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Thornton-le-Dale market report YO18 8, Pickering
The YO18 8 (Thornton-le-Dale) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,148 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in YO18 8 (Pickering) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in YO18 8 (Pickering) sold for £267,500 in 2026, the median of 26 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £314,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,210 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,148 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
YO18 8 is one sector of YO18 (Pickering): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where YO18 8 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.
What buyers actually paid in YO18 8
26 sales were registered in YO18 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £267,500. The mean works out at £314,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
YO18 8 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in YO18 8 costs about £3,210 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, YO18 8 runs 6% below it.
A typical YO18 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £267,500 | £267,500 | 26 |
| 2025 | £253,000 | £259,050 | 93 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 78 |
| 2023 | £265,000 | £291,170 | 64 |
| 2022 | £262,000 | £307,225 | 81 |
| 2021 | £231,500 | £293,109 | 94 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 120 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 96 |
| 2018 | £205,000 | £273,269 | 89 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 102 |
| 2016 | £204,000 | £285,398 | 92 |
| 2015 | £184,000 | £259,992 | 105 |
| 2014 | £180,500 | £256,071 | 94 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 105 |
| 2012 | £159,500 | £234,764 | 70 |
| 2011 | £178,000 | £268,712 | 88 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 92 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 70 |
| 2008 | £177,500 | £290,960 | 62 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 109 |
| 2006 | £185,500 | £322,004 | 126 |
| 2005 | £177,000 | £314,989 | 96 |
| 2004 | £167,500 | £304,213 | 109 |
| 2003 | £137,400 | £253,124 | 140 |
| 2002 | £108,500 | £204,142 | 144 |
| 2001 | £81,000 | £155,718 | 107 |
| 2000 | £75,500 | £148,169 | 115 |
| 1999 | £65,500 | £130,538 | 108 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 113 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 127 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 118 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 115 |
In cash terms the typical YO18 8 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £267,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 109%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the YO18 8 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 (+34.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−10.4%). 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) | +5.7% | +3.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in YO18 8
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 26 YO18 8 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 118 sales a year before the financial crisis and 68 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.
What tenants pay around YO18 8
The local authority for YO18 8 is North Yorkshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £833 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £582 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,333 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, North Yorkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £267,500 median purchase price, a rent of £833 a month (£9,996 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
What kind of market YO18 8 is
This is a thin market: 26 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.
Asked and answered: YO18 8 (Thornton-le-Dale)
Are property prices falling in YO18 8 (Thornton-le-Dale)?
Is YO18 8 (Thornton-le-Dale) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in YO18 8 (Thornton-le-Dale)?
Are YO18 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
YO18's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 6 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole YO18 district, not just YO18 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
50% 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 YO18 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.
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. 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%) | — |
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in YO18
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of YO18, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| YO18 7 | £265,000 | 42 |
Zoom out to the full YO18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how YO18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in YO18 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in YO18 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the YO18 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded YO18 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working YO18 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim YO18 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with YO18 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual YO18 8 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.