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Appleby Magna market report DE12, Swadlincote
The DE12 (Appleby Magna) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 11,304 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DE12 (Swadlincote) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 128 registered 2026 sales put the DE12 (Swadlincote) median at £255,000, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £302,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,810 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 11,304 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DE12 is a postcode district covering Appleby Magna, Donisthorpe, Linton in Swadlincote. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where DE12 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in DE12
The 2026 median for DE12 is £255,000, taken from 128 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £302,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in DE12
A square metre of DE12 home has cost about £2,810 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DE12 runs 11% below it.
DE12's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 128 |
| 2025 | £252,500 | £258,538 | 327 |
| 2024 | £247,000 | £262,612 | 259 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 236 |
| 2022 | £255,000 | £299,017 | 334 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 463 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 380 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 377 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 382 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 502 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 361 |
| 2015 | £171,000 | £241,623 | 333 |
| 2014 | £164,000 | £232,663 | 333 |
| 2013 | £156,800 | £225,620 | 300 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 224 |
| 2011 | £136,500 | £206,063 | 178 |
| 2010 | £142,000 | £222,693 | 211 |
| 2009 | £148,000 | £237,911 | 209 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 209 |
| 2007 | £167,000 | £283,279 | 375 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 414 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 336 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 457 |
| 2003 | £118,000 | £217,385 | 440 |
| 2002 | £97,500 | £183,445 | 589 |
| 2001 | £82,000 | £157,641 | 479 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 533 |
| 1999 | £69,000 | £137,513 | 483 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 419 |
| 1997 | £56,500 | £115,870 | 414 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 333 |
| 1995 | £43,500 | £94,562 | 286 |
In cash terms the typical DE12 home went from £43,500 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 170%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DE12 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+21.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−7.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 48% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £360,000 against £139,300 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, DE12
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £378,800 | 54 | 5,356 |
| Semi-detached | £225,500 | 44 | 3,368 |
| Terraced | £172,000 | 28 | 2,384 |
| Flats | £139,300 (2025) | – | 157 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +1.0% | −1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.4% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 238 DE12 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 453 sales a year before the financial crisis and 257 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around DE12
For renting purposes DE12 sits in North West Leicestershire. The ONS average private rent there is £905 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £627 a month here against £1,406 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, North West Leicestershire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £255,000 median sold price, £905 a month is £10,860 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about DE12 (Appleby Magna)
How much did a house sell for in DE12 (Appleby Magna)?
Are property prices falling in DE12 (Appleby Magna)?
Is DE12 (Appleby Magna) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to DE12 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in DE12 now
Everything above is what homes in DE12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 41 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% above the DE12 median sold price.
DE12 registered 238 sales in the last twelve months; the 41 homes listed now would take about 2 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
13% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Norris Hill, Moira, DE12, Swadlincote
- St. Helens Lane, Appleby Magna, DE12, Swadlincote
- York Close, Measham, Swadlincote, Leicestershire
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every DE12 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Listed against sold: the DE12 mix
The mix on the market in DE12 matches the mix that changes hands, within 7 points for every type.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 47% | 44% |
| Semi-detached | 40% | 34% |
| Terraced | 13% | 20% |
| Flats | 0% | 2% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (3 here).
The DE12 sales calendar
March is when DE12 changes hands most (10.7% of the 1,619 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.1%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 99 | 6.1% |
| February | 146 | 9.0% |
| March | 174 | 10.7% |
| April | 116 | 7.2% |
| May | 137 | 8.5% |
| June | 146 | 9.0% |
| July | 122 | 7.5% |
| August | 148 | 9.1% |
| September | 135 | 8.3% |
| October | 129 | 8.0% |
| November | 122 | 7.5% |
| December | 145 | 9.0% |
Moving up a bedroom in DE: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DE area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £220,000 | £247,500 (+13%) | £300,000 (+21%) | £385,000 (+28%) | £504,997 (+31%) |
| Semi-detached | £174,000 | £195,000 (+12%) | £220,000 (+13%) | £275,000 (+25%) | £350,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £147,750 | £160,000 (+8%) | £170,000 (+6%) | £232,750 (+37%) | £298,000 (+28%) |
| Flat | £109,950 | £140,000 (+27%) | £235,000 (+68%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
DE12 ranks 12 of 23 in the DE area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
DE area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside DE12, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How DE12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DE area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DE45 | £387,000 | +3% |
| DE6 | £375,000 | +15% |
| DE73 | £290,000 | +6% |
| DE4 | £283,500 | +5% |
| DE13 | £280,000 | +7% |
| DE72 | £276,200 | +9% |
| DE74 | £275,500 | +1% |
| DE3 | £275,000 | +8% |
| DE65 | £263,500 | +6% |
| DE12 (this report) | £255,000 | +9% |
| DE22 | £250,000 | +10% |
| DE56 | £248,200 | +1% |
| DE11 | £220,000 | +16% |
| DE23 | £220,000 | +10% |
| DE15 | £216,000 | -2% |
| DE21 | £215,000 | +16% |
| DE5 | £210,000 | +13% |
| DE7 | £200,000 | +14% |
| DE24 | £199,000 | +21% |
| DE75 | £195,000 | +10% |
| DE55 | £190,000 | +9% |
| DE14 | £175,000 | +3% |
| DE1 | £169,000 | +1% |
Thinking of selling in DE12? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DE12, open the average prices map and zoom from the DE12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DE12 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Keep digging
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See every individual DE12 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.