School Lane, York house prices are built from 170 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £247,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +110.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +54.4%.
Median price paid
£247,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+110.5%
Change in real terms
+54.4%
HM Land Registry170 salesLatest sale 12 Jan 2026
Section 01
How School Lane, York prices moved
The chart tracks the median School Lane, York house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | £58,000 | £128,787 |
| 2000s | 7 | £225,000 | £409,884 |
| 2010s | 6 | £275,000 | £387,750 |
| 2020s | 2 | £375,000 | £383,152 |
The highest yearly median on record for School Lane, York is £578,750 in 2017; the lowest is £54,600 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £58,000 to £499,950.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £128,787, so the real change over the whole record is +308.5% — about +4.97% 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: +110.5% in cash against +54.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 12 Jan 2026 | Detached | £685,000 | £685,000 |
| 7 | 12 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| Riversdale | 14 Aug 2025 | Detached | £475,000 | £485,326 |
| 7 | 7 Feb 2025 | Detached | £386,000 | £394,391 |
| 4 | 16 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £284,000 | £290,174 |
| The Coach House | 28 Nov 2024 | Detached | £1,150,000 | £1,210,075 |
| Northfield Cottage | 25 Oct 2024 | Detached | £880,000 | £925,970 |
| Laburnum Cottage, 2 | 18 Oct 2024 | Detached | £499,950 | £526,067 |
| 38 | 21 Aug 2024 | Detached | £950,000 | £999,627 |
| 25 | 26 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £399,950 | £420,843 |
| Husbands House | 26 Apr 2024 | Detached | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 8 | 23 Feb 2024 | Detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| Husbands House | 16 Oct 2023 | Detached | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| 15 | 29 Sep 2023 | Detached | £350,000 | £378,161 |
| Yarburgh House | 20 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £775,000 | £837,356 |
| Riversdale | 3 Apr 2023 | Detached | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| 9 | 2 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £600,000 | £695,152 |
| 12 | 16 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £308,000 | £356,845 |
| Fairfield | 6 Dec 2021 | Detached | £995,000 | £1,257,124 |
| 9 | 29 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £353,763 |
| Copperfield | 29 Oct 2021 | Detached | £460,000 | £581,183 |
| Fieldside | 29 Oct 2021 | Detached | £355,000 | £448,522 |
| 7a | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £542,000 | £684,785 |
| 12 | 27 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £255,022 | £322,205 |
| Henley Court, 35 | 16 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
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 School 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 School Lane | £115,000 (1995) | £685,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 7 School Lane | £10,000 (1995) | £340,000 (2025) | +12.5% | +9.6% |
| RIVERSDALE School Lane | £340,000 (2023) | £475,000 (2025) | +18.2% | +14.9% |
| 4 School Lane | £70,000 (1999) | £284,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| THE COACH HOUSE School Lane | £850,000 (2017) | £1,150,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +0.6% |
| LABURNUM COTTAGE, 2 School Lane | £404,200 (2020) | £499,950 (2024) | +5.5% | +0.1% |
| 38 School Lane | £530,000 (2006) | £950,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| 25 School Lane | £146,000 (2004) | £399,950 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.2% |
| HUSBANDS HOUSE School Lane | £250,000 (2023) | £340,000 (2024) | +36.0% | +32.4% |
| 8 School Lane | £57,000 (1996) | £325,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 15 School Lane | £370,000 (2010) | £350,000 (2023) | -0.4% | -3.4% |
| 9 School Lane | £270,000 (2010) | £600,000 (2022) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. School 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 | 90 | 52.9% | £310,000 | £46,000 – £1,150,000 |
| Semi-detached | 47 | 27.6% | £240,000 | £10,000 – £775,000 |
| Terraced | 33 | 19.4% | £180,000 | £42,000 – £308,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in School Lane, York
2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 168 freehold — 1.2% 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 £216,000 and the median freehold sale £248,450 — a gap of +15.0%. 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 | 2 | 1.2% | £216,000 |
| Freehold | 168 | 98.8% | £248,450 |
| New build | 7 | 4.1% | £239,150 |
| Existing home | 163 | 95.9% | £247,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -3.2%. 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 6 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 School Lane, 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 £247,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.07% 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 School Lane, 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 School Lane, York compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. School Lane, York sits above that national figure — +56.8%.
Within York the street ranks 971 of 3670 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £173,000 (+42.8%).
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 £10,000 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.
School Lane, 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
- Church Street£255,000 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
- Moss Street£161,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 6 School Lane10 sales
- 12 School Lane8 sales
- 4 School Lane7 sales
- 7 School Lane6 sales
- 11 School Lane6 sales
- 20 School Lane5 sales
- 8 School Lane5 sales
- 10 School Lane5 sales
- 3 School Lane5 sales
- 29 School Lane4 sales
- 26 School Lane4 sales
- 14 School Lane4 sales
- 18 School Lane4 sales
- 25 School Lane3 sales
- 15 School Lane3 sales
- 9 School Lane3 sales
- COPPERFIELD School Lane3 sales
- BECKETT HOUSE School Lane3 sales
- MORAY School Lane3 sales
- BYRE COTTAGE School Lane3 sales
- 28 School Lane3 sales
- RIVERSDALE School Lane2 sales
- THE COACH HOUSE School Lane2 sales
- LABURNUM COTTAGE, 2 School Lane2 sales
Back to York house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in School Lane, York?
The median price paid in School Lane, York across every sale on the register is £247,000. 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 School Lane, York?
170 sales are on record for School Lane, York, the most recent completing on 12 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have School Lane, York house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +110.5% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +54.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were School Lane, York house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £578,750, set in 2017. 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 School Lane, York?
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 12 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, “School 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.