Still researching sheffield areas and have been looking around Sharrow.

What does it cost for a two or three bedroom terrace in Sharrow?

(For purposes of searching on the net) What are the postcodes covered by Sharrow?

I like Sharrow because you can walk into town quickly so I reckon it would be easy to rent, so good for town.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think it is quite close to the Ecclesall Road area.
Close enough to let out to students if you ever need to live outside sheffield (within staggering distance of the city centre)
I also suspect that anything like this within 10 minutes walk of the city centre has got to go up in price dramatically sooner or later.

From what I hear Sharrow is ok crimewise and has no major problems such as drugs or gangs or stuff like that.

What do you think?

Last time I looked (over 12 months ago) Sharrow prices were oddly deflated compared to the surrounding area. It should have cought the Ecclesall Rd wave but didn't, so I am wary of it as an investment. It may catch the wave from the Devonshire quarter development when Cole's finally relocate and the area takes shape properly.

The branch of Safeway's that was there seemed downmarket as Safeway stores go, but the conversion to Waitrose can only be a step in the right direction.

Sorry I can't be of more help on that one - I've not figured out what the problem is.

Edit:Postcode/area map (http://www.blundells.co.uk/search.asp)

Depends on which bit of Sharrow you are looking at. The houses around Sharrowvale are very popular with students and for 'bohemian' type people, However if you look on Sharrow lane around Club garden road area the houses do seem to be rather cheap. This is unfortunately because the area is very popular with asians . I know this sounds horrible but you can see the same is true for Darnall, bits of Firth Park and Attercliffe. I don't understand why this should lower house prices but it does.
As far as crime and anti social behaviour is concerned it's fine I'm not aware of it being a particular hot spot and often walk through the area without a care unlike Woodthorpe [just an example]

Its good advantages and disadvantages- ive just bought a 3bed property there for 100,000quid, No stamp duty to pay here, plenty of students wanting to move to the area....

I like Sharrow even more now.
If it never caught the last wave it will catch the next one
definitely.
It is just to close to town not to go up and I am if you can
still get a 3 bedroom for 100000 quid then it has just gone
right to the top of my list.
I think this is the most undervalued area in Sheffield and the
one with the prospect of best capital gain.
There is no good reason for Sharrow to be so cheap.

I wanna buy there

Try out all of the local pubs first. When you get chatting to the locals you'll get a better feel for the area.

Originally posted by jogenn
From what I hear Sharrow is ok crimewise and has no major problems such as drugs or gangs or stuff like that.

I'd've said the same thing till Saturday when a questionnaire dropped through our letterbox. It was from some South Yorkshire Police local initiative thingie saying that due to the high crime rate in Sharrow, they'd got some money from central government to fund a community liason officer (or some such waffle). Anyway, some clown is being paid £50,000 for a year to send us silly questionnaires that seem to have the prejudicial answers already built into the questions. They've decided Sharrow is some sort of sink-hole of violence and corruption, they just want us to fill in their forms to confirm it.

Me, I like Sharrow. Maybe the new £50K investigator should take Strix's advice and hang out in the local pubs to find out what's really going on.

Wasn't it in Sharrow that somebody was thrown from a window recently?

There's a thread on here somewhere.

No that was Broomhill flats.

I wouldn't want to live in Sharrow, I have lived on Sharrow Lane and disliked the gangs of teenage lads who hung around waiting for their drug dealers to turn up.

a couple of weeks ago there were reports in the Sheffield Telegraph that the Police made a £350K heroin haul in Sharrow, Cemetery Rd flats is pretty dodgy, it isn't really safe to walk round there late at night, there also seems to be quite a few muggins around neighbouring parts of Nether Edge, and very recently there was the attempted raid at the Marriott....not really that "up-and-coming" me thinks...more like wallowing!

there is a dodgy element, in the district, like in all places. and yes, as classic rock says, it was around the club garden road/ sharrow lane junction, where her bar was. since the pub closed, the youths don't seem to be so prominent. maybe they have lost the impetus to loiter there? i don't know, it's definitely not so obvious now, anyway.

This may improve further, because the pub that classic rock ran is now undergoing a massive re-development into a community type centre for the sharrow suretart project, particularly helpinfg families and cyoung children in the area.

I live at the Psalter Lane end of Sharrow/ Nether edge. it's quiet, you would not believe that you were less than 2 miles from the city centre.

It's got a large and diverse ethnic community, which only adds to its appeal, in my opinion.

there's a good community spirit, (I should know, I am on the exec of the local TRA!) there's fantastic events that go on, like the Encounters art project, and the Sharrow festival, as well as smaller events like community parties, and trips out for the kiddies.

it's also extremely "pop-lear"wiv yer shtudents, as it's but a hop, skip and a jump from both universites.

there's also a good number of adult education classes, run locally.

the only bit I feel a bit nervous going through, is more Highfields/ alderson road, but only when the large gang of drinkers hangs about outside the chemist. and that's not exactly "sharrow", it's london road/ highfields, as I said, sort of on the borders of the district.

