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Darley Dale market report DE4 3, Matlock
The standing DE4 3 (Darley Dale) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,525 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DE4 3 (Matlock) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 79 registered 2026 sales put the DE4 3 (Matlock) median at £280,000, up 17% on five years earlier, with a mean of £272,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,950 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,525 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DE4 3 is one sector of DE4 (Matlock): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where DE4 3 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 DE4 3 homes really sell for
Take the 79 registered 2026 sales in DE4 3 and the middle price, the median, is £280,000. The mean lands at £272,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in DE4 3
A square metre of DE4 3 home has cost about £2,950 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DE4 3 sits 2% below the national market.
A typical DE4 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 79 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 195 |
| 2024 | £245,800 | £261,336 | 162 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 157 |
| 2022 | £265,000 | £310,743 | 182 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 240 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 180 |
| 2019 | £215,000 | £281,814 | 191 |
| 2018 | £207,500 | £276,601 | 221 |
| 2017 | £186,000 | £253,685 | 201 |
| 2016 | £172,200 | £240,910 | 212 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 213 |
| 2014 | £171,800 | £243,728 | 236 |
| 2013 | £167,500 | £241,016 | 191 |
| 2012 | £163,800 | £241,093 | 194 |
| 2011 | £162,200 | £244,860 | 162 |
| 2010 | £179,000 | £280,718 | 169 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 153 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 143 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 269 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 295 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 192 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 211 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 240 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 272 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 234 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 226 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 258 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 217 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 247 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 218 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 165 |
In cash terms the typical DE4 3 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 168%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DE4 3 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 (+42.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−9.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.7% | +5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 79 DE4 3 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 242 sales a year before the financial crisis and 155 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 DE4 3
For renting purposes DE4 3 sits in Derbyshire Dales. The ONS average private rent there is £805 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £583 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,331 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Derbyshire Dales
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £280,000 median sold price, £805 a month is £9,660 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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.
Common questions on DE4 3 (Darley Dale)
How much did a house sell for in DE4 3 (Darley Dale)?
Are property prices falling in DE4 3 (Darley Dale)?
Is DE4 3 (Darley Dale) a good place to buy a house?
Are DE4 3 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 17% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
DE4's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 36 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DE4 district, not just DE4 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Roes Lane, Matlock, Crich, Derbyshire
- Crowstones Road, Darley Dale, Matlock
- Dale Road North, Darley Dale, Matlock
"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 DE4 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DE prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DE area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £255,000 | £348,918 (+37%) | £540,000 (+55%) | £710,000 (+31%) |
| Semi-detached | £177,000 | £205,000 (+16%) | £247,000 (+20%) | £318,950 (+29%) | £452,500 (+42%) |
| Terraced | £155,000 | £160,000 (+3%) | £193,000 (+21%) | £260,000 (+35%) | £372,750 (+43%) |
| Flat | £110,000 | £145,000 (+32%) | £235,000 (+62%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the DE area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DE4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DE4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DE4 2 | £274,000 | 50 |
| DE4 4 | £300,000 | 44 |
| DE4 5 | £292,500 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full DE4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DE4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in DE4 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DE4 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DE4 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DE4 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DE4 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DE4 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DE4 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.