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Ashford-in-the-Water market report DE45 1, Bakewell
The standing DE45 1 (Ashford-in-the-Water) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,300 HM Land Registry entries for DE45 1 (Bakewell), 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 43 registered 2026 sales put the DE45 1 (Bakewell) median at £382,500, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £453,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,290 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,300 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like DE45 1 is a single group of streets within DE45 (Bakewell), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DE45 1 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.
DE45 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 43 registered 2026 sales in DE45 1 and the middle price, the median, is £382,500. The mean lands at £453,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in DE45 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DE45 1 sales average about £4,290 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DE45 1 runs 34% above it.
DE45 1'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £382,500 | £382,500 | 43 |
| 2025 | £376,000 | £384,991 | 114 |
| 2024 | £382,500 | £406,676 | 128 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 115 |
| 2022 | £385,000 | £451,456 | 116 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 142 |
| 2020 | £372,500 | £483,326 | 104 |
| 2019 | £347,000 | £454,834 | 135 |
| 2018 | £330,200 | £440,163 | 128 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 118 |
| 2016 | £327,500 | £458,176 | 130 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 158 |
| 2014 | £265,000 | £375,949 | 165 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 140 |
| 2012 | £259,000 | £381,216 | 121 |
| 2011 | £265,000 | £400,048 | 102 |
| 2010 | £265,000 | £415,588 | 121 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 99 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 91 |
| 2007 | £295,500 | £501,250 | 160 |
| 2006 | £268,000 | £465,214 | 175 |
| 2005 | £247,500 | £440,450 | 145 |
| 2004 | £221,000 | £401,379 | 152 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 155 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 170 |
| 2001 | £120,500 | £231,655 | 134 |
| 2000 | £113,800 | £223,333 | 166 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 167 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 162 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 180 |
| 1996 | £68,500 | £144,463 | 158 |
| 1995 | £77,800 | £169,125 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical DE45 1 home went from £77,800 in 1995 to £382,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 126%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DE45 1 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 2000 (+26.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−18.8%). 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) | +1.7% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
Sales activity in DE45 1
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.
DE45 1 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 157 sales a year before the financial crisis and 103 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 homes rent for around DE45 1
For renting purposes DE45 1 sits in Derbyshire Dales. The ONS average private rent there is £805 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £583 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,331, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £382,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.5%. 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.
What kind of market DE45 1 is
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DE45 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: DE45 1 (Ashford-in-the-Water)
Are property prices falling in DE45 1 (Ashford-in-the-Water)?
Is DE45 1 (Ashford-in-the-Water) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DE45 1 (Ashford-in-the-Water)?
Where do DE45 1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
DE45's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 30 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DE45 district, not just DE45 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every DE45 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. 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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.
Zoom out to the full DE45 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DE45 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DE45 1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DE45 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the DE45 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DE45 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working DE45 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DE45 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DE45 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DE45 1 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.
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.