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Acomb market report YO26, York
The YO26 (Acomb) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 17,158 registered sales in YO26 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for YO26 (York) is £301,200, from 154 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £408,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,640 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,158 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
YO26 is a postcode district covering Acomb, Leeman Road Area, Upper Poppleton in York. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where YO26 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 YO26 homes really sell for
Across 154 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) YO26 home went for £301,200. The mean is £408,700, 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
Per square metre, YO26 homes have averaged around £3,640 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, YO26 sits 6% above the national market.
YO26's median sold price, 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 | £301,200 | £301,200 | 154 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 497 |
| 2024 | £341,000 | £362,553 | 474 |
| 2023 | £354,000 | £388,960 | 467 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 522 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 614 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 480 |
| 2019 | £255,000 | £334,244 | 517 |
| 2018 | £255,500 | £340,586 | 514 |
| 2017 | £237,600 | £324,063 | 466 |
| 2016 | £215,500 | £301,487 | 474 |
| 2015 | £218,000 | £308,034 | 499 |
| 2014 | £197,500 | £280,188 | 551 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 523 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 403 |
| 2011 | £177,000 | £267,202 | 389 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 389 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 427 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 362 |
| 2007 | £188,000 | £318,900 | 637 |
| 2006 | £170,200 | £295,445 | 774 |
| 2005 | £162,000 | £288,295 | 661 |
| 2004 | £149,000 | £270,613 | 697 |
| 2003 | £139,500 | £256,993 | 664 |
| 2002 | £127,000 | £238,949 | 830 |
| 2001 | £87,800 | £168,791 | 701 |
| 2000 | £77,300 | £151,701 | 676 |
| 1999 | £61,700 | £122,965 | 770 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 535 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 546 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 508 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 437 |
In cash terms the typical YO26 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £301,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 141%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the YO26 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 (+44.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.9%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £477,500 against £170,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, YO26
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 | £477,500 | 38 | 4,599 |
| Semi-detached | £300,000 | 59 | 6,121 |
| Terraced | £250,000 | 47 | 5,136 |
| Flats | £170,000 | 10 | 1,302 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.9% | −8.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 358 sales completed in YO26. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 705 sales a year before the financial crisis and 423 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.
Rents around YO26
The local authority for YO26 is York, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,182 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £863 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,725 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, York
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £301,200 median sold price, £1,182 a month is £14,184 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
YO26 (Acomb): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in YO26 (Acomb)?
Are property prices falling in YO26 (Acomb)?
Is YO26 (Acomb) a good place to buy a house?
Where do YO26 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in YO26 now
Everything above is what homes in YO26 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 78 homes currently on the market from 14 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 33% above the YO26 median sold price.
39% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Esk Drive, Nether Poppleton, York, No...
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in YO: the cost
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%) | — |
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
YO26 ranks 26 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.
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.
Inside YO26, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| YO26 4 | £240,000 | 31 |
| 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 |
How YO26 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 (this report) | £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 | £230,000 | -2% |
| YO25 | £210,000 | +2% |
Selling in YO26? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in YO26, open the average prices map and zoom from the YO26 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded YO26 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim YO26.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with YO26 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every YO26 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.
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.