School Road, Sheffield house prices are built from 528 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £122,165. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +43.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.6%.
Median price paid
£122,165
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+43.2%
Change in real terms
+2.6%
Median per m²
£1,436
HM Land Registry528 sales87 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How School Road, Sheffield prices moved
The chart tracks the median School Road, 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £49,975 | £110,968 |
| 2000s | 10 | £122,165 | £222,549 |
| 2010s | 10 | £145,000 | £204,450 |
| 2020s | 7 | £222,000 | £226,826 |
The highest yearly median on record for School Road, Sheffield is £255,000 in 2023; the lowest is £45,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £45,000 to £222,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,921, so the real change over the whole record is +122.2% — about +2.61% 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: +43.2% in cash against +2.6% 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 | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £242,000 | £242,000 |
| 232 | 9 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £387,000 | £387,000 |
| 44 | 20 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| Flat A Spring Court, 91 | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £140,000 |
| 298 | 9 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £222,000 | £222,000 |
| 132 | 4 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| 253 | 1 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 90 | 28 Nov 2025 | Detached | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 172 | 28 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 113 | 18 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| 1 | 7 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 55 | 23 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £94,000 | £96,043 |
| 48 | 15 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 304 | 19 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £236,000 | £241,130 |
| 340 | 19 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| 183 | 26 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £287,500 | £293,750 |
| 254 | 9 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 112 | 30 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| 119 | 7 May 2025 | Detached | £306,500 | £313,163 |
| 177 | 20 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £167,500 | £171,141 |
| 238 | 21 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 317 | 11 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £211,000 | £222,022 |
| 146 | 30 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 74 | 1 Aug 2024 | Detached | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 320 | 3 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £220,000 | £231,493 |
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 School 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 School Road | £15,000 (1997) | £242,000 (2026) | +10.1% | +7.2% |
| 232 School Road | £133,000 (2003) | £387,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +1.9% |
| 44 School Road | £139,000 (2011) | £195,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.6% |
| FLAT A SPRING COURT, 91 School Road | £51,000 (1996) | £140,000 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.8% |
| 298 School Road | £150,000 (2005) | £222,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 132 School Road | £175,000 (2016) | £290,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +2.2% |
| 253 School Road | £299,995 (2006) | £285,000 (2025) | -0.3% | -3.1% |
| 90 School Road | £45,000 (1995) | £200,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 172 School Road | £140,000 (2019) | £170,000 (2025) | +3.3% | -0.9% |
| 113 School Road | £34,000 (1999) | £165,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 1 School Road | £46,950 (1998) | £210,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 55 School Road | £59,000 (1995) | £94,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. School 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 233 | 44.1% | £130,000 | £10,000 – £412,500 |
| Semi-detached | 175 | 33.1% | £117,500 | £11,000 – £295,000 |
| Detached | 75 | 14.2% | £175,000 | £19,000 – £550,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 45 | 8.5% | £85,000 | £18,500 – £215,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in School Road, Sheffield
210 of the sales on record are leasehold and 318 freehold — 39.8% 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 £135,000 and the median freehold sale £117,500 — a gap of -13.0%. 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 | 210 | 39.8% | £135,000 |
| Freehold | 318 | 60.2% | £117,500 |
| New build | 15 | 2.8% | £75,000 |
| Existing home | 513 | 97.2% | £123,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -39.0%. 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 54 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 School 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 £122,165 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.68% 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 S26, 27 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 10 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 6 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 6.2 times quieter.
Against the 265,807 residents the 2021 census counted in Rotherham, that is 0.10 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 School 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.
14 state and independent schools have a S26 postcode: 11 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wales High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,783 |
| Aston Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,366 |
| Aston Hall Junior and Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 288 |
| Springwood Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 238 |
| Wales Primary School | Primary | Community school | 209 |
| Swallownest Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 205 |
| Todwick Primary School | Primary | Community school | 205 |
| Aston All Saints CofE (A) Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 176 |
| Aston Lodge Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 174 |
| Kiveton Park Meadows Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 172 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Kiveton Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Kiveton Park Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Beighton – Drake House Lane To City | Metro or underground | 3.9 km |
| Beighton – Drake House Lane | Metro or underground | 3.9 km |
Section 09
How School Road, Sheffield compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. School Road, Sheffield sits below that national figure — -22.4%.
Within Sheffield the street ranks 2912 of 5878 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £118,500 (+3.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,436 per square metre, across 87 of the 528 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 £550,000. 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.
School 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
- Manvers Road£88,100 median
- Haigh Moor Way£196,000 median
- Storth Lane£106,000 median
- Stoney Bank Drive£95,000 median
- Alexandra Road£88,000 median
- Swallow Wood Road£141,725 median
- Wales Road£77,000 median
- Manor Road£98,750 median
- Wetherby Drive£59,950 median
- Aughton Road£86,500 median
- Kiveton Lane£285,000 median
- Maple Grove£82,000 median
- Broad Bridge Close£88,000 median
- Lodge Lane£124,950 median
- Duckham Drive£69,995 median
- Cherry Tree Road£139,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 15 School Road8 sales
- 27 School Road7 sales
- 304 School Road6 sales
- 354 School Road6 sales
- 286 School Road6 sales
- 110 School Road6 sales
- 39 School Road6 sales
- 2 School Road6 sales
- FLAT A, SPRING COURT, 91 School Road5 sales
- 53 School Road5 sales
- 17 School Road5 sales
- 12 School Road5 sales
- 106 School Road5 sales
- 328 School Road5 sales
- 8 School Road5 sales
- 93 School Road5 sales
- 90 School Road4 sales
- 1 School Road4 sales
- 340 School Road4 sales
- 238 School Road4 sales
- 107 School Road4 sales
- 326 School Road4 sales
- 10 School Road4 sales
- 33 School Road4 sales
Back to Sheffield house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in School Road, Sheffield?
The median price paid in School Road, Sheffield across every sale on the register is £122,165. 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 School Road, Sheffield?
528 sales are on record for School Road, Sheffield, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have School Road, Sheffield house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +43.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were School Road, Sheffield house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £255,000, set in 2023. 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 School Road, Sheffield?
£1,436 per square metre, from the 87 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 29 May 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, “School 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.