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Ambergate market report DE56 4, Belper
The standing DE56 4 (Ambergate) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,035 registered sales in DE56 4 (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 4 (Belper) sold for £450,000 in 2026, the median of 23 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £518,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,760 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,035 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DE56 4 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 4 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 DE56 4 homes really sell for
Across 23 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DE56 4 home went for £450,000. The mean is £518,900, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in DE56 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DE56 4 sales average about £3,760 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DE56 4 58% above the national figure.
A typical DE56 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £485,000 | £496,598 | 88 |
| 2024 | £469,200 | £498,856 | 80 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 75 |
| 2022 | £486,000 | £569,890 | 84 |
| 2021 | £475,000 | £601,411 | 94 |
| 2020 | £421,000 | £546,256 | 82 |
| 2019 | £383,800 | £503,070 | 96 |
| 2018 | £321,200 | £428,166 | 92 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 113 |
| 2016 | £302,500 | £423,200 | 106 |
| 2015 | £328,400 | £464,029 | 118 |
| 2014 | £286,200 | £406,025 | 80 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 81 |
| 2012 | £272,000 | £400,350 | 83 |
| 2011 | £247,900 | £374,234 | 98 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 101 |
| 2009 | £234,100 | £376,318 | 104 |
| 2008 | £242,000 | £396,689 | 66 |
| 2007 | £297,000 | £503,795 | 131 |
| 2006 | £258,000 | £447,855 | 99 |
| 2005 | £249,000 | £443,120 | 105 |
| 2004 | £247,500 | £449,508 | 101 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 88 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 134 |
| 2001 | £118,800 | £228,387 | 90 |
| 2000 | £101,500 | £199,194 | 84 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 127 |
| 1998 | £98,200 | £198,224 | 100 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 115 |
| 1996 | £71,600 | £151,001 | 126 |
| 1995 | £78,000 | £169,560 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical DE56 4 home went from £78,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 165%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DE56 4 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 (+34.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−18.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.2% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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, 23 sales completed in DE56 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 104 sales a year before the financial crisis and 70 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around DE56 4
The local authority for DE56 4 is Amber Valley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £789 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £576 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,266, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Amber Valley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £450,000 median sold price, £789 a month is £9,468 a year, a gross yield of 2.1%: 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.
How DE56 4 trades
This is a thin market: 23 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. 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. Within DE56, this sector trades 82% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on DE56 4 (Ambergate)
Is DE56 4 (Ambergate) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DE56 4 (Ambergate)?
Are property prices falling in DE56 4 (Ambergate)?
Where do DE56 4 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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 DE56 today
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 4: 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" 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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DE: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the DE area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the DE area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DE56
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DE56's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DE56 0 | £249,000 | 77 |
| DE56 1 | £220,000 | 92 |
| DE56 2 | £283,200 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full DE56 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DE56 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DE56 4? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DE56 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DE56 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DE56 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DE56 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DE56 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DE56 4 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.