Homes in Kirkby Stephen sell for a median £239,975
That is the middle of 108 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5.6 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
108 homes sold in three years: 41 detached houses, 29 semi-detached houses, 33 terraced houses and 5 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£385K
median sale · 41 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£345K–£425K
Last 12 months
£410K10 sold
New build
£400K
Semi-detached houses£225K
median sale · 29 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£158K–£240K
Last 12 months
£240K11 sold
New build
£120K
Terraced houses£170K
median sale · 33 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£144K–£205K
Last 12 months
£170K11 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 5 sold, median £175K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses38%
Semi-detached houses27%
Terraced houses31%
Flats and maisonettes5%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Kirkby Stephen’s homes sold for between £163K and £375K
One sale in ten was under £130K and one in ten over £430K. 54% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £239,975, sits in the £200–250K band
108 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.6 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £46,500 in 1995 to £260,000 in the last 12 months (£152,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
35 sales in the last 12 months, against 61 in 2022, the busiest year, and 14 in 2010. Sales fell by 38% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 126% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Kirkby Stephen costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Kirkby Stephen, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
—
£88K
—
£243K
£273K
—
£410K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£60K
£120K
—
£131K
—
£240K
Terraced houses
£35K
£58K
£141K
£150K
£136K
£156K
£170K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 2.9% of sales in the last 12 months
165 new homes have been sold in Kirkby Stephen since 1995; the share peaked at 50% in 2013.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £375,750
against £222,500 for a home sold on, 69% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
7% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.9% sold leasehold in Kirkby Stephen. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Academy Close is Kirkby Stephen’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
6 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Academy Close
CA17
14
£370,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
2
Fletcher Hill Park
CA17
8
£366,000
Mostly detached houses
3
The Crescent
CA17
7
£145,000
Mostly terraced houses
4
Croglam Park
CA17
6
£425,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
5
South Road
CA17
5
£300,000
Mixed
6
Charter Gardens
CA17
5
£265,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Kirkby Stephen
What is the average house price in Kirkby Stephen?
The median home in Kirkby Stephen sold for £239,975 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 108 standard sales (£260,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £384,950, semi-detached houses £225,000, terraced houses £170,000 and flats and maisonettes £175,000.
Are house prices going up in Kirkby Stephen?
The median was £213,000 in 2025, down 6% on 2024 (£227,500), and £260,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Kirkby Stephen each year?
35 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 37 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
How much does a new build cost in Kirkby Stephen?
New homes sold for a median £375,750 over three years, against £222,500 for homes sold on. New builds were 17% of sales.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0