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Alton market report S42, Chesterfield
The standing S42 (Alton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 14,451 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in S42 (Chesterfield) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical S42 (Chesterfield) home changed hands for £235,000 in 2026 (median of 189 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £263,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,720 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 14,451 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
S42 is a postcode district covering Alton, Cutthorpe, Eastmoor 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 S42 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 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for S42 is £235,000, taken from 189 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £263,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in S42
Per square metre, S42 homes have averaged around £2,720 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so S42 trades 18% below the country as a whole.
S42'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £235,000 | £235,000 | 189 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 534 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 509 |
| 2023 | £236,000 | £259,306 | 537 |
| 2022 | £242,500 | £284,359 | 648 |
| 2021 | £227,500 | £288,044 | 707 |
| 2020 | £205,000 | £265,992 | 540 |
| 2019 | £182,000 | £238,558 | 565 |
| 2018 | £177,800 | £237,011 | 590 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 487 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 500 |
| 2015 | £172,000 | £243,036 | 480 |
| 2014 | £157,500 | £223,441 | 424 |
| 2013 | £149,500 | £215,116 | 342 |
| 2012 | £142,800 | £210,184 | 250 |
| 2011 | £151,000 | £227,952 | 234 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 313 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 242 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 244 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 574 |
| 2006 | £146,500 | £254,305 | 535 |
| 2005 | £147,000 | £261,601 | 393 |
| 2004 | £128,000 | £232,473 | 433 |
| 2003 | £113,000 | £208,173 | 496 |
| 2002 | £76,000 | £142,993 | 491 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 490 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 523 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 501 |
| 1998 | £59,800 | £120,711 | 388 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 465 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 441 |
| 1995 | £51,700 | £112,388 | 386 |
In cash terms the typical S42 home went from £51,700 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 109%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S42 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 (+48.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−6.0%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 51% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £315,000 against £107,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, S42
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 | £330,000 | 81 | 7,304 |
| Semi-detached | £197,000 | 73 | 4,882 |
| Terraced | £150,000 | 35 | 2,105 |
| Flats | £107,000 (2025) | – | 121 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.0% | −8.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
S42 recorded 389 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 483 sales a year recently, against 492 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.
What tenants pay around S42
For renting purposes S42 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.
Set against the £235,000 median sold price, £774 a month is £9,288 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
Reading the S42 market
S42 sits 10 of 45 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: S42 (Alton)
Are property prices falling in S42 (Alton)?
Is S42 (Alton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S42 (Alton)?
Are S42 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in S42 right now
Everything above is what homes in S42 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 98 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the S42 median sold price.
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...
"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 S42 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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
S42 ranks 37 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.
Five-year change in the median, S area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside S42, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| S42 5 | £170,000 | 75 |
| S42 6 | £279,500 | 92 |
| S42 7 | £330,000 | 22 |
How S42 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 (this report) | £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 | £198,000 | -1% |
| S41 | £195,000 | +3% |
| S12 | £193,000 | +24% |
Selling a home in S42? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in S42, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from S42's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded S42 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.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S42 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual S42 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.