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Elsecar market report S74, Barnsley
The S74 (Elsecar) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,457 HM Land Registry entries for S74 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in S74 (Barnsley) sold for £180,000 in 2026, the median of 67 registered sales, up 32% on five years earlier. The mean was £186,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,030 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,457 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
S74 is the postcode district covering Elsecar, Hoyland, Jump 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 S74 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.
What S74 homes really sell for
The S74 median stands at £180,000 for 2026, built from 67 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £186,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in S74
Measured by floor area, the last five years of S74 sales average about £2,030 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, S74 runs 37% below it.
S74'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 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £165,000 | £168,946 | 228 |
| 2024 | £166,500 | £177,024 | 200 |
| 2023 | £152,500 | £167,560 | 215 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 227 |
| 2021 | £136,000 | £172,194 | 280 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 207 |
| 2019 | £122,800 | £160,961 | 256 |
| 2018 | £112,000 | £149,298 | 256 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 210 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 236 |
| 2015 | £95,000 | £134,235 | 217 |
| 2014 | £109,000 | £154,636 | 201 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 185 |
| 2012 | £98,500 | £144,980 | 175 |
| 2011 | £87,500 | £132,091 | 175 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 143 |
| 2009 | £90,800 | £145,962 | 168 |
| 2008 | £101,600 | £166,544 | 226 |
| 2007 | £107,500 | £182,350 | 435 |
| 2006 | £97,000 | £168,380 | 334 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 308 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 356 |
| 2003 | £57,200 | £105,376 | 334 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 316 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 310 |
| 2000 | £38,000 | £74,575 | 235 |
| 1999 | £38,200 | £76,131 | 206 |
| 1998 | £39,700 | £80,137 | 188 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 241 |
| 1996 | £34,800 | £73,392 | 142 |
| 1995 | £34,200 | £74,346 | 180 |
In cash terms the typical S74 home went from £34,200 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 142%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the S74 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 (+57.3% 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.
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, 38% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £327,500 against £91,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, S74
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 | £270,000 | 13 | 1,722 |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | 28 | 2,833 |
| Terraced | £135,000 | 23 | 2,677 |
| Flats | £91,000 (2025) | – | 195 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.1% | +6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.8% | +0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 167 sales completed in S74. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 329 sales a year before the financial crisis and 187 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.
The rental side of S74
The local authority for S74 is Barnsley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £180,000 median purchase price, a rent of £678 a month (£8,136 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
What people ask about S74 (Elsecar)
How much did a house sell for in S74 (Elsecar)?
Are property prices falling in S74 (Elsecar)?
Is S74 (Elsecar) a good place to buy a house?
Where do S74 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in S74 right now
Everything above is what homes in S74 sold for. The live side of the market holds 38 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the S74 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 8% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Oaken Royd Croft, Elsecar, Barnsley
- Church Street, Elsecar, Barnsley, Barnsley
- Church Street, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74
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 S74 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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
S74 ranks 1 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.
Five-year change in the median, S area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside S74, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| S74 0 | £175,000 | 25 |
| S74 8 | £193,000 | 11 |
| S74 9 | £170,000 | 31 |
How S74 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the S area, and S74 itself, which ranks 30 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% |
| S74 (this report) | £180,000 | +32% |
Thinking of selling in S74? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in S74, open the average prices map and zoom from the S74 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded S74 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim S74.
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The live map plots every individual S74 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.