Church Street, York house prices are built from 269 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £255,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +15.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -16.5%.
Median price paid
£255,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+15.3%
Change in real terms
-16.5%
Median per m²
£2,590
HM Land Registry269 sales14 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Church Street, York prices moved
The chart tracks the median Church Street, York house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £93,000 | £206,504 |
| 2000s | 9 | £257,500 | £469,089 |
| 2010s | 9 | £355,000 | £500,550 |
| 2020s | 5 | £445,000 | £454,674 |
The highest yearly median on record for Church Street, York is £695,000 in 2024; the lowest is £70,250 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £84,750 to £415,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £188,185, so the real change over the whole record is +125.3% — about +2.74% 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: +15.3% in cash against -16.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyside | 30 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £288,000 | £288,000 |
| 2 | 27 Feb 2026 | Detached | £710,000 | £710,000 |
| 2 | 23 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| Hilton Lodge | 4 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £510,000 | £521,087 |
| 3 | 30 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| Kirkholme | 1 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £252,000 | £257,478 |
| 14 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £415,000 | £424,022 |
| 5 | 25 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £418,440 | £427,537 |
| 13 | 16 Jan 2025 | Detached | £650,000 | £664,130 |
| The Cottage, 35 | 25 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £760,000 | £799,701 |
| Church Farm | 11 Jul 2024 | Detached | £990,000 | £1,041,716 |
| Sunnyside | 10 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 21 | 18 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £395,000 | £415,634 |
| Byron House | 5 Jan 2024 | Detached | £695,000 | £731,306 |
| Werribee Cottage | 15 Dec 2023 | Detached | £450,000 | £486,207 |
| 3 | 26 Oct 2023 | Detached | £535,000 | £578,046 |
| 28 | 14 Mar 2023 | Detached | £689,000 | £744,437 |
| 10 | 10 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| Ascension House | 11 Nov 2022 | Detached | £650,000 | £753,081 |
| 3 | 21 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £267,000 | £309,343 |
| 56 | 30 May 2022 | Detached | £670,000 | £776,253 |
| 41 | 25 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £581,000 | £673,139 |
| 4 | 25 Mar 2022 | Detached | £495,000 | £573,500 |
| 19 | 4 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £235,000 | £272,268 |
| Kirkholme | 31 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £210,000 | £243,303 |
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 Church Street, York values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUNNYSIDE Church Street | £275,000 (2024) | £288,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.2% |
| 2 Church Street | £105,000 (2002) | £710,000 (2026) | +8.3% | +5.4% |
| HILTON LODGE Church Street | £80,000 (1995) | £510,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 3 Church Street | £55,000 (1995) | £275,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| KIRKHOLME Church Street | £50,000 (2001) | £252,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.1% |
| 14 Church Street | £52,500 (1997) | £415,000 (2025) | +7.7% | +4.9% |
| 5 Church Street | £81,000 (1998) | £418,440 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 13 Church Street | £275,000 (1996) | £650,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.4% |
| CHURCH FARM Church Street | £250,000 (2013) | £990,000 (2024) | +13.3% | +10.0% |
| 21 Church Street | £60,000 (1996) | £395,000 (2024) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| WERRIBEE COTTAGE Church Street | £310,000 (2010) | £450,000 (2023) | +2.9% | -0.1% |
| 28 Church Street | £135,000 (1997) | £689,000 (2023) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Church Street, York 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 114 | 42.4% | £335,000 | £58,000 – £1,150,000 |
| Semi-detached | 76 | 28.3% | £200,000 | £38,500 – £650,000 |
| Terraced | 73 | 27.1% | £199,000 | £25,000 – £760,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 6 | 2.2% | £325,000 | £66,500 – £375,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Church Street, York
6 of the sales on record are leasehold and 263 freehold — 2.2% 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 £325,000 and the median freehold sale £252,000 — a gap of -22.5%. 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 | 6 | 2.2% | £325,000 |
| Freehold | 263 | 97.8% | £252,000 |
| New build | 8 | 3.0% | £221,250 |
| Existing home | 261 | 97.0% | £260,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -14.9%. 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 12 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 Church Street, York
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 £255,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.94% 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 YO23, 28 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 9 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 6 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 6.0 times quieter.
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 Church Street, York
11 state and independent schools have a YO23 postcode: 8 primary, 2 16 plus, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millthorpe School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,022 |
| Knavesmire Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 484 |
| Scarcroft Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 347 |
| Copmanthorpe Primary School | Primary | Community school | 273 |
| Archbishop of York's CofE Junior School, Bishopthorpe | Primary | Academy converter | 160 |
| Appleton Roebuck Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 111 |
| Rufforth Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 103 |
| St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 99 |
| Bishopthorpe Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 97 |
| Askham Bryan College | 16 plus | Further education | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| York Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
| Poppleton Rail Station | Rail | 6.1 km |
| Ulleskelf Rail Station | Rail | 9.8 km |
| Hammerton Rail Station | Rail | 13.3 km |
Section 09
How Church Street, York compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Church Street, York sits above that national figure — +61.9%.
Within York the street ranks 876 of 3670 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £173,000 (+47.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,590 per square metre, across 14 of the 269 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 £25,000 to £1,150,000. 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.
Church Street, York 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
- Bishopthorpe Road£249,950 median
- Albemarle Road£185,000 median
- Wetherby Road£262,350 median
- Postern Close£163,000 median
- Curzon Terrace£139,750 median
- Green Lane£199,000 median
- Queen Victoria Street£124,975 median
- Brunswick Street£134,500 median
- Scott Street£191,000 median
- Sutherland Street£133,750 median
- Joseph Terry Grove£314,998 median
- Russell Street£198,000 median
- Thorpe Street£205,000 median
- Scarcroft Road£185,750 median
- School Lane£247,000 median
- Moss Street£161,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 3 Church Street12 sales
- 2 Church Street9 sales
- 10 Church Street9 sales
- 11 Church Street8 sales
- 14 Church Street7 sales
- 8 Church Street7 sales
- 7 Church Street7 sales
- 21 Church Street6 sales
- 12 Church Street6 sales
- COBBLESTONES Church Street6 sales
- 6 Church Street6 sales
- 5 Church Street5 sales
- 4 Church Street5 sales
- CHURCH FARM COTTAGE Church Street5 sales
- 9 Church Street5 sales
- HILLCREST Church Street5 sales
- SPRINGWELL HOUSE Church Street5 sales
- 23 Church Street5 sales
- KIRKHOLME Church Street4 sales
- WERRIBEE COTTAGE Church Street4 sales
- 41 Church Street4 sales
- PLUM TREE COTTAGE Church Street4 sales
- GREEN END Church Street4 sales
- THE COTTAGE Church Street4 sales
Back to York house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Church Street, York?
The median price paid in Church Street, York across every sale on the register is £255,000. 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 Church Street, York?
269 sales are on record for Church Street, York, the most recent completing on 30 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Church Street, York house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +15.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -16.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Church Street, York house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £695,000, 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 Church Street, York?
£2,590 per square metre, from the 14 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 30 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, “Church Street, 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.