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Batemoor market report S8, Sheffield
The S8 (Batemoor) 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: 23,645 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in S8 (Sheffield) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for S8 (Sheffield) is £252,200, from 236 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier; the mean is £273,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,950 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 23,645 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
S8 is a postcode district covering Batemoor, Beauchief, Greenhill in Sheffield. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where S8 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 buyers actually paid in S8
The 2026 median for S8 is £252,200, taken from 236 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £273,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in S8
By floor space, homes in S8 have sold for about £2,950 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving S8 12% below the national figure.
A typical S8 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £252,200 | £252,200 | 236 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 692 |
| 2024 | £243,500 | £258,891 | 665 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 628 |
| 2022 | £231,500 | £271,460 | 647 |
| 2021 | £210,200 | £266,140 | 751 |
| 2020 | £203,000 | £263,397 | 625 |
| 2019 | £186,300 | £244,195 | 741 |
| 2018 | £187,500 | £249,941 | 715 |
| 2017 | £171,500 | £233,909 | 724 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 722 |
| 2015 | £154,500 | £218,309 | 786 |
| 2014 | £142,500 | £202,161 | 795 |
| 2013 | £137,400 | £197,705 | 632 |
| 2012 | £130,600 | £192,227 | 486 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 527 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 509 |
| 2009 | £129,200 | £207,690 | 475 |
| 2008 | £137,000 | £224,572 | 543 |
| 2007 | £142,500 | £241,720 | 1,068 |
| 2006 | £130,100 | £225,837 | 1,045 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 907 |
| 2004 | £116,000 | £210,679 | 946 |
| 2003 | £90,500 | £166,723 | 941 |
| 2002 | £72,000 | £135,467 | 975 |
| 2001 | £59,200 | £113,809 | 980 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 952 |
| 1999 | £48,000 | £95,661 | 886 |
| 1998 | £45,200 | £91,239 | 822 |
| 1997 | £46,800 | £95,977 | 816 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 735 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 673 |
In cash terms the typical S8 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £252,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 170%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
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.
What S8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.9% | −1.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £421,000 against £152,800 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, S8
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 | £421,000 | 33 | 3,099 |
| Semi-detached | £291,000 | 88 | 8,618 |
| Terraced | £200,000 | 85 | 9,658 |
| Flats | £152,800 | 30 | 2,270 |
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
S8 recorded 545 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 574 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.
The rental side of S8
The local authority for S8 is Sheffield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £922 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £683 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,327 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Sheffield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£922 a month is £11,064 a year, which against the £252,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the S8 market
S8 sits 8 of 45 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
S8 (Batemoor): the questions that come up
Is S8 (Batemoor) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S8 (Batemoor)?
Are property prices falling in S8 (Batemoor)?
Are S8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% 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.
On the market in S8 today
Everything above is what homes in S8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 178 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the S8 median sold price.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Bowshaw Close, Sheffield, South Yorks...
- Old Park Avenue, Greenhill, Sheffield, S8 7DQ, Sheffield
- Witney Street, Sheffield
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 S8 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.
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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
S8 ranks 16 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.
S area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside S8, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| S8 0 | £222,500 | 69 |
| S8 7 | £273,000 | 61 |
| S8 8 | £251,000 | 60 |
| S8 9 | £257,800 | 46 |
How S8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the S area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| S12 | £193,000 | +24% |
Before you sell in S8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual S8 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.