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Barlby market report YO8 3, Selby
The YO8 3 (Barlby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,269 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in YO8 3 (Selby) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in YO8 3 (Selby) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 36 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier. The mean was £273,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,650 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,269 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
YO8 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside YO8 (Selby). 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 YO8 3 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 YO8 3 homes really sell for
The YO8 3 median stands at £230,000 for 2026, built from 36 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £273,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in YO8 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of YO8 3 sales average about £2,650 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, YO8 3 sits 19% below the national market.
A typical YO8 3 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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £226,500 | £231,916 | 90 |
| 2024 | £222,500 | £236,563 | 72 |
| 2023 | £203,500 | £223,597 | 78 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 110 |
| 2021 | £195,200 | £247,148 | 118 |
| 2020 | £207,000 | £268,587 | 77 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 124 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 110 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 139 |
| 2016 | £174,800 | £244,547 | 128 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 148 |
| 2014 | £155,000 | £219,895 | 122 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 79 |
| 2012 | £197,500 | £290,695 | 58 |
| 2011 | £157,500 | £237,764 | 84 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 89 |
| 2009 | £127,500 | £204,957 | 94 |
| 2008 | £122,000 | £199,984 | 86 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 148 |
| 2006 | £173,500 | £301,174 | 163 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 91 |
| 2004 | £139,200 | £252,814 | 96 |
| 2003 | £121,200 | £223,280 | 108 |
| 2002 | £97,500 | £183,445 | 138 |
| 2001 | £70,200 | £134,956 | 110 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 104 |
| 1999 | £64,800 | £129,143 | 113 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 83 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 113 |
| 1996 | £59,200 | £124,850 | 82 |
| 1995 | £56,800 | £123,474 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical YO8 3 home went from £56,800 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 86%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the YO8 3 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 2011 (+43.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−30.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What YO8 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.5% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in YO8 3
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 register shows 36 YO8 3 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 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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 YO8 3
For renting purposes YO8 3 sits in North Yorkshire. The ONS average private rent there is £833 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £230,000 median purchase price, a rent of £833 a month (£9,996 a year) works out at a 4.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the YO8 3 market
This is a thin market: 36 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.
Common questions on YO8 3 (Barlby)
Is YO8 3 (Barlby) a good place to buy a house?
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Are property prices falling in YO8 3 (Barlby)?
Will YO8 3 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
YO8's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 180 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole YO8 district, not just YO8 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 YO8 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: YO prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the YO area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in YO8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of YO8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| YO8 4 | £170,000 | 31 |
| YO8 5 | £230,000 | 45 |
| YO8 6 | £345,000 | 27 |
| YO8 8 | £225,000 | 55 |
| YO8 9 | £282,000 | 106 |
Zoom out to the full YO8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how YO8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in YO8 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at YO8 3'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 YO8 3.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every YO8 3 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.
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.