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Robin Hood's Bay market report YO22 5, Whitby

The standing YO22 5 (Robin Hood's Bay) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 1,708 HM Land Registry entries for YO22 5 (Whitby), 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: 14 registered 2026 sales put the YO22 5 (Whitby) median at £351,200, up 18% on five years earlier, with a mean of £370,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,140 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,708 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.

YO22 5 is one sector of YO22 (Whitby): 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.

What YO22 5 homes really sell for

The YO22 5 median stands at £351,200 for 2026, built from 14 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £370,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

What a square metre costs in YO22 5

By floor space, homes in YO22 5 have sold for about £3,140 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.

Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, YO22 5 sits 23% above the national market.

In cash terms the typical YO22 5 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £351,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 149%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

The strongest year on record here is 2001 (+40.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−11.4%). 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

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.

Transaction volumes

YO22 5 recorded 14 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 67 sales a year before the financial crisis and 40 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.

Reading the YO22 5 market

This is a thin market: 14 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. Against the YO22 district median, YO22 5 sits 28% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.

The rental side of YO22 5

The local authority for YO22 5 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.

Set against the £351,200 median sold price, £833 a month is £9,996 a year, a gross yield of 2.8%: 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.

Asked and answered: YO22 5 (Robin Hood's Bay)

Where do YO22 5 prices go next?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.

What you could buy in YO22 now

What another bedroom costs in YO

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the YO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in YO22

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of YO22, one report each:

Zoom out to the full YO22 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how YO22 compares with its neighbours.

Selling a home in YO22 5? Price it on the evidence

Dig further

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with YO22 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every YO22 5 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.