Property prices in Scarborough area down in February

The average Scarborough house price in February was £162,300.91.

The drop contributes to the longer-term trend, which has seen property prices in the area suffer a 2.0% annual decline – the worst in Yorkshire and The Humber.

The average Scarborough house price in February was £162,300.91, Land Registry figures show – a 2.7% decrease on January.

Over the month, the picture was worse than that across Yorkshire and The Humber, where prices decreased 1.0%, and Scarborough underperformed compared to the 0.62% drop for the UK as a whole.

Over the last year, the average sale price of property in Scarborough remained level – putting the area bottom among Yorkshire and The Humber’s 21 local authorities for annual growth.

The best annual growth in the region was in Harrogate, where properties increased on average by 8.82%, to £302,000.

Winners and losers

Owners of detached houses fared worst in Scarborough in February – they dropped 2.8% in price, to £249,943.91 on average. Over the last year, prices dropped by 2.3%.

Among other types of property:

Semi-detached: down 2.8% monthly; down 1.2% annually; £170,132.6 average

Terraced: down 2.7% monthly; down 1.5% annually; £137,825.26 average

Flats: down 2.3% monthly; down 3.5% annually; £111,206.72 average

First-time buyers in Scarborough spent an average of £139,300 on their property – £3,200 less than a year ago,

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