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City Centre market report S3 8, Sheffield
The S3 8 (City Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,631 sales registered with HM Land Registry in S3 8 (Sheffield) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in S3 8 (Sheffield) came in at £163,400, out of 18 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £170,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,160 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,631 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like S3 8 is a single group of streets within S3 (Sheffield), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where S3 8 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
S3 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 18 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) S3 8 home went for £163,400. The mean is £170,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in S3 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in S3 8 costs about £3,160 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, S3 8 sits 43% below the national market.
The price of a typical S3 8 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £163,400 | £163,400 | 18 |
| 2025 | £145,000 | £148,467 | 69 |
| 2024 | £146,600 | £155,866 | 70 |
| 2023 | £173,000 | £190,085 | 99 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 122 |
| 2021 | £143,000 | £181,056 | 135 |
| 2020 | £132,000 | £171,273 | 131 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 104 |
| 2018 | £128,500 | £171,293 | 96 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 152 |
| 2016 | £121,000 | £169,280 | 98 |
| 2015 | £111,500 | £157,550 | 98 |
| 2014 | £116,500 | £165,276 | 81 |
| 2013 | £97,500 | £140,293 | 114 |
| 2012 | £92,500 | £136,148 | 62 |
| 2011 | £104,000 | £157,000 | 52 |
| 2010 | £119,000 | £186,623 | 79 |
| 2009 | £117,200 | £188,400 | 136 |
| 2008 | £127,000 | £208,180 | 183 |
| 2007 | £118,000 | £200,161 | 144 |
| 2006 | £117,200 | £203,444 | 88 |
| 2005 | £120,600 | £214,619 | 124 |
| 2004 | £89,000 | £161,641 | 76 |
| 2003 | £97,000 | £178,698 | 35 |
| 2002 | £101,200 | £190,407 | 100 |
| 2001 | £90,200 | £173,405 | 94 |
| 2000 | £71,500 | £140,319 | 48 |
| 1999 | £69,500 | £138,510 | 10 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 5 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 2 |
| 1995 | £13,500 | £29,347 | 6 |
In cash terms the typical S3 8 home went from £13,500 in 1995 to £163,400 in 2026, roughly 12 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 457%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 24% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S3 8 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 1999 (+44.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−15.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.7% | +10.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
S3 8 recorded 18 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 76 sales a year recently, against 89 a year before 2008. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How S3 8 trades
Only 18 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes S3 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the S3 district median, S3 8 sits 17% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around S3 8
For renting purposes S3 8 sits in Sheffield. The ONS average private rent there is £922 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £683 a month here against £1,327 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Sheffield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £163,400 median sold price, £922 a month is £11,064 a year, a gross yield of 6.8%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: S3 8 (City Centre)
Are property prices falling in S3 8 (City Centre)?
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Are S3 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in S3 now
The live side of the market holds 65 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S3 district, not just S3 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
55% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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- 3 Green Lane, Kelham Island, Sheffield, S3, Sheffield
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every S3 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in S
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the S area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £235,000 | £330,000 (+40%) | £495,000 (+50%) | £750,000 (+52%) |
| Semi-detached | £160,000 | £175,000 (+9%) | £220,000 (+26%) | £321,000 (+46%) | £550,000 (+71%) |
| Terraced | £132,000 | £140,000 (+6%) | £175,000 (+25%) | £256,500 (+47%) | £350,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £148,000 (+23%) | £265,000 (+79%) | £461,750 (+74%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the S area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, S area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in S3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are S3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S3 7 | £108,000 | 17 |
| S3 9 | £156,000 | 10 |
Zoom out to the full S3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in S3 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S3 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S3 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S3 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim S3 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to S3 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every S3 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.