The East Riding average hit £220,913 in May 2026. A typical Beverley sale was £247,750, a Withernsea one £140,000. Nine towns on real sold prices.

One average price covers the East Riding of Yorkshire, and it is close to useless on its own. The council area runs from Hull’s back garden at Cottingham to the North Sea at Withernsea, and takes in a Georgian county town, two seaside resorts, a wolds market town and a working port on the Ouse. Those places do not share a housing market. They share a council.

So this page gives you both numbers. The official district average, which is what the Land Registry publishes and what gets quoted in the national press. And the typical sale price in each of the nine towns, worked out from every completed sale registered over the past year.

The district figure

The average East Riding home sold for £220,913 in May 2026, up 3.3% over the year. That is the provisional figure from the UK House Price Index, built from completed HM Land Registry sales and adjusted for the mix of properties sold, so it is not skewed by an unusual month.

Three comparisons put it in context:

  • Yorkshire and the Humber: £208,549. The East Riding sits about £12,000 above its own region, though the region grew faster over the year, up 4.3% against the district’s 3.3%.
  • England: £292,095. The East Riding is roughly £71,000 cheaper than the England average, which is the single biggest thing to understand about buying here.
  • Kingston upon Hull: £133,485. The city the district wraps around is the sharpest comparison of the three. The East Riding average is 65% higher than Hull’s, and in places like Cottingham and Hessle that gap exists across a street.

What you pay by property type

The district-wide splits for May 2026, all from the same UK House Price Index release:

  • Detached: £337,483, up 3.3% over the year. The largest single category in a district that is mostly villages and market towns.
  • Semi-detached: £213,740, up 4.0%, the fastest-rising type here.
  • Terraced: £169,798, up 3.3%.
  • Flats and maisonettes: £102,323, down 1.2%. The only category to fall, and the one weighted toward Bridlington and Hull-fringe stock.

Split by buyer rather than by building, a first-time buyer paid an average of £184,026 and a former owner-occupier £255,936. The £72,000 between those two figures is roughly what it costs to move up a rung here.

Nine towns, one council

The district average hides a spread of more than £100,000. These are median prices paid, worked out from every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry in the twelve months to 30 June 2026, grouped by postal town. That is 3,862 sales.

Median sold price by town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, year to 30 June 2026 Nine horizontal bars showing median price paid. Beverley is highest at 247,750 pounds from 696 sales, then Cottingham 240,000 from 250 sales, Brough 235,500 from 364, Driffield 211,250 from 574, Hessle 202,500 from 274, Hornsea 200,000 from 163, Goole 190,000 from 741, Bridlington 175,000 from 677 and Withernsea lowest at 140,000 from 123 sales. A £107,750 gap inside one council area Median price paid, sales registered 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid. Beverley 696 sales £247,750 Cottingham 250 sales £240,000 Brough 364 sales £235,500 Driffield 574 sales £211,250 Hessle 274 sales £202,500 Hornsea 163 sales £200,000 Goole 741 sales £190,000 Bridlington 677 sales £175,000 Withernsea 123 sales £140,000 Grouped by Royal Mail postal town, not council ward. The Goole postal town reaches beyond the East Riding boundary into neighbouring districts, so treat that row as the Goole area rather than the council's Goole. Pocklington, Market Weighton, Howden, Anlaby and Willerby sit inside other postal towns and are not shown separately.

Beverley is the dearest town and it is not close. The typical Beverley sale over the year was £247,750, from 696 sales, and the mean was £287,506, pulled up by a small number of very large houses. The dearest single sale recorded anywhere in the district over the year was a Beverley property at £3.5 million.

Withernsea is the cheapest, at £140,000, from 123 sales. The gap between the two towns is £107,750, or 77%. Both are governed by the same council, pay council tax to the same authority and are 35 miles apart.

Between them, the pattern follows the Hull commute and the wolds rather than anything else. Cottingham (£240,000) and Brough (£235,500) are effectively Hull’s commuter belt, and Brough has the added pull of direct London trains. Driffield (£211,250) and Hornsea (£200,000) sit in the middle. Goole (£190,000) and Bridlington (£175,000) are the two large towns at the bottom.

Detached houses tell a different story

Look only at detached homes and the ranking scrambles. Beverley leads at £350,000, but Brough (£349,997), Cottingham (£347,500) and Hessle (£338,000) are within £12,000 of it, and Goole detached homes go for £334,000 despite Goole having the sixth-lowest overall median in the district.

That is not a contradiction. Goole’s overall median is held down by a large stock of cheap terraces, which sold at a £113,000 median, the lowest terraced figure of any town here. The new detached estates on the town’s edge are a separate market inside the same postcode. The same effect shows up in Bridlington, where flats sold at a £77,750 median, the cheapest property type recorded anywhere in the district.

What it means if you are buying or selling

If you are buying in Beverley, expect to pay roughly £27,000 above the district average for the same kind of house, and understand that the North Bar and Minster ends of town run well above the town median. If your budget is the constraint and the school run is not, Driffield and Hornsea buy noticeably more house for the money.

If you are buying on the Hull fringe, at Cottingham, Hessle, Anlaby or Willerby, the council boundary is worth checking on any property before you offer. Crossing it changes which authority you pay council tax to and which schools you are in the catchment for, and the same street can sit either side.

If you are selling on the coast, Bridlington and Withernsea are the two markets where the year’s growth was thinnest and where flats fell rather than rose. Pricing to the recent local evidence rather than to the district headline matters more here than anywhere else in the East Riding.

Frequently asked questions

What is the average house price in the East Riding of Yorkshire?

£220,913 in May 2026, according to the provisional UK House Price Index built from HM Land Registry sales. That covers every property type across the whole council area, from Cottingham to Withernsea.

Are East Riding house prices rising?

Yes, but modestly. Prices were up 3.3% in the year to May 2026, slightly behind the 4.3% recorded across Yorkshire and the Humber. Flats were the exception, down 1.2%.

Where are the most expensive houses in the East Riding?

Beverley, on a town-by-town view: a median sale of £247,750 over the past year against £140,000 in Withernsea. Cottingham and Brough follow, both of them Hull commuter towns.

Is it cheaper to buy in Hull than the East Riding?

Considerably. The Hull average was £133,485 in May 2026 against the East Riding’s £220,913, so the district costs about 65% more than the city it surrounds.

How much is a detached house in the East Riding?

£337,483 on the district-wide index for May 2026. By town, medians ranged from £350,000 in Beverley down to £220,000 in Withernsea.

How do I check what a specific house sold for?

Every completed sale in England and Wales is public. Search any street or address free on HM Land Registry Price Paid.

Sources

Land Registry figures are provisional and revised as more sales complete. Confirm the latest numbers against the linked sources before making a decision.

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