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Town Centre market report S40, Chesterfield
The S40 (Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 17,698 HM Land Registry entries for S40 (Chesterfield), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for S40 (Chesterfield) is £198,000, from 233 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £231,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,640 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,698 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
S40 is a postcode district covering Town Centre, Boythorpe, Birdholme in Chesterfield. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where S40 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 prices, from the sold record
Take the 233 registered 2026 sales in S40 and the middle price, the median, is £198,000. The mean lands at £231,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in S40
Per square metre, S40 homes have averaged around £2,640 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, S40 sits 31% below the national market.
S40's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £198,000 | £198,000 | 233 |
| 2025 | £219,000 | £224,237 | 544 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 471 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 472 |
| 2022 | £208,000 | £243,904 | 572 |
| 2021 | £200,000 | £253,226 | 643 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 445 |
| 2019 | £165,000 | £216,276 | 501 |
| 2018 | £179,000 | £238,610 | 536 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 562 |
| 2016 | £151,600 | £212,090 | 531 |
| 2015 | £153,800 | £217,319 | 564 |
| 2014 | £155,000 | £219,895 | 577 |
| 2013 | £142,000 | £204,324 | 547 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 451 |
| 2011 | £132,500 | £200,024 | 423 |
| 2010 | £136,800 | £214,538 | 406 |
| 2009 | £128,500 | £206,565 | 382 |
| 2008 | £135,200 | £221,621 | 400 |
| 2007 | £148,000 | £251,049 | 793 |
| 2006 | £133,200 | £231,218 | 748 |
| 2005 | £117,500 | £209,103 | 504 |
| 2004 | £113,000 | £205,230 | 616 |
| 2003 | £92,300 | £170,039 | 752 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 769 |
| 2001 | £59,000 | £113,424 | 682 |
| 2000 | £54,300 | £106,564 | 612 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 649 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 594 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 616 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 646 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 457 |
In cash terms the typical S40 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £198,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 102%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S40 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 (+31.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−9.6%). 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, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £350,000 against £115,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, S40
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 | £350,000 | 58 | 5,178 |
| Semi-detached | £204,500 | 92 | 7,188 |
| Terraced | £150,000 | 51 | 4,107 |
| Flats | £115,000 | 32 | 1,225 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.6% | −11.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
S40 recorded 481 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 685 sales a year before the financial crisis and 458 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around S40
For renting purposes S40 sits in Chesterfield. The ONS average private rent there is £738 a month (May 2026). 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 £198,000 median purchase price, a rent of £738 a month (£8,856 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
Asked and answered: S40 (Town Centre)
Is S40 (Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S40 (Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in S40 (Town Centre)?
Where do S40 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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 is for sale in S40 right now
Everything above is what homes in S40 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 92 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% below the S40 median sold price.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in S
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%) | — |
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
S40 ranks 41 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 S40, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S40 1 | £162,000 | 27 |
| S40 2 | £152,000 | 52 |
| S40 3 | £309,500 | 70 |
| S40 4 | £194,000 | 84 |
How S40 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the S area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| S32 | £490,000 | +24% |
| S17 | £462,500 | +23% |
| S11 | £350,000 | +0% |
| S7 | £310,000 | -3% |
| S18 | £300,000 | +15% |
| S33 | £295,000 | -21% |
| S10 | £290,000 | +4% |
| S8 | £252,200 | +20% |
| S35 | £237,000 | +17% |
| S42 | £235,000 | +3% |
| S20 | £229,000 | +24% |
| S6 | £224,000 | +17% |
| S81 | £222,000 | +8% |
| S21 | £220,000 | +22% |
| S75 | £219,000 | +11% |
| S45 | £207,000 | -2% |
| S26 | £205,000 | +5% |
| S36 | £205,000 | +0% |
| S60 | £203,000 | +4% |
| S25 | £200,000 | +18% |
| S66 | £200,000 | +11% |
| S40 (this report) | £198,000 | -1% |
| S41 | £195,000 | +3% |
| S12 | £193,000 | +24% |
Selling a home in S40? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at S40'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.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every S40 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.