Cairns Road, Sheffield house prices are built from 143 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 24 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £118,000. Across the 12 years from 2010 to 2022 the median moved +93.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +40.0%.
Median price paid
£118,000
Change in cash, 2010–2022
+93.0%
Change in real terms
+40.0%
Median per m²
£2,875
HM Land Registry143 sales11 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Cairns Road, Sheffield prices moved
The chart tracks the median Cairns Road, Sheffield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2022. 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 | 3 | £63,000 | £139,890 |
| 2000s | 7 | £98,000 | £178,527 |
| 2010s | 6 | £150,000 | £211,500 |
| 2020s | 2 | £255,000 | £260,543 |
The highest yearly median on record for Cairns Road, Sheffield is £415,000 in 2022; the lowest is £36,000 in 1998. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £63,000 to £415,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £133,579, so the real change over the whole record is +259.9% — about +5.26% 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: +93.0% in cash against +40.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 24 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| 42 | 10 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £177,500 | £181,359 |
| 1 | 8 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 172 | 20 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | £86,810 |
| 46 | 21 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £152,000 | £159,940 |
| 35 | 7 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £526,119 |
| 9 | 3 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £221,000 | £238,782 |
| 178 | 9 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £142,000 | £153,425 |
| 33 | 30 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £480,813 |
| 21 | 16 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £249,096 |
| 180 | 1 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £155,000 | £179,581 |
| 9 | 22 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £440,000 | £509,778 |
| 39 | 26 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £483,000 | £559,597 |
| 69 | 28 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £611,000 | £771,962 |
| 23b | 21 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £441,250 | £557,493 |
| 22 | 26 Feb 2021 | Detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 12 | 25 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £202,151 |
| 172 | 17 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £58,500 | £73,911 |
| 39 | 27 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £195,833 |
| 20 | 3 Dec 2020 | Detached | £405,000 | £524,380 |
| 22 | 7 Feb 2020 | Detached | £275,000 | £356,061 |
| 43 | 25 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £367,500 | £480,682 |
| 49 | 23 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £600,000 | £784,787 |
| 81 | 24 May 2019 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £215,816 |
| 8 | 16 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £183,117 |
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 Cairns Road, Sheffield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Cairns Road | £51,000 (2001) | £215,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.3% |
| 42 Cairns Road | £30,000 (1998) | £177,500 (2025) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 1 Cairns Road | £56,000 (1996) | £345,000 (2024) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 172 Cairns Road | £58,500 (2021) | £82,500 (2024) | +12.1% | +5.5% |
| 35 Cairns Road | £397,500 (2016) | £500,000 (2024) | +2.9% | -0.7% |
| 9 Cairns Road | £53,000 (1996) | £221,000 (2023) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 21 Cairns Road | £144,995 (2007) | £215,000 (2022) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| 180 Cairns Road | £29,000 (1998) | £155,000 (2022) | +7.2% | +4.7% |
| 39 Cairns Road | £111,000 (2001) | £483,000 (2022) | +7.3% | +4.6% |
| 69 Cairns Road | £155,100 (2001) | £611,000 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| 22 Cairns Road | £275,000 (2020) | £350,000 (2021) | +27.3% | +24.2% |
| 12 Cairns Road | £246,000 (2007) | £160,000 (2021) | -3.0% | -5.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cairns Road, Sheffield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 104 | 72.7% | £131,250 | £24,500 – £611,000 |
| Terraced | 23 | 16.1% | £86,000 | £29,000 – £155,000 |
| Detached | 14 | 9.8% | £206,000 | £25,000 – £405,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 1.4% | £58,500 | £58,500 – £82,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cairns Road, Sheffield
28 of the sales on record are leasehold and 115 freehold — 19.6% 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 £204,000 and the median freehold sale £111,000 — a gap of -45.6%. 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 | 28 | 19.6% | £204,000 |
| Freehold | 115 | 80.4% | £111,000 |
A further 3 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 Cairns Road, Sheffield
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Rotherham, 44.6% of 129,275 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 | 607 | 0.5% |
| B | 12,092 | 9.4% |
| C | 44,895 | 34.7% |
| D | 52,135 | 40.3% |
| E | 15,519 | 12.0% |
| F | 3,227 | 2.5% |
| G | 800 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Rotherham at £680 a month as of Jun 2026 — £484 for a one-bedroom home and £737 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £118,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.92% 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 S20, 258 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 77 violent, 12 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 48 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times busier.
