Sold Price History


Main Street, Ripon house prices

Main Street, Ripon house prices are built from 239 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 21 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £212,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +71.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +23.9%.

Median price paid

£212,500

Change in cash, 2015–2025

+71.0%

Change in real terms

+23.9%

Median per m²

£2,139

HM Land Registry239 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 21 Jan 2026

Section 01

How Main Street, Ripon prices moved

The chart tracks the median Main Street, Ripon house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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.

Main Street, Ripon house prices by year, median price paid 1996 to 2025
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
1990s4£82,500£183,189
2000s8£182,500£332,461
2010s9£245,000£345,450
2020s4£480,000£490,435
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Main Street, Ripon is £543,300 in 2022; the lowest is £64,500 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £82,500 to £492,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £178,962, so the real change over the whole record is +181.2% — about +3.63% 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: +71.0% in cash against +23.9% 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
White Lodge Cottage21 Jan 2026Terraced£295,000£295,000
1 West End Cottages16 Jan 2026Terraced£275,000£275,000
The Conifers2 Sep 2025Terraced£492,500£503,207
Ivy Dene1 Sep 2025Detached£580,000£592,609
Longlands House5 Jun 2025Detached£680,000£694,783
The Weddles4 Jun 2025Terraced£405,000£413,804
Ashnott7 Feb 2025Terraced£209,000£213,543
The Cottage29 Oct 2024Terraced£320,000£336,716
Bardon House21 Aug 2024Detached£383,800£403,849
Arundo31 Jul 2024Semi-detached£360,000£378,806
Limley House28 Jun 2024Semi-detached£550,000£578,731
Pinfold House22 Feb 2024Terraced£480,000£505,075
White Lodge Farm10 Jan 2024Terraced£549,900£578,626
White Lodge10 Jan 2024Terraced£549,900£578,626
Briar Cottage11 Dec 2023Terraced£272,000£293,885
101 Nov 2023Terraced£335,000£361,954
Rydale House15 Sep 2023Terraced£300,000£324,138
2412 May 2023Terraced£240,000£259,310
Garth Cottage21 Dec 2022Detached£280,000£324,404
Ivy Dene21 Sep 2022Detached£640,000£741,495
Walkerburn5 Aug 2022Detached£643,260£745,272
Twigg House21 Jun 2022Detached£620,000£718,324
Redstone Cottage20 Jun 2022Terraced£330,000£382,334
Turnway4 Apr 2022Semi-detached£466,600£540,597
Chapel House31 Mar 2022Detached£670,000£776,253
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 Main Street, Ripon values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
WHITE LODGE COTTAGE Main Street£67,000 (1996)£295,000 (2026)+5.1%+2.4%
1 WEST END COTTAGES Main Street£140,000 (2018)£275,000 (2026)+8.8%+5.0%
THE CONIFERS Main Street£129,950 (2000)£492,500 (2025)+5.5%+2.7%
IVY DENE Main Street£280,000 (2013)£580,000 (2025)+6.3%+3.2%
LONGLANDS HOUSE Main Street£485,000 (2010)£680,000 (2025)+2.3%-0.7%
THE WEDDLES Main Street£245,000 (2010)£405,000 (2025)+3.4%+0.4%
ASHNOTT Main Street£152,000 (2006)£209,000 (2025)+1.7%-1.2%
THE COTTAGE Main Street£82,500 (1996)£320,000 (2024)+5.0%+2.3%
BARDON HOUSE Main Street£95,000 (1998)£383,800 (2024)+5.5%+2.8%
ARUNDO Main Street£180,000 (2003)£360,000 (2024)+3.4%+0.5%
PINFOLD HOUSE Main Street£135,000 (1999)£480,000 (2024)+5.2%+2.5%
BRIAR COTTAGE Main Street£151,000 (2014)£272,000 (2023)+6.8%+3.4%
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. Main Street, Ripon is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Terraced13355.6%£190,000£29,500 – £595,000
Detached6728.0%£340,000£35,250 – £728,000
Semi-detached3916.3%£189,950£40,000 – £550,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Main Street, Ripon

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 239 freehold — 0.0% 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.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold00.0%
Freehold239100.0%£212,500
New build52.1%£85,000
Existing home23497.9%£215,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -60.5%. 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 9 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 Main Street, Ripon

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.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A2,5460.8%
B37,47711.5%
C83,44825.7%
D117,82536.3%
E55,73817.2%
F20,5196.3%
G6,9352.1%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in North Yorkshire.

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 £212,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.73% 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.

No street-level crime was published for HG4 in Jun 2026. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around Main Street, Ripon

15 state and independent schools have a HG4 postcode: 13 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Ripon Grammar SchoolSecondaryCommunity school957
Outwood Academy RiponSecondaryAcademy converter609
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter335
Ripon Cathedral Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school210
Moorside Primary School & NurseryPrimaryCommunity school169
Outwood Primary Academy GreystonePrimaryAcademy sponsor led169
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimaryAcademy converter151
Kirkby Malzeard Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school96
Sharow Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school76
Fountains Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter71
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Bedale (Wensleydale Railway)Metro or underground14.8 km
Thirsk Rail StationRail14.9 km
Leeming Bar (Wensleydale Railway)Metro or underground16.5 km
Knaresborough Rail StationRail17.6 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Main Street, Ripon compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Street, Ripon sits above that national figure — +34.9%.

Within Ripon the street ranks 157 of 397 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £174,950 (+21.5%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,139 per square metre, across 1 of the 239 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 £29,500 to £728,000. 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.

Main Street, Ripon 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.

Section 10

Nearby on the record

Streets nearby

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Ripon house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Main Street, Ripon?

The median price paid in Main Street, Ripon across every sale on the register is £212,500. 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 Main Street, Ripon?

239 sales are on record for Main Street, Ripon, the most recent completing on 21 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Main Street, Ripon house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +71.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +23.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Main Street, Ripon house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £543,300, 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 Main Street, Ripon?

£2,139 per square metre, from the 1 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 Jan 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, “Main Street, Ripon 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.