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Horsforth market report LS18, Leeds
The standing LS18 (Horsforth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 12,321 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LS18 (Leeds) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in LS18 (Leeds) sold for £300,000 in 2026, the median of 134 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £336,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,650 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 12,321 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district LS18 covering Horsforth sits in Leeds. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where LS18 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 LS18 homes really sell for
Take the 134 registered 2026 sales in LS18 and the middle price, the median, is £300,000. The mean lands at £336,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
LS18 prices by floor area
A square metre of LS18 home has cost about £3,650 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LS18 trades 5% above the country as a whole.
A typical LS18 home, priced year by year (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 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 134 |
| 2025 | £307,000 | £314,341 | 387 |
| 2024 | £317,200 | £337,249 | 376 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 308 |
| 2022 | £312,000 | £365,856 | 325 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 527 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 376 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 450 |
| 2018 | £264,100 | £352,050 | 466 |
| 2017 | £255,000 | £347,794 | 425 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 409 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 426 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 445 |
| 2013 | £181,200 | £260,729 | 364 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 261 |
| 2011 | £179,000 | £270,221 | 241 |
| 2010 | £187,200 | £293,578 | 282 |
| 2009 | £170,400 | £273,919 | 288 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 203 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 503 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 581 |
| 2005 | £156,500 | £278,507 | 399 |
| 2004 | £157,200 | £285,506 | 474 |
| 2003 | £134,000 | £246,860 | 443 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 451 |
| 2001 | £97,500 | £187,439 | 415 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 433 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 447 |
| 1998 | £67,500 | £136,254 | 430 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 384 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 337 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 331 |
In cash terms the typical LS18 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 130%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LS18 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 2001 (+21.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LS18 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £525,000 against £167,500 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, LS18
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 | £525,000 | 21 | 2,288 |
| Semi-detached | £332,000 | 47 | 4,825 |
| Terraced | £265,100 | 50 | 3,835 |
| Flats | £167,500 | 16 | 1,373 |
Sales activity in LS18
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.
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.
The register shows 303 LS18 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 462 sales a year before the financial crisis and 306 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 LS18
For renting purposes LS18 sits in Leeds. The ONS average private rent there is £1,134 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £774 a month here against £1,677 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Leeds
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,134 a month is £13,608 a year, which against the £300,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.
Reading the LS18 market
Among the 29 measurable districts of its area, LS18 ranks 8 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What people ask about LS18 (Horsforth)
How much did a house sell for in LS18 (Horsforth)?
Are property prices falling in LS18 (Horsforth)?
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Where do LS18 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
LS18's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in LS18 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 40 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the LS18 median sold price.
18% 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.
- Woodville Crescent, Horsforth, Leeds, Leeds
- Woodville Avenue, Horsforth, LS18
- Springfield Close, Horsforth, Leeds, Leeds
"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 LS18 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.
Moving up a bedroom in LS: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LS area. 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 | — | £298,000 | £425,000 (+43%) | £675,000 (+59%) | £900,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £205,000 | £230,000 (+12%) | £295,000 (+28%) | £431,000 (+46%) | £602,500 (+40%) |
| Terraced | £165,000 | £185,000 (+12%) | £235,000 (+27%) | £328,000 (+40%) | £440,000 (+34%) |
| Flat | £135,000 | £187,500 (+39%) | £300,000 (+60%) | £475,000 (+58%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
LS18 ranks 23 of 29 in the LS 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.
LS area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LS18, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LS18 4 | £300,000 | 76 |
| LS18 5 | £290,000 | 58 |
How LS18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LS23 | £425,000 | +23% |
| LS22 | £419,500 | +5% |
| LS29 | £385,000 | +1% |
| LS17 | £372,500 | +10% |
| LS21 | £345,600 | +28% |
| LS16 | £327,500 | +4% |
| LS7 | £305,000 | +30% |
| LS18 (this report) | £300,000 | +3% |
| LS20 | £300,000 | -2% |
| LS24 | £290,000 | +12% |
| LS8 | £280,000 | +12% |
| LS6 | £265,000 | +7% |
| LS25 | £264,000 | +12% |
| LS15 | £263,500 | +12% |
| LS3 | £250,000 | +56% |
| LS19 | £245,000 | +0% |
| LS26 | £245,000 | +11% |
| LS5 | £240,000 | +23% |
| LS28 | £235,000 | +12% |
| LS14 | £230,000 | +24% |
| LS4 | £222,500 | +20% |
| LS27 | £208,500 | +1% |
| LS10 | £197,500 | +26% |
| LS13 | £195,000 | +22% |
Before you sell in LS18: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LS18, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LS18's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LS18 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LS18.
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The live map plots every individual LS18 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.