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Brierley market report S72 8, Barnsley
The standing S72 8 (Brierley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,405 sales registered with HM Land Registry in S72 8 (Barnsley) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for S72 8 (Barnsley) is £180,000, from 58 registered sales, up 29% on five years earlier; the mean is £185,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,090 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,405 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
S72 8 is one sector of S72 (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 S72 8 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.
Today's S72 8 prices, from the sold record
58 sales were registered in S72 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £180,000. The mean works out at £185,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in S72 8
The last five years of sales put S72 8 at roughly £2,090 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, S72 8 runs 37% below it.
The price of a typical S72 8 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 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 58 |
| 2025 | £165,000 | £168,946 | 173 |
| 2024 | £161,800 | £172,027 | 196 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 190 |
| 2022 | £159,000 | £186,446 | 228 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 242 |
| 2020 | £138,000 | £179,058 | 173 |
| 2019 | £137,500 | £180,230 | 235 |
| 2018 | £115,000 | £153,297 | 174 |
| 2017 | £115,000 | £156,848 | 155 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 139 |
| 2015 | £94,000 | £132,822 | 142 |
| 2014 | £95,000 | £134,774 | 163 |
| 2013 | £95,800 | £137,847 | 122 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 95 |
| 2011 | £82,200 | £124,090 | 126 |
| 2010 | £97,200 | £152,435 | 118 |
| 2009 | £97,500 | £156,732 | 105 |
| 2008 | £109,500 | £179,494 | 160 |
| 2007 | £111,000 | £188,287 | 340 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 334 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 263 |
| 2004 | £83,000 | £150,744 | 317 |
| 2003 | £62,100 | £114,403 | 330 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 370 |
| 2001 | £46,000 | £88,433 | 281 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 259 |
| 1999 | £39,200 | £78,124 | 224 |
| 1998 | £43,700 | £88,212 | 212 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 198 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 133 |
| 1995 | £40,500 | £88,041 | 150 |
In cash terms the typical S72 8 home went from £40,500 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 104%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 4% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S72 8 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 (+33.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.4%). 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) | +9.1% | +6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.1% | +2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 58 S72 8 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 312 sales a year before the financial crisis and 169 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.
What homes rent for around S72 8
The local authority for S72 8 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.
Set against the £180,000 median sold price, £678 a month is £8,136 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
What kind of market S72 8 is
This is a thin market: 58 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. Within S72, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about S72 8 (Brierley)
Are property prices falling in S72 8 (Brierley)?
Is S72 8 (Brierley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S72 8 (Brierley)?
Where do S72 8 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in S72 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 79 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S72 district, not just S72 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- High Street, Shafton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Barnsley
- Chapel Close,Barnsley, Barnsley
- High Street, Grimethorpe, Barnsley, Barnsley
"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 S72 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.
What another bedroom costs in S
What homes of each size actually sold for across the S area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in S72
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of S72, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S72 0 | £155,000 | 16 |
| S72 7 | £152,500 | 32 |
| S72 9 | £230,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full S72 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S72 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in S72 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in S72 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the S72 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded S72 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim S72 8.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual S72 8 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.