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Town Centre market report S40 3, Chesterfield
The S40 3 (Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,423 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in S40 3 (Chesterfield) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical S40 3 (Chesterfield) home changed hands for £309,500 in 2026 (median of 70 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £333,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,160 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,423 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
S40 3 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 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.
Today's S40 3 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for S40 3 is £309,500, taken from 70 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £333,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
S40 3 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of S40 3 sales average about £3,160 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving S40 3 9% above the national figure.
S40 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £309,500 | £309,500 | 70 |
| 2025 | £290,800 | £297,754 | 168 |
| 2024 | £285,000 | £303,014 | 140 |
| 2023 | £285,200 | £313,365 | 146 |
| 2022 | £299,500 | £351,198 | 170 |
| 2021 | £274,000 | £346,919 | 195 |
| 2020 | £255,000 | £330,868 | 150 |
| 2019 | £232,500 | £304,752 | 150 |
| 2018 | £222,500 | £296,597 | 160 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 183 |
| 2016 | £214,000 | £299,388 | 149 |
| 2015 | £205,000 | £289,665 | 174 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 179 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 169 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 135 |
| 2011 | £177,000 | £267,202 | 123 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 136 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 122 |
| 2008 | £189,400 | £310,467 | 98 |
| 2007 | £205,000 | £347,737 | 244 |
| 2006 | £189,200 | £328,427 | 186 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 123 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 211 |
| 2003 | £131,500 | £242,255 | 222 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 206 |
| 2001 | £81,000 | £155,718 | 188 |
| 2000 | £79,000 | £155,038 | 165 |
| 1999 | £81,000 | £161,429 | 255 |
| 1998 | £69,200 | £139,685 | 212 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 221 |
| 1996 | £66,500 | £140,246 | 234 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 139 |
In cash terms the typical S40 3 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £309,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 148%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S40 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 2002 (+35.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What S40 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 70 S40 3 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 193 sales a year before the financial crisis and 139 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.
Reading the S40 3 market
Within S40, this sector trades 56% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around S40 3
S40 3 falls under Chesterfield, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £738 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £527 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,141, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Chesterfield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £309,500 median sold price, £738 a month is £8,856 a year, a gross yield of 2.9%: 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.
Asked and answered: S40 3 (Town Centre)
How much did a house sell for in S40 3 (Town Centre)?
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What happens to S40 3 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in S40 today
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Derby Road, Chesterfield, S40 2EP, Chesterfield
- Heath Court, St. Augustines Crescent, Chesterfield, S40 2SE, Chesterfield
- Broadgorse Close, Grangewood, Chesterfield, S40 2LB, Chesterfield
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every S40 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: S prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the S area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in S40
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of S40, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S40 1 | £162,000 | 27 |
| S40 2 | £152,000 | 52 |
| 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 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S40 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S40 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S40 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim S40 3.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about S40 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual S40 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.