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Brightside market report S4, Sheffield
The standing S4 (Brightside) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,181 registered sales in S4 (Sheffield) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical S4 (Sheffield) home changed hands for £100,000 in 2026 (median of 19 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £109,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,410 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,181 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
S4 is the postcode district covering Brightside, Burngreave, Grimesthorpe in Sheffield. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where S4 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 buyers actually paid in S4
The 2026 median for S4 is £100,000, taken from 19 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £109,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in S4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in S4 costs about £1,410 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so S4 trades 65% below the country as a whole.
A typical S4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £100,000 | £100,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £103,500 | £105,975 | 68 |
| 2024 | £102,500 | £108,979 | 69 |
| 2023 | £112,500 | £123,610 | 77 |
| 2022 | £95,800 | £112,336 | 92 |
| 2021 | £86,000 | £108,887 | 91 |
| 2020 | £80,000 | £103,802 | 63 |
| 2019 | £82,800 | £108,531 | 72 |
| 2018 | £90,000 | £119,972 | 101 |
| 2017 | £79,000 | £107,748 | 127 |
| 2016 | £71,200 | £99,610 | 123 |
| 2015 | £65,000 | £91,845 | 79 |
| 2014 | £66,000 | £93,633 | 99 |
| 2013 | £55,000 | £79,140 | 88 |
| 2012 | £66,200 | £97,438 | 68 |
| 2011 | £64,000 | £96,615 | 93 |
| 2010 | £71,800 | £112,601 | 80 |
| 2009 | £75,000 | £120,563 | 105 |
| 2008 | £77,700 | £127,367 | 155 |
| 2007 | £80,000 | £135,702 | 228 |
| 2006 | £78,000 | £135,398 | 252 |
| 2005 | £59,800 | £106,420 | 212 |
| 2004 | £53,000 | £96,258 | 225 |
| 2003 | £34,000 | £62,636 | 314 |
| 2002 | £27,500 | £51,741 | 265 |
| 2001 | £20,300 | £39,026 | 230 |
| 2000 | £22,600 | £44,353 | 169 |
| 1999 | £17,800 | £35,474 | 136 |
| 1998 | £19,500 | £39,362 | 123 |
| 1997 | £22,800 | £46,758 | 128 |
| 1996 | £22,000 | £46,397 | 109 |
| 1995 | £24,000 | £52,172 | 121 |
In cash terms the typical S4 home went from £24,000 in 1995 to £100,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 92%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 26% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S4 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 2004 (+55.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−16.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 68% of the typed total. In 2018, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £160,000 against £54,500 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, S4
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 | £160,000 (2018) | – | 121 |
| Semi-detached | £132,500 (2025) | – | 1,037 |
| Terraced | £105,500 | 12 | 2,777 |
| Flats | £90,000 | 5 | 179 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.4% | −5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 52 sales completed in S4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 237 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 a year over the last five. 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 S4 trades
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes S4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. S4 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
What homes rent for around S4
S4 falls under Sheffield, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £922 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £683 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,327, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sheffield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£922 a month is £11,064 a year, which against the £100,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 11.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about S4 (Brightside)
Is S4 (Brightside) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S4 (Brightside)?
Are property prices falling in S4 (Brightside)?
Will S4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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 S4 today
Everything above is what homes in S4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 13 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 25% above the S4 median sold price.
46% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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 S4 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
Real sold prices by size across the S area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
S4 ranks 20 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 S4, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S4 7 | £90,000 | 7 |
| S4 8 | £105,500 | 12 |
How S4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the S area, and S4 itself, which ranks 45 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% |
| S4 (this report) | £100,000 | +16% |
Before you sell in S4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to S4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S4 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.