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Alton market report S42 5, Chesterfield
The standing S42 5 (Alton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,974 registered sales in S42 5 (Chesterfield) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in S42 5 (Chesterfield) came in at £170,000, out of 75 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £191,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,974 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
S42 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside S42 (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 S42 5 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 S42 5 prices, from the sold record
The S42 5 median stands at £170,000 for 2026, built from 75 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £191,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in S42 5
By floor space, homes in S42 5 have sold for about £2,380 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving S42 5 40% below the national figure.
The price of a typical S42 5 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 75 |
| 2025 | £208,800 | £213,793 | 234 |
| 2024 | £199,500 | £212,109 | 257 |
| 2023 | £190,000 | £208,764 | 230 |
| 2022 | £198,500 | £232,764 | 274 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 260 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 214 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 261 |
| 2018 | £137,200 | £182,890 | 284 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 224 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 235 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 157 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 160 |
| 2013 | £90,000 | £129,501 | 123 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 91 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 91 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 139 |
| 2009 | £109,000 | £175,218 | 78 |
| 2008 | £112,500 | £184,411 | 108 |
| 2007 | £116,000 | £196,768 | 275 |
| 2006 | £111,000 | £192,682 | 240 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 157 |
| 2004 | £87,000 | £158,009 | 185 |
| 2003 | £77,000 | £141,853 | 215 |
| 2002 | £51,000 | £95,956 | 209 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 201 |
| 2000 | £44,500 | £87,331 | 184 |
| 1999 | £42,000 | £83,704 | 182 |
| 1998 | £44,200 | £89,221 | 146 |
| 1997 | £39,200 | £80,391 | 180 |
| 1996 | £41,800 | £88,154 | 145 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 160 |
In cash terms the typical S42 5 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 78%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 27% 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 S42 5 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 (+51.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −18.6% | −20.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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 S42 5
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
S42 5 recorded 75 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 214 sales a year recently, against 208 a year before 2008. 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.
How S42 5 trades
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within S42, this sector trades 28% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around S42 5
S42 5 falls under North East Derbyshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £774 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £556 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,184 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, North East Derbyshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £170,000 median purchase price, a rent of £774 a month (£9,288 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 S42 5 (Alton)
How much did a house sell for in S42 5 (Alton)?
Are property prices falling in S42 5 (Alton)?
Is S42 5 (Alton) a good place to buy a house?
Will S42 5 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
On the market in S42 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 98 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S42 district, not just S42 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 57% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Riggotts Way, Cutthorpe, Chesterfield, S42 7AW, Chesterfield
- Masefield Avenue, Holmewood, Holmewood
- New Street, North Wingfield, Chesterf...
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 S42 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: S prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the S area, straight 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in S42
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of S42, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S42 6 | £279,500 | 92 |
| S42 7 | £330,000 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full S42 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S42 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in S42 5? 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 S42 5'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 S42 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to S42 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual S42 5 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.