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Arthington market report LS21, Otley
The standing LS21 (Arthington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 10,171 HM Land Registry entries for LS21 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for LS21 (Otley) is £345,600, from 82 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier; the mean is £401,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,400 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 10,171 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district LS21 covering Arthington, Otley, Pool sits in Otley. 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 LS21 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 LS21
Across 82 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LS21 home went for £345,600. The mean is £401,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in LS21
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LS21 sales average about £3,400 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LS21 runs 21% above it.
LS21's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £345,600 | £345,600 | 82 |
| 2025 | £307,500 | £314,853 | 253 |
| 2024 | £285,000 | £303,014 | 283 |
| 2023 | £270,000 | £296,664 | 242 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 258 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 340 |
| 2020 | £265,000 | £343,843 | 299 |
| 2019 | £237,000 | £310,650 | 325 |
| 2018 | £215,500 | £287,266 | 306 |
| 2017 | £229,000 | £312,333 | 395 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 387 |
| 2015 | £217,200 | £306,904 | 336 |
| 2014 | £192,200 | £272,669 | 344 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 312 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 217 |
| 2011 | £162,500 | £245,313 | 247 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 221 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 209 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 178 |
| 2007 | £178,500 | £302,786 | 398 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 436 |
| 2005 | £172,000 | £306,091 | 321 |
| 2004 | £157,200 | £285,506 | 347 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 478 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 412 |
| 2001 | £87,000 | £167,253 | 431 |
| 2000 | £76,100 | £149,346 | 364 |
| 1999 | £74,500 | £148,475 | 377 |
| 1998 | £65,600 | £132,418 | 338 |
| 1997 | £61,200 | £125,509 | 380 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 368 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 287 |
In cash terms the typical LS21 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £345,600 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 176%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the LS21 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.4% | +9.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £500,000 against £202,500 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, LS21
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 | £584,000 | 20 | 2,089 |
| Semi-detached | £330,000 | 30 | 3,084 |
| Terraced | £262,500 | 28 | 4,085 |
| Flats | £202,500 (2025) | – | 909 |
The turnover behind the prices
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 202 sales completed in LS21. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 398 sales a year before the financial crisis and 224 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of LS21
The local authority for LS21 is Leeds, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £345,600 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.
What kind of market LS21 is
LS21 sits 5 of 29 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
LS21 (Arthington): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in LS21 (Arthington)?
Are property prices falling in LS21 (Arthington)?
Is LS21 (Arthington) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to LS21 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in LS21 today
Everything above is what homes in LS21 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 82 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the LS21 median sold price.
28% 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.
"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.
The price of an extra bedroom in LS
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LS 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 | — | £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
LS21 ranks 3 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.
Five-year change in the median, LS area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LS21, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LS21 1 | £355,000 | 34 |
| LS21 2 | £400,000 | 27 |
| LS21 3 | £295,000 | 21 |
How LS21 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 (this report) | £345,600 | +28% |
| LS16 | £327,500 | +4% |
| LS7 | £305,000 | +30% |
| LS18 | £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 LS21: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LS21, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LS21's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LS21 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim LS21.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LS21 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LS21 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.