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The YO (York) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 339,598 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the YO postcode area (York) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in the YO postcode area (York) sold for £260,000 in 2026, the median of 3,977 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £301,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,050 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 339,598 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
YO is the postcode area centred on York, taking in 29 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where YO 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.
YO sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for YO is £260,000, taken from 3,977 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £301,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in YO
Per square metre, YO homes have averaged around £3,050 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving YO 9% below the national figure.
A typical YO home, priced year by year (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 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 3,977 |
| 2025 | £262,400 | £268,675 | 9,650 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 9,310 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 8,793 |
| 2022 | £255,000 | £299,017 | 10,876 |
| 2021 | £242,000 | £306,403 | 13,144 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 9,649 |
| 2019 | £213,000 | £279,192 | 10,479 |
| 2018 | £203,000 | £270,603 | 10,729 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 11,211 |
| 2016 | £186,000 | £260,216 | 10,821 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 10,541 |
| 2014 | £175,000 | £248,268 | 10,545 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 9,298 |
| 2012 | £163,200 | £240,210 | 7,690 |
| 2011 | £163,000 | £246,067 | 7,767 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 7,475 |
| 2009 | £157,000 | £252,379 | 7,578 |
| 2008 | £163,000 | £267,191 | 7,194 |
| 2007 | £168,000 | £284,975 | 13,534 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 14,458 |
| 2005 | £154,000 | £274,058 | 11,380 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 13,195 |
| 2003 | £119,000 | £219,227 | 13,766 |
| 2002 | £95,900 | £180,435 | 14,824 |
| 2001 | £77,200 | £148,413 | 14,041 |
| 2000 | £69,000 | £135,413 | 13,146 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 13,392 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 10,876 |
| 1997 | £56,500 | £115,870 | 11,607 |
| 1996 | £54,400 | £114,727 | 9,900 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 8,752 |
In cash terms the typical YO home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 121%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the YO 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 (+24.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−3.7%). 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 year (since 2025) | −0.9% | −3.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.4% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
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, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £375,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, YO
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 | £375,000 | 1,247 | 103,777 |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | 1,277 | 108,181 |
| Terraced | £220,000 | 1,018 | 87,693 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 435 | 39,947 |
How many homes change hands in YO
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 7,217 sales completed in YO. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 13,543 sales a year before the financial crisis and 8,521 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 rental side of YO
The local authority for YO is North Yorkshire, the local authority covering most of the YO area (parts fall under York and East Riding of Yorkshire, where rents differ), 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 £260,000 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.
What people ask about YO (York)
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What happens to YO prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in YO now
Everything above is what homes in YO sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 1,257 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% above the YO median sold price.
YO registered 7,217 sales in the last twelve months; the 1,257 homes listed now would take about 2 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
13% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Marton Road, Bridlington, Bridlington
- Cliffe Common, Selby, Selby
- Bassett Close, Selby, North Yorkshire
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 YO 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.
The YO sales calendar
March is when YO changes hands most (10.3% of the 51,773 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.5%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3,374 | 6.5% |
| February | 3,954 | 7.6% |
| March | 5,333 | 10.3% |
| April | 3,416 | 6.6% |
| May | 3,699 | 7.1% |
| June | 5,211 | 10.1% |
| July | 4,148 | 8.0% |
| August | 4,640 | 9.0% |
| September | 5,210 | 10.1% |
| October | 4,301 | 8.3% |
| November | 4,177 | 8.1% |
| December | 4,310 | 8.3% |
Bedroom by bedroom: YO prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the YO area. 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 | £249,950 | £275,000 (+10%) | £318,000 (+16%) | £392,995 (+24%) | £525,000 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £182,250 | £201,720 (+11%) | £245,000 (+21%) | £315,000 (+29%) | £390,000 (+24%) |
| Terraced | £170,000 | £196,500 (+16%) | £220,000 (+12%) | £265,000 (+20%) | £325,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £130,000 | £169,406 (+30%) | £229,500 (+35%) | £259,975 (+13%) | £305,000 (+17%) |
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 YO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
YO area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The spread inside YO matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| YO60 Sheriff Hutton | £406,200 | +16% | 24 |
| YO61 Easingwold | £400,000 | +6% | 105 |
| YO19 Dunnington, Escrick | £372,000 | +9% | 83 |
| YO23 South Bank, Bishopthorpe | £364,200 | +10% | 151 |
| YO51 Boroughbridge | £322,000 | -8% | 71 |
| YO1 City Centre | £320,000 | +7% | 37 |
| YO32 Haxby, Huntington (North) | £312,500 | +6% | 162 |
| YO62 Helmsley, Kirkbymoorside | £310,000 | +11% | 72 |
| YO13 Scalby, Burniston | £308,000 | +18% | 67 |
| YO26 Acomb, Leeman Road Area | £305,000 | +3% | 185 |
| YO30 Bootham, Clifton | £304,500 | +14% | 191 |
| YO31 Heworth, Huntington (South) | £300,000 | +11% | 167 |
| YO41 Elvington, Full Sutton | £300,000 | +3% | 78 |
| YO10 Fishergate, Fulford | £295,000 | +13% | 125 |
| YO42 Pocklington, Barmby Moor | £288,000 | +4% | 109 |
| YO24 Acomb, Dringhouses | £285,000 | +14% | 186 |
| YO7 Thirsk, Dalton | £280,000 | +4% | 141 |
| YO22 Robin Hood's Bay | £267,500 | +1% | 58 |
| YO18 Pickering, Thornton-le-Dale | £262,500 | +7% | 92 |
| YO17 Malton, Norton | £255,500 | +12% | 148 |
| YO43 Market Weighton, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor | £255,000 | +6% | 97 |
| YO8 Selby, Barlby | £247,000 | +13% | 350 |
| YO21 Whitby, Westerdale | £222,500 | -5% | 88 |
| YO25 Driffield | £212,500 | +4% | 276 |
| YO14 Filey | £205,000 | +11% | 125 |
| YO15 Bridlington (south and east), Bempton | £200,000 | +18% | 93 |
| YO12 Scarborough (north and west), Seamer | £185,000 | +12% | 290 |
| YO11 Scarborough (centre and south), Cayton | £170,000 | +8% | 206 |
| YO16 Bridlington (north and west), Bempton | £170,000 | +7% | 200 |
Selling in YO? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in YO, open the average prices map and zoom from the YO shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded YO sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every YO 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.
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.