Westbourne Road, Selby house prices are built from 224 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 28 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £136,500. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +50.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +10.5%.
Median price paid
£136,500
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+50.6%
Change in real terms
+10.5%
Median per m²
£1,785
HM Land Registry224 sales58 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Westbourne Road, Selby prices moved
The chart tracks the median Westbourne Road, Selby house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £51,500 | £114,354 |
| 2000s | 8 | £124,000 | £225,891 |
| 2010s | 8 | £147,250 | £207,623 |
| 2020s | 4 | £204,250 | £208,690 |
The highest yearly median on record for Westbourne Road, Selby is £246,250 in 2024; the lowest is £51,250 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £53,998 to £246,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £117,133, so the real change over the whole record is +121.2% — about +2.88% 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: +50.6% in cash against +10.5% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | 28 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £287,000 | £287,000 |
| 209 | 24 Apr 2026 | Detached | £282,000 | £282,000 |
| 156 | 3 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 90 | 19 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 17 | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £178,375 | £182,253 |
| 50 | 26 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 191 | 14 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £192,000 | £196,174 |
| 36 | 12 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £248,000 | £260,955 |
| 117 | 15 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £247,500 | £260,429 |
| 78 | 6 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £172,000 | £180,985 |
| 65 | 12 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 121 | 21 Jun 2024 | Detached | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| 131 | 1 May 2024 | Detached | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| 53 | 18 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 81 | 20 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £192,500 | £202,556 |
| Westbourne House | 19 Feb 2024 | Detached | £450,000 | £473,507 |
| 46 | 12 Jan 2024 | Detached | £285,925 | £300,861 |
| 207 | 25 Aug 2023 | Detached | £221,000 | £238,782 |
| 1 | 28 Jul 2023 | Detached | £285,000 | £307,931 |
| 105 | 12 May 2023 | Detached | £236,000 | £254,989 |
| 134 | 3 Apr 2023 | Detached | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| 93 | 10 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £228,000 | £246,345 |
| 11 | 15 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £167,500 | £194,063 |
| 101 | 13 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £318,611 |
| 72 | 4 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £214,339 |
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 Westbourne Road, Selby values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 Westbourne Road | £138,000 (2012) | £287,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.4% |
| 209 Westbourne Road | £84,500 (2001) | £282,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 156 Westbourne Road | £115,000 (2011) | £170,000 (2026) | +2.6% | -0.2% |
| 90 Westbourne Road | £56,000 (1998) | £255,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 17 Westbourne Road | £135,000 (2017) | £178,375 (2025) | +3.5% | -0.1% |
| 36 Westbourne Road | £141,700 (2015) | £248,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.0% |
| 117 Westbourne Road | £182,000 (2018) | £247,500 (2024) | +5.3% | +1.2% |
| 65 Westbourne Road | £156,000 (2006) | £250,000 (2024) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| 121 Westbourne Road | £65,000 (2000) | £245,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 131 Westbourne Road | £57,900 (1996) | £235,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 81 Westbourne Road | £149,950 (2015) | £192,500 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.5% |
| 46 Westbourne Road | £75,000 (2001) | £285,925 (2024) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Westbourne Road, 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 | 122 | 54.5% | £134,000 | £34,000 – £330,000 |
| Detached | 80 | 35.7% | £152,500 | £45,500 – £450,000 |
| Terraced | 22 | 9.8% | £110,000 | £31,000 – £188,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Westbourne Road, Selby
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 224 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 | 224 | 100.0% | £136,500 |
A further 5 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 Westbourne Road, 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 £136,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.36% 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 Westbourne Road, 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 Westbourne Road, Selby compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Westbourne Road, Selby sits below that national figure — -13.3%.
Within Selby the street ranks 433 of 709 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £143,500 (-4.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,785 per square metre, across 58 of the 224 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 £31,000 to £450,000. 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.
Westbourne Road, 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
- 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
- Hull Road£174,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 162 Westbourne Road6 sales
- 153 Westbourne Road6 sales
- 131 Westbourne Road5 sales
- 205 Westbourne Road5 sales
- 19 Westbourne Road5 sales
- 90 Westbourne Road4 sales
- 106 Westbourne Road4 sales
- 178 Westbourne Road4 sales
- 141 Westbourne Road4 sales
- 126 Westbourne Road4 sales
- 80 Westbourne Road4 sales
- 101 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 209 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 17 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 81 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 89 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 82 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 211 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 99 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 104 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 168 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 138 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 84 Westbourne Road3 sales
- 156 Westbourne Road2 sales
Back to Selby house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Westbourne Road, Selby?
The median price paid in Westbourne Road, Selby across every sale on the register is £136,500. 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 Westbourne Road, Selby?
224 sales are on record for Westbourne Road, Selby, the most recent completing on 28 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Westbourne Road, Selby house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +50.6% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +10.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Westbourne Road, Selby house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £246,250, 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 Westbourne Road, Selby?
£1,785 per square metre, from the 58 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 28 Apr 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, “Westbourne Road, 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.