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Acomb market report YO26 4, York
The standing YO26 4 (Acomb) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,543 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in YO26 4 (York) 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 YO26 4 (York) sold for £240,000 in 2026, the median of 31 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £281,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,520 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,543 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
YO26 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside YO26 (York). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where YO26 4 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.
The going rate for a home in YO26 4
The YO26 4 median stands at £240,000 for 2026, built from 31 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £281,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in YO26 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of YO26 4 sales average about £3,520 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, YO26 4 sits 16% below the national market.
A typical YO26 4 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 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £222,500 | £227,821 | 102 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 96 |
| 2023 | £225,600 | £247,879 | 90 |
| 2022 | £223,500 | £262,079 | 100 |
| 2021 | £206,000 | £260,823 | 128 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 81 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 109 |
| 2018 | £174,000 | £231,945 | 112 |
| 2017 | £171,500 | £233,909 | 100 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 114 |
| 2015 | £158,000 | £223,254 | 122 |
| 2014 | £153,800 | £218,192 | 138 |
| 2013 | £135,200 | £194,539 | 128 |
| 2012 | £137,500 | £202,383 | 101 |
| 2011 | £142,500 | £215,120 | 107 |
| 2010 | £156,000 | £244,648 | 92 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 102 |
| 2008 | £141,900 | £232,604 | 84 |
| 2007 | £146,000 | £247,657 | 190 |
| 2006 | £133,500 | £231,739 | 206 |
| 2005 | £130,800 | £232,771 | 198 |
| 2004 | £122,200 | £221,939 | 222 |
| 2003 | £119,000 | £219,227 | 237 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 366 |
| 2001 | £68,000 | £130,727 | 275 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 177 |
| 1999 | £45,500 | £90,679 | 199 |
| 1998 | £42,900 | £86,597 | 156 |
| 1997 | £41,500 | £85,108 | 147 |
| 1996 | £44,500 | £93,849 | 131 |
| 1995 | £40,500 | £88,041 | 102 |
In cash terms the typical YO26 4 home went from £40,500 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 173%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 8% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the YO26 4 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 (+76.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−8.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.9% | +5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in YO26 4
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.
The register shows 31 YO26 4 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 234 sales a year before the financial crisis and 84 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.
How YO26 4 trades
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes YO26 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within YO26, this sector trades 20% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around YO26 4
The local authority for YO26 4 is York, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,182 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £240,000 median sold price, £1,182 a month is £14,184 a year, a gross yield of 5.9%: 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 people ask about YO26 4 (Acomb)
How much did a house sell for in YO26 4 (Acomb)?
Are property prices falling in YO26 4 (Acomb)?
Is YO26 4 (Acomb) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to YO26 4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
YO26's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 78 homes currently on the market from 14 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole YO26 district, not just YO26 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
39% 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.
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- St. Johns Grove, Kirk Hammerton, York...
- Lindsey Avenue, York, York
"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 YO26 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in YO
What homes of each size actually sold for across the YO area, 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in YO26
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of YO26, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| YO26 5 | £290,000 | 63 |
| YO26 6 | £348,800 | 18 |
| YO26 7 | £412,500 | 12 |
| YO26 8 | £443,000 | 21 |
| YO26 9 | £480,000 | 9 |
Zoom out to the full YO26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how YO26 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in YO26 4: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at YO26 4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim YO26 4.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with YO26 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual YO26 4 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.