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Holmesfield market report S18, Dronfield
The S18 (Holmesfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 11,738 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in S18 (Dronfield) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical S18 (Dronfield) home changed hands for £303,500 in 2026 (median of 140 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £347,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,380 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 11,738 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
S18 is the postcode district covering Dronfield, Holmesfield, Unstone in Dronfield. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where S18 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 S18 homes really sell for
140 sales were registered in S18 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £303,500. The mean works out at £347,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in S18
By floor space, homes in S18 have sold for about £3,380 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so S18 trades 6% above the country as a whole.
A typical S18 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £303,500 | £303,500 | 140 |
| 2025 | £295,000 | £302,054 | 373 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 332 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 291 |
| 2022 | £297,500 | £348,853 | 377 |
| 2021 | £261,000 | £330,460 | 387 |
| 2020 | £245,000 | £317,893 | 359 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 377 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 380 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 369 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 330 |
| 2015 | £203,500 | £287,546 | 390 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 389 |
| 2013 | £167,200 | £240,584 | 380 |
| 2012 | £171,500 | £252,427 | 307 |
| 2011 | £162,000 | £244,558 | 275 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 299 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 307 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 237 |
| 2007 | £173,000 | £293,456 | 435 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 497 |
| 2005 | £157,500 | £280,287 | 388 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 344 |
| 2003 | £119,500 | £220,148 | 395 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 470 |
| 2001 | £79,000 | £151,873 | 425 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 406 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 490 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 404 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 451 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 417 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 317 |
In cash terms the typical S18 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £303,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 156%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S18 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 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £425,000 against £127,500 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, S18
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £425,000 | 63 | 4,625 |
| Semi-detached | £265,000 | 53 | 4,987 |
| Terraced | £191,500 | 17 | 1,563 |
| Flats | £127,500 | 7 | 563 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +2.9% | +0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.6% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in S18
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 263 S18 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 420 sales a year before the financial crisis and 303 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
S18 falls under North East Derbyshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £774 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £303,500 median sold price, £774 a month is £9,288 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
Reading the S18 market
Detached homes made up 45% of last year's sales, an unusually house-heavy mix that keeps the median well above what a flat or terrace here goes for. Among the 45 measurable districts of its area, S18 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Common questions on S18 (Holmesfield)
Is S18 (Holmesfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S18 (Holmesfield)?
Are property prices falling in S18 (Holmesfield)?
Will S18 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in S18 right now
Everything above is what homes in S18 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 15 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% above the S18 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (263 in S18), the 15 homes listed here amount to about 3 weeks of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
Of everything listed here, 8% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every S18 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
When homes in S18 change hands
Take the 1,760 S18 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.5% of the total, May trails with 6.1%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 119 | 6.8% |
| February | 154 | 8.8% |
| March | 185 | 10.5% |
| April | 116 | 6.6% |
| May | 108 | 6.1% |
| June | 145 | 8.2% |
| July | 145 | 8.2% |
| August | 166 | 9.4% |
| September | 167 | 9.5% |
| October | 167 | 9.5% |
| November | 156 | 8.9% |
| December | 132 | 7.5% |
Bedroom by bedroom: S prices by size
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 | £210,000 | £230,000 (+10%) | £280,000 (+22%) | £357,000 (+27%) | £475,995 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £160,000 | £170,000 (+6%) | £190,000 (+12%) | £249,995 (+32%) | £350,000 (+40%) |
| Terraced | £130,000 | £135,000 (+4%) | £157,000 (+16%) | £225,000 (+43%) | £290,000 (+29%) |
| Flat | £107,000 | £133,500 (+25%) | £230,000 (+72%) | £306,000 (+33%) | £475,000 (+55%) |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
S18 ranks 19 of 45 in the S area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the S area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside S18, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S18 1 | £303,500 | 36 |
| S18 2 | £300,000 | 29 |
| S18 3 | £307,200 | 15 |
| S18 4 | £280,000 | 5 |
| S18 7 | £317,500 | 10 |
| S18 8 | £308,000 | 45 |
How S18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the S area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| S17 | £475,000 | +26% |
| S32 | £440,000 | +11% |
| S11 | £350,000 | +0% |
| S18 (this report) | £303,500 | +16% |
| S7 | £300,000 | -6% |
| S33 | £300,000 | -20% |
| S10 | £290,000 | +4% |
| S8 | £250,000 | +19% |
| S42 | £240,000 | +5% |
| S35 | £235,000 | +16% |
| S20 | £230,000 | +24% |
| S6 | £220,000 | +15% |
| S75 | £220,000 | +11% |
| S81 | £220,000 | +7% |
| S21 | £217,500 | +21% |
| S36 | £210,500 | +3% |
| S26 | £210,000 | +8% |
| S60 | £206,200 | +6% |
| S45 | £206,000 | -3% |
| S40 | £205,500 | +3% |
| S66 | £200,000 | +11% |
| S25 | £195,000 | +15% |
| S41 | £195,000 | +3% |
| S44 | £192,500 | +12% |
Selling a home in S18? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in S18, open the average prices map and zoom from the S18 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded S18 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual S18 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.