Homes in Pool-in-Wharfedale sell for a median £340,500
That is the middle of 92 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 4.8 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.
45% of Pool-in-Wharfedale’s sales are terraced houses
92 homes sold in three years: 29 detached houses, 20 semi-detached houses, 41 terraced houses and 2 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£575K
median sale · 29 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£440K–£738K
Last 12 months
£720K10 sold
Semi-detached houses£338K
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£429K
Last 12 months
£415K5 sold
Terraced houses£277K
median sale · 41 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£230K–£336K
Last 12 months
£288K13 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 2 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A terraced town: 45% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses32%
Semi-detached houses22%
Terraced houses45%
Flats and maisonettes2%
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 Pool-in-Wharfedale’s homes sold for between £271K and £480K
One sale in ten was under £219K and one in ten over £738K. 18% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £340,500, sits in the £300–400K band
92 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.8 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £82,000 in 1995 to £392,500 in the last 12 months (£310,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
28 sales in the last 12 months, against 119 in 2003, the busiest year, and 21 in 2009. Sales fell by 59% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 54% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Pool-in-Wharfedale costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Pool-in-Wharfedale, 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
£122K
£191K
£262K
£288K
£456K
£490K
£720K
Semi-detached houses
£78K
£79K
£207K
£249K
—
£248K
£415K
Terraced houses
—
£75K
£184K
£174K
£229K
£218K
£288K
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
216 new homes have been sold in Pool-in-Wharfedale since 1995; the share peaked at 58% 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
3% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.1% sold leasehold in Pool-in-Wharfedale. 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
Church Close is Pool-in-Wharfedale’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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Church Close
LS21
12
£281,750
Mixed
2
Swallow Drive
LS21
9
£345,000
Mixed
3
Willow Court
LS21
7
£460,000
Mixed
4
Acorn Way
LS21
6
£395,500
Mixed
5
Wharfe Crescent
LS21
5
£277,000
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.
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 Pool-in-Wharfedale
What is the average house price in Pool-in-Wharfedale?
The median home in Pool-in-Wharfedale sold for £340,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 92 standard sales (£392,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £575,000, semi-detached houses £337,500 and terraced houses £277,000.
Are house prices going up in Pool-in-Wharfedale?
The median was £330,000 in 2025, down 4% on 2024 (£345,000), and £392,500 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 Pool-in-Wharfedale each year?
28 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 35 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.
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