House prices in 'S25 4', North Anston

This article reveals price per square metre data and various charts to help you understand current housing market in 'S25 4' (North Anston, Dinnington) - statistics were last calculated on 16 October 2024.

Defining 'S25 4'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "S25 4", this is also called the postcode sector. There are no official postcode sector names so I've just labelled it S25 4, North Anston. It is shown in red on the map below.

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in S25 4 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

For example in August 2024, 16, Wellington Avenue, North Anston, S25 4HE sold for £182,000. Given the internal area of 90 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £182,000 ÷ 90 sqm = £2,022.

England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). It is a huge pain to code the automatic conversion for square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on S25 4 and elsewhere. All the conditionals turn my tidy code for into spaghetti. I will get around to it at some point, but for now you can just divide everything by 10 in your head, move a decimal place and you'll be close enough. If you want to be more precise 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.

Distribution of £ per sqm for 'S25 4' vs 'S25'

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in S25 4 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £1,900 to £2,000, £2,000 to £2,100, £2,100 to £2,200 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 109 sales that took place in S25 4, North Anston, Dinnington in the last 24 months.

Generate a custom histogram like the one above but based on your own criteria.

You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in S25 4, North Anston. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £2,570 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of S25 4 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for S25 4

Tip: click on the chart to see the values.

The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. North Anston. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'S25 4' as well as the 'S25' postcode district.

  • Median: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median (£ per square meter). This is the midpoint of the data, meaning 50% of the prices are below this value, and 50% are above. The middle price per square metre in 'S25 4' is £2,220.
  • Interquartile Range (IQR): The box spans from the 25th percentile (Q1) to the 75th percentile (Q3). This is the range where the middle 50% of the data lies, giving a good indication of the typical price spread. Of the 109 transactions in S25 4, North Anston half were sold for between £1,900 and £2,570 per square metre.
  • Whiskers: In our case, the whiskers extend from the 9th percentile (at the lower end) to the 91st percentile (at the upper end), This provides a slightly broader view of the distribution by including the middle 82% of records. The whiskers capture most of the variation but exclude extreme outliers caused by data errors in recording sold house prices or internal area.
  • 'n=' is the number of property transactions the box plot is based on; 109 for S25 4, North Anston.

    • Property price map for North Anston

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'S25 4' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for North Anston
    House price map for North Anston

    North Anston house price forecasting

    I cannot tell what house prices will do in the future and don't believe anyone who says they can. However we can plot price trends, I have done this in the chart below for S25 4 (North Anston) compared with the wider postcode district of S25. You can extrapolate from this based on your own views on future interest rates, inflation and other factors.

    House price index for S25 4

    Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines

    Download house price index as CSV (premium users only).

    The chart above shows changes in 'S25 4' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in S25 4 and is set to 100 in 2004. I'm comparing the trends for S25 4,North Anston with the wider postcode district of S25 What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire Rotherham local authority.

    The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:

    Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1
    In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.

    Historic returns for S25 4
    S25 4 sector S25 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 3.2% 0.5% 3.4% 0.8%
    20 yr total 86.4% 10.4% 96.8% 16.6%
    10 yr per annum 4.2% 1.4% 4.2% 1.4%
    10 yr total 51.4% 14.9% 51.6% 15.1%
    5 yr per annum 5.5% 1.4% 4.7% 0.6%
    5 yr total 30.8% 7.0% 25.8% 2.9%
    1 yr per annum 1.2% -2.8% -0.4% -4.4%
    1 yr total 1.2% -2.8% -0.4% -4.4%

    This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.

    The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:

    Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1

    The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:

    CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1

    Some specific examples:

    • Over the past 20 years, S25 district have seen a 0.8% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 16.6% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, S25 district have seen a 0.6% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 2.9% in real terms.

    Most recent S25 4 sales

    For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.

    Tip: hover over dots to see details

    Street level data

    Street Avg size Avg £sqm Recent sales
    Devonshire Drive, North Anston, S25 4A 78 sqm £2,203 18
    Edinburgh Drive, North Anston, S25 4H 75 sqm £2,193 17
    Netherthorpe Way, North Anston, S25 4F 75 sqm £2,410 16
    Park Avenue, North Anston, S25 4G 81 sqm £2,256 13
    Rackford Road, North Anston, S25 4D 128 sqm £2,514 10
    Ryton Road, North Anston, S25 4D 90 sqm £1,487 8
    Mulberry Road, North Anston, S25 4B 82 sqm £1,573 8
    Windmill Road, North Anston, S25 4E 82 sqm £1,851 8

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'S25 4' compares to the other postcode sectors in S25.

    Sector Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    S81 8 Gateford £2,280 sqm £2,750 sqm £3,080 sqm 224
    S26 1 Todwick £2,570 sqm £2,870 sqm £3,300 sqm 31
    S25 5 South Anston £2,110 sqm £2,430 sqm £3,010 sqm 60
    S25 4 North Anston £1,900 sqm £2,220 sqm £2,570 sqm 109
    S25 3 Dinnington £1,730 sqm £2,280 sqm £2,510 sqm 102
    S25 2 Dinnington £1,510 sqm £2,220 sqm £2,690 sqm 261
    S25 1 Laughton £1,630 sqm £2,170 sqm £2,800 sqm 25

    Raw data

    Our analysis of S25 4 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

    Address Paid sqm £/sqm
    16, Wellington Avenue, North Anston, Dinnington £182,000
    Aug-2024
    		 90 2,022
    36, Woodland Drive, North Anston, Dinnington £78,500
    Aug-2024
    		 71 1,105
    11, Scafell Pl, North Anston, Dinnington £140,000
    Jul-2024
    		 58 2,413

    See the entire list of all sales in S25 4 here.

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