That is the middle of 171 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 4.6 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.
171 homes sold in three years: 25 detached houses, 39 semi-detached houses, 83 terraced houses and 24 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£440K
median sale · 25 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£355K–£600K
Last 12 months
£360K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£292K
median sale · 39 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£268K–£335K
Last 12 months
£273K10 sold
Terraced houses£245K
median sale · 83 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£195K–£320K
Last 12 months
£238K27 sold
Flats and maisonettes£159K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£150K–£195K
The mix
A terraced town: half of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses15%
Semi-detached houses23%
Terraced houses49%
Flats and maisonettes14%
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 Settle’s homes sold for between £195K and £340K
One sale in ten was under £158K and one in ten over £476K. 40% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £270,000, sits in the £250–300K band
171 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.6 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £54,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in the last 12 months (£250,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
47 sales in the last 12 months, against 83 in 2004, the busiest year, and 28 in 2011. Sales fell by 45% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 3%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 22% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Settle costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Settle, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
—
£120K
£246K
£310K
£295K
£390K
£360K
Semi-detached houses
£62K
£85K
£155K
£250K
£208K
£235K
£273K
Terraced houses
£53K
£66K
£148K
£185K
£175K
£235K
£238K
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% of sales in the last 12 months
165 new homes have been sold in Settle since 1995; the share peaked at 34% in 2003.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
15% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.7% sold leasehold in Settle. 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
Kings Mill Lane is Settle’s busiest street, with 15 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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
Kings Mill Lane
BD24
15
£280,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Lower Greenfoot
BD24
10
£157,250
Mostly flats
3
Duke Street
BD24
6
£370,000
Mixed
4
Kirkgate
BD24
6
£262,500
Mostly flats
5
Victoria Street
BD24
6
£212,500
Mostly terraced houses
6
Cragdale Gardens
BD24
5
£245,000
Mostly terraced houses
7
Halsteads Cottages
BD24
5
£215,000
Mostly terraced 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.
Across North Yorkshire
Settle is the 17th most expensive of 56 towns in North Yorkshire
Settle 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 Settle
What is the average house price in Settle?
The median home in Settle sold for £270,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 171 standard sales (£250,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £440,000, semi-detached houses £292,000, terraced houses £245,000 and flats and maisonettes £158,750.
Are house prices going up in Settle?
The median was £256,500 in 2025, down 5% on 2024 (£270,000), and £250,000 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 Settle each year?
47 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 61 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Settle expensive for North Yorkshire?
Settle is the 17th 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.