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Ardsley market report S71 2, Barnsley
The S71 2 (Ardsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,035 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in S71 2 (Barnsley) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in S71 2 (Barnsley) came in at £190,000, out of 51 registered, up 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £195,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,290 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,035 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
S71 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside S71 (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 S71 2 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.
S71 2 sold prices: where the market stands
The S71 2 median stands at £190,000 for 2026, built from 51 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £195,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
S71 2 prices by floor area
Per square metre, S71 2 homes have averaged around £2,290 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts S71 2 33% below the country at large.
S71 2's median sold price, 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 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 110 |
| 2024 | £177,000 | £188,187 | 145 |
| 2023 | £161,000 | £176,900 | 121 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 205 |
| 2021 | £160,800 | £203,594 | 166 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 104 |
| 2019 | £136,000 | £178,263 | 123 |
| 2018 | £144,000 | £191,955 | 165 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 149 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 117 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 95 |
| 2014 | £113,200 | £160,594 | 84 |
| 2013 | £106,200 | £152,811 | 65 |
| 2012 | £108,000 | £158,963 | 97 |
| 2011 | £113,000 | £170,587 | 108 |
| 2010 | £118,000 | £185,054 | 113 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 91 |
| 2008 | £121,200 | £198,672 | 120 |
| 2007 | £128,000 | £217,124 | 149 |
| 2006 | £116,200 | £201,708 | 152 |
| 2005 | £111,000 | £197,535 | 118 |
| 2004 | £116,800 | £212,132 | 190 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 211 |
| 2002 | £63,800 | £120,039 | 172 |
| 2001 | £54,500 | £104,773 | 153 |
| 2000 | £49,800 | £97,733 | 126 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 108 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 99 |
| 1997 | £42,500 | £87,159 | 114 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 107 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 107 |
In cash terms the typical S71 2 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 108%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S71 2 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 (+41.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−15.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 51 sales completed in S71 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 159 sales a year before the financial crisis and 126 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.
The rental side of S71 2
The local authority for S71 2 is Barnsley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £190,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
The shape of the S71 2 market
Only 51 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes S71 2 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.
Asked and answered: S71 2 (Ardsley)
How much did a house sell for in S71 2 (Ardsley)?
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Where do S71 2 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 S71 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the S area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in S71
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are S71's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S71 1 | £156,000 | 37 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in S71 2? 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 S71 2'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.
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Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to S71 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S71 2 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.