The Laurels, Selby house prices are built from 99 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2006 and the most recent on 27 Sep 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £199,950. Across the 17 years from 2007 to 2024 the median moved +55.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -6.0%.
Median price paid
£199,950
Change in cash, 2007–2024
+55.4%
Change in real terms
-6.0%
HM Land Registry99 salesLatest sale 27 Sep 2024
Section 01
How The Laurels, Selby prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Laurels, Selby house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2006 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2 | £179,950 | £327,816 |
| 2010s | 3 | £200,000 | £282,000 |
| 2020s | 3 | £232,500 | £237,554 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Laurels, Selby is £292,000 in 2024; the lowest is £173,500 in 2015. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £179,950 to £292,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £320,366, so the real change over the whole record is -4.1% — about -0.23% 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: +55.4% in cash against -6.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 27 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £238,000 | £250,433 |
| 30 | 16 Sep 2024 | Detached | £292,000 | £307,254 |
| 28 | 25 Jul 2024 | Detached | £390,000 | £410,373 |
| 33 | 24 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £236,000 | £248,328 |
| 31 | 2 May 2024 | Detached | £327,000 | £344,082 |
| 56 | 18 Oct 2023 | Detached | £335,000 | £361,954 |
| 60 | 19 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £210,000 | £226,897 |
| 62 | 28 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £200,000 | £231,717 |
| 64 | 14 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £200,000 | £231,717 |
| 39 | 25 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £234,000 | £271,109 |
| 49 | 8 Apr 2022 | Detached | £268,000 | £310,501 |
| 23 | 17 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £231,000 | £267,634 |
| 47 | 28 Jan 2022 | Detached | £275,000 | £318,611 |
| 16 | 23 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £162,000 | £204,677 |
| 35 | 23 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £271,640 |
| 66 | 25 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| 70 | 12 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £219,950 | £284,784 |
| 72 | 30 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £219,950 | £284,784 |
| 54 | 30 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £187,500 | £242,769 |
| 68 | 30 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £175,960 | £227,827 |
| 45 | 30 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £170,000 | £220,110 |
| 43 | 30 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £164,950 | £213,572 |
| 10 | 7 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £271,901 |
| 41 | 2 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £172,500 | £223,347 |
| 40 | 21 Sep 2020 | Detached | £289,950 | £375,417 |
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 The Laurels, Selby values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 the Laurels | £204,950 (2019) | £238,000 (2024) | +3.0% | -1.4% |
| 30 the Laurels | £189,950 (2006) | £292,000 (2024) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 28 the Laurels | £234,950 (2006) | £390,000 (2024) | +2.9% | -0.1% |
| 33 the Laurels | £204,950 (2019) | £236,000 (2024) | +2.9% | -1.5% |
| 31 the Laurels | £279,950 (2019) | £327,000 (2024) | +3.2% | -1.2% |
| 56 the Laurels | £280,000 (2020) | £335,000 (2023) | +6.2% | -0.1% |
| 60 the Laurels | £170,000 (2020) | £210,000 (2023) | +7.3% | +1.0% |
| 62 the Laurels | £164,950 (2020) | £200,000 (2022) | +10.1% | +4.2% |
| 64 the Laurels | £170,000 (2020) | £200,000 (2022) | +8.5% | +2.6% |
| 39 the Laurels | £224,950 (2019) | £234,000 (2022) | +1.3% | -2.7% |
| 49 the Laurels | £199,950 (2020) | £268,000 (2022) | +15.8% | +9.5% |
| 23 the Laurels | £184,995 (2007) | £231,000 (2022) | +1.5% | -1.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Laurels, Selby 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 44 | 44.4% | £189,950 | £131,053 – £238,000 |
| Detached | 36 | 36.4% | £262,500 | £177,500 – £390,000 |
| Terraced | 19 | 19.2% | £162,000 | £117,500 – £210,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Laurels, Selby
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 99 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 99 | 100.0% | £199,950 |
| New build | 54 | 54.5% | £197,450 |
| Existing home | 45 | 45.5% | £200,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -1.3%. 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 8 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 The Laurels, Selby
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 £199,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.35% 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 YO8, 196 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 88 violent, 5 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 31 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.
Against the 342,215 residents the 2021 census counted in East Riding of Yorkshire, that is 0.57 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 The Laurels, Selby
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.
23 state and independent schools have a YO8 postcode: 20 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and Science | Secondary | Community school | 1,176 |
| Brayton Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 988 |
| Barlby High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 482 |
| Brayton Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 381 |
| Barlby Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 345 |
| Staynor Hall Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 328 |
| Selby Abbey Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 303 |
| Selby Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 303 |
| Thorpe Willoughby Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 246 |
| Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 200 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Selby Rail Station | Rail | 0.3 km |
| Wressle Rail Station | Rail | 9.0 km |
| Hensall Rail Station | Rail | 9.8 km |
| Snaith Rail Station | Rail | 10.0 km |
Section 09
How The Laurels, Selby compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Laurels, Selby sits above that national figure — +27.0%.
Within Selby the street ranks 194 of 709 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £143,500 (+39.3%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £117,500 to £390,000. 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.
The Laurels, Selby 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£175,000 median
- Main Road£150,000 median
- Leeds Road£188,000 median
- Moat Way£133,750 median
- Clog Mill Gardens£76,950 median
- York Road£198,975 median
- Coupland Road£125,000 median
- Doncaster Road£150,000 median
- Westbourne Road£136,500 median
- Abbots Road£110,000 median
- St Marys Avenue£84,475 median
- Pinewood Drive£75,600 median
- Sycamore Road£71,750 median
- Barlby Road£114,975 median
- Station Road£178,500 median
- Green Lane£189,995 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
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- 35 the Laurels3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Laurels, Selby?
The median price paid in The Laurels, Selby across every sale on the register is £199,950. 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 The Laurels, Selby?
99 sales are on record for The Laurels, Selby, the most recent completing on 27 Sep 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Laurels, Selby house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +55.4% between 2007 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -6.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Laurels, Selby house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £292,000, set in 2024. 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 The Laurels, Selby?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 27 Sep 2024. 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, “The Laurels, Selby 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.