Birch Close, York house prices

Birch Close, York house prices are built from 182 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2010 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £142,475. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +22.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -11.3%.

HM Land Registry182 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Birch Close, York house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2010 to 2025. 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 Birch Close, York is £185,000 in 2024; the lowest is £115,520 in 2010. Across the full 16-year record the cash median has moved from £115,520 to £180,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £184,466, so the real change over the whole record is -0.3% — about -0.02% 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: +22.4% in cash against -11.3% 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 Birch Close, York values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Birch Close, York is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

177 of the sales on record are leasehold and 5 freehold — 97.3% 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 £140,950 and the median freehold sale £275,000 — a gap of +95.1%. 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 — -14.5%. 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across York, 43.6% of 94,614 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.8% 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 York at £1,186 a month as of Jun 2026 — £866 for a one-bedroom home and £1,265 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £142,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.99% 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 YO31, 435 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 131 violent, 9 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 108 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.6 times busier.

Against the 202,821 residents the 2021 census counted in York, that is 2.14 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.

The 2021 census counted 202,821 residents in York across 85,458 households. 65.9% of those households own their home and 33.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

8 state and independent schools have a YO31 postcode: 8 primary. 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. Birch Close, York sits below that national figure — -9.5%.

Within York the street ranks 2757 of 3670 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £173,000 (-17.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,275 per square metre, across 5 of the 182 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 £57,480 to £299,000. 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.

Birch Close, York sits in York, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in York at 7.8 times median local earnings of £39,337 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

• Huntington Road£170,000 median
• Stockton Lane£249,950 median
• Haxby Road£229,750 median
• Dodsworth Avenue£75,000 median
• Fifth Avenue£168,000 median
• Eboracum Way£163,174 median
• Whitecross Gardens£139,950 median
• Darwin Close£115,000 median
• Hansom Place£118,000 median
• Kitchener Street£115,000 median
• Tang Hall Lane£142,250 median
• Rose Street£120,000 median
• Bad Bargain Lane£157,750 median
• Highthorn Road£157,000 median
• Fossway£115,500 median
• Anthea Drive£170,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 22, RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close4 sales
• 6, SMEED HOUSE Birch Close4 sales
• 29, WEALD HOUSE Birch Close4 sales
• 28, RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close4 sales
• 23, RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close4 sales
• 12, RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close4 sales
• 17, SMEED HOUSE Birch Close4 sales
• 27, RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close4 sales
• 9, RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 31, WEALD HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 2, RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 4, RUNSWICK HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 11, SMEED HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 18, WEALD HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 2, WEALD HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 7, SMEED HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 33, WEALD HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 24, RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 14, WEALD HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 16, SMEED HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 1 Birch Close3 sales
• 3, RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 10, SMEED HOUSE Birch Close3 sales
• 32, WEALD HOUSE Birch Close3 sales

Back to York house prices.

What is the average house price in Birch Close, York?

The median price paid in Birch Close, York across every sale on the register is £142,475. 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 Birch Close, York?

182 sales are on record for Birch Close, York, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Birch Close, York house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +22.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -11.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Birch Close, York house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £185,000, 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 Birch Close, York?

£2,275 per square metre, from the 5 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 25 Jun 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, “Birch Close, York 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.