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Brierley market report S72, Barnsley
The standing S72 (Brierley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 12,083 HM Land Registry entries for S72 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in S72 (Barnsley) sold for £165,000 in 2026, the median of 125 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier. The mean was £184,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,020 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 12,083 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
S72 is the postcode district covering Brierley, Cudworth, Grimethorpe in Barnsley. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where S72 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.
The going rate for a home in S72
Across 125 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) S72 home went for £165,000. The mean is £184,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
S72 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of S72 sales average about £2,020 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving S72 42% below the national figure.
A typical S72 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £165,000 | £165,000 | 125 |
| 2025 | £169,000 | £173,041 | 334 |
| 2024 | £165,000 | £175,429 | 330 |
| 2023 | £157,800 | £173,384 | 354 |
| 2022 | £154,000 | £180,583 | 429 |
| 2021 | £144,000 | £182,323 | 513 |
| 2020 | £131,000 | £169,975 | 343 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 448 |
| 2018 | £118,500 | £157,963 | 345 |
| 2017 | £117,000 | £159,576 | 333 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 296 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 317 |
| 2014 | £93,000 | £131,937 | 303 |
| 2013 | £94,500 | £135,976 | 258 |
| 2012 | £88,000 | £129,525 | 199 |
| 2011 | £82,500 | £124,543 | 249 |
| 2010 | £95,000 | £148,984 | 268 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 242 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 402 |
| 2007 | £112,500 | £190,831 | 653 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 601 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 536 |
| 2004 | £83,100 | £150,926 | 571 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 615 |
| 2002 | £48,800 | £91,817 | 637 |
| 2001 | £44,000 | £84,588 | 459 |
| 2000 | £38,000 | £74,575 | 410 |
| 1999 | £38,800 | £77,326 | 357 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 339 |
| 1997 | £36,000 | £73,829 | 322 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 241 |
| 1995 | £37,700 | £81,954 | 254 |
In cash terms the typical S72 home went from £37,700 in 1995 to £165,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 101%: 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 14% 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 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 (+33.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−13.2%). 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, 41% of the typed total. In 2022, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £260,000 against £66,000 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, S72
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 | £285,100 | 32 | 3,029 |
| Semi-detached | £160,000 | 57 | 4,880 |
| Terraced | £130,000 | 33 | 4,016 |
| Flats | £66,000 (2022) | – | 112 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.1% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
S72 recorded 266 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 560 sales a year before the financial crisis and 314 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.
How S72 trades
Among the 45 measurable districts of its area, S72 ranks 35 by median price: towards the affordable end.
The rental side of S72
The local authority for S72 is Barnsley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £678 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£678 a month is £8,136 a year, which against the £165,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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.
What people ask about S72 (Brierley)
How much did a house sell for in S72 (Brierley)?
Are property prices falling in S72 (Brierley)?
Is S72 (Brierley) a good place to buy a house?
Are S72 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in S72 right now
Everything above is what homes in S72 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 79 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the S72 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: S prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the S area, straight 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
S72 ranks 24 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.
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.
Inside S72, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| S72 0 | £155,000 | 16 |
| S72 7 | £152,500 | 32 |
| S72 8 | £180,000 | 58 |
| S72 9 | £230,000 | 19 |
How S72 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the S area, and S72 itself, which ranks 35 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% |
| S72 (this report) | £165,000 | +15% |
Before you sell in S72: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in S72, open the average prices map and zoom from the S72 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded S72 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.
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The live map plots every individual S72 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.