Valuation Office stock table CTSOP4.1, stock at 31 March 2025, counts 376,780 properties in Leeds, 64,810 built before 1919 and 135,570 before 1940. The council's 2025 Strategic Housing Market Assessment records 64,840 pre 1919 dwellings, 17.7% of the city, and 37% built before 1945.
The Leeds Housing Strategy 2022 to 2027 states that Leeds has a notably large amount of 19,500 pre 1919 back to back houses still in use. A back to back has a shared ridge and no rear access, and the scaffold has to go up from the street.
The council's 2025 assessment records 69% of dwellings as houses, 27.6% terraced, 30.6% semi detached and 10.8% detached, with 25.3% flats and 5.7% bungalows. Census 2021 table TS044 records 37.5% semi detached, 25.0% terraced, 17.5% purpose built flats and 15.5% detached.
We would give the back to back work, the terrace work and the flat roof work a page each, with your own photographs and quote questions on every one.
Headingley and Hyde Park and Woodhouse
Both named in the council's HMO Article 4 direction, which covers 14 areas of the city. Dense pre-1919 terrace and back-to-back stock, named in the council HMO Article 4 direction.
Landlord repairs booked fast: slipped slates, gutters, chimney and flashing, with access and scaffold the real cost driver on a back-to-back.
Gipton and Harehills
Named in the HMO Article 4 direction. Heavily pre-1919 terraced.
Terrace re-roofs and repairs, often for agents and landlords, priced on access and on how many houses in the row go at once.
Armley and Bramley and Stanningley
Armley holds a conservation area on the council's list and is also in the HMO Article 4 direction.
Slate and stone work inside the conservation boundary, ordinary terrace repair outside it, in the same round.
Beeston Hill and Holbeck
Named in the HMO Article 4 direction, inner south Leeds terrace stock.
Repair led work, low value per job, won on being picked up the same day.
Otley, Wetherby and Aberford
All named conservation areas on the council's list, outer Leeds market towns and villages.
Planned re-roofs on higher value stock with matching materials and a planning application, the jobs worth a case study page.