That is the middle of 95 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 3.7 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.
95 homes sold in three years: 59 detached houses, 26 semi-detached houses and 10 terraced houses.
Detached houses£375K
median sale · 59 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£470K
Last 12 months
£373K18 sold
Semi-detached houses£276K
median sale · 26 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£200K–£327K
Last 12 months
£188K5 sold
Terraced houses£230K
median sale · 10 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£180K–£265K
The mix
Mostly detached: 62% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses62%
Semi-detached houses27%
Terraced houses11%
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 Sleights’s homes sold for between £255K and £423K
One sale in ten was under £187K and one in ten over £575K. 20% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £327,000, sits in the £300–400K band
95 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 3.7 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £81,000 in 1995 to £300,000 in the last 12 months (£247,750 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
25 sales in the last 12 months, against 72 in 2002, the busiest year, and 20 in 2011. Sales fell by 52% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 13%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Sleights costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Sleights, 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
£117K
£112K
£275K
£292K
£275K
£310K
£373K
Semi-detached houses
£65K
£66K
£140K
£194K
£155K
£230K
£188K
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
81 new homes have been sold in Sleights since 1995; the share peaked at 37% in 1996.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
3% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.2% sold leasehold in Sleights. 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
Coach Road is Sleights’s busiest street, with 12 sales in three years
5 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.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Coach Road
YO22
12
£342,500
Mixed
2
Iburndale Lane
YO22
7
£362,500
Mixed
3
Eskdaleside
YO22
7
£310,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Hermitage Way
YO22
5
£350,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Selstone Crescent
YO22
5
£255,000
Mostly 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 Sleights
What is the average house price in Sleights?
The median home in Sleights sold for £327,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 95 standard sales (£300,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £375,000, semi-detached houses £276,250 and terraced houses £230,000.
Are house prices going up in Sleights?
The median was £350,000 in 2025, up 11% on 2024 (£315,000), and £300,000 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 Sleights each year?
25 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.
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.