Against the 265,807 residents the 2021 census counted in Rotherham, that is 0.97 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 Cairns Road, Sheffield
The 2021 census counted 265,807 residents in Rotherham across 113,926 households. 64.0% of those households own their home and 35.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
10 state and independent schools have a S20 postcode: 9 primary, 1 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westfield School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,366 |
| Mosborough Primary School | Primary | Community school | 417 |
| Brook House Junior | Primary | Academy converter | 325 |
| Beighton Nursery Infant School | Primary | Community school | 251 |
| Reignhead Primary School | Primary | Community school | 223 |
| Halfway Junior School | Primary | Community school | 200 |
| Halfway Nursery Infant School | Primary | Community school | 197 |
| Emmanuel Anglican/Methodist Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 159 |
| Shortbrook Primary School | Primary | Community school | 131 |
| Waterthorpe Infant School | Primary | Community school | 123 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Waterthorpe Platform to City | Tram | 0.5 km |
| Waterthorpe To City | Metro or underground | 0.5 km |
| Westfield To City | Metro or underground | 0.6 km |
| Westfield | Metro or underground | 0.6 km |
Section 09
How Cairns Road, Sheffield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cairns Road, Sheffield sits below that national figure — -25.1%.
Within Sheffield the street ranks 3100 of 5878 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £118,500 (-0.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,875 per square metre, across 11 of the 143 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 £24,500 to £611,000. 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.
Cairns Road, Sheffield sits in Rotherham, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Rotherham at 5.8 times median local earnings of £33,419 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
- Queens Road£90,000 median
- Victoria Road£105,000 median
- Meadow Gate Avenue£124,975 median
- Hall Meadow Drive£73,750 median
- Deepwell Avenue£93,500 median
- Toll House Mead£135,000 median
- Middle Ox Gardens£100,000 median
- Bright Meadow£82,000 median
- Rufford Rise£115,000 median
- New School Road£124,998 median
- Meadowcroft Gardens£57,500 median
- Gartrice Gardens£87,500 median
- Springwell Grove£168,500 median
- Thorpe Drive£90,000 median
- Morton Gardens£139,995 median
- Plumbley Hall Road£117,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 9 Cairns Road7 sales
- 20 Cairns Road6 sales
- 15 Cairns Road5 sales
- 1 Cairns Road5 sales
- 180 Cairns Road5 sales
- 52 Cairns Road5 sales
- 39 Cairns Road4 sales
- 43 Cairns Road4 sales
- 136 Cairns Road4 sales
- 25 Cairns Road4 sales
- 42 Cairns Road3 sales
- 69 Cairns Road3 sales
- 19 Cairns Road3 sales
- 27 Cairns Road3 sales
- 37 Cairns Road3 sales
- 38 Cairns Road3 sales
- 18 Cairns Road3 sales
- 5 Cairns Road3 sales
- 30 Cairns Road3 sales
- 79 Cairns Road3 sales
- 172 Cairns Road2 sales
- 35 Cairns Road2 sales
- 21 Cairns Road2 sales
- 22 Cairns Road2 sales
Back to Sheffield house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cairns Road, Sheffield?
The median price paid in Cairns Road, Sheffield across every sale on the register is £118,000. 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 Cairns Road, Sheffield?
143 sales are on record for Cairns Road, Sheffield, the most recent completing on 24 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Cairns Road, Sheffield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +93.0% between 2010 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +40.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Cairns Road, Sheffield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £415,000, set in 2022. 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 Cairns Road, Sheffield?
£2,875 per square metre, from the 11 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 24 Nov 2025. 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, “Cairns Road, 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.