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Town Centre market report S70 1, Barnsley
The S70 1 (Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,204 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in S70 1 (Barnsley) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 30 registered 2026 sales put the S70 1 (Barnsley) median at £112,800, up 14% on five years earlier, with a mean of £136,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,410 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,204 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like S70 1 is a single group of streets within S70 (Barnsley), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where S70 1 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 S70 1 homes really sell for
The S70 1 median stands at £112,800 for 2026, built from 30 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £136,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in S70 1
A square metre of S70 1 home has cost about £1,410 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts S70 1 60% below the country at large.
The price of a typical S70 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £112,800 | £112,800 | 30 |
| 2025 | £126,000 | £129,013 | 65 |
| 2024 | £111,800 | £118,866 | 78 |
| 2023 | £115,500 | £126,906 | 70 |
| 2022 | £101,500 | £119,020 | 80 |
| 2021 | £99,000 | £125,347 | 82 |
| 2020 | £86,500 | £112,236 | 72 |
| 2019 | £75,000 | £98,307 | 67 |
| 2018 | £80,000 | £106,642 | 69 |
| 2017 | £78,000 | £106,384 | 91 |
| 2016 | £70,000 | £97,931 | 129 |
| 2015 | £70,000 | £98,910 | 65 |
| 2014 | £65,000 | £92,214 | 67 |
| 2013 | £68,000 | £97,845 | 55 |
| 2012 | £68,500 | £100,823 | 47 |
| 2011 | £70,000 | £105,673 | 69 |
| 2010 | £70,200 | £110,092 | 72 |
| 2009 | £75,000 | £120,563 | 84 |
| 2008 | £81,500 | £133,596 | 99 |
| 2007 | £80,000 | £135,702 | 141 |
| 2006 | £80,000 | £138,870 | 193 |
| 2005 | £70,000 | £124,572 | 162 |
| 2004 | £60,000 | £108,972 | 155 |
| 2003 | £42,200 | £77,743 | 200 |
| 2002 | £31,000 | £58,326 | 194 |
| 2001 | £30,500 | £58,635 | 146 |
| 2000 | £29,000 | £56,913 | 103 |
| 1999 | £24,800 | £49,425 | 100 |
| 1998 | £27,500 | £55,511 | 97 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 102 |
| 1996 | £28,000 | £59,051 | 115 |
| 1995 | £28,500 | £61,955 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical S70 1 home went from £28,500 in 1995 to £112,800 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 82%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S70 1 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 (+42.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−10.5%). 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) | −10.5% | −12.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in S70 1
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.
S70 1 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 162 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 a year over the last five. 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.
How S70 1 trades
Only 30 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes S70 1 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. Against the S70 district median, S70 1 sits 23% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around S70 1
For renting purposes S70 1 sits in Barnsley. The ONS average private rent there is £678 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £494 a month here against £1,061 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Barnsley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £112,800 median sold price, £678 a month is £8,136 a year, a gross yield of 7.2%: 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.
Common questions on S70 1 (Town Centre)
How much did a house sell for in S70 1 (Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in S70 1 (Town Centre)?
Is S70 1 (Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
Where do S70 1 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in S70 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 134 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S70 district, not just S70 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Farm Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Barnsley
- Bellmer Croft, Birdwell, Barnsley
- Bank End Avenue, Worsbrough, 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 S70 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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. 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the S area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
S area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in S70
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of S70, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S70 2 | £95,000 | 7 |
| S70 3 | £167,500 | 28 |
| S70 4 | £145,000 | 31 |
| S70 5 | £174,000 | 35 |
| S70 6 | £150,000 | 48 |
Zoom out to the full S70 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S70 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in S70 1: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at S70 1'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim S70 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S70 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S70 1 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.
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.