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Centre market report HU1, Hull
The HU1 (Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,126 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in HU1 (Hull) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to June 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for HU1 (Hull) is £95,000, from 15 registered sales, down 26% on five years earlier; the mean is £118,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,290 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,126 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
HU1 is the postcode district covering Hull, Centre, Old Town in Hull. 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 HU1 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 HU1
Take the 15 registered 2026 sales in HU1 and the middle price, the median, is £95,000. The mean lands at £118,000, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in HU1
The last five years of sales put HU1 at roughly £2,290 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts HU1 67% below the country at large.
HU1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £95,000 | £95,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £141,500 | £144,884 | 53 |
| 2024 | £123,500 | £131,306 | 46 |
| 2023 | £106,800 | £117,347 | 94 |
| 2022 | £137,500 | £161,234 | 88 |
| 2021 | £129,000 | £163,331 | 98 |
| 2020 | £100,000 | £129,752 | 91 |
| 2019 | £128,200 | £168,040 | 106 |
| 2018 | £73,500 | £97,977 | 66 |
| 2017 | £115,500 | £157,530 | 44 |
| 2016 | £97,000 | £135,704 | 45 |
| 2015 | £95,600 | £135,083 | 62 |
| 2014 | £94,500 | £134,065 | 35 |
| 2013 | £86,000 | £123,745 | 19 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 23 |
| 2011 | £98,500 | £148,697 | 40 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 32 |
| 2009 | £108,500 | £174,415 | 44 |
| 2008 | £116,200 | £190,476 | 80 |
| 2007 | £106,500 | £180,654 | 107 |
| 2006 | £102,500 | £177,927 | 115 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 101 |
| 2004 | £88,500 | £160,733 | 192 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 115 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 100 |
| 2001 | £43,100 | £82,858 | 58 |
| 2000 | £39,800 | £78,108 | 40 |
| 1999 | £36,000 | £71,746 | 41 |
| 1998 | £34,500 | £69,641 | 47 |
| 1997 | £37,000 | £75,880 | 50 |
| 1996 | £37,500 | £79,086 | 44 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 35 |
In cash terms the typical HU1 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £95,000 in 2026, roughly 3.0 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 37%, 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 50% 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 HU1 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 2019 (+74.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−36.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −32.9% | −34.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.9% | −10.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.2% | −3.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.4% | −3.1% |
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 flats dominate the record here, 86% of the typed total. In 2006, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £200,000 against £102,500 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, HU1
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 | £200,000 (2006) | – | 5 |
| Semi-detached | £128,000 (2005) | – | 17 |
| Terraced | £231,500 (2025) | – | 270 |
| Flats | £90,000 | 13 | 1,744 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 39 sales completed in HU1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 104 sales a year before the financial crisis and 59 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 tenants pay around HU1
For renting purposes HU1 sits in Kingston upon Hull, City of. The ONS average private rent there is £690 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £497 a month here against £980 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Kingston upon Hull, City of
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £95,000 median purchase price, a rent of £690 a month (£8,280 a year) works out at a 8.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How HU1 trades
This is a thin market: 39 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Among the 20 measurable districts of its area, HU1 ranks 19 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What people ask about HU1 (Centre)
How much did a house sell for in HU1 (Centre)?
Are property prices falling in HU1 (Centre)?
Is HU1 (Centre) a good place to buy a house?
Are HU1 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 26% over five years in cash but down 42% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in HU1 now
Everything above is what homes in HU1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 24 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 16% above the HU1 median sold price.
35% 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.
"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 HU1 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: HU prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the HU area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £232,000 | £320,000 (+38%) | £450,000 (+41%) | £630,000 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £145,000 | £175,000 (+21%) | £210,000 (+20%) | £291,000 (+39%) | £400,000 (+37%) |
| Terraced | £115,000 | £126,500 (+10%) | £146,500 (+16%) | £195,000 (+33%) | £267,000 (+37%) |
| Flat | £88,000 | £125,000 (+42%) | £196,500 (+57%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
HU1 ranks 20 of 20 in the HU 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.
HU area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside HU1, 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.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HU1 1 | £89,000 | 6 |
| HU1 2 | £80,000 | 3 |
| HU1 3 | £98,000 | 6 |
How HU1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the HU area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| HU20 | £363,800 | +67% |
| HU14 | £321,200 | -6% |
| HU10 | £255,000 | -4% |
| HU17 | £245,000 | +2% |
| HU16 | £240,000 | +7% |
| HU15 | £215,000 | -2% |
| HU18 | £197,500 | +3% |
| HU12 | £190,000 | +15% |
| HU13 | £190,000 | -3% |
| HU11 | £177,500 | +4% |
| HU7 | £160,000 | +0% |
| HU4 | £155,800 | +7% |
| HU6 | £152,500 | +23% |
| HU8 | £145,000 | +7% |
| HU19 | £138,500 | +10% |
| HU5 | £130,000 | +8% |
| HU9 | £125,000 | +12% |
| HU3 | £116,200 | +11% |
| HU1 (this report) | £95,000 | -26% |
| HU2 | £93,800 | +5% |
Before you sell in HU1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HU1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HU1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HU1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working HU1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HU1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HU1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HU1 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.