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Bolton-on-Dearne market report S63 8, Rotherham
The S63 8 (Bolton-on-Dearne) 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: 3,657 sales registered with HM Land Registry in S63 8 (Rotherham) 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 typical home in S63 8 (Rotherham) sold for £145,000 in 2026, the median of 41 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier. The mean was £156,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,650 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,657 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like S63 8 is a single group of streets within S63 (Rotherham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where S63 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 S63 8 homes really sell for
The S63 8 median stands at £145,000 for 2026, built from 41 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £156,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in S63 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in S63 8 costs about £1,650 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts S63 8 49% below the country at large.
A typical S63 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £145,000 | £145,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £126,500 | £129,525 | 91 |
| 2024 | £125,000 | £132,901 | 114 |
| 2023 | £125,000 | £137,344 | 100 |
| 2022 | £130,000 | £152,440 | 125 |
| 2021 | £120,000 | £151,935 | 126 |
| 2020 | £120,000 | £155,702 | 95 |
| 2019 | £105,000 | £137,630 | 111 |
| 2018 | £100,000 | £133,302 | 125 |
| 2017 | £99,500 | £135,708 | 119 |
| 2016 | £107,500 | £150,394 | 121 |
| 2015 | £86,800 | £122,648 | 82 |
| 2014 | £95,500 | £135,483 | 114 |
| 2013 | £83,000 | £119,429 | 79 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 73 |
| 2011 | £77,000 | £116,240 | 68 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 59 |
| 2009 | £84,500 | £135,834 | 70 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 109 |
| 2007 | £89,500 | £151,817 | 166 |
| 2006 | £88,800 | £154,145 | 208 |
| 2005 | £91,000 | £161,943 | 205 |
| 2004 | £83,000 | £150,744 | 213 |
| 2003 | £51,000 | £93,954 | 193 |
| 2002 | £30,000 | £56,445 | 165 |
| 2001 | £32,000 | £61,518 | 173 |
| 2000 | £27,500 | £53,969 | 111 |
| 1999 | £34,000 | £67,760 | 86 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 90 |
| 1997 | £28,900 | £59,268 | 62 |
| 1996 | £26,200 | £55,255 | 82 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 81 |
In cash terms the typical S63 8 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £145,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 91%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S63 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 2003 (+70.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−25.1%). 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) | +14.6% | +11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 41 S63 8 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 179 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 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.
The shape of the S63 8 market
This is a thin market: 41 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. Within S63, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around S63 8
For renting purposes S63 8 sits in Barnsley. The ONS average private rent there is £678 a month (May 2026). 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 £145,000 median purchase price, a rent of £678 a month (£8,136 a year) works out at a 5.6% 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.
S63 8 (Bolton-on-Dearne): the questions that come up
Is S63 8 (Bolton-on-Dearne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S63 8 (Bolton-on-Dearne)?
Are property prices falling in S63 8 (Bolton-on-Dearne)?
What happens to S63 8 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in S63 now
Turning to what is actually available: 355 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S63 district, not just S63 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 42% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- School Street, Thurnscoe, Rotherham, Rotherham
- Hanover Street, Thurnscoe, Barnsley, Barnsley
- George Street, Thurnscoe, Barnsley, Barnsley
"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 S63 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the S area, 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
The spread across the S area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the S area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in S63
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of S63, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S63 0 | £149,000 | 40 |
| S63 6 | £170,000 | 49 |
| S63 7 | £175,000 | 35 |
| S63 9 | £158,500 | 48 |
Zoom out to the full S63 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S63 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in S63 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 S63 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S63 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S63 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 S63 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about S63 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every S63 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.