Sold Price History


YO31 9 house prices

YO31 9 house prices are built from 3,428 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £157,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +38.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -0.7%.

Median price paid

£157,000

Change in cash, 2016–2026

+38.7%

Change in real terms

-0.7%

Median per m²

£2,385

HM Land Registry3,428 sales786 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

Section 01

How YO31 9 prices moved

The chart tracks the median YO31 9 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

YO31 9 house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2026
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£54,250£120,461
2000s10£138,250£251,851
2010s10£174,000£245,340
2020s7£265,000£270,761
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for YO31 9 is £285,150 in 2025; the lowest is £51,500 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £53,500 to £260,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £118,795, so the real change over the whole record is +118.9% — about +2.56% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +38.7% in cash against -0.7% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Section 02

The most recent sales

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
9 RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close25 Jun 2026Flat or maisonette£180,000£180,000
11 Thornfield Drive16 Jun 2026Semi-detached£260,000£260,000
27 WEALD HOUSE Birch Close11 Jun 2026Flat or maisonette£169,000£169,000
5 Beech Glade14 May 2026Semi-detached£270,000£270,000
65 Bell Farm Avenue30 Apr 2026Semi-detached£225,000£225,000
12 DANUBE HOUSE Darwin Close24 Apr 2026Flat or maisonette£168,000£168,000
57 Whitethorn Close17 Apr 2026Semi-detached£320,000£320,000
31 WEALD HOUSE Birch Close27 Mar 2026Flat or maisonette£168,000£168,000
5 WEALD HOUSE Birch Close13 Mar 2026Flat or maisonette£167,500£167,500
9 Waterdale Park27 Feb 2026Flat or maisonette£169,300£169,300
32 Minster Avenue17 Feb 2026Semi-detached£260,000£260,000
9 ESSEX HOUSE Darwin Close16 Feb 2026Flat or maisonette£170,000£170,000
32 Whenby Grove12 Feb 2026Detached£355,000£355,000
27 Hawthorn Spinney6 Feb 2026Semi-detached£307,500£307,500
4 Briar Drive2 Feb 2026Semi-detached£215,000£215,000
39 Brockfield Park Drive28 Jan 2026Semi-detached£342,000£342,000
108 Brockfield Park Drive26 Jan 2026Terraced£320,000£320,000
3 Orchard Gardens23 Jan 2026Semi-detached£445,000£445,000
3 Templemead20 Jan 2026Semi-detached£650,000£650,000
55 Middleham Avenue16 Jan 2026Terraced£262,500£262,500
8 Blackthorn Drive6 Jan 2026Semi-detached£262,500£262,500
20 Turner Close19 Dec 2025Detached£305,000£311,630
5 Scawton Avenue19 Dec 2025Terraced£243,000£248,283
90 Brockfield Park Drive18 Dec 2025Semi-detached£425,000£434,239
11 Orchard Gardens18 Dec 2025Semi-detached£403,600£412,374
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

Section 03

Homes that sold twice

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to YO31 9 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
9 RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close£111,428 (2011)£180,000 (2026)+3.2%+0.4%
11 Thornfield Drive£56,000 (1998)£260,000 (2026)+5.6%+2.9%
27 WEALD HOUSE Birch Close£148,950 (2011)£169,000 (2026)+0.8%-2.0%
5 Beech Glade£250,000 (2021)£270,000 (2026)+1.6%-3.1%
12 DANUBE HOUSE Darwin Close£67,950 (2001)£168,000 (2026)+3.7%+0.9%
31 WEALD HOUSE Birch Close£140,000 (2010)£168,000 (2026)+1.1%-1.8%
5 WEALD HOUSE Birch Close£119,340 (2011)£167,500 (2026)+2.3%-0.6%
9 Waterdale Park£48,500 (1996)£169,300 (2026)+4.3%+1.6%
32 Minster Avenue£206,000 (2021)£260,000 (2026)+4.8%0.0%
9 ESSEX HOUSE Darwin Close£87,950 (2002)£170,000 (2026)+2.8%+0.0%
32 Whenby Grove£75,500 (1998)£355,000 (2026)+5.7%+3.0%
27 Hawthorn Spinney£74,950 (1998)£307,500 (2026)+5.2%+2.5%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. YO31 9 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Semi-detached1,89455.3%£164,000£16,000 – £667,500
Terraced68920.1%£155,000£16,000 – £400,000
Flat or maisonette51615.1%£124,000£20,000 – £255,000
Detached3299.6%£210,000£50,000 – £1,200,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 05

How big homes are in YO31 9

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 706 certificates cover YO31 9, and their median floor area is 69 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -9.2%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

MeasureFloor areaSample
Median floor area69 m²about 743 sq ft
Smaller quarter, up to59 m²about 635 sq ft
Larger quarter, from88 m²about 947 sq ft
Under 60 m²26.1%184 homes
150 m² and over3.0%21 homes
EPC certificates inspected between 4 Jan 2022 and 27 Jun 2026.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in YO31 9

631 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2,797 freehold — 18.4% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £124,000 and the median freehold sale £167,000 — a gap of +34.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold63118.4%£124,000
Freehold2,79781.6%£167,000
New build2838.3%£124,000
Existing home3,14591.7%£160,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -22.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 101 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Section 07

Living in YO31 9

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across York, 43.6% of 94,614 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A6370.7%
B8,2198.7%
C32,38734.2%
D40,23842.5%
E10,48611.1%
F2,0522.2%
G5950.6%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in York.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in York at £1,186 a month as of Jun 2026 — £866 for a one-bedroom home and £1,265 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £157,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.06% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of YO31, 435 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 131 violent, 9 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 108 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.6 times busier.

Against the 202,821 residents the 2021 census counted in York, that is 2.14 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around YO31 9

The 2021 census counted 202,821 residents in York across 85,458 households. 65.9% of those households own their home and 33.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

8 state and independent schools have a YO31 postcode: 8 primary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Hempland Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter420
Yearsley Grove Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school385
Haxby Road Primary AcademyPrimaryAcademy sponsor led293
Park Grove Primary AcademyPrimaryAcademy converter262
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School – a Catholic Voluntary AcademyPrimaryAcademy converter261
Tang Hall Primary AcademyPrimaryAcademy converter227
St Aelred's Catholic Primary School – a Catholic Voluntary AcademyPrimaryAcademy converter175
Heworth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter142
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
York Rail StationRail2.3 km
Poppleton Rail StationRail5.5 km
Hammerton Rail StationRail14.7 km
Ulleskelf Rail StationRail16.2 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How YO31 9 compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. YO31 9 sits below that national figure — -0.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,385 per square metre, across 786 of the 3,428 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £16,000 to £1,200,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

YO31 9 sits in York, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in York at 7.8 times median local earnings of £39,337 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Section 10

Nearby on the record

Other sectors in YO31

The wider district is YO31.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in YO31 9?

The median price paid in YO31 9 across every sale on the register is £157,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in YO31 9?

3,428 sales are on record for YO31 9, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have YO31 9 house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +38.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -0.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were YO31 9 house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £285,150, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in YO31 9?

£2,385 per square metre, from the 786 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 25 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “YO31 9 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.