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Barlby market report YO8, Selby
The YO8 (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: 26,752 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in YO8 (Selby) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in YO8 (Selby) sold for £247,500 in 2026, the median of 300 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £274,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,630 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 26,752 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district YO8 covering Selby, Barlby, Brayton sits in Selby. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where YO8 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 YO8
Take the 300 registered 2026 sales in YO8 and the middle price, the median, is £247,500. The mean lands at £274,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in YO8
By floor space, homes in YO8 have sold for about £2,630 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, YO8 sits 13% below the national market.
A typical YO8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £247,500 | £247,500 | 300 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 779 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 742 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 692 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 909 |
| 2021 | £218,500 | £276,649 | 1,120 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 845 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 1,028 |
| 2018 | £189,500 | £252,607 | 934 |
| 2017 | £178,000 | £242,774 | 1,027 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 937 |
| 2015 | £161,000 | £227,493 | 955 |
| 2014 | £152,200 | £215,922 | 888 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 624 |
| 2012 | £147,000 | £216,366 | 584 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 588 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 572 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 585 |
| 2008 | £143,800 | £235,719 | 580 |
| 2007 | £159,000 | £269,708 | 1,294 |
| 2006 | £153,000 | £265,588 | 1,291 |
| 2005 | £146,500 | £260,711 | 887 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 1,007 |
| 2003 | £106,000 | £195,278 | 949 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 983 |
| 2001 | £66,000 | £126,882 | 975 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 872 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 911 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 709 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 831 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 686 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 668 |
In cash terms the typical YO8 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £247,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 135%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the YO8 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 (+28.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What YO8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.3% | +2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £355,000 against £110,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, YO8
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 | £355,000 | 128 | 10,319 |
| Semi-detached | £225,000 | 83 | 9,306 |
| Terraced | £185,000 | 77 | 6,003 |
| Flats | £110,000 | 12 | 1,124 |
How many homes change hands in YO8
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 631 sales completed in YO8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,032 sales a year before the financial crisis and 684 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.
The rental side of YO8
YO8 falls under North Yorkshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £833 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £582 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,333 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, North Yorkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £247,500 median purchase price, a rent of £833 a month (£9,996 a year) works out at a 4.0% 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.
YO8 (Barlby): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in YO8 (Barlby)?
Is YO8 (Barlby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in YO8 (Barlby)?
What happens to YO8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in YO8 now
Everything above is what homes in YO8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 180 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the YO8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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
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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
YO8 ranks 5 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.
Winners and losers across the YO area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside YO8, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| YO8 3 | £230,000 | 36 |
| 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 |
How YO8 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 | £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 (this report) | £247,500 | +13% |
| YO21 | £230,000 | -2% |
| YO25 | £210,000 | +2% |
Selling in YO8? 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'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.
Estate agents working YO8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim YO8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to YO8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual YO8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.