Waterside, Knaresborough house prices

Waterside, Knaresborough house prices are built from 139 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £262,000. Across the 11 years from 2013 to 2024 the median moved +65.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +19.5%.

HM Land Registry139 sales53 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jul 2025

The chart tracks the median Waterside, Knaresborough house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 Waterside, Knaresborough is £568,750 in 2022; the lowest is £88,250 in 1995. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £88,250 to £510,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £195,957, so the real change over the whole record is +173.9% — about +3.53% 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: +65.6% in cash against +19.5% 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 Waterside, Knaresborough values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

29 of the sales on record are leasehold and 110 freehold — 20.9% 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 £200,000 and the median freehold sale £327,500 — a gap of +63.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -11.3%. 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 14 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 £262,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.84% 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 HG5, 96 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 34 violent, 3 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 37 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times quieter.

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.

8 state and independent schools have a HG5 postcode: 7 primary, 1 secondary. 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. Waterside, Knaresborough sits above that national figure — +66.3%.

Within Knaresborough the street ranks 116 of 336 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £217,000 (+20.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,759 per square metre, across 53 of the 139 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 £46,000 to £1,300,000. 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.

Waterside, Knaresborough 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 nearby

• Boroughbridge Road£324,000 median
• Main Street£260,000 median
• Briggate£170,000 median
• Appleby Crescent£247,500 median
• High Street£125,000 median
• Ripley Road£325,000 median
• Appleby Avenue£203,300 median
• Farndale Road£157,500 median
• Manor Road£186,000 median
• Vale Court£72,950 median
• Forest Moor Road£395,000 median
• Littondale Avenue£161,750 median
• Manor Drive£205,000 median
• Abbey Road£465,000 median
• Aspin Oval£249,975 median
• Stockwell Drive£157,875 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 16, CASTLE MILLS Waterside9 sales
• 2, the OLD DYE HOUSE Waterside5 sales
• 13, CASTLE MILLS Waterside5 sales
• FLAT 3, the RETORT HOUSE Waterside5 sales
• THE WEIR HOUSE Waterside5 sales
• 3 Waterside5 sales
• FLAT 1, the RETORT HOUSE Waterside4 sales
• 11 Waterside4 sales
• 21, CASTLE MILLS Waterside4 sales
• 18, CASTLE MILLS Waterside3 sales
• 8, CASTLE MILLS Waterside3 sales
• APARTMENT 2, the BOATHOUSE, 2 Waterside3 sales
• 20, CASTLE MILLS Waterside3 sales
• 2, RIVER COURT Waterside3 sales
• 25 Waterside3 sales
• 13 Waterside3 sales
• 17, CASTLE MILLS Waterside2 sales
• 15, CASTLE MILLS Waterside2 sales
• 1, HIGH BRIDGE COURT Waterside2 sales
• 5, HIGH BRIDGE COURT Waterside2 sales
• 15C Waterside2 sales
• 11, CASTLE MILLS Waterside2 sales
• 14 Waterside2 sales
• 3, CASTLE MILLS Waterside2 sales

Back to Knaresborough house prices.

What is the average house price in Waterside, Knaresborough?

The median price paid in Waterside, Knaresborough across every sale on the register is £262,000. 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 Waterside, Knaresborough?

139 sales are on record for Waterside, Knaresborough, the most recent completing on 30 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Waterside, Knaresborough house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +65.6% between 2013 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +19.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Waterside, Knaresborough house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £568,750, 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 Waterside, Knaresborough?

£2,759 per square metre, from the 53 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 30 Jul 2025. 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, “Waterside, Knaresborough 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.