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Ambergate market report DE56 1, Belper
The standing DE56 1 (Ambergate) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 9,524 HM Land Registry entries for DE56 1 (Belper), 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for DE56 1 (Belper) is £220,000, from 92 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £232,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,980 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,524 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DE56 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DE56 (Belper). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where DE56 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.
What buyers actually paid in DE56 1
The DE56 1 median stands at £220,000 for 2026, built from 92 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £232,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
DE56 1 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DE56 1 sales average about £2,980 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DE56 1 trades 23% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical DE56 1 home, 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 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 92 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 258 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 235 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 233 |
| 2022 | £236,500 | £277,323 | 280 |
| 2021 | £212,000 | £268,419 | 299 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 219 |
| 2019 | £194,000 | £254,288 | 247 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 282 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 246 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 296 |
| 2015 | £153,000 | £216,189 | 315 |
| 2014 | £148,000 | £209,964 | 282 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 273 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 265 |
| 2011 | £134,000 | £202,288 | 251 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 240 |
| 2009 | £129,000 | £207,369 | 205 |
| 2008 | £142,500 | £233,588 | 228 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 423 |
| 2006 | £141,000 | £244,758 | 433 |
| 2005 | £129,000 | £229,568 | 301 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 402 |
| 2003 | £106,000 | £195,278 | 344 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 385 |
| 2001 | £69,500 | £133,610 | 376 |
| 2000 | £56,500 | £110,881 | 352 |
| 1999 | £54,800 | £109,214 | 413 |
| 1998 | £47,500 | £95,882 | 353 |
| 1997 | £45,600 | £93,516 | 377 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 358 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 261 |
In cash terms the typical DE56 1 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 130%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DE56 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 2003 (+32.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.0%). 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) | −12.0% | −14.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 92 sales completed in DE56 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 377 sales a year before the financial crisis and 220 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.
The shape of the DE56 1 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the DE56 district median, DE56 1 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around DE56 1
DE56 1 falls under Amber Valley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £789 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £220,000 median sold price, £789 a month is £9,468 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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 DE56 1 (Ambergate)
Is DE56 1 (Ambergate) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DE56 1 (Ambergate)?
Are property prices falling in DE56 1 (Ambergate)?
Are DE56 1 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 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.
DE56's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 8 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DE56 district, not just DE56 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 DE56 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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in DE56
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DE56, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DE56 0 | £249,000 | 77 |
| DE56 2 | £283,200 | 52 |
| DE56 4 | £450,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full DE56 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DE56 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DE56 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DE56 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the DE56 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DE56 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 DE56 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DE56 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DE56 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DE56 1 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.