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Ardsley market report S71, Barnsley
The S71 (Ardsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 19,532 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in S71 (Barnsley) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in S71 (Barnsley) sold for £183,000 in 2026, the median of 235 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier. The mean was £192,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,110 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 19,532 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
S71 is a postcode district covering Ardsley, Athersley, Lundwood in Barnsley. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where S71 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 sells for
235 sales were registered in S71 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £183,000. The mean works out at £192,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
S71 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put S71 at roughly £2,110 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so S71 trades 36% below the country as a whole.
A typical S71 home, priced year by year (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 | £183,000 | £183,000 | 235 |
| 2025 | £170,000 | £174,065 | 498 |
| 2024 | £168,000 | £178,619 | 587 |
| 2023 | £155,000 | £170,307 | 558 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 797 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 765 |
| 2020 | £137,000 | £177,760 | 554 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 682 |
| 2018 | £126,300 | £168,360 | 737 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 705 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 632 |
| 2015 | £113,500 | £160,376 | 570 |
| 2014 | £108,000 | £153,217 | 557 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 459 |
| 2012 | £95,000 | £139,828 | 411 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 427 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 405 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 366 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 477 |
| 2007 | £113,500 | £192,528 | 821 |
| 2006 | £97,500 | £169,248 | 774 |
| 2005 | £94,500 | £168,172 | 729 |
| 2004 | £94,000 | £170,722 | 1,022 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 959 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 853 |
| 2001 | £42,500 | £81,704 | 702 |
| 2000 | £41,600 | £81,640 | 614 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 598 |
| 1998 | £38,500 | £77,715 | 544 |
| 1997 | £37,200 | £76,290 | 545 |
| 1996 | £39,100 | £82,460 | 536 |
| 1995 | £37,500 | £81,519 | 413 |
In cash terms the typical S71 home went from £37,500 in 1995 to £183,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 124%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 5% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S71 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 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £275,000 against £90,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, S71
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £275,000 | 62 | 5,059 |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | 113 | 8,432 |
| Terraced | £136,500 | 53 | 5,412 |
| Flats | £90,000 | 7 | 619 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.6% | +5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 446 S71 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 809 sales a year before the financial crisis and 535 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.
The rental side of S71
S71 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.
Set against the £183,000 median sold price, £678 a month is £8,136 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
Asked and answered: S71 (Ardsley)
Are property prices falling in S71 (Ardsley)?
Is S71 (Ardsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S71 (Ardsley)?
What happens to S71 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 26% 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 S71 today
Everything above is what homes in S71 sold for. The live side of the market holds 143 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the S71 median sold price.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: S prices by size
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
S71 ranks 4 of 45 in the S area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside S71, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S71 1 | £156,000 | 37 |
| S71 2 | £190,000 | 51 |
| S71 3 | £169,000 | 38 |
| S71 4 | £182,500 | 68 |
| S71 5 | £195,000 | 41 |
How S71 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the S area, and S71 itself, which ranks 28 of 45 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| S32 | £490,000 | +24% |
| S17 | £462,500 | +23% |
| S11 | £350,000 | +0% |
| S7 | £310,000 | -3% |
| S18 | £300,000 | +15% |
| S33 | £295,000 | -21% |
| S10 | £290,000 | +4% |
| S8 | £252,200 | +20% |
| S35 | £237,000 | +17% |
| S42 | £235,000 | +3% |
| S20 | £229,000 | +24% |
| S6 | £224,000 | +17% |
| S81 | £222,000 | +8% |
| S21 | £220,000 | +22% |
| S75 | £219,000 | +11% |
| S45 | £207,000 | -2% |
| S26 | £205,000 | +5% |
| S36 | £205,000 | +0% |
| S60 | £203,000 | +4% |
| S25 | £200,000 | +18% |
| S66 | £200,000 | +11% |
| S40 | £198,000 | -1% |
| S41 | £195,000 | +3% |
| S71 (this report) | £183,000 | +26% |
Before you sell in S71: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S71, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S71's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S71 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.