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Arthington market report LS21 2, Otley
The LS21 2 (Arthington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,920 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LS21 2 (Otley) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical LS21 2 (Otley) home changed hands for £400,000 in 2026 (median of 27 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier), with the mean at £481,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,530 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,920 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like LS21 2 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 2 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 a home in LS21 2 sells for
27 sales were registered in LS21 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £400,000. The mean works out at £481,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
LS21 2 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put LS21 2 at roughly £3,530 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LS21 2 sits 40% above the national market.
A typical LS21 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £400,000 | £400,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 77 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 82 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 62 |
| 2022 | £307,500 | £360,579 | 76 |
| 2021 | £324,000 | £410,226 | 101 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 110 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 99 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 87 |
| 2017 | £233,500 | £318,471 | 109 |
| 2016 | £245,000 | £342,757 | 121 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 117 |
| 2014 | £198,000 | £280,898 | 115 |
| 2013 | £173,200 | £249,218 | 82 |
| 2012 | £178,500 | £262,730 | 74 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 71 |
| 2010 | £207,500 | £325,413 | 76 |
| 2009 | £169,600 | £272,633 | 73 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 60 |
| 2007 | £174,000 | £295,152 | 106 |
| 2006 | £159,000 | £276,004 | 111 |
| 2005 | £167,000 | £297,193 | 91 |
| 2004 | £171,000 | £310,569 | 95 |
| 2003 | £152,000 | £280,021 | 127 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 110 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 97 |
| 2000 | £82,200 | £161,318 | 111 |
| 1999 | £73,000 | £145,485 | 99 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 87 |
| 1997 | £70,200 | £143,966 | 101 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 82 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical LS21 2 home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £400,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 181%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 4% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LS21 2 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 2003 (+78.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−21.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LS21 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +11.1% | +8.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 27 LS21 2 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 106 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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 shape of the LS21 2 market
This is a thin market: 27 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. Against the LS21 district median, LS21 2 sits 16% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around LS21 2
The local authority for LS21 2 is North Yorkshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £833 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £400,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.5%. 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.
Common questions on LS21 2 (Arthington)
Is LS21 2 (Arthington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LS21 2 (Arthington)?
Are property prices falling in LS21 2 (Arthington)?
Will LS21 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 23% over five years in cash and flat 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.
LS21's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 82 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LS21 district, not just LS21 2: 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.
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 LS21 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: 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.
LS area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in LS21
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are LS21's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LS21 1 | £355,000 | 34 |
| 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 2? 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 2'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 2.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual LS21 2 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.
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.