Esplanade, Scarborough house prices

Esplanade, Scarborough house prices are built from 469 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 6 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £130,420. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +10.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -20.9%.

HM Land Registry469 sales104 with floor areaLatest sale 6 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median Esplanade, 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 Esplanade, Scarborough is £247,500 in 2023; the lowest is £52,500 in 1997. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £76,000 to £185,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £168,756, so the real change over the whole record is +9.6% — about +0.30% 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: +10.4% in cash against -20.9% 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.

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 Esplanade, 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. Esplanade, Scarborough is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

190 of the sales on record are leasehold and 279 freehold — 40.5% 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 £133,725 and the median freehold sale £130,000 — a gap of -2.8%. 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 — -24.1%. 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 12 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 £130,420 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.71% 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 YO11, 117 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 52 violent, 2 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 27 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 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.

10 state and independent schools have a YO11 postcode: 7 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. 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. Esplanade, Scarborough sits below that national figure — -17.2%.

Within Scarborough the street ranks 506 of 969 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £118,000 (+10.5%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,458 per square metre, across 104 of the 469 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 £16,000 to £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.

Esplanade, 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 nearby

• Filey Road£107,000 median
• Prince of Wales Terrace£103,000 median
• Westbourne Grove£80,000 median
• Castle Road£97,000 median
• Overdale£95,000 median
• Holbeck Hill£147,000 median
• Avenue Victoria£92,250 median
• Esplanade Gardens£98,000 median
• Grosvenor Crescent£57,750 median
• Esplanade Road£103,750 median
• Albion Road£82,000 median
• Eastway£105,500 median
• Harvest Way£97,500 median
• Osgodby Lane£140,500 median
• West Garth£150,000 median
• West Street£85,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 1, 20A Esplanade7 sales
• FLAT 4, 57 Esplanade6 sales
• FLAT 3, HEDLEY COURT, 29 Esplanade6 sales
• FLAT 1, 28 Esplanade6 sales
• FLAT 6, 57 Esplanade5 sales
• GARDEN FLAT, 20A Esplanade5 sales
• GARDEN FLAT, 65 Esplanade5 sales
• FLAT 11, ADELPHI COURT, 61 – 62 Esplanade5 sales
• BASEMENT FLAT, 69 Esplanade5 sales
• FLAT 1, 57 Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 6, OAKLANDS, 13 – 14 Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 1, 44 Esplanade4 sales
• APARTMENT 5, PREMIER APARTMENTS, 66 Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 9, ADELPHI COURT, 61 – 62 Esplanade4 sales
• 61, PRINCE of WALES APARTMENTS Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 5, 67 Esplanade4 sales
• GARDEN FLAT, 70 Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 1, 46 Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 3, ARGYLL, 25 – 26 Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 2, 40 Esplanade4 sales
• 3RD FLOOR FLAT, 70 Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 1, 65 Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 5, ARGYLL, 25 – 26 Esplanade4 sales
• FLAT 1, 35 Esplanade4 sales

Back to Scarborough house prices.

What is the average house price in Esplanade, Scarborough?

The median price paid in Esplanade, Scarborough across every sale on the register is £130,420. 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 Esplanade, Scarborough?

469 sales are on record for Esplanade, Scarborough, the most recent completing on 6 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Esplanade, Scarborough house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +10.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -20.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Esplanade, Scarborough house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £247,500, set in 2023. 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 Esplanade, Scarborough?

£1,458 per square metre, from the 104 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 6 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, “Esplanade, 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.