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Ambaston market report DE72 2, Derby
The standing DE72 2 (Ambaston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,503 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DE72 2 (Derby) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for DE72 2 (Derby) is £295,000, from 32 registered sales, down 13% on five years earlier; the mean is £320,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,560 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,503 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like DE72 2 is a single group of streets within DE72 (Derby), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DE72 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.
What DE72 2 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for DE72 2 is £295,000, taken from 32 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £320,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in DE72 2
The last five years of sales put DE72 2 at roughly £3,560 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DE72 2 4% above the national figure.
The price of a typical DE72 2 home, 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 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £317,500 | £325,092 | 80 |
| 2024 | £312,200 | £331,933 | 66 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 53 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 103 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 91 |
| 2020 | £283,100 | £367,328 | 64 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 105 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 113 |
| 2017 | £305,000 | £415,989 | 84 |
| 2016 | £316,500 | £442,787 | 90 |
| 2015 | £222,500 | £314,393 | 82 |
| 2014 | £207,500 | £294,375 | 67 |
| 2013 | £186,700 | £268,643 | 62 |
| 2012 | £246,000 | £362,081 | 50 |
| 2011 | £209,000 | £315,510 | 43 |
| 2010 | £182,000 | £285,423 | 69 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 55 |
| 2008 | £203,500 | £333,579 | 56 |
| 2007 | £225,800 | £383,020 | 84 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 86 |
| 2005 | £197,500 | £351,470 | 82 |
| 2004 | £181,000 | £328,731 | 74 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 83 |
| 2002 | £104,000 | £195,675 | 93 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 94 |
| 2000 | £119,000 | £233,538 | 144 |
| 1999 | £96,200 | £191,722 | 105 |
| 1998 | £88,000 | £177,634 | 118 |
| 1997 | £69,500 | £142,530 | 72 |
| 1996 | £61,200 | £129,068 | 48 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 55 |
In cash terms the typical DE72 2 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 138%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 33% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DE72 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 2003 (+68.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−24.4%). 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) | −7.1% | −9.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.8% | −7.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.7% | −4.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
DE72 2 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 93 sales a year before the financial crisis and 67 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.
Reading the DE72 2 market
This is a thin market: 32 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. Against the DE72 district median, DE72 2 sits 9% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around DE72 2
DE72 2 falls under South Derbyshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £874 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £605 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,428 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, South Derbyshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£874 a month is £10,488 a year, which against the £295,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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.
Common questions on DE72 2 (Ambaston)
How much did a house sell for in DE72 2 (Ambaston)?
Are property prices falling in DE72 2 (Ambaston)?
Is DE72 2 (Ambaston) a good place to buy a house?
Will DE72 2 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 31% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in DE72 now
Turning to what is actually available: 125 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DE72 district, not just DE72 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Draycott Road, Breaston, Derbyshire
- Market Street, Draycott, Derbyshire
- Manor Park, Borrowash, Derby
"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 DE72 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DE
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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 DE72
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DE72, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DE72 3 | £258,000 | 83 |
Zoom out to the full DE72 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DE72 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in DE72 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DE72 2'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.
Estate agents working DE72 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DE72 2.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DE72 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DE72 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.
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.