Knight Frank Yorkshire Estate Agents
Why choose us?
Our Yorkshire agents are passionate about the local area. From the cobbled and winding laneways in the city centre to the open countryside surrounding nearby towns and villages, our team live and breathe this place and know it intricately.
Equipped with years of experience, our local agents are here to help you. We’re your partners in property and we’re here to support you with discretion and care throughout your property journey.
Property in York
York and the surrounding villages offer a fantastic range of properties to suit all lifestyles. From city centre apartments and period townhouses to character properties, new developments, country homes and estates.
Our agents are here to help you achieve your property goals. Simply give them a call or email to start a conversation.
Living in Yorkshire
Yorkshire is known as God’s own country and home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Studley Royal (which includes the ruins of Fountains Abbey) and Saltaire Village.
This diverse county has established itself as a cultural hotspot and has been home to some of the world’s finest literary and artistic talents. But if music and theatre is more your thing the county has several arenas which attract some of the biggest artists in the world. The Northern Ballet has become one of the world’s leading narrative classical ballet companies from its home in Leeds.
York regularly tops the Nationwide’s ‘best places to live’ guides and has an excellent range of independent shops and eateries, as well as high street brands. Explore the options – independent shops, bars, restaurants, cool coffee shops, bakeries and tiny haunted pubs.
Yorkshire is home to some of the UK’s finest countryside that is just waiting to be discovered.The Yorkshire Dales National Park has the most stunning scenery, spectacular limestone valleys, picture postcard villages and historic castles, it’s a place that stirs the emotions and stimulates the senses of everyone that visits.
The North York Moors National Park spans over 1,400km of rolling moorland, ancient abbeys and dramatic coastline, from pretty villages to stately homes. If you choose to visit in 2022 you will be part of a very special time in history as The North York Moors National Park celebrates its platinum anniversary of 70 years.
There is a wide offering of quality education from pre-school to university. This includes Ripon Grammar School being named top performing state school in the North by The Sunday Times’ Parent Power Schools Guide 2022. Queen Ethelburga’s which has been shortlisted for Independent School of the Year 2022. There are two world class universities – the University of York and York St John University.
Yorkshire is not just friendly folk and fantastic puddings.
Transport Links
York is a very well-connected city. Leeds is only 30 minutes by train or 40 minutes by car. High speed rail links mean that London is only a 2 hour train journey away and Edinburgh is 2.5 hours. Other northern cities like Durham and Newcastle can also be accessed easily by train, as can the breath-taking North Eastern coastline.
The city itself has highly commended bus services. York is popular with cyclists and the network of cycling routes supports this.
Leeds Bradford airport is the closest hub for air travel and that’s around an hour away from York.