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Ambaston market report DE72 3, Derby
The DE72 3 (Ambaston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 8,912 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DE72 3 (Derby) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in DE72 3 (Derby) sold for £258,000 in 2026, the median of 83 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £288,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,070 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,912 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DE72 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DE72 (Derby). 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 DE72 3 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 DE72 3
In the DE72 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £258,000, from 83 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £288,000, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in DE72 3
The last five years of sales put DE72 3 at roughly £3,070 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DE72 3 runs 9% below it.
The price of a typical DE72 3 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 | £258,000 | £258,000 | 83 |
| 2025 | £264,000 | £270,313 | 257 |
| 2024 | £248,000 | £263,675 | 244 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 212 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 235 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 320 |
| 2020 | £241,600 | £313,481 | 230 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 229 |
| 2018 | £209,000 | £278,601 | 252 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 260 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 345 |
| 2015 | £178,000 | £251,514 | 298 |
| 2014 | £164,000 | £232,663 | 276 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 250 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 192 |
| 2011 | £158,000 | £238,519 | 187 |
| 2010 | £148,800 | £233,357 | 196 |
| 2009 | £163,500 | £262,828 | 215 |
| 2008 | £151,000 | £247,521 | 240 |
| 2007 | £177,400 | £300,920 | 346 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 411 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 287 |
| 2004 | £145,200 | £263,712 | 284 |
| 2003 | £128,000 | £235,807 | 343 |
| 2002 | £94,200 | £177,236 | 346 |
| 2001 | £85,200 | £163,793 | 390 |
| 2000 | £69,700 | £136,786 | 362 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 330 |
| 1998 | £68,800 | £138,878 | 388 |
| 1997 | £64,500 | £132,276 | 352 |
| 1996 | £58,800 | £124,007 | 285 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 267 |
In cash terms the typical DE72 3 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £258,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 108%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DE72 3 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 (+35.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−14.9%). 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) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 83 sales completed in DE72 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 346 sales a year before the financial crisis and 206 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 DE72 3
DE72 3 falls under Erewash, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £834 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £601 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,314, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Erewash
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£834 a month is £10,008 a year, which against the £258,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.
The shape of the DE72 3 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.
Asked and answered: DE72 3 (Ambaston)
Is DE72 3 (Ambaston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DE72 3 (Ambaston)?
Are property prices falling in DE72 3 (Ambaston)?
Are DE72 3 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 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
What you could buy in DE72 now
The live side of the market holds 125 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DE72 district, not just DE72 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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
Real sold prices by size across the DE area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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 DE72
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DE72, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DE72 2 | £295,000 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full DE72 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DE72 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DE72 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DE72 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the DE72 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DE72 3 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 DE72 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DE72 3.
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Two maps carry on from here: every DE72 3 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.
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.