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Arthington market report LS21 3, Otley
The standing LS21 3 (Arthington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,721 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LS21 3 (Otley) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical LS21 3 (Otley) home changed hands for £295,000 in 2026 (median of 21 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier), with the mean at £329,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,440 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,721 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
LS21 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LS21 (Otley). 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 LS21 3 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.
Today's LS21 3 prices, from the sold record
In the LS21 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £295,000, from 21 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £329,300, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
LS21 3 prices by floor area
A square metre of LS21 3 home has cost about £3,440 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LS21 3 4% above the national figure.
The price of a typical LS21 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £291,200 | £298,163 | 68 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 79 |
| 2023 | £259,600 | £285,237 | 78 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 73 |
| 2021 | £251,500 | £318,431 | 92 |
| 2020 | £243,000 | £315,298 | 78 |
| 2019 | £233,000 | £305,407 | 85 |
| 2018 | £214,500 | £285,933 | 78 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 90 |
| 2016 | £231,000 | £323,171 | 65 |
| 2015 | £187,500 | £264,938 | 66 |
| 2014 | £179,000 | £253,943 | 84 |
| 2013 | £175,800 | £252,959 | 108 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 55 |
| 2011 | £154,200 | £232,783 | 66 |
| 2010 | £152,000 | £238,375 | 54 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 58 |
| 2008 | £162,500 | £266,372 | 43 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 103 |
| 2006 | £172,200 | £298,917 | 94 |
| 2005 | £171,500 | £305,201 | 85 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 99 |
| 2003 | £125,200 | £230,649 | 122 |
| 2002 | £104,000 | £195,675 | 126 |
| 2001 | £87,000 | £167,253 | 113 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 114 |
| 1999 | £75,500 | £150,468 | 118 |
| 1998 | £62,700 | £126,564 | 92 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 118 |
| 1996 | £54,200 | £114,305 | 129 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 67 |
In cash terms the typical LS21 3 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 147%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LS21 3 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 2004 (+23.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.1%). 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) | +1.3% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
LS21 3 recorded 21 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 64 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.
What homes rent for around LS21 3
LS21 3 falls under Leeds, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,134 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £774 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,677, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £295,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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 3 market
This is a thin market: 21 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. Against the LS21 district median, LS21 3 sits 15% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
LS21 3 (Arthington): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in LS21 3 (Arthington)?
Are property prices falling in LS21 3 (Arthington)?
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Where do LS21 3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
LS21's current homes for sale
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
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%) | — |
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.
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 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 1 | £355,000 | 34 |
| LS21 2 | £400,000 | 27 |
Zoom out to the full LS21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LS21 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in LS21 3: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LS21 3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LS21 3.
Take it further
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See every individual LS21 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.