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City Centre market report S3, Sheffield
The S3 (City Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,262 HM Land Registry entries for S3 (Sheffield), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in S3 (Sheffield) sold for £140,000 in 2026, the median of 45 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £147,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,760 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,262 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district S3 covering City Centre, Broomhall, Burngreave sits in Sheffield. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where S3 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.
Today's S3 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for S3 is £140,000, taken from 45 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £147,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in S3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in S3 costs about £2,760 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving S3 51% below the national figure.
S3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £134,600 | £137,819 | 118 |
| 2024 | £139,500 | £148,317 | 113 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 157 |
| 2022 | £136,500 | £160,062 | 209 |
| 2021 | £133,500 | £169,028 | 206 |
| 2020 | £87,000 | £112,884 | 353 |
| 2019 | £117,500 | £154,014 | 209 |
| 2018 | £104,000 | £138,634 | 243 |
| 2017 | £111,200 | £151,666 | 310 |
| 2016 | £92,700 | £129,688 | 304 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 186 |
| 2014 | £110,500 | £156,764 | 157 |
| 2013 | £97,500 | £140,293 | 165 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 126 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 167 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 154 |
| 2009 | £111,000 | £178,433 | 201 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 440 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 344 |
| 2006 | £119,800 | £207,957 | 314 |
| 2005 | £110,200 | £196,112 | 225 |
| 2004 | £91,800 | £166,727 | 306 |
| 2003 | £83,000 | £152,906 | 294 |
| 2002 | £77,000 | £144,875 | 193 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 175 |
| 2000 | £45,000 | £88,313 | 213 |
| 1999 | £35,800 | £71,348 | 82 |
| 1998 | £25,000 | £50,464 | 69 |
| 1997 | £24,000 | £49,219 | 62 |
| 1996 | £26,500 | £55,887 | 59 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 63 |
In cash terms the typical S3 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 115%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 33% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S3 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 2001 (+64.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−26.0%). 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) | +4.0% | +1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.8% | −2.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 79% of the typed total. In 2004, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £70,000 against £94,800 for a flat, a 26% discount.
Median by property type, S3
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £70,000 (2004) | – | 31 |
| Semi-detached | £182,000 | 7 | 552 |
| Terraced | £131,000 | 6 | 692 |
| Flats | £131,000 | 32 | 4,936 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 95 S3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 258 sales a year before the financial crisis and 128 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around S3
For renting purposes S3 sits in Sheffield. The ONS average private rent there is £922 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £683 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,327 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Sheffield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £140,000 median purchase price, a rent of £922 a month (£11,064 a year) works out at a 7.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the S3 market
Only 95 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes S3 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. In its area's price order S3 comes 42 of 45, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: S3 (City Centre)
Is S3 (City Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S3 (City Centre)?
Are property prices falling in S3 (City Centre)?
Where do S3 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
S3's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in S3 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 65 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 21% below the S3 median sold price.
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.
- Millsands, Sheffield, S3
- Furnace Hill, Sheffield, South Yorksh...
- 3 Green Lane, Kelham Island, Sheffield, S3, Sheffield
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every S3 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
S3 ranks 34 of 45 in the S area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
S area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside S3, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S3 7 | £108,000 | 17 |
| S3 8 | £163,400 | 18 |
| S3 9 | £156,000 | 10 |
How S3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the S area, and S3 itself, which ranks 42 of 45 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| S32 | £490,000 | +24% |
| S17 | £462,500 | +23% |
| S11 | £350,000 | +0% |
| S7 | £310,000 | -3% |
| S18 | £300,000 | +15% |
| S33 | £295,000 | -21% |
| S10 | £290,000 | +4% |
| S8 | £252,200 | +20% |
| S35 | £237,000 | +17% |
| S42 | £235,000 | +3% |
| S20 | £229,000 | +24% |
| S6 | £224,000 | +17% |
| S81 | £222,000 | +8% |
| S21 | £220,000 | +22% |
| S75 | £219,000 | +11% |
| S45 | £207,000 | -2% |
| S26 | £205,000 | +5% |
| S36 | £205,000 | +0% |
| S60 | £203,000 | +4% |
| S25 | £200,000 | +18% |
| S66 | £200,000 | +11% |
| S40 | £198,000 | -1% |
| S41 | £195,000 | +3% |
| S3 (this report) | £140,000 | +5% |
Before you sell in S3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim S3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.