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Acomb market report YO26 8, York

The YO26 8 (Acomb) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 1,779 registered sales in YO26 8 (York) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: a typical YO26 8 (York) home changed hands for £443,000 in 2026 (median of 21 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £786,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,570 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,779 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.

A postcode sector like YO26 8 is a single group of streets within YO26 (York), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

What YO26 8 homes really sell for

The YO26 8 median stands at £443,000 for 2026, built from 21 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £786,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.

House prices per square metre in YO26 8

A square metre of YO26 8 home has cost about £3,570 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts YO26 8 55% above the country at large.

In cash terms the typical YO26 8 home went from £98,000 in 1995 to £443,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 108%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2013 (+46.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−33.3%). 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

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

The register shows 21 YO26 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 66 sales a year before the financial crisis and 48 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.

The rental side of YO26 8

The local authority for YO26 8 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.

£833 a month is £9,996 a year, which against the £443,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.3%. 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 YO26 8 market

This is a thin market: 21 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the YO26 district median, YO26 8 sits 47% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.

Common questions on YO26 8 (Acomb)

Will YO26 8 prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% 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.

YO26's current homes for sale

Bedroom by bedroom: YO prices by size

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 YO26

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of YO26, one report each:

Zoom out to the full YO26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how YO26 compares with its neighbours.

Selling in YO26 8? Start from the sold record

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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.