YORK
PUlsE
YORK
PROPeRtY MaRKet OveRview
SuMMaRY Of PROPeRtieS fOR Sale
in YORK (8th MaY 2009)
Total properties for sale in York: 1,372
Properties for sale in York listed in the
last 14 days: 73
Average price of properties for sale in York:
£233,675
Median price: £187,000
Average Time on Market (ToM): 202 days
SOcial hiStORY leSSOn
York is a city steeped in history dating back
to the pre-Viking days. The City Walls (the
best preserved in the UK) date back to
Roman times, of which substantial
fragments of these still remain, but it is the
medieval walls, carefully maintained and
restored, which now encircle the old city,
almost three miles round and today
planted extensively with daffodils.
York Minister, York’s major church
dating from the 7th Century, is the
largest medieval structure in the UK with
128 stained glass windows. Its grandeur
and its beauty attract visitors from all
over the world.
The Shambles is a half-timbered
medieval maze and there are fine bridges
over the River Ouse. Castle Howard, one of
Sir John Vanbrugh’s finest achievements,
and the setting for the 1981 TV serial
Brideshead Revisited, is 15 miles north.
Other major tourist attractions include
York Castle Museum, the Jorvik Viking
Centre and the National Railway Museum.
Home to a population of approximately
181,000 people, York has a slightly higher
elderly population than the national
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average. The city’s varied demographic
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provides a blend of young families,
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York’s local economy, once dominated
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by the chocolate and railway industries is
Photo now widely diversified and is based largely
on tourism, science and service-based
Minster cathedral, is popular with visitors York lies within the Vale of York, a flat industries. Most of the industry around
and shoppers alike. The historic core of the area of arable land bordered by the the railway has gone, including the carriage
city is a major tourist destination in itself. Pennines, North York Moors and Wolds, at works which once employed some
Beating Bath, Edinburgh and London, the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss 22,000 men. Only the Nestlé Rowntree
York was bestowed the honour of being on a terminal moraine left by the last Ice factory remains. Unemployment is low
voted the UK’s favourite destination in the Age. The city is prone to flooding from the at 1.9 per cent.
Daily Telegraph’s Travel Awards 2008. River Ouse limiting development and has According to the Inward Investment
The city was founded in AD 71 and an extensive (but not always effective) Board, “York is home to 2,500 life scientists
became in turn the capital of a Roman network of flood defences. These include and some 40 bioscience and healthcare
province and of the kingdoms of walls along the Ouse, and a barrier across companies. 130 information and
Northumbria and Jorvik. the River Foss where it joins the Ouse. communications technology companies
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