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Town Centre market report S40 1, Chesterfield
The S40 1 (Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,452 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in S40 1 (Chesterfield) 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 middle 2026 sale in S40 1 (Chesterfield) came in at £162,000, out of 27 registered, up 10% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £176,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,270 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,452 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
S40 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside S40 (Chesterfield). 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 S40 1 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 buyers actually paid in S40 1
In the S40 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £162,000, from 27 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £176,200, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in S40 1
By floor space, homes in S40 1 have sold for about £2,270 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, S40 1 sits 43% below the national market.
A typical S40 1 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 | £162,000 | £162,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £165,000 | £168,946 | 69 |
| 2024 | £149,000 | £158,418 | 81 |
| 2023 | £172,500 | £189,535 | 62 |
| 2022 | £153,500 | £179,996 | 83 |
| 2021 | £147,200 | £186,374 | 74 |
| 2020 | £129,000 | £167,380 | 63 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 72 |
| 2018 | £143,700 | £191,555 | 80 |
| 2017 | £141,000 | £192,310 | 58 |
| 2016 | £113,200 | £158,368 | 64 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 55 |
| 2014 | £114,000 | £161,729 | 63 |
| 2013 | £108,200 | £155,689 | 55 |
| 2012 | £102,000 | £150,131 | 49 |
| 2011 | £100,800 | £152,169 | 50 |
| 2010 | £107,000 | £167,804 | 57 |
| 2009 | £113,500 | £182,452 | 48 |
| 2008 | £113,700 | £186,378 | 66 |
| 2007 | £116,000 | £196,768 | 88 |
| 2006 | £102,000 | £177,059 | 109 |
| 2005 | £99,000 | £176,180 | 90 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 102 |
| 2003 | £71,500 | £131,720 | 114 |
| 2002 | £53,200 | £100,095 | 138 |
| 2001 | £41,500 | £79,782 | 123 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 109 |
| 1999 | £33,200 | £66,166 | 84 |
| 1998 | £34,800 | £70,246 | 88 |
| 1997 | £34,800 | £71,368 | 94 |
| 1996 | £31,800 | £67,065 | 78 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 59 |
In cash terms the typical S40 1 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £162,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 148%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S40 1 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 (+34.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−13.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What S40 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.8% | −4.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in S40 1
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
S40 1 recorded 27 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 109 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
How S40 1 trades
This is a thin market: 27 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within S40, this sector trades 18% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around S40 1
S40 1 falls under Chesterfield, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £738 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £527 a month here against £1,141 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Chesterfield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £162,000 median purchase price, a rent of £738 a month (£8,856 a year) works out at a 5.5% 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.
What people ask about S40 1 (Town Centre)
Is S40 1 (Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S40 1 (Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in S40 1 (Town Centre)?
Will S40 1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
S40's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 92 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S40 district, not just S40 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Derby Road, Chesterfield, S40 2EP, Chesterfield
- Heath Court, St. Augustines Crescent, Chesterfield, S40 2SE, Chesterfield
- Broadgorse Close, Grangewood, Chesterfield, S40 2LB, Chesterfield
"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 S40 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 S: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the S area, 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%) | — |
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 S area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
S area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in S40
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of S40, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S40 2 | £152,000 | 52 |
| S40 3 | £309,500 | 70 |
| S40 4 | £194,000 | 84 |
Zoom out to the full S40 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S40 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in S40 1: 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 S40 1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim S40 1.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about S40 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every S40 1 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.
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.