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Bolton-on-Dearne market report S63, Rotherham
The S63 (Bolton-on-Dearne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 19,892 registered sales in S63 (Rotherham) 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: the middle 2026 sale in S63 (Rotherham) came in at £158,000, out of 213 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £173,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,870 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 19,892 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
S63 is a postcode district covering Bolton-on-Dearne, Goldthorpe, Thurnscoe in Rotherham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where S63 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.
The going rate for a home in S63
213 sales were registered in S63 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £158,000. The mean works out at £173,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in S63
A square metre of S63 home has cost about £1,870 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, S63 sits 45% below the national market.
A typical S63 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 | £158,000 | £158,000 | 213 |
| 2025 | £168,500 | £172,529 | 675 |
| 2024 | £152,800 | £162,458 | 612 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 599 |
| 2022 | £153,000 | £179,410 | 769 |
| 2021 | £137,000 | £173,460 | 774 |
| 2020 | £119,500 | £155,054 | 576 |
| 2019 | £116,500 | £152,704 | 612 |
| 2018 | £112,500 | £149,965 | 632 |
| 2017 | £112,000 | £152,757 | 599 |
| 2016 | £114,000 | £159,487 | 621 |
| 2015 | £116,000 | £163,908 | 609 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 624 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 591 |
| 2012 | £106,200 | £156,313 | 471 |
| 2011 | £98,000 | £147,942 | 491 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 429 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 398 |
| 2008 | £93,000 | £152,447 | 497 |
| 2007 | £90,000 | £152,665 | 904 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 897 |
| 2005 | £80,000 | £142,368 | 817 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 981 |
| 2003 | £51,200 | £94,323 | 1,000 |
| 2002 | £42,000 | £79,023 | 1,011 |
| 2001 | £38,000 | £73,053 | 869 |
| 2000 | £37,000 | £72,613 | 622 |
| 1999 | £36,500 | £72,743 | 454 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 406 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 364 |
| 1996 | £28,500 | £60,105 | 404 |
| 1995 | £28,000 | £60,868 | 371 |
In cash terms the typical S63 home went from £28,000 in 1995 to £158,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 160%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the S63 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 (+46.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−6.2%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £273,000 against £80,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, S63
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 | £273,000 | 45 | 4,471 |
| Semi-detached | £158,000 | 81 | 7,553 |
| Terraced | £128,200 | 82 | 7,470 |
| Flats | £80,000 | 5 | 377 |
What S63 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.2% | −8.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +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.
How many homes change hands in S63
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
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.
S63 recorded 450 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 888 sales a year before the financial crisis and 574 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.
Rents around S63
For renting purposes S63 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.
Set against the £158,000 median sold price, £678 a month is £8,136 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
The shape of the S63 market
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. Among the 45 measurable districts of its area, S63 ranks 38 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Asked and answered: S63 (Bolton-on-Dearne)
Is S63 (Bolton-on-Dearne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S63 (Bolton-on-Dearne)?
Are property prices falling in S63 (Bolton-on-Dearne)?
Are S63 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
On the market in S63 today
Everything above is what homes in S63 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 355 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the S63 median sold price.
42% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- School Street, Thurnscoe, Rotherham, Rotherham
- Hanover Street, Thurnscoe, Barnsley, Barnsley
- George Street, Thurnscoe, Barnsley, Barnsley
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 S63 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.
What another bedroom costs in S
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the S area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
S63 ranks 22 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.
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.
Inside S63, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| S63 0 | £149,000 | 40 |
| S63 6 | £170,000 | 49 |
| S63 7 | £175,000 | 35 |
| S63 8 | £145,000 | 41 |
| S63 9 | £158,500 | 48 |
How S63 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the S area, and S63 itself, which ranks 38 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% |
| S63 (this report) | £158,000 | +15% |
Selling a home in S63? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at S63's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim S63.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every S63 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.