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Swanwick market report DE55, Alfreton
The standing DE55 (Swanwick) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 27,782 registered sales in DE55 (Alfreton) 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: 283 registered 2026 sales put the DE55 (Alfreton) median at £185,000, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £211,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 27,782 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DE55 is the postcode district covering Swanwick, Greenhill Lane, Tibshelf in Alfreton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where DE55 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 buyers actually paid in DE55
Take the 283 registered 2026 sales in DE55 and the middle price, the median, is £185,000. The mean lands at £211,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
DE55 prices by floor area
A square metre of DE55 home has cost about £2,380 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DE55 35% below the country at large.
DE55's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 283 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 871 |
| 2024 | £196,500 | £208,920 | 848 |
| 2023 | £196,000 | £215,356 | 745 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 999 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 1,044 |
| 2020 | £157,500 | £204,360 | 853 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 944 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 985 |
| 2017 | £134,000 | £182,763 | 815 |
| 2016 | £132,000 | £184,669 | 918 |
| 2015 | £123,000 | £173,799 | 802 |
| 2014 | £121,000 | £171,660 | 891 |
| 2013 | £111,000 | £159,718 | 621 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 547 |
| 2011 | £102,600 | £154,887 | 556 |
| 2010 | £107,800 | £169,058 | 592 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 548 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 633 |
| 2007 | £117,000 | £198,465 | 1,053 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 1,050 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 933 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 1,111 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 1,198 |
| 2002 | £57,000 | £107,245 | 1,427 |
| 2001 | £48,000 | £92,278 | 1,243 |
| 2000 | £45,000 | £88,313 | 1,004 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 922 |
| 1998 | £40,500 | £81,752 | 852 |
| 1997 | £42,500 | £87,159 | 937 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 803 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 754 |
In cash terms the typical DE55 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 124%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DE55 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 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−9.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DE55 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.8% | −11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
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, 39% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £312,000 against £139,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, DE55
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 | £280,000 | 91 | 9,577 |
| Semi-detached | £175,000 | 127 | 10,852 |
| Terraced | £137,000 | 63 | 7,174 |
| Flats | £139,000 (2025) | – | 140 |
Sales activity in DE55
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 628 DE55 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 1,127 sales a year before the financial crisis and 749 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.
How DE55 trades
Among the 23 measurable districts of its area, DE55 ranks 21 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What tenants pay around DE55
For renting purposes DE55 sits in Amber Valley. The ONS average private rent there is £789 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £576 a month here against £1,266 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Amber Valley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £185,000 median sold price, £789 a month is £9,468 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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: DE55 (Swanwick)
Is DE55 (Swanwick) a good place to buy a house?
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What happens to DE55 prices now?
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.
DE55's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DE55 sold for. The live side of the market holds 70 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 19% above the DE55 median sold price.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Thornhill Drive, ALFRETON, Derbyshire...
- Hardwick Street, Tibshelf, Alfreton, ...
- Quarry Lane, Stonebroom, Alfreton, DE55, Alfreton
"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 DE55 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DE55 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.
DE area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside DE55, 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.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DE55 1 | £222,000 | 53 |
| DE55 2 | £170,000 | 31 |
| DE55 3 | £210,000 | 21 |
| DE55 4 | £172,000 | 47 |
| DE55 5 | £200,000 | 41 |
| DE55 6 | £182,500 | 30 |
| DE55 7 | £181,500 | 60 |
How DE55 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 | £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 (this report) | £185,000 | +6% |
| DE14 | £176,000 | +4% |
| DE1 | £169,000 | +1% |
Selling a home in DE55? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DE55's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DE55.
Go deeper
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See every individual DE55 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.