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Darley Dale market report DE4, Matlock
The standing DE4 (Darley Dale) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 18,020 registered sales in DE4 (Matlock) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in DE4 (Matlock) sold for £285,000 in 2026, the median of 207 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £312,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,300 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 18,020 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DE4 is a postcode district covering Darley Dale, Beeley, Rowsley in Matlock. 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 DE4 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 homes really sell for
Take the 207 registered 2026 sales in DE4 and the middle price, the median, is £285,000. The mean lands at £312,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in DE4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DE4 sales average about £3,300 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DE4 sits 0% above the national market.
A typical DE4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £285,000 | £285,000 | 207 |
| 2025 | £295,000 | £302,054 | 589 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 538 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 480 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 549 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 710 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 527 |
| 2019 | £249,000 | £326,379 | 572 |
| 2018 | £248,000 | £330,589 | 614 |
| 2017 | £214,000 | £291,875 | 604 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 609 |
| 2015 | £205,000 | £289,665 | 618 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 605 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 514 |
| 2012 | £175,500 | £258,314 | 452 |
| 2011 | £179,000 | £270,221 | 430 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 462 |
| 2009 | £169,200 | £271,990 | 413 |
| 2008 | £175,500 | £287,682 | 358 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 661 |
| 2006 | £180,800 | £313,846 | 662 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 508 |
| 2004 | £164,000 | £297,856 | 607 |
| 2003 | £139,500 | £256,993 | 659 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 744 |
| 2001 | £88,200 | £169,560 | 632 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 641 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 716 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 663 |
| 1997 | £62,000 | £127,149 | 665 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 568 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 443 |
In cash terms the typical DE4 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 138%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DE4 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 (+39.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.0%). 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 years (since 2025) | −3.4% | −5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £415,000 against £175,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, DE4
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 | £415,000 | 62 | 6,997 |
| Semi-detached | £265,000 | 82 | 5,504 |
| Terraced | £212,800 | 48 | 4,444 |
| Flats | £175,000 | 15 | 1,075 |
How many homes change hands in DE4
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 426 DE4 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 639 sales a year before the financial crisis and 473 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around DE4
DE4 falls under Derbyshire Dales, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £805 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£805 a month is £9,660 a year, which against the £285,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How DE4 trades
Among the 23 measurable districts of its area, DE4 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Asked and answered: DE4 (Darley Dale)
Are property prices falling in DE4 (Darley Dale)?
Is DE4 (Darley Dale) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DE4 (Darley Dale)?
Are DE4 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 6% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
On the market in DE4 today
Everything above is what homes in DE4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 36 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the DE4 median sold price.
26% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in DE
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DE area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
DE4 ranks 16 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.
Winners and losers across the DE area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside DE4, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DE4 2 | £274,000 | 50 |
| DE4 3 | £280,000 | 79 |
| DE4 4 | £300,000 | 44 |
| DE4 5 | £292,500 | 34 |
How DE4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DE area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DE45 | £382,500 | +2% |
| DE6 | £375,000 | +15% |
| DE73 | £288,500 | +6% |
| DE4 (this report) | £285,000 | +6% |
| DE13 | £276,800 | +6% |
| DE3 | £275,000 | +8% |
| DE74 | £272,500 | +0% |
| DE72 | £270,000 | +7% |
| DE12 | £261,000 | +11% |
| DE65 | £258,800 | +4% |
| DE56 | £247,000 | +1% |
| DE22 | £245,000 | +7% |
| DE11 | £218,400 | +15% |
| DE23 | £217,500 | +9% |
| DE15 | £215,000 | -3% |
| DE21 | £212,800 | +15% |
| DE5 | £212,000 | +14% |
| DE7 | £202,000 | +15% |
| DE24 | £200,000 | +22% |
| DE75 | £195,000 | +10% |
| DE55 | £185,000 | +6% |
| DE14 | £176,000 | +4% |
| DE1 | £169,000 | +1% |
Selling in DE4? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DE4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DE4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DE4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DE4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DE4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DE4 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.
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.