Scarborough house prices

Scarborough house prices are built from 46,219 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £118,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +36.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.1%.

HM Land Registry46,219 sales8,165 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Scarborough 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Scarborough is £195,000 in 2024; the lowest is £48,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £48,000 to £191,250.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £106,583, so the real change over the whole record is +79.4% — about +1.90% 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: +36.6% in cash against -2.1% 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.

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.

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 Scarborough values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 11,641 certificates cover Scarborough, and their median floor area is 79 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +3.9%. 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.

5,496 of the sales on record are leasehold and 40,723 freehold — 11.9% 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 £88,000 and the median freehold sale £122,500 — a gap of +39.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +25.6%. 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 2,982 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Yorkshire, 38.1% of 324,488 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 8.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Yorkshire at £838 a month as of Jun 2026 — £586 for a one-bedroom home and £929 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £118,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.52% 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 YO12, 361 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 133 violent, 4 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 101 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.2 times busier.

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.

12 state and independent schools have a YO12 postcode: 8 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Scarborough sits below that national figure — -25.1%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,333 per square metre, across 8,165 of the 46,219 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 £600 to £1,750,000. 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.

Scarborough sits in North Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Yorkshire at 7.9 times median local earnings of £34,785 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.

Streets in Scarborough

• Main Street929 sales
• Filey Road832 sales
• Scalby Road694 sales
• Esplanade469 sales
• North Marine Road384 sales
• High Street373 sales
• Prospect Road341 sales
• Prince of Wales Terrace301 sales
• Westbourne Grove275 sales
• Castle Road260 sales
• Seamer Road248 sales
• Overdale247 sales
• Moor Lane244 sales
• Holbeck Hill243 sales
• Avenue Victoria228 sales
• Columbus Ravine228 sales
• Candler Street226 sales
• Stepney Road226 sales
• Scholes Park Road215 sales
• Trafalgar Road215 sales
• Nelson Street207 sales
• Esplanade Gardens205 sales
• Trafalgar Square204 sales
• Hoxton Road202 sales
• Murchison Street201 sales
• Grosvenor Crescent197 sales
• Blenheim Terrace196 sales
• Curlew Drive196 sales
• Gordon Street195 sales
• Highfield194 sales
• Esplanade Road190 sales
• Coldyhill Lane188 sales
• Hampton Road185 sales
• Tennyson Avenue185 sales
• Station Road181 sales
• Wash Beck Close179 sales
• Newby Farm Road174 sales
• North Street174 sales
• Falsgrave Road173 sales
• Albion Road169 sales
• North Leas Avenue169 sales
• Eastway166 sales
• Harvest Way163 sales
• St Johns Road163 sales
• Weydale Avenue163 sales
• Osgodby Lane156 sales
• Green Howards Drive155 sales
• Moorland Road151 sales
• Throxenby Lane149 sales
• Wykeham Street148 sales
• West Garth147 sales
• West Street146 sales
• Tindall Street144 sales
• Byward Drive139 sales
• Fenby Gardens139 sales
• Commercial Street138 sales
• Peasholm Gap136 sales
• Hovingham Drive133 sales
• Leighton Close132 sales
• Spring Bank132 sales

Postcode districts covering Scarborough

• YO12£114,500 median
• YO11£108,000 median
• YO13£185,000 median

What is the average house price in Scarborough?

The median price paid in Scarborough across every sale on the register is £118,000. 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 Scarborough?

46,219 sales are on record for Scarborough, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Scarborough house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +36.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Scarborough house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £195,000, set in 2024. 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 Scarborough?

£1,333 per square metre, from the 8,165 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 26 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, “Scarborough 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.