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Arthington market report LS21 1, Otley
The LS21 1 (Arthington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,530 HM Land Registry entries for LS21 1 (Otley), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 34 registered 2026 sales put the LS21 1 (Otley) median at £355,000, up 37% on five years earlier, with a mean of £382,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,290 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,530 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like LS21 1 is a single group of streets within LS21 (Otley), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LS21 1 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 LS21 1 homes really sell for
Across 34 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LS21 1 home went for £355,000. The mean is £382,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in LS21 1
By floor space, homes in LS21 1 have sold for about £3,290 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LS21 1 runs 25% above it.
The price of a typical LS21 1 home, 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 | £355,000 | £355,000 | 34 |
| 2025 | £289,000 | £295,911 | 108 |
| 2024 | £281,500 | £299,292 | 122 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 102 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 109 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 147 |
| 2020 | £241,000 | £312,702 | 111 |
| 2019 | £237,500 | £311,306 | 141 |
| 2018 | £204,000 | £271,936 | 141 |
| 2017 | £238,700 | £325,563 | 196 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 201 |
| 2015 | £223,000 | £315,099 | 153 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 145 |
| 2013 | £173,800 | £250,081 | 122 |
| 2012 | £178,200 | £262,288 | 88 |
| 2011 | £167,500 | £252,861 | 110 |
| 2010 | £174,000 | £272,877 | 91 |
| 2009 | £156,500 | £251,575 | 78 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 75 |
| 2007 | £182,000 | £308,723 | 189 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 231 |
| 2005 | £178,000 | £316,768 | 145 |
| 2004 | £151,000 | £274,246 | 153 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 229 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 176 |
| 2001 | £87,000 | £167,253 | 221 |
| 2000 | £74,500 | £146,206 | 139 |
| 1999 | £72,800 | £145,087 | 160 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 159 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 161 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 157 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical LS21 1 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £355,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 184%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the LS21 1 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 (+37.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−14.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LS21 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +22.8% | +20.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.4% | +1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in LS21 1
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 34 sales completed in LS21 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 95 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.
The rental side of LS21 1
LS21 1 falls under Leeds, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,134 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £355,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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.
The shape of the LS21 1 market
Only 34 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LS21 1 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.
Searches that land here, answered
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, LS21 1PY among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
What people ask about LS21 1 (Arthington)
Are property prices falling in LS21 1 (Arthington)?
Is LS21 1 (Arthington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LS21 1 (Arthington)?
Are LS21 1 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 37% over five years in cash and up 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in LS21 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 82 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LS21 district, not just LS21 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 LS21 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: LS prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LS area, 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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
The spread across the LS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, LS area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LS21
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LS21, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LS21 2 | £400,000 | 27 |
| LS21 3 | £295,000 | 21 |
Zoom out to the full LS21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LS21 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LS21 1? 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 LS21 1'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 LS21 1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LS21 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LS21 1 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.