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Seamer market report YO12, Scarborough
The YO12 (Seamer) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 24,759 HM Land Registry entries for YO12 (Scarborough), 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical YO12 (Scarborough) home changed hands for £185,000 in 2026 (median of 234 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £204,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,150 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 24,759 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
YO12 is the postcode district covering Scarborough (north and west), Seamer in Scarborough. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where YO12 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.
YO12 sold prices: where the market stands
The YO12 median stands at £185,000 for 2026, built from 234 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £204,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in YO12
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in YO12 costs about £2,150 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, YO12 runs 35% below it.
YO12's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 234 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 624 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 633 |
| 2023 | £181,500 | £199,424 | 638 |
| 2022 | £178,000 | £208,725 | 707 |
| 2021 | £165,500 | £209,544 | 808 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 637 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 706 |
| 2018 | £143,000 | £190,622 | 731 |
| 2017 | £143,200 | £195,310 | 814 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 698 |
| 2015 | £139,000 | £196,407 | 723 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 705 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 607 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 488 |
| 2011 | £122,800 | £185,381 | 504 |
| 2010 | £127,000 | £199,169 | 512 |
| 2009 | £127,000 | £204,154 | 526 |
| 2008 | £139,000 | £227,850 | 591 |
| 2007 | £141,400 | £239,854 | 1,001 |
| 2006 | £131,300 | £227,920 | 1,007 |
| 2005 | £124,700 | £221,916 | 832 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 947 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 1,269 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 1,184 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 1,082 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 1,023 |
| 1999 | £49,500 | £98,651 | 1,068 |
| 1998 | £48,600 | £98,103 | 916 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 919 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 873 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 752 |
In cash terms the typical YO12 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 77%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the YO12 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.6%). 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) | +2.8% | +0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £315,000 against £120,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, YO12
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 | £315,000 | 36 | 4,015 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 80 | 8,024 |
| Terraced | £145,000 | 89 | 9,504 |
| Flats | £120,000 | 29 | 3,216 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 519 YO12 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 1,043 sales a year before the financial crisis and 567 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.
Rents around YO12
The local authority for YO12 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 £185,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.4%. 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 YO12 market
Among the 29 measurable districts of its area, YO12 ranks 27 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Asked and answered: YO12 (Seamer)
Are property prices falling in YO12 (Seamer)?
Is YO12 (Seamer) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in YO12 (Seamer)?
Are YO12 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in YO12 right now
Everything above is what homes in YO12 sold for. The live side of the market holds 87 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the YO12 median sold price.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Mustang Road, Seamer, Scarborough, Scarborough
- Queens Parade, Scarborough, Scarborough
- Weydale Avenue, Scarborough, Scarborough
"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 YO12 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.
Moving up a bedroom in YO: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the YO area, straight 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
YO12 ranks 7 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.
Winners and losers across the YO area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside YO12, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| YO12 4 | £197,500 | 70 |
| YO12 5 | £230,000 | 50 |
| YO12 6 | £195,000 | 44 |
| YO12 7 | £155,000 | 70 |
How YO12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the YO area, and YO12 itself, which ranks 27 of 29 by median price:
| 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 | £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% |
| YO12 (this report) | £185,000 | +12% |
Selling in YO12? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in YO12, open the average prices map and zoom from the YO12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded YO12 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual YO12 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.