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Alton market report S42 7, Chesterfield
The S42 7 (Alton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,380 sales registered with HM Land Registry in S42 7 (Chesterfield) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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 7 (Chesterfield) came in at £330,000, out of 22 registered, down 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £399,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,630 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,380 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
S42 7 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 7 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 7 sells for
In the S42 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £330,000, from 22 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £399,700, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in S42 7
By floor space, homes in S42 7 have sold for about £3,630 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, S42 7 runs 16% above it.
A typical S42 7 home, priced year by year (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 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 22 |
| 2025 | £349,000 | £357,346 | 82 |
| 2024 | £340,000 | £361,490 | 45 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 57 |
| 2022 | £346,900 | £406,780 | 68 |
| 2021 | £337,500 | £427,319 | 87 |
| 2020 | £338,500 | £439,211 | 52 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 57 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 66 |
| 2017 | £310,000 | £422,809 | 61 |
| 2016 | £262,000 | £366,541 | 57 |
| 2015 | £245,000 | £346,185 | 79 |
| 2014 | £243,000 | £344,738 | 79 |
| 2013 | £238,000 | £342,458 | 71 |
| 2012 | £210,500 | £309,830 | 60 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 44 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 65 |
| 2009 | £208,000 | £334,362 | 47 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 44 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 73 |
| 2006 | £235,000 | £407,930 | 97 |
| 2005 | £207,500 | £369,266 | 81 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 82 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 91 |
| 2002 | £138,000 | £259,646 | 85 |
| 2001 | £115,500 | £222,043 | 91 |
| 2000 | £105,200 | £206,455 | 102 |
| 1999 | £89,500 | £178,369 | 133 |
| 1998 | £94,500 | £190,755 | 88 |
| 1997 | £87,700 | £179,855 | 124 |
| 1996 | £77,500 | £163,444 | 105 |
| 1995 | £85,500 | £185,864 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical S42 7 home went from £85,500 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 78%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the S42 7 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 2004 (+34.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.4% | −7.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 22 sales completed in S42 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 88 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 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.
What kind of market S42 7 is
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes S42 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 S42, this sector trades 40% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around S42 7
For renting purposes S42 7 sits in North East Derbyshire. The ONS average private rent there is £774 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £556 a month here against £1,184 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £330,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.8%. 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.
S42 7 (Alton): the questions that come up
Is S42 7 (Alton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S42 7 (Alton)?
Are property prices falling in S42 7 (Alton)?
What happens to S42 7 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in S42 today
Turning to what is actually available: 98 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S42 district, not just S42 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
57% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Riggotts Way, Cutthorpe, Chesterfield, S42 7AW, Chesterfield
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- 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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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.
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 S42
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of S42, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S42 5 | £170,000 | 75 |
| S42 6 | £279,500 | 92 |
Zoom out to the full S42 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S42 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in S42 7? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S42 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S42 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S42 7 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 S42 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S42 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual S42 7 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.