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Ardsley market report S71 3, Barnsley
The S71 3 (Ardsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,156 HM Land Registry entries for S71 3 (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: a typical S71 3 (Barnsley) home changed hands for £169,000 in 2026 (median of 38 registered sales, up 42% on five years earlier), with the mean at £182,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,960 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,156 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
S71 3 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 3 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 3 sells for
In the S71 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £169,000, from 38 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £182,000, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in S71 3
By floor space, homes in S71 3 have sold for about £1,960 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 3 sits 41% below the national market.
The price of a typical S71 3 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 | £169,000 | £169,000 | 38 |
| 2025 | £155,000 | £158,707 | 85 |
| 2024 | £148,000 | £157,354 | 106 |
| 2023 | £138,200 | £151,848 | 90 |
| 2022 | £128,500 | £150,681 | 98 |
| 2021 | £119,000 | £150,669 | 114 |
| 2020 | £115,000 | £149,215 | 90 |
| 2019 | £104,500 | £136,974 | 90 |
| 2018 | £90,000 | £119,972 | 90 |
| 2017 | £90,000 | £122,751 | 97 |
| 2016 | £87,000 | £121,714 | 99 |
| 2015 | £88,800 | £125,474 | 92 |
| 2014 | £85,000 | £120,587 | 100 |
| 2013 | £80,000 | £115,112 | 65 |
| 2012 | £77,000 | £113,334 | 63 |
| 2011 | £75,000 | £113,221 | 64 |
| 2010 | £77,000 | £120,756 | 55 |
| 2009 | £87,000 | £139,853 | 63 |
| 2008 | £93,800 | £153,758 | 68 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 107 |
| 2006 | £88,000 | £152,757 | 137 |
| 2005 | £80,000 | £142,368 | 123 |
| 2004 | £70,000 | £127,134 | 132 |
| 2003 | £56,000 | £103,166 | 148 |
| 2002 | £44,600 | £83,915 | 152 |
| 2001 | £37,000 | £71,131 | 123 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 141 |
| 1999 | £49,500 | £98,651 | 175 |
| 1998 | £36,200 | £73,072 | 130 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 103 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 74 |
| 1995 | £34,500 | £74,998 | 44 |
In cash terms the typical S71 3 home went from £34,500 in 1995 to £169,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 125%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the S71 3 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 1999 (+36.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2000 (−19.2%). 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) | +9.0% | +6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.3% | +2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.9% | +3.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in S71 3
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 38 S71 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 133 sales a year before the financial crisis and 83 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 shape of the S71 3 market
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes S71 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the S71 district median, S71 3 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around S71 3
For renting purposes S71 3 sits in Barnsley. The ONS average private rent there is £678 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £494 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,061 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Barnsley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £169,000 median purchase price, a rent of £678 a month (£8,136 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
Asked and answered: S71 3 (Ardsley)
Are property prices falling in S71 3 (Ardsley)?
Is S71 3 (Ardsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S71 3 (Ardsley)?
Are S71 3 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 42% over five years in cash and up 12% 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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 S71 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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.
Five-year change in the median, S area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in S71
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of S71, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S71 1 | £156,000 | 37 |
| S71 2 | £190,000 | 51 |
| 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 a home in S71 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S71 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S71 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S71 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim S71 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to S71 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every S71 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.