Sheffield house prices

Sheffield house prices are built from 278,994 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £118,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +47.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +5.5%.

HM Land Registry278,994 sales46,327 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Sheffield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Sheffield is £220,000 in 2025; the lowest is £44,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £44,000 to £213,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £97,701, so the real change over the whole record is +118.5% — about +2.55% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +47.2% in cash against +5.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Sheffield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Sheffield is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 84,846 certificates cover Sheffield, and their median floor area is 73 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -3.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

132,876 of the sales on record are leasehold and 146,118 freehold — 47.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £115,000 and the median freehold sale £120,000 — a gap of +4.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +11.1%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 18,034 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Sheffield, 44.7% of 276,110 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Sheffield at £925 a month as of Jun 2026 — £686 for a one-bedroom home and £960 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £118,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.37% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of S6, 290 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 92 violent, 11 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 73 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times busier.

Against the 556,521 residents the 2021 census counted in Sheffield, that is 0.52 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 556,521 residents in Sheffield across 231,948 households. 58.6% of those households own their home and 41.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

16 state and independent schools have a S6 postcode: 15 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Sheffield sits below that national figure — -24.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,634 per square metre, across 46,327 of the 278,994 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £95.00 to £5,000,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Sheffield sits in Sheffield, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Sheffield at 5.9 times median local earnings of £37,074 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Sheffield

• Manchester Road1,479 sales
• High Street1,032 sales
• Sheffield Road999 sales
• Ecclesall Road782 sales
• Station Road713 sales
• Abbeydale Road710 sales
• Fulwood Road650 sales
• City Road643 sales
• Millsands614 sales
• Main Road606 sales
• Stannington Road597 sales
• Abbey Lane567 sales
• Chesterfield Road566 sales
• School Road528 sales
• Cavendish Street492 sales
• Graham Road488 sales
• Carr Road463 sales
• Woodseats Road454 sales
• Church Street449 sales
• Valley Road448 sales
• West Street447 sales
• Bellhouse Road441 sales
• Blair Athol Road425 sales
• Middlewood Road420 sales
• Queen Street413 sales
• Manvers Road411 sales
• St Pauls Square410 sales
• Springvale Road406 sales
• Hall Road389 sales
• Halifax Road375 sales
• Barnsley Road369 sales
• Gleadless Road365 sales
• Fitzwilliam Street364 sales
• Richmond Road355 sales
• Green Lane354 sales
• Queens Road344 sales
• Loxley Road343 sales
• Mansfield Road343 sales
• Abbeydale Road South341 sales
• Victoria Road341 sales
• Main Street334 sales
• Fox Hill Road332 sales
• Lydgate Lane332 sales
• Bradfield Road331 sales
• Ferrars Road328 sales
• Rotherham Road328 sales
• Hunter House Road326 sales
• Rushdale Road321 sales
• Psalter Lane319 sales
• Carter Knowle Road318 sales
• Cartmell Road309 sales
• Bannerdale Road307 sales
• Myrtle Road307 sales
• Park Avenue306 sales
• Retford Road302 sales
• Haigh Moor Way301 sales
• Wortley Road301 sales
• Murray Road300 sales
• Ecclesall Road South299 sales
• Derbyshire Lane297 sales

Postcode districts covering Sheffield

• S6£123,000 median
• S8£123,850 median
• S10£170,000 median
• S35£125,000 median
• S11£185,000 median
• S20£111,350 median
• S5£80,000 median
• S36£127,750 median
• S12£107,000 median
• S2£94,000 median
• S26£125,000 median
• S13£101,000 median
• S25£109,998 median
• S9£76,000 median
• S7£150,000 median
• S21£114,000 median
• S17£230,000 median
• S3£102,000 median
• S1£119,950 median
• S4£54,000 median
• S14£71,000 median

What is the average house price in Sheffield?

The median price paid in Sheffield across every sale on the register is £118,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Sheffield?

278,994 sales are on record for Sheffield, the most recent completing on 30 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Sheffield house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +47.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +5.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Sheffield house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £220,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Sheffield?

£1,634 per square metre, from the 46,327 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 30 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Sheffield house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.