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UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/region/yorkshire-and-the-humber

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House prices in Yorkshire and the Humber

Homes in Yorkshire and the Humber sold for a median of £215,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 135,980 standard sales.

That makes Yorkshire and the Humber the second cheapest of the nine English regions and Wales, 27% below the £295,000 median across England and Wales.

Median sale price£215,000135,980 standard sales
Middle half of prices£155,000 to £305,000
Change since 2016+45%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Council areas ranked by median price

The dearest council area was York, at £307,500, and the cheapest was Kingston upon Hull, at £140,000. The dearest median is 2.2 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were North Yorkshire and Leeds, and the next cheapest North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire.

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Each dot is a council area, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The ranked list below gives the same figures.

5 of the 15 council areas had a median above £215,000, the figure for Yorkshire and the Humber as a whole. The most sales were in North Yorkshire (18,772), Leeds (18,505), Bradford (12,134), Sheffield (11,626) and East Riding of Yorkshire (11,315).

Council areas with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. York5,137 sales£307,500£3,800−2%
  2. North Yorkshire18,772 sales£270,000£3,003+1%
  3. Leeds18,505 sales£248,000£3,167+4%
  4. East Riding of Yorkshire11,315 sales£225,000£2,584+2%
  5. Sheffield11,626 sales£220,000£2,699+2%
  6. Kirklees10,431 sales£215,000£2,658+6%
  7. Wakefield8,535 sales£205,000£2,601+4%
  8. Rotherham6,226 sales£195,000£2,533+4%
  9. Calderdale5,628 sales£194,000£2,369+8%
  10. Bradford12,134 sales£186,000£2,440+7%
  11. Barnsley6,185 sales£180,000£2,415+4%
  12. Doncaster7,402 sales£180,000£2,161+3%
  13. North Lincolnshire4,448 sales£177,000£1,984+3%
  14. North East Lincolnshire4,309 sales£165,000£2,109+2%
  15. Kingston upon Hull5,327 sales£140,000£1,875+6%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in Calderdale, up 8%, and fell most in York, down 2%.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in Yorkshire and the Humber, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached33,715£350,000£273,000 to £456,000£3,118/m²from 1,403 sales
Semi-detached50,641£212,000£170,000 to £270,000£2,618/m²from 1,998 sales
Terraced40,721£165,000£125,000 to £220,000£2,131/m²from 1,468 sales
Flats and maisonettes10,903£136,000£100,000 to £190,000£2,275/m²from 320 sales

Semi-detached houses were the most common type sold in Yorkshire and the Humber, at 37% of sales, ahead of terraced houses at 30%.

Leasehold is less common here: 14% of sales were leasehold, against 21% across England and Wales.

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
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  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 45%, from £150,000 in 2016 to £217,500 in 2025, more than the 35% rise across England and Wales as a whole.

From 2016 to 2025, the median rose most in Barnsley, up 55%, and least in North East Lincolnshire, up 32%, among council areas with at least 50 sales in both years.

Postcode areas in Yorkshire and the Humber

About these figures

The 135,980 standard sales behind these figures are placed in Yorkshire and the Humber by each home's postcode, and 5,189 of them have a floor area for the price per m² (our methodology).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.