Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 24,575 sales registered with HM Land Registry in S8 (Sheffield) 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 data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
S8 is the postcode district covering Batemoor, Beauchief, Greenhill in Sheffield. 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 S8 sits
Click the map to open S8 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£250,000median sold price, 2026
+23%five-year change (cash)
589sales in the last 12 months
4.4%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in S8 sells for
The 2026 median in S8 is £250,000, from 159 registered sales; the mean, £272,900, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so S8 trades 9% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical S8 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£250,000
£250,000
159
2025
£240,000
£240,000
762
2024
£231,200
£240,072
766
2023
£227,000
£243,593
713
2022
£222,500
£254,813
732
2021
£203,000
£251,022
865
2020
£191,000
£242,039
726
2019
£183,000
£234,267
834
2018
£180,000
£234,340
796
2017
£170,000
£226,448
817
2016
£158,900
£217,111
803
2015
£150,500
£207,690
840
2014
£140,000
£193,976
834
2013
£136,000
£191,120
644
2012
£130,600
£187,738
486
2011
£125,000
£184,295
527
2010
£130,000
£199,112
509
2009
£129,200
£202,840
475
2008
£137,000
£219,327
543
2007
£142,500
£236,074
1,068
2006
£130,100
£220,563
1,045
2005
£120,000
£208,564
906
2004
£116,000
£205,758
946
2003
£90,500
£162,829
941
2002
£72,000
£132,304
975
2001
£59,500
£111,714
979
2000
£50,000
£95,833
952
1999
£48,000
£93,427
886
1998
£45,200
£89,109
822
1997
£46,800
£93,736
816
1996
£41,000
£84,448
735
1995
£43,000
£91,292
673
In cash terms the typical S8 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 174%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the S8 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 (+28.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
+4.2%
+4.2%
5 years (since 2021)
+4.3%
−0.1%
10 years (since 2016)
+4.6%
+1.4%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.3%
+0.6%
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
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
S8 recorded 589 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 977 sales a year before the financial crisis and 626 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around S8
S8 falls under Sheffield, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £922 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £683 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,327, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sheffield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £250,000 median sold price, £922 a month is £11,064 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
Will S8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 23% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
S8 ranks 10 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 S8, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.