Riverhead, Driffield house prices are built from 112 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 2 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £68,750. Across the 16 years from 2006 to 2022 the median moved +12.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -26.6%.
Median price paid
£68,750
Change in cash, 2006–2022
+12.8%
Change in real terms
-26.6%
Median per m²
£1,563
HM Land Registry112 sales30 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Riverhead, Driffield prices moved
The chart tracks the median Riverhead, Driffield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1 | £35,000 | £77,717 |
| 2000s | 5 | £64,250 | £117,045 |
| 2010s | 1 | £58,000 | £81,780 |
| 2020s | 1 | £92,500 | £94,511 |
The highest yearly median on record for Riverhead, Driffield is £92,500 in 2022; the lowest is £34,475 in 2002. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £35,000 to £92,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £77,717, so the real change over the whole record is +37.9% — about +1.20% 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: +12.8% in cash against -26.6% 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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 5 Riverhead Court | 2 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| Flat 2 Riverhead Court | 19 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £77,000 | £78,674 |
| 39 | 12 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £153,000 | £160,993 |
| Flat 1 Riverhead Court | 18 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £91,500 | £96,280 |
| 6 | 14 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £242,000 | £254,642 |
| Flat 12 Riverhead Court | 12 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £99,402 |
| Flat 18 Riverhead Court | 23 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | £95,583 |
| Flat 9 Riverhead Court | 11 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £121,652 |
| Flat 4 Riverhead Court | 6 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £92,500 | £107,169 |
| Flat 5 Riverhead Court | 22 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £84,000 | £97,321 |
| Flat 21 Riverhead Court | 11 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £103,000 | £119,334 |
| 3 | 22 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £127,500 | £161,089 |
| Flat 19 Riverhead Court | 7 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £61,000 | £79,787 |
| 4 | 20 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £172,000 | £224,972 |
| Flat 15 Riverhead Court | 16 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £66,000 | £86,327 |
| 8 | 21 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £150,000 | £196,197 |
| Flat 5 Riverhead Court | 21 Sep 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £76,750 | £102,285 |
| 10 | 24 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £85,000 | £113,280 |
| Flat 18 Riverhead Court | 14 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £57,000 | £75,964 |
| 39 | 30 Apr 2018 | Terraced | £116,000 | £154,594 |
| Grove Cottage | 30 Nov 2017 | Detached | £547,500 | £745,150 |
| Flat 9 Riverhead Court | 18 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £75,000 | £102,075 |
| Flat 18 Riverhead Court | 22 Dec 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £57,000 | £79,574 |
| Flat 14 Riverhead Court | 8 Aug 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £61,000 | £85,158 |
| Flat 20 Riverhead Court | 26 May 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £56,000 | £78,178 |
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 Riverhead, Driffield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 5 RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead | £76,750 (2018) | £95,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.9% |
| FLAT 2 RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead | £51,500 (2004) | £77,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -0.9% |
| 39 Riverhead | £116,000 (2018) | £153,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +0.7% |
| FLAT 1 RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead | £68,000 (2016) | £91,500 (2024) | +3.8% | +0.2% |
| FLAT 12 RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead | £71,950 (2006) | £92,000 (2023) | +1.5% | -1.5% |
| FLAT 18 RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead | £63,000 (2005) | £82,500 (2022) | +1.6% | -1.1% |
| FLAT 9 RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead | £75,000 (2017) | £105,000 (2022) | +7.0% | +3.6% |
| FLAT 4 RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead | £35,000 (1995) | £92,500 (2022) | +3.7% | +1.2% |
| FLAT 21 RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead | £56,000 (2003) | £103,000 (2022) | +3.3% | +0.6% |
| FLAT 19 RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead | £26,000 (2002) | £61,000 (2019) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| FLAT 15 RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead | £26,300 (1998) | £66,000 (2019) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
| 8 Riverhead | £39,000 (1997) | £150,000 (2019) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Riverhead, Driffield is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 58 | 51.8% | £60,000 | £26,000 – £105,000 |
| Terraced | 38 | 33.9% | £71,250 | £28,250 – £242,000 |
| Detached | 11 | 9.8% | £182,500 | £59,000 – £547,500 |
| Semi-detached | 5 | 4.5% | £112,000 | £108,500 – £400,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Riverhead, Driffield
58 of the sales on record are leasehold and 54 freehold — 51.8% 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 £60,500 and the median freehold sale £91,250 — a gap of +50.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 58 | 51.8% | £60,500 |
| Freehold | 54 | 48.2% | £91,250 |
A further 4 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 Riverhead, Driffield
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across East Riding of Yorkshire, 40.2% of 170,039 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,419 | 0.8% |
| B | 20,904 | 12.3% |
| C | 46,091 | 27.1% |
| D | 64,323 | 37.8% |
| E | 26,206 | 15.4% |
| F | 8,245 | 4.8% |
| G | 2,851 | 1.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in East Riding of Yorkshire at £724 a month as of Jun 2026 — £502 for a one-bedroom home and £799 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £68,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.64% 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 YO25, 53 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 23 violent, 0 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 9 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.2 times quieter.
