Thief Lane, York house prices are built from 164 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 9 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £154,000. Across the 11 years from 2013 to 2024 the median moved +80.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +30.6%.
Median price paid
£154,000
Change in cash, 2013–2024
+80.9%
Change in real terms
+30.6%
Median per m²
£2,339
HM Land Registry164 sales61 with floor areaLatest sale 9 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Thief Lane, York prices moved
The chart tracks the median Thief Lane, York house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | £49,750 | £110,469 |
| 2000s | 6 | £93,250 | £169,874 |
| 2010s | 6 | £170,000 | £239,700 |
| 2020s | 2 | £230,000 | £235,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Thief Lane, York is £275,000 in 2024; the lowest is £49,350 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £49,350 to £275,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £107,052, so the real change over the whole record is +170.3% — about +3.62% 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: +80.9% in cash against +30.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | 9 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 139 | 15 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 53 | 8 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £258,000 | £263,609 |
| Apartment 1 Tandem Place | 14 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| Apartment 19 Tandem Place | 30 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £205,187 |
| 171 | 15 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £286,000 | £300,940 |
| 24 | 22 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| Apartment 15 Tandem Place | 8 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £203,000 | £213,604 |
| 110 | 25 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £326,194 |
| 44 | 30 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £325,000 | £351,149 |
| 181 | 28 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 76 | 4 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| Apartment 6 Tandem Place | 7 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £231,717 |
| 108 | 14 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £324,404 |
| Apartment 4 Tandem Place | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 65 | 15 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £190,000 | £240,054 |
| 74 | 13 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 157 | 3 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 171 | 19 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| Apartment 15 Tandem Place | 16 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £233,058 |
| 55 | 27 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £182,000 | £238,052 |
| 76 | 12 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £258,500 | £338,112 |
| 139 | 12 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £212,000 | £277,291 |
| Apartment 2 Tandem Place | 30 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £176,000 | £230,204 |
| 62 | 30 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £300,835 |
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 Thief 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 Thief Lane | £178,000 (2012) | £300,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| 139 Thief Lane | £152,450 (2007) | £280,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| APARTMENT 1 TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane | £160,000 (2007) | £195,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| APARTMENT 19 TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane | £147,500 (2007) | £195,000 (2024) | +1.7% | -1.3% |
| 171 Thief Lane | £50,500 (1996) | £286,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| APARTMENT 15 TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane | £150,000 (2007) | £203,000 (2024) | +1.8% | -1.2% |
| 110 Thief Lane | £73,000 (1998) | £310,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 181 Thief Lane | £39,950 (1997) | £225,000 (2022) | +7.2% | +4.6% |
| 76 Thief Lane | £58,500 (1997) | £350,000 (2022) | +7.4% | +4.9% |
| APARTMENT 6 TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane | £158,950 (2006) | £200,000 (2022) | +1.4% | -1.2% |
| APARTMENT 4 TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane | £157,500 (2007) | £195,000 (2021) | +1.5% | -0.8% |
| APARTMENT 2 TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane | £154,950 (2007) | £176,000 (2019) | +1.1% | -1.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Thief 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 85 | 51.8% | £155,000 | £39,950 – £350,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 53 | 32.3% | £154,950 | £39,500 – £225,000 |
| Terraced | 24 | 14.6% | £136,000 | £44,500 – £325,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 1.2% | £51,950 | £51,950 – £86,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Thief Lane, York
56 of the sales on record are leasehold and 108 freehold — 34.1% 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 £152,475 and the median freehold sale £154,000 — a gap of +1.0%. 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 | 56 | 34.1% | £152,475 |
| Freehold | 108 | 65.9% | £154,000 |
| New build | 24 | 14.6% | £149,950 |
| Existing home | 140 | 85.4% | £155,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -3.3%. 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 9 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 Thief Lane, York
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 637 | 0.7% |
| B | 8,219 | 8.7% |
| C | 32,387 | 34.2% |
| D | 40,238 | 42.5% |
| E | 10,486 | 11.1% |
| F | 2,052 | 2.2% |
| G | 595 | 0.6% |
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 £154,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.24% 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 YO10, 290 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 94 violent, 8 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 91 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times busier.
Against the 202,821 residents the 2021 census counted in York, that is 1.43 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Thief Lane, York
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.
9 state and independent schools have a YO10 postcode: 7 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulford School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,853 |
| Archbishop Holgate's School, A Church of England Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,803 |
| St Oswald's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 321 |
| Fishergate Primary School | Primary | Community school | 291 |
| Osbaldwick Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 259 |
| Lord Deramore's Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 219 |
| St George's Catholic Primary School – a Catholic Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 204 |
| Badger Hill Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 200 |
| St Lawrence's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 137 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| York Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
| Poppleton Rail Station | Rail | 6.6 km |
| Ulleskelf Rail Station | Rail | 14.9 km |
| Hammerton Rail Station | Rail | 15.7 km |
Section 09
How Thief Lane, York compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Thief Lane, York sits below that national figure — -2.2%.
Within York the street ranks 2481 of 3670 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £173,000 (-11.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,339 per square metre, across 61 of the 164 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 £39,500 to £350,000. 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.
Thief Lane, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Olympian Court£149,000 median
- Lawrence Street£145,000 median
- Hull Road£178,000 median
- Nicholas Gardens£112,000 median
- Hospital Fields Road£171,000 median
- Alma Terrace£177,500 median
- Danesmead Close£82,750 median
- Ambrose Street£162,250 median
- Frances Street£156,000 median
- Heslington Lane£227,500 median
- Osbaldwick Lane£179,250 median
- Fulford Road£216,250 median
- Broadway£190,000 median
- Heslington Road£140,000 median
- Newland Park Drive£200,000 median
- Peel Close£89,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 171 Thief Lane6 sales
- APARTMENT 15, TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane5 sales
- 181 Thief Lane5 sales
- 179 Thief Lane5 sales
- 139 Thief Lane4 sales
- 76 Thief Lane4 sales
- APARTMENT 2, TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane4 sales
- 96 Thief Lane4 sales
- 173 Thief Lane4 sales
- 62 Thief Lane3 sales
- APARTMENT 4, TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane3 sales
- 69 Thief Lane3 sales
- 18 Thief Lane3 sales
- 113 Thief Lane3 sales
- 111 Thief Lane3 sales
- 68 Thief Lane3 sales
- APARTMENT 1, TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 19, TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane2 sales
- 110 Thief Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 6, TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane2 sales
- 60 Thief Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 9, TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 12, TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane2 sales
- APARTMENT 7, TANDEM PLACE Thief Lane2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Thief Lane, York?
The median price paid in Thief Lane, York across every sale on the register is £154,000. 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 Thief Lane, York?
164 sales are on record for Thief Lane, York, the most recent completing on 9 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Thief Lane, York house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +80.9% between 2013 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +30.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Thief Lane, York house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £275,000, 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 Thief Lane, York?
£2,339 per square metre, from the 61 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 9 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, “Thief 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.