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City Centre market report YO1, York
The standing YO1 (City Centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,247 HM Land Registry entries for YO1 (York), 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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in YO1 (York) came in at £320,000, out of 31 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £535,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,690 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,247 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
YO1 is a postcode district covering City Centre in York. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where YO1 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 YO1 prices, from the sold record
The YO1 median stands at £320,000 for 2026, built from 31 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £535,000, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
YO1 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in YO1 costs about £4,690 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, YO1 runs 12% above it.
The price of a typical YO1 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 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £282,800 | £289,563 | 92 |
| 2024 | £333,500 | £354,579 | 86 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 95 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 124 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 193 |
| 2020 | £245,000 | £317,893 | 89 |
| 2019 | £253,800 | £332,671 | 186 |
| 2018 | £258,700 | £344,852 | 166 |
| 2017 | £225,000 | £306,877 | 285 |
| 2016 | £289,500 | £405,013 | 138 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 145 |
| 2014 | £204,200 | £289,693 | 152 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 105 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 117 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 87 |
| 2010 | £187,500 | £294,048 | 125 |
| 2009 | £173,000 | £278,099 | 137 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 95 |
| 2007 | £189,400 | £321,275 | 144 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 157 |
| 2005 | £182,500 | £324,776 | 214 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 179 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 172 |
| 2002 | £126,500 | £238,009 | 133 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 137 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 133 |
| 1999 | £78,700 | £156,845 | 146 |
| 1998 | £74,000 | £149,374 | 136 |
| 1997 | £65,500 | £134,327 | 127 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 69 |
| 1995 | £56,100 | £121,953 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical YO1 home went from £56,100 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 162%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the YO1 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 2001 (+32.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−22.3%). 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) | +13.2% | +10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +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 flats dominate the record here, 76% of the typed total. In 2011, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £270,000 against £163,000 for a flat, 1.7 times the price.
Median by property type, YO1
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 | £270,000 (2011) | – | 21 |
| Semi-detached | £247,500 (2007) | – | 29 |
| Terraced | £380,000 | 11 | 962 |
| Flats | £230,000 | 19 | 3,136 |
Sales activity in YO1
Sales per year, counted
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 71 YO1 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 159 sales a year before the financial crisis and 86 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.
Rents around YO1
For renting purposes YO1 sits in York. The ONS average private rent there is £1,182 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £863 a month here against £1,725 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, York
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £320,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,182 a month (£14,184 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the YO1 market
This is a thin market: 71 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. 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. Among the 29 measurable districts of its area, YO1 ranks 6 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
YO1 (City Centre): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in YO1 (City Centre)?
Is YO1 (City Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in YO1 (City Centre)?
Will YO1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in YO1 right now
Everything above is what homes in YO1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 34 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 27% below the YO1 median sold price.
40% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 YO1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in YO
Real sold prices by size across the YO area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £270,746 | £362,000 (+34%) | £546,000 (+51%) | £702,500 (+29%) |
| Semi-detached | £190,000 | £220,000 (+16%) | £269,950 (+23%) | £370,000 (+37%) | £445,000 (+20%) |
| Terraced | £182,000 | £210,000 (+15%) | £242,500 (+15%) | £318,000 (+31%) | £427,850 (+35%) |
| Flat | £135,000 | £180,000 (+33%) | £254,750 (+42%) | £300,000 (+18%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
YO1 ranks 19 of 29 in the YO 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.
YO area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside YO1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| YO1 6 | £350,000 | 10 |
| YO1 7 | £320,000 | 14 |
| YO1 8 | £240,000 | 1 |
| YO1 9 | £229,000 | 6 |
How YO1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the YO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| YO61 | £401,200 | +6% |
| YO60 | £385,500 | +10% |
| YO19 | £370,000 | +8% |
| YO23 | £360,000 | +9% |
| YO51 | £326,000 | -7% |
| YO1 (this report) | £320,000 | +7% |
| YO32 | £310,500 | +5% |
| YO13 | £310,000 | +19% |
| YO62 | £310,000 | +11% |
| YO30 | £305,000 | +15% |
| YO26 | £301,200 | +2% |
| YO41 | £300,000 | +3% |
| YO10 | £295,000 | +13% |
| YO31 | £290,000 | +7% |
| YO42 | £285,000 | +3% |
| YO22 | £275,000 | +4% |
| YO24 | £275,000 | +10% |
| YO7 | £272,500 | +1% |
| YO18 | £267,500 | +9% |
| YO43 | £258,000 | +8% |
| YO17 | £255,000 | +12% |
| YO8 | £247,500 | +13% |
| YO21 | £230,000 | -2% |
| YO25 | £210,000 | +2% |
Thinking of selling in YO1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in YO1, open the average prices map and zoom from the YO1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded YO1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim YO1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with YO1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual YO1 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.