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Alton market report S42 6, Chesterfield
The S42 6 (Alton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,097 HM Land Registry entries for S42 6 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for S42 6 (Chesterfield) is £279,500, from 92 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £289,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,830 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,097 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
S42 6 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 6 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 a home in S42 6 sells for
The S42 6 median stands at £279,500 for 2026, built from 92 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £289,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in S42 6
The last five years of sales put S42 6 at roughly £2,830 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts S42 6 2% below the country at large.
A typical S42 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £279,500 | £279,500 | 92 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 218 |
| 2024 | £267,000 | £283,876 | 207 |
| 2023 | £260,800 | £286,556 | 250 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 306 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 360 |
| 2020 | £239,500 | £310,756 | 274 |
| 2019 | £216,000 | £283,124 | 247 |
| 2018 | £212,500 | £283,267 | 240 |
| 2017 | £204,500 | £278,917 | 202 |
| 2016 | £196,600 | £275,045 | 208 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 244 |
| 2014 | £175,000 | £248,268 | 185 |
| 2013 | £162,000 | £233,102 | 148 |
| 2012 | £153,000 | £225,197 | 99 |
| 2011 | £166,500 | £251,351 | 99 |
| 2010 | £172,000 | £269,740 | 109 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 117 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 92 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 226 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 198 |
| 2005 | £162,000 | £288,295 | 155 |
| 2004 | £148,200 | £269,160 | 166 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 190 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 197 |
| 2001 | £84,500 | £162,447 | 198 |
| 2000 | £72,500 | £142,281 | 237 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 186 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 154 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 161 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 191 |
| 1995 | £52,500 | £114,127 | 141 |
In cash terms the typical S42 6 home went from £52,500 in 1995 to £279,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 145%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the S42 6 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 (+44.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.4%). 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) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in S42 6
Sales per year, counted
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.
The register shows 92 S42 6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 215 sales a year recently, against 196 a year before 2008. 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 S42 6
For renting purposes S42 6 sits in North East Derbyshire. The ONS average private rent there is £774 a month (May 2026). 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.
£774 a month is £9,288 a year, which against the £279,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market S42 6 is
Against the S42 district median, S42 6 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: S42 6 (Alton)
Are property prices falling in S42 6 (Alton)?
Is S42 6 (Alton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S42 6 (Alton)?
Are S42 6 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
What you could buy in S42 now
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 57% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in S: the cost
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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 5 | £170,000 | 75 |
| 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 6? 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 6'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim S42 6.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S42 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S42 6 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.
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.