Railway Road, Ilkley house prices are built from 150 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2018 and the most recent on 21 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £273,499. Across the 7 years from 2018 to 2025 the median moved +26.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -3.4%.
Median price paid
£273,499
Change in cash, 2018–2025
+26.0%
Change in real terms
-3.4%
Median per m²
£2,396
HM Land Registry150 sales8 with floor areaLatest sale 21 May 2026
Section 01
How Railway Road, Ilkley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Railway Road, Ilkley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2018 to 2025. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 2 | £275,999 | £389,159 |
| 2020s | 6 | £335,000 | £342,283 |
The highest yearly median on record for Railway Road, Ilkley is £350,803 in 2025; the lowest is £246,250 in 2024. Across the full 8-year record the cash median has moved from £278,324 to £350,803.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £370,923, so the real change over the whole record is -3.4% — about -0.49% 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: +26.0% in cash against -3.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Chesterton Court | 21 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 56 Chesterton Court | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £378,000 | £378,000 |
| 23 Chesterton Court | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 39 Priestley Court | 23 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| 17 Chesterton Court | 15 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £350,803 | £358,429 |
| 3 Chesterton Court | 30 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 35 Priestley Court | 7 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 29 Chesterton Court | 16 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 1 Chesterton Court | 21 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £415,000 | £424,022 |
| 47 Chesterton Court | 25 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £147,500 | £150,707 |
| 52 Chesterton Court | 22 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 7 Priestley Court | 16 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| 4 Chesterton Court | 31 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 46 Chesterton Court | 3 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 42 Priestley Court | 14 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £226,231 |
| 43 Priestley Court | 7 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 50 Chesterton Court | 22 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £430,000 | £452,463 |
| 21 | 12 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 30 Priestley Court | 3 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £247,500 | £260,429 |
| 16 Chesterton Court | 15 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 55 Chesterton Court | 31 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £420,000 | £441,940 |
| 27 Chesterton Court | 20 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £305,000 | £329,540 |
| 59 Chesterton Court | 27 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £382,000 | £412,736 |
| 23 | 4 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £276,000 | £298,207 |
| 43 | 19 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £307,500 | £332,241 |
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 Railway Road, Ilkley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road | £344,999 (2019) | £245,000 (2026) | -4.8% | -8.4% |
| 56 CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road | £361,999 (2019) | £378,000 (2026) | +0.6% | -3.2% |
| 23 CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road | £242,249 (2018) | £185,000 (2026) | -3.3% | -6.7% |
| 39 PRIESTLEY COURT Railway Road | £254,999 (2018) | £215,000 (2026) | -2.1% | -5.6% |
| 17 CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road | £362,499 (2019) | £350,803 (2025) | -0.5% | -4.6% |
| 3 CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road | £266,499 (2018) | £225,000 (2025) | -2.4% | -6.0% |
| 35 PRIESTLEY COURT Railway Road | £386,499 (2018) | £400,000 (2025) | +0.5% | -3.3% |
| 29 CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road | £201,948 (2018) | £160,000 (2025) | -3.3% | -6.9% |
| 1 CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road | £361,999 (2018) | £415,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -1.8% |
| 47 CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road | £146,999 (2018) | £147,500 (2025) | +0.0% | -3.7% |
| 52 CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road | £403,999 (2019) | £375,000 (2025) | -1.2% | -5.2% |
| 7 PRIESTLEY COURT Railway Road | £175,049 (2018) | £245,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Railway Road, Ilkley 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 | 133 | 88.7% | £279,649 | £129,950 – £430,000 |
| Semi-detached | 9 | 6.0% | £160,000 | £66,500 – £340,000 |
| Terraced | 5 | 3.3% | £140,000 | £18,500 – £307,500 |
| Detached | 3 | 2.0% | £202,000 | £189,000 – £320,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Railway Road, Ilkley
134 of the sales on record are leasehold and 16 freehold — 89.3% 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 £278,324 and the median freehold sale £182,000 — a gap of -34.6%. 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 | 134 | 89.3% | £278,324 |
| Freehold | 16 | 10.7% | £182,000 |
| New build | 26 | 17.3% | £278,324 |
| Existing home | 124 | 82.7% | £268,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +3.7%. 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 142 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 Railway Road, Ilkley
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bradford, 33.4% of 286,120 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 422 | 0.1% |
| B | 18,442 | 6.4% |
| C | 76,666 | 26.8% |
| D | 115,020 | 40.2% |
| E | 60,186 | 21.0% |
| F | 10,848 | 3.8% |
| G | 4,536 | 1.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bradford at £750 a month as of Jun 2026 — £553 for a one-bedroom home and £814 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £273,499 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.29% 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 LS29, 31 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 10 violent, 3 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 3 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 5.4 times quieter.
Against the 546,412 residents the 2021 census counted in Bradford, that is 0.06 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 Railway Road, Ilkley
The 2021 census counted 546,412 residents in Bradford across 209,867 households. 62.2% of those households own their home and 37.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a LS29 postcode: 8 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ilkley Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 2,219 |
| St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,211 |
| Menston Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 398 |
| Burley Oaks Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 393 |
| All Saints' CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 330 |
| Ashlands Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 266 |
| Burley and Woodhead CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 206 |
| Addingham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 192 |
| Ben Rhydding Primary School | Primary | Community school | 190 |
| The Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 118 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Rhydding Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Ilkley Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Burley-in-Wharfedale Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
| Menston Rail Station | Rail | 5.1 km |
Section 09
How Railway Road, Ilkley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Railway Road, Ilkley sits above that national figure — +73.7%.
Within Ilkley the street ranks 284 of 623 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £225,000 (+21.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,396 per square metre, across 8 of the 150 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 £18,500 to £430,000. 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.
Railway Road, Ilkley sits in Bradford, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bradford at 5.2 times median local earnings of £35,213 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£184,000 median
- Skipton Road£215,000 median
- Ben Rhydding Drive£375,000 median
- Bradford Road£220,000 median
- Leeds Road£182,250 median
- West Terrace£137,500 median
- Valley Drive£249,950 median
- Grove Road£357,500 median
- Springs Lane£138,500 median
- Bolling Road£187,500 median
- Kings Road£292,000 median
- Jackson Walk£161,750 median
- Parish Ghyll Road£192,000 median
- Crossbeck Road£198,500 median
- Station Road£208,000 median
- Clifford Drive£157,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT, 1B Railway Road5 sales
- 23 Railway Road4 sales
- 23, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road3 sales
- 17, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road3 sales
- 35, PRIESTLEY COURT Railway Road3 sales
- 1, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road3 sales
- 46, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road3 sales
- 55, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road3 sales
- 8, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road3 sales
- 7, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 56, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 39, PRIESTLEY COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 3, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 29, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 47, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 52, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 7, PRIESTLEY COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 4, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 42, PRIESTLEY COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 43, PRIESTLEY COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 50, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 21 Railway Road2 sales
- 30, PRIESTLEY COURT Railway Road2 sales
- 16, CHESTERTON COURT Railway Road2 sales
Back to Ilkley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Railway Road, Ilkley?
The median price paid in Railway Road, Ilkley across every sale on the register is £273,499. 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 Railway Road, Ilkley?
150 sales are on record for Railway Road, Ilkley, the most recent completing on 21 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Railway Road, Ilkley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +26.0% between 2018 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -3.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Railway Road, Ilkley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £350,803, 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 Railway Road, Ilkley?
£2,396 per square metre, from the 8 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 21 May 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, “Railway Road, Ilkley 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.