Highfield Lane, York house prices are built from 63 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2007 and the most recent on 23 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £365,000. Across the 13 years from 2008 to 2021 the median moved +1.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -23.7%.
Median price paid
£365,000
Change in cash, 2008–2021
+1.4%
Change in real terms
-23.7%
Median per m²
£2,219
HM Land Registry63 sales9 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Highfield Lane, York prices moved
The chart tracks the median Highfield Lane, York house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2007 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 | £355,500 | £647,616 |
| 2020s | 2 | £320,000 | £326,957 |
The highest yearly median on record for Highfield Lane, York is £390,000 in 2021; the lowest is £320,000 in 2020. Across the full 15-year record the cash median has moved from £355,500 to £390,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £618,070, so the real change over the whole record is -20.3% — about -1.61% 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: +1.4% in cash against -23.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driftwood | 23 Sep 2025 | Detached | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| Gardeners Cottage | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| Apartment 1 Kirkdale Manor | 8 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £495,000 | £520,858 |
| Kirkdale House | 5 Jul 2023 | Detached | £800,000 | £864,368 |
| 14 Kirkdale Manor | 6 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £594,000 | £641,793 |
| 8 Kirkdale Manor | 20 Apr 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| Arthington Barn | 4 Nov 2022 | Detached | £695,000 | £805,218 |
| Apartment 3 Kirkdale Manor | 2 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £407,500 | £472,124 |
| Apartment 2 Kirkdale Manor | 19 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £500,000 | £579,293 |
| Apartment 1 Kirkdale Manor | 28 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £445,000 | £515,571 |
| Kirkdale House | 24 Jun 2021 | Detached | £700,000 | £884,409 |
| Apartment 2 Kirkdale Manor | 23 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £390,000 | £492,742 |
| Apartment 9 Kirkdale Manor | 7 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £370,000 | £467,473 |
| Araminta | 1 Mar 2021 | Detached | £575,000 | £726,478 |
| Apartment 5 Kirkdale Manor | 26 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £505,376 |
| Deerstones | 19 Feb 2021 | Detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| Apartment 7 Kirkdale Manor | 29 Jan 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £195,833 |
| 2 | 6 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £388,430 |
| 10 Kirkdale Manor | 30 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £290,000 | £375,482 |
| 15 Kirkdale Manor | 2 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £472,500 | £611,777 |
| Little Court | 10 Sep 2020 | Detached | £320,000 | £414,325 |
| 7 Kirkdale Manor | 11 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £414,325 |
| Arthington Barn | 20 Mar 2020 | Detached | £600,000 | £776,860 |
| The Fold | 12 Jul 2019 | Detached | £370,000 | £483,952 |
| 4 Kirkdale Manor | 31 Jan 2019 | Terraced | £365,000 | £477,412 |
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 Highfield Lane, York values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GARDENERS COTTAGE Highfield Lane | £92,500 (1995) | £550,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| APARTMENT 1 KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane | £401,000 (2008) | £495,000 (2024) | +1.3% | -1.6% |
| KIRKDALE HOUSE Highfield Lane | £700,000 (2021) | £800,000 (2023) | +6.9% | -1.1% |
| 14 KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane | £427,500 (2008) | £594,000 (2023) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| 8 KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane | £310,500 (2008) | £340,000 (2023) | +0.6% | -2.3% |
| ARTHINGTON BARN Highfield Lane | £465,000 (2008) | £695,000 (2022) | +2.9% | +0.2% |
| APARTMENT 3 KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane | £384,750 (2008) | £407,500 (2022) | +0.4% | -2.2% |
| APARTMENT 2 KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane | £470,000 (2008) | £500,000 (2022) | +0.4% | -2.2% |
| 10 KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane | £425,000 (2007) | £290,000 (2020) | -2.9% | -5.1% |
| 7 KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane | £249,950 (2010) | £320,000 (2020) | +2.5% | +0.4% |
| 4 KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane | £461,250 (2007) | £365,000 (2019) | -1.9% | -4.2% |
| 9 KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane | £235,250 (2010) | £230,000 (2017) | -0.3% | -2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Highfield Lane, 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 | 22 | 34.9% | £370,000 | £70,000 – £800,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 15 | 23.8% | £401,000 | £155,000 – £500,000 |
| Terraced | 14 | 22.2% | £290,000 | £186,000 – £425,000 |
| Semi-detached | 12 | 19.0% | £320,000 | £75,000 – £594,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Highfield Lane, York
39 of the sales on record are leasehold and 24 freehold — 61.9% 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 £365,000 and the median freehold sale £358,500 — a gap of -1.8%. 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 | 39 | 61.9% | £365,000 |
| Freehold | 24 | 38.1% | £358,500 |
| New build | 20 | 31.7% | £360,000 |
| Existing home | 43 | 68.3% | £370,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -2.7%. 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 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 09
How Highfield Lane, York compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Highfield Lane, York sits above that national figure — +131.7%.
Within York the street ranks 277 of 3670 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £173,000 (+111.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,219 per square metre, across 9 of the 63 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 £70,000 to £800,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£200,000 median
- West End£177,500 median
- Sycamore Close£127,000 median
- East End£192,000 median
- Keld Head Orchard£128,250 median
- Old Road£182,000 median
- Castlegate£205,000 median
- Chapel Street£210,000 median
- Ashwood Close£312,000 median
- Ash Grove£160,000 median
- Feversham Drive£125,000 median
- St Oswalds Close£199,995 median
- Bondgate£230,000 median
- West Pasture£195,000 median
- Piercy End£145,000 median
- Railway Street£279,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- GARDENERS COTTAGE Highfield Lane3 sales
- APARTMENT 1, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane3 sales
- ARTHINGTON BARN Highfield Lane3 sales
- APARTMENT 2, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane3 sales
- 4, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane3 sales
- KIRKDALE HOUSE Highfield Lane2 sales
- 14, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane2 sales
- 8, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 3, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane2 sales
- 10, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane2 sales
- 7, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane2 sales
- 9, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane2 sales
- 17, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane2 sales
- 3, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane2 sales
- 12, KIRKDALE MANOR Highfield Lane2 sales
- HIGH RIGG Highfield Lane2 sales
- KIRKDALE LODGE Highfield Lane2 sales
- NAWTON LODGE Highfield Lane2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Highfield Lane, York?
The median price paid in Highfield Lane, York across every sale on the register is £365,000. 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 Highfield Lane, York?
63 sales are on record for Highfield Lane, York, the most recent completing on 23 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Highfield Lane, York house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +1.4% between 2008 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -23.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Highfield Lane, York house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £390,000, set in 2021. 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 Highfield Lane, York?
£2,219 per square metre, from the 9 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 23 Sep 2025. 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, “Highfield Lane, 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.