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Barlby market report YO8 5, Selby
The YO8 5 (Barlby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,666 sales registered with HM Land Registry in YO8 5 (Selby) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: the typical home in YO8 5 (Selby) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 45 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £281,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,760 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,666 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like YO8 5 is a single group of streets within YO8 (Selby), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where YO8 5 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.
YO8 5 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for YO8 5 is £230,000, taken from 45 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £281,900, 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 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in YO8 5 costs about £2,760 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so YO8 5 trades 19% below the country as a whole.
YO8 5'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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £243,000 | £248,811 | 139 |
| 2024 | £221,500 | £235,500 | 111 |
| 2023 | £227,000 | £249,418 | 103 |
| 2022 | £224,000 | £262,666 | 161 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 195 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 174 |
| 2019 | £198,000 | £259,531 | 222 |
| 2018 | £212,500 | £283,267 | 159 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 191 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 165 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 126 |
| 2014 | £148,000 | £209,964 | 139 |
| 2013 | £144,000 | £207,202 | 90 |
| 2012 | £138,500 | £203,855 | 102 |
| 2011 | £133,000 | £200,779 | 87 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 84 |
| 2009 | £136,500 | £219,425 | 83 |
| 2008 | £141,500 | £231,948 | 101 |
| 2007 | £157,000 | £266,316 | 225 |
| 2006 | £143,600 | £249,271 | 224 |
| 2005 | £128,000 | £227,788 | 140 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 171 |
| 2003 | £106,000 | £195,278 | 161 |
| 2002 | £84,400 | £158,798 | 182 |
| 2001 | £63,000 | £121,114 | 187 |
| 2000 | £61,000 | £119,713 | 187 |
| 1999 | £50,500 | £100,644 | 181 |
| 1998 | £47,500 | £95,882 | 135 |
| 1997 | £51,000 | £104,591 | 127 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 111 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 158 |
In cash terms the typical YO8 5 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 112%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the YO8 5 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 (+34.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.3% | −7.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in YO8 5
The year-by-year sales count
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 45 YO8 5 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 185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 112 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around YO8 5
YO8 5 falls under North Yorkshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Average monthly rent by size, North Yorkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £833 a month is £9,996 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Reading the YO8 5 market
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes YO8 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: YO8 5 (Barlby)
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Where do YO8 5 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in YO8 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 180 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole YO8 district, not just YO8 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every YO8 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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the YO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, YO area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 3 | £230,000 | 36 |
| YO8 4 | £170,000 | 31 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in YO8 5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in YO8 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from YO8 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded YO8 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual YO8 5 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.
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.