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Town Centre market report S70 4, Barnsley
The S70 4 (Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,567 HM Land Registry entries for S70 4 (Barnsley), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for S70 4 (Barnsley) is £145,000, from 31 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier; the mean is £166,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,920 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,567 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like S70 4 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 4 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 4 homes really sell for
31 sales were registered in S70 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £145,000. The mean works out at £166,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in S70 4
Per square metre, S70 4 homes have averaged around £1,920 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, S70 4 sits 49% below the national market.
The price of a typical S70 4 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £145,000 | £145,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £150,000 | £153,587 | 105 |
| 2024 | £147,600 | £156,929 | 107 |
| 2023 | £171,400 | £188,327 | 128 |
| 2022 | £145,000 | £170,029 | 132 |
| 2021 | £117,200 | £148,390 | 136 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 97 |
| 2019 | £84,500 | £110,759 | 102 |
| 2018 | £84,200 | £112,240 | 92 |
| 2017 | £93,500 | £127,525 | 122 |
| 2016 | £90,000 | £125,911 | 111 |
| 2015 | £83,000 | £117,279 | 94 |
| 2014 | £122,000 | £173,078 | 132 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 140 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 93 |
| 2011 | £109,600 | £165,454 | 64 |
| 2010 | £72,500 | £113,699 | 64 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 55 |
| 2008 | £85,000 | £139,333 | 99 |
| 2007 | £86,000 | £145,880 | 172 |
| 2006 | £80,000 | £138,870 | 154 |
| 2005 | £69,000 | £122,792 | 166 |
| 2004 | £60,500 | £109,880 | 154 |
| 2003 | £43,500 | £80,138 | 168 |
| 2002 | £35,000 | £65,852 | 177 |
| 2001 | £29,000 | £55,751 | 131 |
| 2000 | £33,300 | £65,351 | 90 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 95 |
| 1998 | £32,000 | £64,594 | 103 |
| 1997 | £30,800 | £63,165 | 90 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 91 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 72 |
In cash terms the typical S70 4 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £145,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 122%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S70 4 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 2020 (+53.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−32.0%). 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) | −3.3% | −5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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 4
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.
S70 4 recorded 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 152 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 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 rental side of S70 4
S70 4 falls under Barnsley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £678 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£678 a month is £8,136 a year, which against the £145,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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 kind of market S70 4 is
This is a thin market: 31 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.
Asked and answered: S70 4 (Town Centre)
How much did a house sell for in S70 4 (Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in S70 4 (Town Centre)?
Is S70 4 (Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to S70 4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat 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 S70 today
The live side of the market holds 134 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S70 district, not just S70 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Farm Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Barnsley
- Bellmer Croft, Birdwell, Barnsley
- Bank End Avenue, Worsbrough, 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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in S
What homes of each size actually sold for across the S area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in S70
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are S70's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S70 1 | £112,800 | 30 |
| S70 2 | £95,000 | 7 |
| S70 3 | £167,500 | 28 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in S70 4? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at S70 4'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.
Estate agents working S70 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim S70 4.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S70 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual S70 4 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.