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Holmesfield market report S18 8, Dronfield
The S18 8 (Holmesfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,460 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in S18 8 (Dronfield) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in S18 8 (Dronfield) sold for £310,000 in 2026, the median of 36 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £353,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,650 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,460 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
S18 8 is one sector of S18 (Dronfield): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where S18 8 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 a home in S18 8 sells for
The 2026 median for S18 8 is £310,000, taken from 36 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £353,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
S18 8 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in S18 8 have sold for about £3,650 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, S18 8 runs 9% above it.
S18 8'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £332,000 | £339,939 | 82 |
| 2024 | £327,500 | £348,200 | 99 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 61 |
| 2022 | £339,000 | £397,516 | 104 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 111 |
| 2020 | £271,200 | £351,888 | 108 |
| 2019 | £252,000 | £330,312 | 111 |
| 2018 | £238,000 | £317,258 | 125 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 98 |
| 2016 | £213,200 | £298,269 | 95 |
| 2015 | £236,000 | £333,468 | 139 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 113 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 113 |
| 2012 | £179,500 | £264,202 | 108 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 88 |
| 2010 | £177,900 | £278,993 | 98 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 101 |
| 2008 | £177,000 | £290,140 | 79 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 106 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £308,985 | 153 |
| 2005 | £162,500 | £289,185 | 108 |
| 2004 | £139,500 | £253,359 | 86 |
| 2003 | £125,100 | £230,465 | 126 |
| 2002 | £101,000 | £190,031 | 124 |
| 2001 | £85,500 | £164,369 | 128 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 107 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 142 |
| 1998 | £59,700 | £120,509 | 120 |
| 1997 | £62,500 | £128,175 | 134 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 161 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical S18 8 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 146%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S18 8 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 2015 (+24.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−9.7%). 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) | −6.6% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 36 S18 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 117 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 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.
Rents around S18 8
For renting purposes S18 8 sits in North East Derbyshire. The ONS average private rent there is £774 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £556 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,184, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, North East Derbyshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £310,000 median purchase price, a rent of £774 a month (£9,288 a year) works out at a 3.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the S18 8 market
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes S18 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about S18 8 (Holmesfield)
How much did a house sell for in S18 8 (Holmesfield)?
Are property prices falling in S18 8 (Holmesfield)?
Is S18 8 (Holmesfield) a good place to buy a house?
Are S18 8 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in S18 now
The live side of the market holds 37 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S18 district, not just S18 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
38% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Brierley Road, Unstone, Dronfield
- South Close, Unstone, Dronfield
- Holmley Lane, Dronfield, Derbyshire, S18
"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 S18 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 S
Real sold prices by size across the S 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 | — | £235,000 | £330,000 (+40%) | £495,000 (+50%) | £750,000 (+52%) |
| Semi-detached | £160,000 | £175,000 (+9%) | £220,000 (+26%) | £321,000 (+46%) | £550,000 (+71%) |
| Terraced | £132,000 | £140,000 (+6%) | £175,000 (+25%) | £256,500 (+47%) | £350,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £148,000 (+23%) | £265,000 (+79%) | £461,750 (+74%) | — |
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 S area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the S area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in S18
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are S18's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S18 1 | £295,000 | 31 |
| S18 2 | £300,000 | 25 |
| S18 3 | £307,200 | 12 |
| S18 4 | £307,500 | 4 |
| S18 7 | £317,500 | 8 |
Zoom out to the full S18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S18 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in S18 8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in S18 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the S18 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded S18 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim S18 8.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about S18 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S18 8 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.