 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
HG5's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 163 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HG5 district, not just HG5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 40% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Netheredge Drive, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
- Aspin Drive, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
- Bond End, KNARESBOROUGH, Knaresborough
"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 HG5 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: HG prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the HG area, straight 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
Other sectors in HG5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of HG5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HG5 0 | £315,000 | 57 |
| HG5 9 | £421,000 | 17 |
Zoom out to the full HG5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HG5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in HG5 8? 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 HG5 8'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 HG5 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HG5 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HG5 8 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.