Doncaster Property Market: House Prices, Sold Data & Development Finance, Q3 2026 Review

Doncaster: South Yorkshire's eastern city with racecourse, Lakeside development, and Doncaster Sheffield Airport legacy.

The Doncaster property market recorded 4,795 residential sales in the 12 months to 30 June 2026, with a median sale price of £168,000. This places Doncaster in line with the South Yorkshire county median, and £117k below the approximate UK median of £285,000.

Prices in Doncaster have been broadly stable, a year-on-year change of -0.9%. Within South Yorkshire, Doncaster ranks 3rd by price out of 5 principal towns, and 2nd by transaction volume.

On a quarterly view, Doncaster median prices moved from £173,000 in Q1 2025 to £167,250 in Q2 2026, a change of -3.3% over 5 quarters.

The local planning authority for Doncaster approved 31 residential planning applications and refused 11 in Q3 2026 (1 July to 30 September 2026), with 44 still awaiting a decision. That is an approval rate of 74%. Planning figures come from local planning authority records compiled by Landstack, retrieved on 3 October 2026. Councils and Landstack can take several days to publish decisions, so decisions made in the final days of Q3 2026 may not all be included yet.

Schemes approved in Q3 2026, together with those still awaiting a decision, propose around 1,094 homes, an estimated £176.5m of development value at local sale prices. Treat the unit total as an upper bound, since an outline permission and its reserved-matters application both count.

Doncaster covers more than one town in South Yorkshire, so these figures are authority-wide rather than specific to Doncaster alone.

Property prices in Doncaster vary significantly by type. The table below compares Doncaster prices with South Yorkshire county averages and UK national figures.

Detached homes in Doncaster command £280,000, while flat properties are most accessible at £104,000. The £176k spread between the most and least expensive types indicates a relatively compressed market where margins between types are tighter.

HM Land Registry has so far registered 108 new-build sales in Doncaster for the past 12 months, 2.3% of registered transactions. New-build sales are typically registered 6 to 18 months after completion, so this understates current delivery and is not a completions figure.

On those registered sales, new builds in Doncaster sold at a premium of 39.5% to existing stock.

Across the wider South Yorkshire market, 473 new-build sales have registered so far. See our South Yorkshire property market report for the full county picture.

The table below shows the most recently registered residential sales in Doncaster, evidence of achieved prices for buyers, sellers and developers:

These transactions are sourced from HM Land Registry Price Paid data and represent completed, registered sales. The range from £75,000 to £232,500 illustrates the breadth of the Doncaster market.

For developers considering Doncaster, the local market data translates directly into finance structuring. With a median value of £168,000 and detached homes at £280,000, lenders can assess scheme viability with confidence.

A typical development finance facility for a scheme in Doncaster with a GDV of £280,000 would attract senior debt of approximately £182,000 at 65% LTGDV. Mezzanine finance can stretch total borrowing to 85-90% of costs, while bridging loans enable rapid site acquisitions completing in as little as 5 working days.

While prices have softened 0.9% year-on-year, experienced developers can still generate strong returns in Doncaster by targeting well-located sites with clear demand drivers.

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To put Doncaster's market in context, the table below compares it with similarly-priced towns across South Yorkshire:

For the full South Yorkshire town-by-town breakdown, see our comprehensive South Yorkshire property market report.