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Derby market report DE3
The DE3 (Derby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 11,425 HM Land Registry entries for DE3 (Derby), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in DE3 (Derby) sold for £275,000 in 2026, the median of 155 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £290,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,140 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 11,425 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DE3 is a postcode district in Derby. 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 DE3 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.
What a home in DE3 sells for
Across 155 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DE3 home went for £275,000. The mean is £290,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
DE3 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put DE3 at roughly £3,140 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DE3 4% below the country at large.
A typical DE3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £275,000 | £275,000 | 155 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 411 |
| 2024 | £285,000 | £303,014 | 430 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 386 |
| 2022 | £283,000 | £331,850 | 536 |
| 2021 | £255,000 | £322,863 | 596 |
| 2020 | £253,400 | £328,792 | 436 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 499 |
| 2018 | £228,500 | £304,595 | 376 |
| 2017 | £187,000 | £255,049 | 299 |
| 2016 | £195,000 | £272,807 | 282 |
| 2015 | £188,200 | £265,927 | 302 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 330 |
| 2013 | £169,000 | £243,174 | 346 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 279 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 277 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 270 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 289 |
| 2008 | £172,000 | £281,944 | 217 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 343 |
| 2006 | £165,500 | £287,287 | 423 |
| 2005 | £162,800 | £289,718 | 310 |
| 2004 | £159,000 | £288,775 | 342 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 405 |
| 2002 | £115,500 | £217,312 | 450 |
| 2001 | £88,500 | £170,137 | 413 |
| 2000 | £88,000 | £172,700 | 409 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 423 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 352 |
| 1997 | £56,500 | £115,870 | 354 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 276 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 209 |
In cash terms the typical DE3 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £275,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 134%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DE3 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 2002 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −8.3% | −10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.4% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £377,000 against £136,200 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, DE3
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 | £383,500 | 50 | 4,752 |
| Semi-detached | £264,000 | 82 | 4,981 |
| Terraced | £185,000 | 19 | 1,175 |
| Flats | £136,200 (2025) | – | 507 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
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 281 DE3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 384 sales a year recently, against 387 a year before 2008. 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.
The rental side of DE3
The local authority for DE3 is Derby, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £852 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £602 a month here against £1,291 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Derby
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £275,000 median sold price, £852 a month is £10,224 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
Asked and answered: DE3 (Derby)
Are property prices falling in DE3 (Derby)?
Is DE3 (Derby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DE3 (Derby)?
Are DE3 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 DE3 now
Everything above is what homes in DE3 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 4 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the DE3 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every DE3 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
When homes in DE3 change hands
Across the 2,359 sales completed in DE3 from 2021 to 2025, June was the busiest month for completions (11.4% of the total) and January the quietest (6.4%). 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 | 150 | 6.4% |
| February | 204 | 8.6% |
| March | 223 | 9.5% |
| April | 187 | 7.9% |
| May | 174 | 7.4% |
| June | 269 | 11.4% |
| July | 190 | 8.1% |
| August | 176 | 7.5% |
| September | 208 | 8.8% |
| October | 185 | 7.8% |
| November | 182 | 7.7% |
| December | 211 | 8.9% |
The price of an extra bedroom in DE
Real sold prices by size across the DE area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
DE3 ranks 13 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.
Five-year change in the median, DE area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside DE3, 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 DE3 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 (this report) | £275,000 | +8% |
| DE65 | £263,500 | +6% |
| DE12 | £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% |
Selling a home in DE3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DE3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DE3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DE3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DE3. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DE3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.