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Ardsley market report S71 1, Barnsley
The standing S71 1 (Ardsley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,858 registered sales in S71 1 (Barnsley) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical S71 1 (Barnsley) home changed hands for £156,000 in 2026 (median of 37 registered sales, up 36% on five years earlier), with the mean at £165,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,780 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,858 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
S71 1 is one sector of S71 (Barnsley): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where S71 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 a home in S71 1 sells for
The 2026 median for S71 1 is £156,000, taken from 37 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £165,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in S71 1
By floor space, homes in S71 1 have sold for about £1,780 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, S71 1 sits 45% below the national market.
The price of a typical S71 1 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £156,000 | £156,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £140,000 | £143,348 | 77 |
| 2024 | £125,000 | £132,901 | 95 |
| 2023 | £125,000 | £137,344 | 102 |
| 2022 | £135,000 | £158,303 | 127 |
| 2021 | £115,000 | £145,605 | 143 |
| 2020 | £105,000 | £136,240 | 91 |
| 2019 | £98,000 | £128,455 | 111 |
| 2018 | £89,000 | £118,639 | 123 |
| 2017 | £90,000 | £122,751 | 109 |
| 2016 | £95,000 | £132,906 | 131 |
| 2015 | £86,200 | £121,801 | 90 |
| 2014 | £90,500 | £128,390 | 118 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 113 |
| 2012 | £75,000 | £110,391 | 69 |
| 2011 | £75,000 | £113,221 | 85 |
| 2010 | £78,000 | £122,324 | 109 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 68 |
| 2008 | £102,000 | £167,200 | 112 |
| 2007 | £95,000 | £161,146 | 191 |
| 2006 | £85,000 | £147,549 | 160 |
| 2005 | £75,500 | £134,360 | 172 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 265 |
| 2003 | £52,500 | £96,718 | 234 |
| 2002 | £35,000 | £65,852 | 182 |
| 2001 | £32,000 | £61,518 | 151 |
| 2000 | £30,500 | £59,856 | 129 |
| 1999 | £30,400 | £60,586 | 86 |
| 1998 | £32,000 | £64,594 | 92 |
| 1997 | £31,000 | £63,575 | 105 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 93 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical S71 1 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £156,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 139%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 7% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S71 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 (+61.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−21.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What S71 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +11.4% | +8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.3% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.6% |
| 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 S71 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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 37 sales completed in S71 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 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.
What tenants pay around S71 1
The local authority for S71 1 is Barnsley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £678 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £156,000 median purchase price, a rent of £678 a month (£8,136 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
How S71 1 trades
This is a thin market: 37 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. Against the S71 district median, S71 1 sits 15% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: S71 1 (Ardsley)
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Are S71 1 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 36% over five years in cash and up 7% 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.
On the market in S71 today
The live side of the market holds 143 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S71 district, not just S71 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 S71 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.
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in S71
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of S71, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S71 2 | £190,000 | 51 |
| S71 3 | £169,000 | 38 |
| S71 4 | £182,500 | 68 |
| S71 5 | £195,000 | 41 |
Zoom out to the full S71 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S71 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in S71 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at S71 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.
Estate agents working S71 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim S71 1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to S71 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual S71 1 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.
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.