The Waterfront, Selby house prices are built from 130 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2006 and the most recent on 20 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £149,995. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved -40.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -57.1%.
Median price paid
£149,995
Change in cash, 2007–2021
-40.9%
Change in real terms
-57.1%
Median per m²
£2,223
HM Land Registry130 sales44 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Mar 2026
Section 01
How The Waterfront, Selby prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Waterfront, Selby house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2006 to 2021. 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 | £154,995 | £282,355 |
| 2020s | 1 | £94,500 | £96,554 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Waterfront, Selby is £159,995 in 2007; the lowest is £94,500 in 2021. Across the full 16-year record the cash median has moved from £154,995 to £94,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £275,938, so the real change over the whole record is -56.7% — about -5.43% 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: -40.9% in cash against -57.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 27 Nautica | 20 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £122,000 | £122,000 |
| Flat 1 Halcyon | 27 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £107,500 | £107,500 |
| Flat 7 Nautica | 2 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £38,492 | £39,329 |
| Flat 15 Halcyon | 26 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £113,000 | £115,457 |
| Flat 48 Nautica | 19 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £103,000 | £105,239 |
| Flat 26 Halcyon | 3 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| Flat 8 Halcyon | 16 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| Flat 2 Halcyon | 18 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £106,000 | £111,537 |
| Flat 4 Halcyon | 30 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £98,000 | £103,119 |
| Flat 39 Nautica | 1 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £103,000 | £108,381 |
| Flat 35 Nautica | 24 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £118,851 |
| Flat 29 Halcyon | 27 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| Flat 8 Nautica | 29 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| Flat 19 Halcyon | 2 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| Flat 12 Halcyon | 21 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £127,000 | £147,141 |
| Flat 27 Nautica | 18 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £118,500 | £137,293 |
| Flat 31 Nautica | 1 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £98,000 | £113,541 |
| Flat 45 Nautica | 3 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £108,000 | £136,452 |
| Flat 53 Nautica | 9 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £91,000 | £114,973 |
| Flat 46 Nautica | 28 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £83,000 | £104,866 |
| Flat 18 Halcyon | 14 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £126,344 |
| Flat 26 Nautica | 1 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £98,000 | £123,817 |
| Flat 11 Halcyon | 29 Jan 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £86,000 | £108,656 |
| Flat 48 Nautica | 24 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £76,500 | £99,050 |
| Flat 32 Halcyon | 15 Jan 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £91,000 | £117,824 |
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 Waterfront, Selby values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 27 NAUTICA the Waterfront | £159,995 (2006) | £122,000 (2026) | -1.3% | -4.2% |
| FLAT 1 HALCYON the Waterfront | £144,496 (2006) | £107,500 (2026) | -1.5% | -4.3% |
| FLAT 7 NAUTICA the Waterfront | £139,995 (2006) | £38,492 (2025) | -6.6% | -9.3% |
| FLAT 15 HALCYON the Waterfront | £119,995 (2008) | £113,000 (2025) | -0.4% | -3.2% |
| FLAT 48 NAUTICA the Waterfront | £153,495 (2007) | £103,000 (2025) | -2.2% | -5.0% |
| FLAT 26 HALCYON the Waterfront | £166,500 (2006) | £120,000 (2025) | -1.7% | -4.5% |
| FLAT 8 HALCYON the Waterfront | £150,446 (2006) | £110,000 (2024) | -1.7% | -4.6% |
| FLAT 2 HALCYON the Waterfront | £145,346 (2006) | £106,000 (2024) | -1.7% | -4.6% |
| FLAT 4 HALCYON the Waterfront | £159,995 (2007) | £98,000 (2024) | -2.8% | -5.7% |
| FLAT 39 NAUTICA the Waterfront | £123,185 (2006) | £103,000 (2024) | -1.0% | -3.8% |
| FLAT 35 NAUTICA the Waterfront | £159,995 (2006) | £110,000 (2023) | -2.2% | -5.0% |
| FLAT 29 HALCYON the Waterfront | £166,500 (2006) | £120,000 (2023) | -1.9% | -4.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Waterfront, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 130 | 100.0% | £149,995 | £38,492 – £191,495 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Waterfront, Selby
130 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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 | 130 | 100.0% | £149,995 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| New build | 92 | 70.8% | £158,135 |
| Existing home | 38 | 29.2% | £100,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +58.1%. 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 7 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 Waterfront, 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 £149,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.79% 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 Waterfront, 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 Waterfront, Selby compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Waterfront, Selby sits below that national figure — -4.8%.
Within Selby the street ranks 376 of 709 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £143,500 (+4.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,223 per square metre, across 44 of the 130 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 £38,492 to £191,495. 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 Waterfront, 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
- FLAT 48, NAUTICA the Waterfront4 sales
- FLAT 27, NAUTICA the Waterfront3 sales
- FLAT 19, HALCYON the Waterfront3 sales
- FLAT 18, HALCYON the Waterfront3 sales
- FLAT 1, HALCYON the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 7, NAUTICA the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 15, HALCYON the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 26, HALCYON the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 8, HALCYON the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 2, HALCYON the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 4, HALCYON the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 39, NAUTICA the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 35, NAUTICA the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 29, HALCYON the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 8, NAUTICA the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 12, HALCYON the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 31, NAUTICA the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 45, NAUTICA the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 53, NAUTICA the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 46, NAUTICA the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 26, NAUTICA the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 11, HALCYON the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 32, HALCYON the Waterfront2 sales
- FLAT 30, NAUTICA the Waterfront2 sales
Back to Selby house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Waterfront, Selby?
The median price paid in The Waterfront, Selby across every sale on the register is £149,995. 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 Waterfront, Selby?
130 sales are on record for The Waterfront, Selby, the most recent completing on 20 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Waterfront, Selby house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -40.9% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -57.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Waterfront, Selby house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £159,995, set in 2007. 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 Waterfront, Selby?
£2,223 per square metre, from the 44 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 20 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, “The Waterfront, 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.