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Elsecar market report S74 8, Barnsley
The S74 8 (Elsecar) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 1,951 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in S74 8 (Barnsley) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in S74 8 (Barnsley) came in at £193,000, out of 11 registered, up 42% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £200,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,080 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,951 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
S74 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside S74 (Barnsley). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where S74 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.
S74 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for S74 8 is £193,000, taken from 11 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £200,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in S74 8
The last five years of sales put S74 8 at roughly £2,080 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 S74 8 trades 32% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical S74 8 home, 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 | £193,000 | £193,000 | 11 |
| 2025 | £174,000 | £178,161 | 50 |
| 2024 | £169,000 | £179,682 | 52 |
| 2023 | £163,200 | £179,317 | 42 |
| 2022 | £147,500 | £172,961 | 50 |
| 2021 | £136,000 | £172,194 | 72 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 46 |
| 2019 | £118,000 | £154,670 | 48 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 74 |
| 2017 | £107,500 | £146,619 | 47 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 60 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 56 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 54 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 48 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 43 |
| 2011 | £81,500 | £123,034 | 28 |
| 2010 | £102,500 | £160,746 | 38 |
| 2009 | £91,500 | £147,087 | 33 |
| 2008 | £90,000 | £147,529 | 63 |
| 2007 | £103,200 | £175,056 | 112 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 111 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 110 |
| 2004 | £117,700 | £213,766 | 126 |
| 2003 | £67,000 | £123,430 | 119 |
| 2002 | £57,000 | £107,245 | 107 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 76 |
| 2000 | £41,800 | £82,033 | 64 |
| 1999 | £42,500 | £84,700 | 38 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 51 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 47 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 39 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 36 |
In cash terms the typical S74 8 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £193,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 131%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2004. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the S74 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 (+75.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−20.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +10.9% | +8.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.3% | +2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.8% | +2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 11 sales completed in S74 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 103 sales a year before the financial crisis and 41 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.
What tenants pay around S74 8
S74 8 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.
Against the £193,000 median purchase price, a rent of £678 a month (£8,136 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
How S74 8 trades
Only 11 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes S74 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
S74 8 (Elsecar): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in S74 8 (Elsecar)?
Is S74 8 (Elsecar) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S74 8 (Elsecar)?
Where do S74 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 42% over five years in cash and up 12% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in S74 now
The live side of the market holds 38 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S74 district, not just S74 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
8% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Oaken Royd Croft, Elsecar, Barnsley
- Church Street, Elsecar, Barnsley, Barnsley
- Church Street, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74
"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 S74 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.
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. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in S74
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are S74's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S74 0 | £175,000 | 25 |
| S74 9 | £170,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full S74 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S74 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in S74 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S74 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S74 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S74 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working S74 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim S74 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S74 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S74 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.
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.