That is the middle of 5,470 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.
5,470 homes sold in three years: 672 detached houses, 1,741 semi-detached houses, 1,977 terraced houses and 1,080 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for twice what a flat does.
Detached houses£425K
median sale · 672 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£350K–£535K
Last 12 months
£420K190 sold
New build
£414K
Semi-detached houses£308K
median sale · 1,741 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£260K–£380K
Last 12 months
£312K462 sold
New build
£340K
Terraced houses£280K
median sale · 1,977 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£235K–£380K
Last 12 months
£277K561 sold
New build
£363K
Flats and maisonettes£205K
median sale · 1,080 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£170K–£257K
Last 12 months
£195K276 sold
New build
£250K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses12%
Semi-detached houses32%
Terraced houses36%
Flats and maisonettes20%
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 York’s homes sold for between £234K and £390K
One sale in ten was under £190K and one in ten over £521K. 32% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £290,000, sits in the £250–300K band
5,470 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 £52,000 in 1995 to £290,000 in the last 12 months (£234,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
1,489 sales in the last 12 months, against 3,543 in 2002, the busiest year, and 1,691 in 2008. Sales fell by 30% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 55% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
York costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: York, 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
£84K
£105K
£223K
£240K
£310K
£350K
£420K
Semi-detached houses
£54K
£71K
£158K
£175K
£210K
£250K
£312K
Terraced houses
£45K
£63K
£142K
£161K
£190K
£235K
£277K
Flats and maisonettes
£50K
£72K
£155K
£140K
£151K
£178K
£195K
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: 0.5% of sales in the last 12 months
8,243 new homes have been sold in York since 1995; the share peaked at 19% in 2005.
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 £333,500
against £290,000 for a home sold on, 15% 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.
21% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.3% sold leasehold in York. 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
Haxby Road is York’s busiest street, with 153 sales in three years
394 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 106 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
Haxby Road
YO31
153
£261,500
Mostly flats · new builds
2
Bishopthorpe Road
YO23
50
£417,500
Mostly flats
3
Thornton Road
YO19
37
£314,450
Mixed · new builds
4
Fifth Avenue
YO31
36
£195,000
Mostly flats · new builds
5
Barben Avenue
YO19
29
£418,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
6
Eller Lane
YO19
28
£290,000
Mixed · new builds
7
Eboracum Way
YO31
27
£225,000
Mostly flats
8
Burton Stone Lane
YO30
26
£260,000
Mixed
9
Holgate Road
YO24
26
£216,375
Mostly flats
10
Gale Lane
YO24
25
£230,000
Mixed
11
Joseph Terry Grove
YO23
22
£287,500
Mostly flats
12
Acomb Road
YO24
22
£163,750
Mostly flats
13
Tadcaster Road
YO24
21
£565,000
Mixed
14
Rosemary Road
YO24
21
£345,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
15
Huntington Road
YO31
21
£285,500
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Clifton: £995,000
York median£290K
Clifton£995K
Rawcliffe Lane£795K
Scarcroft Road (YO23)£775K
East Mount Road£740K
Westlands Grove£713K
Cheapest streets
Danesmead Close: £91,500
York median£290K
Danesmead Close£92K
Nicholas Gardens£128K
Front Street£142K
Del Pyke£148K
Kettlestring Lane£155K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 10.9 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
York is the 15th most expensive of 56 towns in North Yorkshire
York 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 York
What is the average house price in York?
The median home in York sold for £290,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 5,470 standard sales (£290,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £425,000, semi-detached houses £308,000, terraced houses £280,000 and flats and maisonettes £205,000.
Are house prices going up in York?
The median was £290,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£290,000), and £290,000 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 York each year?
1,489 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 2,269 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in York?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Clifton (YO30, £995,000), Rawcliffe Lane (YO30, £795,000) and Scarcroft Road (YO23, £775,000).
How much does a new build cost in York?
New homes sold for a median £333,500 over three years, against £290,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 6.5% of sales.
Is York expensive for North Yorkshire?
York is the 14th 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.
Photo: Derek Voller · CC BY-SA 2.0