That is the middle of 492 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 4.1 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.
492 homes sold in three years: 138 detached houses, 149 semi-detached houses, 95 terraced houses and 110 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£300K
median sale · 138 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£260K–£335K
Last 12 months
£320K35 sold
New build
£260K
Semi-detached houses£205K
median sale · 149 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£178K–£240K
Last 12 months
£200K47 sold
New build
£205K
Terraced houses£165K
median sale · 95 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£148K–£200K
Last 12 months
£162K31 sold
Flats and maisonettes£135K
median sale · 110 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£100K–£170K
Last 12 months
£140K37 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 30% of sales
Detached houses28%
Semi-detached houses30%
Terraced houses19%
Flats and maisonettes22%
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 Filey’s homes sold for between £155K and £273K
One sale in ten was under £110K and one in ten over £340K. 66% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £205,000, sits in the £200–250K band
492 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.1 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £48,000 in 1995 to £197,500 in the last 12 months (£155,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
150 sales in the last 12 months, against 287 in 2006, the busiest year, and 98 in 2011. Sales fell by 58% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 35% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Filey costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Filey, 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
£60K
£80K
£200K
£184K
£194K
£240K
£320K
Semi-detached houses
£48K
£56K
£127K
£134K
£140K
£157K
£200K
Terraced houses
£40K
£49K
£120K
£118K
£123K
£149K
£162K
Flats and maisonettes
£40K
£39K
£106K
£98K
£113K
£144K
£140K
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: 0.7% of sales in the last 12 months
498 new homes have been sold in Filey since 1995; the share peaked at 29% in 2004.
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 £239,995
against £200,000 for a home sold on, 20% 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.
17% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.4% sold leasehold in Filey. 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
Green Meadows Drive is Filey’s busiest street, with 31 sales in three years
31 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 12 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.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Green Meadows Drive
YO14
31
£249,995
Mixed · new builds
2
Mill Meadows Lane
YO14
30
£248,747
Mostly detached houses
3
The Beach
YO14
16
£479,370
Mostly flats
4
Scarborough Road
YO14
16
£200,000
Mixed
5
Wharfedale
YO14
15
£275,000
Mostly detached houses
6
The Crescent
YO14
15
£167,000
Mostly flats
7
Pasture Crescent
YO14
14
£194,250
Mixed
8
Muston Road
YO14
13
£273,000
Mixed
9
West Road
YO14
12
£177,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
10
West Avenue
YO14
12
£160,000
Mixed
11
Wooldale Drive
YO14
11
£229,500
Mixed
12
North Cliff Drive
YO14
10
£132,937
Mostly flats
13
Thorn Tree Avenue
YO14
9
£200,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Chapel Court
YO14
9
£79,000
Mostly flats
15
Fir Tree Drive
YO14
8
£268,500
Mixed
Dearest streets
The Beach: £479,370
Filey median£205K
The Beach£479K
Coxswain Close£325K
Cawthorne Crescent£310K
Wharfedale£275K
Muston Road£273K
Cheapest streets
Chapel Court: £79,000
Filey median£205K
Chapel Court£79K
Melville Terrace£80K
Royal Crescent Court£80K
Brooklands£115K
West Vale£128K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 6.1 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
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.
Across North Yorkshire
Filey is the 42nd most expensive of 56 towns in North Yorkshire
Filey is in the middle of North Yorkshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
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 Filey
What is the average house price in Filey?
The median home in Filey sold for £205,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 492 standard sales (£197,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £300,000, semi-detached houses £204,995, terraced houses £165,000 and flats and maisonettes £135,000.
Are house prices going up in Filey?
The median was £195,000 in 2025, down 7% on 2024 (£210,000), and £197,500 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 Filey each year?
150 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 188 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Filey?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: The Beach (YO14, £479,370), Coxswain Close (YO14, £325,000) and Cawthorne Crescent (YO14, £310,000).
How much does a new build cost in Filey?
New homes sold for a median £239,995 over three years, against £200,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 8.3% of sales.
Is Filey expensive for North Yorkshire?
Filey is the 42nd most expensive of 56 towns of 2,500 or more in North Yorkshire by median sale price.
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.
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