Standing view · housing · North Yorkshire
deteriorating, held with established confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2026-08.
The housing market in North Yorkshire has been losing ground, and rents are the clearest part of it. Average private rent for two bedrooms was 753 in April 2026, 754 in May, 759 in June and 769 in August 2026, with flat or maisonette at 682 in July, and the average house price was 271,682 in June 2026. Prevention duty, section 21 notice stood at 73 in the first quarter of 2026 and was recorded as unfavourable against the usual pattern for its quarter, with relief duty owed at 456 — households already homeless and being helped.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about North Yorkshire. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Prevention duty, section 21 notice | 2026-Q1 | deteriorating |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Relief duty owed | 2026-Q1 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-04 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-05 | — |
| Average house price | 2026-06 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-06 | — |
| Average private rent, flat or maisonette | 2026-07 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-08 | — |