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Ambergate market report DE56 2, Belper
The DE56 2 (Ambergate) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,500 registered sales in DE56 2 (Belper) 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in DE56 2 (Belper) sold for £283,200 in 2026, the median of 52 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £348,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,270 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,500 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like DE56 2 is a single group of streets within DE56 (Belper), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DE56 2 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.
The going rate for a home in DE56 2
Take the 52 registered 2026 sales in DE56 2 and the middle price, the median, is £283,200. The mean lands at £348,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in DE56 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DE56 2 costs about £3,270 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DE56 2 1% below the country at large.
DE56 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £283,200 | £283,200 | 52 |
| 2025 | £289,500 | £296,423 | 160 |
| 2024 | £287,500 | £305,672 | 177 |
| 2023 | £305,000 | £335,121 | 156 |
| 2022 | £329,000 | £385,790 | 189 |
| 2021 | £286,500 | £362,746 | 204 |
| 2020 | £249,500 | £323,731 | 132 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 125 |
| 2018 | £253,000 | £337,254 | 139 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 133 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 141 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 150 |
| 2014 | £180,500 | £256,071 | 140 |
| 2013 | £163,000 | £234,541 | 107 |
| 2012 | £164,500 | £242,123 | 108 |
| 2011 | £155,200 | £234,292 | 90 |
| 2010 | £172,000 | £269,740 | 114 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 93 |
| 2008 | £167,000 | £273,748 | 101 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 164 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 188 |
| 2005 | £158,000 | £281,176 | 123 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 161 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 153 |
| 2002 | £116,000 | £218,253 | 157 |
| 2001 | £81,500 | £156,680 | 189 |
| 2000 | £77,500 | £152,094 | 133 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 167 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 135 |
| 1997 | £55,500 | £113,819 | 172 |
| 1996 | £53,500 | £112,829 | 144 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 103 |
In cash terms the typical DE56 2 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £283,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 141%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DE56 2 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 2002 (+42.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−13.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DE56 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in DE56 2
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.
The register shows 52 DE56 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 147 sales a year recently, against 159 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around DE56 2
DE56 2 falls under Amber Valley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £789 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £576 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,266 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Amber Valley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£789 a month is £9,468 a year, which against the £283,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. 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.
Reading the DE56 2 market
This is a thin market: 52 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the DE56 district median, DE56 2 sits 15% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on DE56 2 (Ambergate)
Is DE56 2 (Ambergate) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DE56 2 (Ambergate)?
Are property prices falling in DE56 2 (Ambergate)?
Will DE56 2 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in DE56 now
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 DE56 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. 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.
DE area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DE56
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DE56, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DE56 0 | £249,000 | 77 |
| DE56 1 | £220,000 | 92 |
| 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.
Before you sell in DE56 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DE56 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the DE56 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DE56 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DE56 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DE56 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DE56 2 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.
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.