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Bolsterstone market report S36 8, Sheffield
The standing S36 8 (Bolsterstone) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,157 sales registered with HM Land Registry in S36 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in S36 8 (Sheffield) came in at £350,000, out of 6 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £425,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,350 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,157 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 S36 8 is a single group of streets within S36 (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 S36 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.
What a home in S36 8 sells for
Across 6 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) S36 8 home went for £350,000. The mean is £425,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
S36 8 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of S36 8 sales average about £3,350 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, S36 8 sits 23% above the national market.
The price of a typical S36 8 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 6 |
| 2025 | £340,300 | £348,438 | 85 |
| 2024 | £337,100 | £358,407 | 84 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 43 |
| 2022 | £300,500 | £352,371 | 34 |
| 2021 | £308,000 | £389,968 | 33 |
| 2020 | £222,500 | £288,698 | 37 |
| 2019 | £261,500 | £342,764 | 28 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 35 |
| 2017 | £292,500 | £398,941 | 32 |
| 2016 | £202,500 | £283,300 | 26 |
| 2015 | £171,200 | £241,906 | 36 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 31 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 27 |
| 2012 | £182,500 | £268,617 | 20 |
| 2011 | £167,000 | £252,106 | 14 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 19 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 19 |
| 2008 | £245,000 | £401,607 | 17 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 45 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 45 |
| 2005 | £154,000 | £274,058 | 37 |
| 2004 | £186,800 | £339,265 | 73 |
| 2003 | £139,500 | £256,993 | 36 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 35 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 59 |
| 2000 | £128,000 | £251,200 | 59 |
| 1999 | £87,500 | £174,383 | 43 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 34 |
| 1997 | £70,200 | £143,966 | 26 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 17 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 22 |
In cash terms the typical S36 8 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 232%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S36 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 1997 (+49.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−35.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.9% | +0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in S36 8
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 6 sales completed in S36 8. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 50 sales a year recently, against 49 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the S36 8 market
This is a thin market: 6 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the S36 district median, S36 8 sits 71% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of S36 8
The local authority for S36 8 is Barnsley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £678 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £494 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,061, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Barnsley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £350,000 median purchase price, a rent of £678 a month (£8,136 a year) works out at a 2.3% 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.
Common questions on S36 8 (Bolsterstone)
Is S36 8 (Bolsterstone) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S36 8 (Bolsterstone)?
Are property prices falling in S36 8 (Bolsterstone)?
What happens to S36 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
On the market in S36 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 32 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S36 district, not just S36 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Southgate Penistone
- New Street, Sheffield
- Inchburn Crescent, Penistone, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Sheffield
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every S36 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.
Moving up a bedroom in S: the cost
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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 S36
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of S36, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S36 1 | £175,000 | 31 |
| S36 2 | £191,500 | 42 |
| S36 4 | £387,500 | 8 |
| S36 6 | £192,500 | 34 |
| S36 7 | £318,800 | 8 |
| S36 9 | £245,000 | 16 |
Zoom out to the full S36 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S36 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in S36 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S36 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S36 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S36 8 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 S36 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S36 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S36 8 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.