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Darfield market report S73, Barnsley
The S73 (Darfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 13,065 sales registered with HM Land Registry in S73 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 143 registered 2026 sales put the S73 (Barnsley) median at £165,000, up 14% on five years earlier, with a mean of £170,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,020 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 13,065 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district S73 covering Darfield, Hemingfield, Wombwell sits in Barnsley. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where S73 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 S73 prices, from the sold record
Across 143 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) S73 home went for £165,000. The mean is £170,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
S73 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in S73 costs about £2,020 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving S73 42% below the national figure.
S73's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £165,000 | £165,000 | 143 |
| 2025 | £175,500 | £179,697 | 378 |
| 2024 | £165,000 | £175,429 | 430 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 375 |
| 2022 | £150,500 | £176,478 | 448 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 536 |
| 2020 | £131,000 | £169,975 | 383 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 388 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 447 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 415 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 424 |
| 2015 | £104,000 | £146,952 | 346 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 364 |
| 2013 | £97,200 | £139,861 | 354 |
| 2012 | £95,000 | £139,828 | 304 |
| 2011 | £99,000 | £149,452 | 312 |
| 2010 | £93,000 | £145,848 | 273 |
| 2009 | £101,000 | £162,358 | 280 |
| 2008 | £111,000 | £181,952 | 379 |
| 2007 | £105,000 | £178,109 | 641 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 746 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 528 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 526 |
| 2003 | £57,500 | £105,929 | 595 |
| 2002 | £41,000 | £77,141 | 570 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 511 |
| 2000 | £37,500 | £73,594 | 378 |
| 1999 | £35,400 | £70,550 | 341 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 344 |
| 1997 | £33,000 | £67,676 | 299 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 289 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 318 |
In cash terms the typical S73 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £165,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 105%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 10% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S73 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 (+40.2% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−11.5%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £265,000 against £85,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, S73
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 | £265,000 | 21 | 2,885 |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | 56 | 4,576 |
| Terraced | £122,500 | 61 | 5,177 |
| Flats | £85,000 | 5 | 421 |
What S73 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.0% | −8.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 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.
Sales activity in S73
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.
S73 recorded 287 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 562 sales a year before the financial crisis and 355 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 S73
S73 falls under Barnsley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £678 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £494 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,061, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Barnsley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £165,000 median sold price, £678 a month is £8,136 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
How S73 trades
In its area's price order S73 comes 36 of 45, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Common questions on S73 (Darfield)
Is S73 (Darfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S73 (Darfield)?
Are property prices falling in S73 (Darfield)?
What happens to S73 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
What you could buy in S73 now
Everything above is what homes in S73 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 71 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the S73 median sold price.
46% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in S
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the S area. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
S73 ranks 25 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 S73, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| S73 0 | £165,000 | 73 |
| S73 8 | £175,000 | 44 |
| S73 9 | £150,000 | 26 |
How S73 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the S area, and S73 itself, which ranks 36 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% |
| S73 (this report) | £165,000 | +14% |
Before you sell in S73: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at S73's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim S73.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S73 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S73 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.
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.