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Darfield market report S73 8, Barnsley
The S73 8 (Darfield) 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: 4,046 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in S73 8 (Barnsley) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 44 registered 2026 sales put the S73 8 (Barnsley) median at £175,000, up 30% on five years earlier, with a mean of £172,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,920 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,046 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like S73 8 is a single group of streets within S73 (Barnsley), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where S73 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.
S73 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 44 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) S73 8 home went for £175,000. The mean is £172,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in S73 8
The last five years of sales put S73 8 at roughly £1,920 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving S73 8 39% below the national figure.
S73 8'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 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 44 |
| 2025 | £170,000 | £174,065 | 117 |
| 2024 | £174,400 | £185,423 | 147 |
| 2023 | £156,000 | £171,406 | 131 |
| 2022 | £145,000 | £170,029 | 125 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 169 |
| 2020 | £130,500 | £169,326 | 134 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 143 |
| 2018 | £126,500 | £168,627 | 168 |
| 2017 | £126,000 | £171,851 | 157 |
| 2016 | £113,000 | £158,088 | 149 |
| 2015 | £99,500 | £140,594 | 117 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 133 |
| 2013 | £90,000 | £129,501 | 118 |
| 2012 | £81,500 | £119,958 | 61 |
| 2011 | £70,000 | £105,673 | 72 |
| 2010 | £82,000 | £128,597 | 71 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 65 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 117 |
| 2007 | £88,000 | £149,273 | 210 |
| 2006 | £82,000 | £142,342 | 202 |
| 2005 | £81,500 | £145,037 | 169 |
| 2004 | £65,000 | £118,053 | 195 |
| 2003 | £45,500 | £83,822 | 193 |
| 2002 | £33,500 | £63,030 | 168 |
| 2001 | £34,000 | £65,363 | 124 |
| 2000 | £32,000 | £62,800 | 104 |
| 1999 | £29,000 | £57,795 | 105 |
| 1998 | £27,800 | £56,116 | 74 |
| 1997 | £28,000 | £57,422 | 110 |
| 1996 | £24,000 | £50,615 | 81 |
| 1995 | £29,900 | £64,998 | 73 |
In cash terms the typical S73 8 home went from £29,900 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 169%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S73 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 (+42.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−19.7%). 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) | +2.9% | +0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.3% | +0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
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
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 44 sales completed in S73 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 171 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 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.
Reading the S73 8 market
This is a thin market: 44 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.
What tenants pay around S73 8
S73 8 falls under Barnsley, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £175,000 median purchase price, a rent of £678 a month (£8,136 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
Common questions on S73 8 (Darfield)
Are property prices falling in S73 8 (Darfield)?
Is S73 8 (Darfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S73 8 (Darfield)?
Are S73 8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 30% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in S73 now
Turning to what is actually available: 71 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S73 district, not just S73 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
46% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Kingfisher Drive, Wombwell, Barnsley, Barnsley
- Grange Court, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 0EZ
- Kingfisher Drive, Wombwell, Barnsley, Barnsley
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 S73 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
Real sold prices by size across the S area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in S73
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of S73, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S73 0 | £165,000 | 73 |
| S73 9 | £150,000 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full S73 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S73 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in S73 8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in S73 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the S73 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded S73 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working S73 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim S73 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to S73 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every S73 8 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.