Against the 342,215 residents the 2021 census counted in East Riding of Yorkshire, that is 0.15 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 Riverhead, Driffield
The 2021 census counted 342,215 residents in East Riding of Yorkshire across 152,066 households. 73.5% of those households own their home and 26.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
19 state and independent schools have a YO25 postcode: 18 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driffield School and Sixth Form | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,414 |
| Driffield Junior School | Primary | Community school | 496 |
| Nafferton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 294 |
| Hutton Cranswick Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 172 |
| Northfield Infant School | Primary | Community school | 158 |
| Driffield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 157 |
| Brandesburton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 136 |
| Kilham Church of England Voluntary Controlled School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 100 |
| Wold Newton Foundation School | Primary | Foundation school | 98 |
| Garton-on-the-Wolds Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 96 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Driffield Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Nafferton Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Hutton Cranswick Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Arram Rail Station | Rail | 13.4 km |
Section 09
How Riverhead, Driffield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Riverhead, Driffield sits below that national figure — -56.3%.
Within Driffield the street ranks 546 of 572 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £132,500 (-48.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,563 per square metre, across 30 of the 112 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 £26,000 to £547,500. 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.
Riverhead, Driffield sits in East Riding of Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in East Riding of Yorkshire at 6.4 times median local earnings of £35,020 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
Streets nearby
- Main Street£145,000 median
- Auchinleck Close£80,000 median
- Front Street£142,000 median
- Station Road£138,750 median
- York Road£125,000 median
- Bracken Road£121,000 median
- Westgate£91,500 median
- Beverley Road£121,550 median
- The Mount£123,500 median
- Woldholme Avenue£92,500 median
- Southfield Close£95,000 median
- Wansford Road£128,500 median
- Church Lane£165,500 median
- Eastgate South£80,000 median
- Scarborough Road£110,000 median
- Mill Falls£131,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 4, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead6 sales
- FLAT 18, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead5 sales
- 18 Riverhead5 sales
- FLAT 2, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead4 sales
- FLAT 21, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead4 sales
- FLAT 19, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead4 sales
- FLAT 6, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead4 sales
- FLAT 17, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead4 sales
- FLAT 5, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead3 sales
- FLAT 12, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead3 sales
- FLAT 15, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead3 sales
- 10 Riverhead3 sales
- FLAT 14, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead3 sales
- 34 Riverhead3 sales
- BEECHWOOD COTTAGE Riverhead3 sales
- FLAT 22, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead3 sales
- 9 Riverhead3 sales
- SPRINGFIELD HOUSE Riverhead3 sales
- 17 Riverhead3 sales
- 39 Riverhead2 sales
- FLAT 1, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead2 sales
- FLAT 9, RIVERHEAD COURT Riverhead2 sales
- 8 Riverhead2 sales
- GROVE COTTAGE Riverhead2 sales
Back to Driffield house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Riverhead, Driffield?
The median price paid in Riverhead, Driffield across every sale on the register is £68,750. 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 Riverhead, Driffield?
112 sales are on record for Riverhead, Driffield, the most recent completing on 2 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Riverhead, Driffield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +12.8% between 2006 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -26.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Riverhead, Driffield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £92,500, set in 2022. 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 Riverhead, Driffield?
£1,563 per square metre, from the 30 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 2 Mar 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, “Riverhead, Driffield 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.