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Town Centre market report S70 6, Barnsley
The S70 6 (Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,714 HM Land Registry entries for S70 6 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in S70 6 (Barnsley) came in at £150,000, out of 48 registered, up 25% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £177,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,840 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,714 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
S70 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside S70 (Barnsley). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where S70 6 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 S70 6
Across 48 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) S70 6 home went for £150,000. The mean is £177,300, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in S70 6
The last five years of sales put S70 6 at roughly £1,840 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, S70 6 runs 47% below it.
The price of a typical S70 6 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £150,000 | £150,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £139,800 | £143,143 | 130 |
| 2024 | £144,500 | £153,633 | 124 |
| 2023 | £122,500 | £134,598 | 118 |
| 2022 | £126,600 | £148,453 | 126 |
| 2021 | £120,000 | £151,935 | 172 |
| 2020 | £116,000 | £150,512 | 96 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 175 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 173 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 156 |
| 2016 | £130,500 | £182,571 | 168 |
| 2015 | £109,000 | £154,017 | 126 |
| 2014 | £88,200 | £125,127 | 156 |
| 2013 | £105,000 | £151,085 | 106 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 90 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 105 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 75 |
| 2009 | £84,000 | £135,031 | 85 |
| 2008 | £90,200 | £147,857 | 126 |
| 2007 | £95,000 | £161,146 | 244 |
| 2006 | £92,000 | £159,700 | 215 |
| 2005 | £80,000 | £142,368 | 241 |
| 2004 | £65,600 | £119,142 | 180 |
| 2003 | £52,000 | £95,797 | 209 |
| 2002 | £35,000 | £65,852 | 199 |
| 2001 | £34,500 | £66,324 | 185 |
| 2000 | £33,000 | £64,763 | 150 |
| 1999 | £36,000 | £71,746 | 153 |
| 1998 | £33,000 | £66,613 | 155 |
| 1997 | £29,500 | £60,499 | 135 |
| 1996 | £31,000 | £65,378 | 157 |
| 1995 | £31,700 | £68,911 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical S70 6 home went from £31,700 in 1995 to £150,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 118%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S70 6 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 (+48.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−23.4%). 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) | +7.3% | +4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
S70 6 recorded 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 203 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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.
What homes rent for around S70 6
For renting purposes S70 6 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 £150,000 median sold price, £678 a month is £8,136 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: 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.
Reading the S70 6 market
This is a thin market: 48 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. 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.
Common questions on S70 6 (Town Centre)
Are property prices falling in S70 6 (Town Centre)?
Is S70 6 (Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S70 6 (Town Centre)?
Are S70 6 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat 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.
S70's current homes for sale
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Farm Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Barnsley
- Bellmer Croft, Birdwell, Barnsley
- Bank End Avenue, Worsbrough, Barnsley, Barnsley
"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 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. 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%) | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the S area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 4 | £145,000 | 31 |
| S70 5 | £174,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full S70 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S70 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in S70 6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in S70 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the S70 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded S70 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working S70 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim S70 6.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S70 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S70 6 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.