High Street, Skipton house prices are built from 108 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 23 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,750. Across the 15 years from 2003 to 2018 the median moved +74.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +23.1%.
Median price paid
£158,750
Change in cash, 2003–2018
+74.6%
Change in real terms
+23.1%
HM Land Registry108 salesLatest sale 23 Jan 2026
Section 01
How High Street, Skipton prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Street, Skipton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2018. 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 | 1 | £70,000 | £155,433 |
| 2000s | 3 | £120,000 | £218,605 |
| 2010s | 2 | £165,000 | £232,650 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Skipton is £220,000 in 2018; the lowest is £70,000 in 1998. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £70,000 to £220,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £145,147, so the real change over the whole record is +102.0% — about +3.58% 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: +74.6% in cash against +23.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 23 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £241,000 | £241,000 |
| 37 | 12 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £425,000 | £434,239 |
| 27 | 18 Aug 2025 | Detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 66 | 31 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £153,000 | £156,326 |
| 36a | 14 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £399,851 |
| 68 | 7 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £331,500 | £348,817 |
| 13 | 8 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £183,300 | £192,875 |
| 17a | 5 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £159,940 |
| 30 | 3 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £162,000 | £175,034 |
| 15 | 6 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £228,500 | £264,737 |
| 11 | 31 May 2022 | Terraced | £180,950 | £209,646 |
| 84 | 1 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 17 | 27 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £178,500 | £225,524 |
| 4 | 29 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £132,500 | £167,406 |
| 19 | 2 Dec 2020 | Detached | £350,000 | £453,168 |
| The Willows 19a | 2 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £291,322 |
| 13 | 19 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £158,000 | £206,660 |
| 66 | 8 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £224,950 | £294,230 |
| 13 | 1 Feb 2019 | Terraced | £120,000 | £156,957 |
| 15 | 21 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £239,887 |
| 44 | 17 Dec 2018 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £439,792 |
| 36a | 3 Dec 2018 | Semi-detached | £309,500 | £412,472 |
| 80 | 30 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £217,000 | £289,197 |
| 37 | 18 May 2018 | Terraced | £220,000 | £293,195 |
| 12 | 15 Dec 2017 | Terraced | £134,108 | £182,522 |
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 High Street, Skipton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 High Street | £71,500 (1997) | £241,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 37 High Street | £110,000 (1999) | £425,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 66 High Street | £55,000 (1996) | £153,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.9% |
| 36A High Street | £309,500 (2018) | £380,000 (2024) | +3.5% | -0.5% |
| 68 High Street | £162,000 (2006) | £331,500 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| 13 High Street | £50,000 (2001) | £183,300 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 15 High Street | £70,000 (1998) | £228,500 (2022) | +5.1% | +2.5% |
| 11 High Street | £36,000 (1999) | £180,950 (2022) | +7.3% | +4.7% |
| 84 High Street | £130,000 (2003) | £210,000 (2022) | +2.6% | -0.1% |
| 17 High Street | £89,950 (2003) | £178,500 (2021) | +3.9% | +1.6% |
| THE WILLOWS 19A High Street | £190,000 (1997) | £225,000 (2020) | +0.7% | -1.4% |
| 80 High Street | £129,500 (2004) | £217,000 (2018) | +3.8% | +1.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Street, Skipton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 77 | 71.3% | £150,000 | £36,000 – £440,000 |
| Semi-detached | 14 | 13.0% | £175,000 | £58,500 – £380,000 |
| Detached | 10 | 9.3% | £310,000 | £105,000 – £557,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 7 | 6.5% | £178,500 | £60,000 – £230,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Street, Skipton
7 of the sales on record are leasehold and 101 freehold — 6.5% 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 £152,000 and the median freehold sale £159,500 — a gap of +4.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 7 | 6.5% | £152,000 |
| Freehold | 101 | 93.5% | £159,500 |
| New build | 2 | 1.9% | £107,000 |
| Existing home | 106 | 98.1% | £158,750 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -32.6%. 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 23 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 High Street, Skipton
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 band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 2,546 | 0.8% |
| B | 37,477 | 11.5% |
| C | 83,448 | 25.7% |
| D | 117,825 | 36.3% |
| E | 55,738 | 17.2% |
| F | 20,519 | 6.3% |
| G | 6,935 | 2.1% |
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 £158,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.33% 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 BD23 in Jun 2026 by North Yorkshire. 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 High Street, Skipton
25 state and independent schools have a BD23 postcode: 18 primary, 4 secondary, 2 nursery, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skipton Girls' High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 862 |
| Ermysted's Grammar School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 836 |
| The Skipton Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 736 |
| Upper Wharfedale School | Secondary | Community school | 351 |
| Skipton Parish Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 221 |
| Skipton, Water Street Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 215 |
| Greatwood Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 208 |
| St Stephen's Catholic Primary School and Nursery, A Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 148 |
| Christ Church Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 140 |
| Carleton Endowed CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 120 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Gargrave Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Skipton Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
| Embsay (Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway) | Metro or underground | 4.6 km |
| Cononley Rail Station | Rail | 8.8 km |
Section 09
How High Street, Skipton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Skipton sits above that national figure — +0.8%.
Within Skipton the street ranks 332 of 547 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £162,000 (-2.0%).
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 £36,000 to £557,500. 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.
High Street, Skipton 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
- Moorview Way£165,000 median
- Broughton Road£148,125 median
- Main Street£175,000 median
- Keighley Road£105,000 median
- Burnside Crescent£129,725 median
- Castle Street£115,000 median
- Clitheroe Street£110,000 median
- Brook Street£125,000 median
- Hurrs Road£175,000 median
- Otley Road£165,000 median
- Raikes Road£162,500 median
- Church Street£175,000 median
- West Road£176,000 median
- Skipton Road£197,625 median
- Greatwood Avenue£99,250 median
- Regent Drive£206,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 66 High Street5 sales
- 11 High Street5 sales
- 80 High Street5 sales
- 33 High Street4 sales
- 13 High Street4 sales
- 15 High Street4 sales
- 37 High Street3 sales
- 68 High Street3 sales
- 84 High Street3 sales
- 17 High Street3 sales
- 12 High Street3 sales
- 35 High Street3 sales
- BRIDGEHOLME BUNGALOW High Street3 sales
- 6 High Street3 sales
- 42 High Street3 sales
- 82 High Street3 sales
- 36 High Street3 sales
- 36A High Street2 sales
- THE WILLOWS, 19A High Street2 sales
- 39 High Street2 sales
- 14 High Street2 sales
- 74 High Street2 sales
- 8 High Street2 sales
- 3 High Street2 sales
Back to Skipton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Street, Skipton?
The median price paid in High Street, Skipton across every sale on the register is £158,750. 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 High Street, Skipton?
108 sales are on record for High Street, Skipton, the most recent completing on 23 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have High Street, Skipton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +74.6% between 2003 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +23.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Street, Skipton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £220,000, set in 2018. 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 High Street, Skipton?
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 23 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, “High Street, Skipton 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.