The Walk, Barnsley house prices are built from 171 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 20 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £99,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +67.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +21.5%.
Median price paid
£99,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+67.7%
Change in real terms
+21.5%
Median per m²
£1,382
HM Land Registry171 sales8 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Mar 2026
Section 01
How The Walk, Barnsley prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Walk, Barnsley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1 | £38,250 | £84,933 |
| 2000s | 6 | £85,500 | £155,756 |
| 2010s | 8 | £95,000 | £133,950 |
| 2020s | 5 | £138,500 | £141,511 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Walk, Barnsley is £149,250 in 2024; the lowest is £38,250 in 1999. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £38,250 to £140,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £77,937, so the real change over the whole record is +83.5% — about +2.36% 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: +67.7% in cash against +21.5% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71 | 20 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £174,000 | £174,000 |
| 85 | 15 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 17 | 12 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £137,000 | £139,978 |
| 15 | 10 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 83 | 6 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £418,913 |
| 47 | 14 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 35 | 20 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 12 | 16 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| Apartment 5 Rockley View Court | 27 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £157,836 |
| Apartment 14 Rockley View Court | 12 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £148,500 | £156,257 |
| Apartment 21 Rockley View Court | 9 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £111,000 | £116,799 |
| 3 | 29 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| 46 | 1 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £131,000 | £137,843 |
| 36 | 28 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £130,000 | £140,460 |
| 34 | 6 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £137,000 | £148,023 |
| Apartment 12 Rockley View Court | 21 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £225,924 |
| Apartment 19 Rockley View Court | 20 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £121,652 |
| 38 | 16 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 27 | 9 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 40 | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £125,000 | £144,823 |
| 17 | 26 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £132,500 | £153,513 |
| Apartment 14 Rockley View Court | 27 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £144,823 |
| 33 | 12 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £96,000 | £121,290 |
| 35 | 20 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £134,000 | £169,301 |
| 29 | 28 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £133,000 | £168,038 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 The Walk, Barnsley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 the Walk | £10,000 (1996) | £137,000 (2025) | +9.4% | +6.6% |
| 83 the Walk | £150,000 (2011) | £410,000 (2025) | +7.4% | +4.4% |
| 47 the Walk | £66,500 (2011) | £140,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.5% |
| 35 the Walk | £134,000 (2021) | £200,000 (2025) | +10.5% | +4.8% |
| APARTMENT 14 ROCKLEY VIEW COURT the Walk | £80,000 (2015) | £148,500 (2024) | +7.1% | +3.7% |
| APARTMENT 21 ROCKLEY VIEW COURT the Walk | £50,000 (2004) | £111,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
| 3 the Walk | £96,000 (2011) | £175,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| 36 the Walk | £41,000 (2002) | £130,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| APARTMENT 19 ROCKLEY VIEW COURT the Walk | £80,000 (2015) | £105,000 (2022) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
| 38 the Walk | £36,750 (2000) | £120,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +2.9% |
| 27 the Walk | £38,250 (1997) | £120,000 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.2% |
| 40 the Walk | £86,000 (2004) | £125,000 (2022) | +2.1% | -0.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Walk, Barnsley is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 89 | 52.0% | £86,000 | £10,000 – £225,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 37 | 21.6% | £106,000 | £50,000 – £195,000 |
| Semi-detached | 31 | 18.1% | £113,000 | £24,000 – £410,000 |
| Detached | 14 | 8.2% | £139,950 | £55,000 – £320,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Walk, Barnsley
106 of the sales on record are leasehold and 65 freehold — 62.0% 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 £93,500 and the median freehold sale £107,000 — a gap of +14.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 106 | 62.0% | £93,500 |
| Freehold | 65 | 38.0% | £107,000 |
| New build | 10 | 5.8% | £99,975 |
| Existing home | 161 | 94.2% | £99,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +1.0%. 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 8 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.
Section 07
Living in The Walk, Barnsley
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Barnsley, 42.9% of 122,792 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 712 | 0.6% |
| B | 13,385 | 10.9% |
| C | 38,632 | 31.5% |
| D | 51,125 | 41.6% |
| E | 15,142 | 12.3% |
| F | 2,976 | 2.4% |
| G | 820 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Barnsley at £686 a month as of Jun 2026 — £499 for a one-bedroom home and £741 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £99,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.27% 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 S70, 472 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 183 violent, 18 burglary, 14 vehicle-related and 62 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.8 times busier.
Against the 244,572 residents the 2021 census counted in Barnsley, that is 1.93 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around The Walk, Barnsley
The 2021 census counted 244,572 residents in Barnsley across 108,053 households. 62.8% of those households own their home and 36.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
15 state and independent schools have a S70 postcode: 11 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizon Community College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,909 |
| Trinity Academy St. Edwards | Secondary | Free schools | 882 |
| Barnsley Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 874 |
| Joseph Locke Primary School | Primary | Community school | 449 |
| Hunningley Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 426 |
| Worsbrough Common Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 393 |
| Ward Green Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 357 |
| The Forest Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 346 |
| Shawlands Primary School | Primary | Community school | 311 |
| Oakwell Rise Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 236 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Barnsley Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Dodworth Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Wombwell Rail Station | Rail | 4.7 km |
| Elsecar Rail Station | Rail | 5.7 km |
Section 09
How The Walk, Barnsley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Walk, Barnsley sits below that national figure — -36.8%.
Within Barnsley the street ranks 1362 of 2493 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £96,000 (+3.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,382 per square metre, across 8 of the 171 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 £10,000 to £410,000. 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.
The Walk, Barnsley sits in Barnsley, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Barnsley at 5.1 times median local earnings of £35,629 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£69,950 median
- Sheffield Road£82,000 median
- Cemetery Road£67,500 median
- Park Road£80,000 median
- West Street£76,000 median
- Princess Street£60,000 median
- Dodworth Road£100,000 median
- Blenheim Road£87,000 median
- George Street£70,000 median
- Park Grove£118,000 median
- St Georges Road£55,000 median
- Shaw Lane£75,000 median
- Lancaster Street£56,750 median
- Racecommon Road£62,000 median
- Upper Sheffield Road£91,250 median
- Victoria Street£65,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 36 the Walk5 sales
- 29 the Walk5 sales
- 61 the Walk5 sales
- 17 the Walk4 sales
- 47 the Walk4 sales
- 91 the Walk4 sales
- 87 the Walk4 sales
- 11 the Walk4 sales
- 14 the Walk4 sales
- 59 the Walk4 sales
- 83 the Walk3 sales
- APARTMENT 14, ROCKLEY VIEW COURT the Walk3 sales
- APARTMENT 21, ROCKLEY VIEW COURT the Walk3 sales
- 38 the Walk3 sales
- 40 the Walk3 sales
- APARTMENT 22, ROCKLEY VIEW COURT the Walk3 sales
- 31 the Walk3 sales
- 28 the Walk3 sales
- 50 the Walk3 sales
- APARTMENT 4, ROCKLEY VIEW COURT the Walk3 sales
- 73 the Walk3 sales
- 99 the Walk3 sales
- 35 the Walk2 sales
- 3 the Walk2 sales
Back to Barnsley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Walk, Barnsley?
The median price paid in The Walk, Barnsley across every sale on the register is £99,500. 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 The Walk, Barnsley?
171 sales are on record for The Walk, Barnsley, the most recent completing on 20 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Walk, Barnsley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +67.7% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +21.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Walk, Barnsley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £149,250, set in 2024. 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 The Walk, Barnsley?
£1,382 per square metre, from the 8 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 20 Mar 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, “The Walk, Barnsley 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.