Public transport is god, there's a half-hourly bus service on psalter lane,
there's a10-min bus service on wostenholme road, and if you walk down to the london road/ abbeydale road corridor, you are spoilt for choice, as there are about a dozen services which will get you to town.(there's the no 2, the 20, 25, 25a, 34, 75/6, 97/97a, 273, amongst others) or should you prefer to walk, it's only a mile to the moor, and city centre shoppping and facilities.

and of course, without comparison, (even after their defeat by ipswich yesterday)... the best footy team in the land, is just a minute or two away, Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane, the home of the Blades.

(and I shouldn't worry about people being "thrown out of high-rise flats. it's a very rare ocurrence, and there's only been a couple of such incidents, to my knowledge, in donkey's yearsas well as happening in the broomhall district, to boot, not sharow.)

PT

When I saw your topic thought you were on about buying the whole of sharrow..

I wish I could buy the whole of Sharrow!

But seriously, after reading what you say PT,
Sharrow really is undervalued I think.

The buyer for my flat in London has fallen through so sadly

I will still be in renting in Hillsborough for a while.

But Sharrow is definitely top of my list.

I have lived in Sharrow for 41 years and can say it is very safe. I have been burgled before we installed the alarm but not since. The people are very friendly and we watch out for eachother. Houses are around £100,000 but that is well below the average for Sheffield. Local pubs are The Vine, The Stag and CRB. The old Cross Guns was a dive and was closed down not before time. Student neighbours can be a pain, but respond well to complaints. If you are thinking of buying in Sharrow, go for it. As for catching a wave? That'll be Newquay.

Originally posted by pinhead
The old Cross Guns was a dive and was closed down not before time.

Wrong, it wasn't closed down. Tenants left and nobody wanted to take it on. It was up for rent for ages until the brewery sold it off.

there's been quite a few unprovoked violent assaults on people I know who live / lived in the area recently. I'd think twice about living there...

yea i live in sharrow, and i would say its a pretty rough area, my mate got chased by a gang of asians, the other night, and my other mate got threatened with a knife... so... :o

and answering the question, the price of my house has risen alot! it was only 31k when we brought it, now its worth 110k O_O

It wasn't always this bad.. I've lived on that side of the city for years and always walked through sharrow on my way to work and never felt threatened but some of the stuff I've been hearing recently (about a gang of asian teenagers mainly) is quite scary.

Some people do love to stereotype areas!!!

Sharrow isn't really as bad as some people on here are making out. There is a large asian population- but the kids here aren't so bad...

A lot of the 3bed properties here are able to be converted to 4bed properties hence increasing their value!!

I would definately give the area a thumbs up..

P.S Netheredge is even better but a bit more expensive.

Well it sounds like Sharrow has more crime problems than was apparent from the first posts.
If people are getting mugged by teenage gangs that is obviously going to depress prices and that explains why it is undervalued.

However there are a great many positive factors about Sharrow including it sounds like a lot of positive community stuff going on.

So I definitely am still considering Sharrow.

yea, side streets just off london road aint that bad, but the area slightly near sharrow school is abit worse

the good thing is, its close to town, shops open till like 4am, so can get munch whenever, video shop jst near by, basically everything is close :)

Originally posted by Classic Rock
Wrong, it wasn't closed down. Tenants left and nobody wanted to take it on. It was up for rent for ages until the brewery sold it off.

OK it wasn't closed down by police or magistrates. The tennants left and the fact that nobody wanted wanted to take it on closed it down!!!! Its still closed down.

In defence of Sharrow, I have not been mugged or chased and walk around at all hours. So come on lets stop being so negative about this decent neighbourhood.

i am thinking of moving to sheffield mt boyfriend lives there, he lives in s12 whats it like any good houses arouund this area?

i am moving to priory road (S7) - is this sharrow and if so, is this an ok area?

priory road is mostly beautiful big old houses, a leafy, quiet road.

very handy for the no 22 bus, too, which is every 10 mins, peak.

you are a 10 minute walk into the city centre

(it's on the very border of Sharrow and Nether edge, but is more NE)

PT

thanks for your reply!!!

one more thing (sorry) from priory road, where about do i get the 22 bus? Sorry for my ignorance!!

Originally posted by sukari
one more thing (sorry) from priory road, where about do i get the 22 bus? Sorry for my ignorance!!

The bus stop is about 50 feet away. You'd get it outside The Priory Hotel. It's a nice road, as said, it's in Nether Edge... just.

I live in Sharrow and I like it.

It's within a 10 min walk of the city centre, with regular bus links from London Road, and I've never fallen victim to any crime here. There are a lot of Asian and Chinese families but I get on very well with my ethnic minority neighbours and don't see it as a problem at all.

I think house prices in this area will begin to rise soon because London road is developing fast, and what with the sprawling new student complex being built where Bed nightclub used to be as we speak I think it could become quite trendy. The new Ecclesall road perhaps? Now seems like a good time to invest.

One the down side there do seem to be a lot of druggies and alcoholics knocking around which can be off-putting for some people, and some parts of the area do look a bit rundown.

If you have any specific questions about Sharrow your welcome to PM me with them (I may not check this thread again) and I'll try to answer them as I do keep an ear on the local grapevine. And if you decide to go and sit in a pub for a bit then the Cremorne on London Road is very friendly.

I live in Highfield just of Abbeydale Road
I love to live there, everything is close by
nice neighbours
but been burgeld twice in 2003