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Westerdale market report YO21, Whitby
The YO21 (Westerdale) 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: 9,468 sales registered with HM Land Registry in YO21 (Whitby) 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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for YO21 (Whitby) is £230,000, from 74 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £272,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,070 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,468 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 YO21 covering Whitby, Westerdale sits in Whitby. 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 YO21 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 a home in YO21 sells for
Take the 74 registered 2026 sales in YO21 and the middle price, the median, is £230,000. The mean lands at £272,900, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in YO21
Per square metre, YO21 homes have averaged around £3,070 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts YO21 19% below the country at large.
A typical YO21 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 74 |
| 2025 | £266,500 | £272,873 | 218 |
| 2024 | £255,000 | £271,117 | 220 |
| 2023 | £278,800 | £306,333 | 200 |
| 2022 | £257,500 | £301,948 | 262 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 389 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 306 |
| 2019 | £189,000 | £247,734 | 343 |
| 2018 | £179,500 | £239,277 | 318 |
| 2017 | £171,000 | £233,227 | 316 |
| 2016 | £175,200 | £245,107 | 332 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 288 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 286 |
| 2013 | £174,000 | £250,369 | 272 |
| 2012 | £179,000 | £263,466 | 259 |
| 2011 | £174,000 | £262,673 | 273 |
| 2010 | £174,000 | £272,877 | 253 |
| 2009 | £164,800 | £264,917 | 230 |
| 2008 | £182,200 | £298,664 | 198 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 427 |
| 2006 | £174,000 | £302,042 | 395 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 303 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 336 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 402 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 451 |
| 2001 | £82,200 | £158,025 | 368 |
| 2000 | £74,500 | £146,206 | 348 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 335 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 298 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 317 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 262 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 189 |
In cash terms the typical YO21 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 92%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the YO21 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 (+30.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 30% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £370,000 against £148,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, YO21
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 | £370,000 | 19 | 2,018 |
| Semi-detached | £263,500 | 18 | 2,379 |
| Terraced | £211,200 | 22 | 2,800 |
| Flats | £148,000 | 15 | 2,271 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.7% | −15.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 160 sales completed in YO21. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 379 sales a year before the financial crisis and 195 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.
What homes rent for around YO21
The local authority for YO21 is North Yorkshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £833 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £582 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,333, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, North Yorkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £833 a month is £9,996 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market YO21 is
Among the 29 measurable districts of its area, YO21 ranks 23 by median price: towards the affordable end.
YO21 (Westerdale): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in YO21 (Westerdale)?
Are property prices falling in YO21 (Westerdale)?
Is YO21 (Westerdale) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to YO21 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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 YO21 today
Everything above is what homes in YO21 sold for. The live side of the market holds 13 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% below the YO21 median sold price.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Pond House, 34 Main Road, Aislaby, Whitby, YO21
- Flowergate, Whitby, North Yorkshire, ...
- Smardale House, WHITBY, North Yorkshi...
"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 YO21 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in YO
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the YO area. 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%) | — |
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
YO21 ranks 28 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside YO21, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| YO21 1 | £216,000 | 28 |
| YO21 2 | £295,500 | 9 |
| YO21 3 | £230,000 | 37 |
How YO21 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 | £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 (this report) | £230,000 | -2% |
| YO25 | £210,000 | +2% |
Thinking of selling in YO21? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in YO21, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from YO21's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded YO21 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual YO21 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.