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Arkwright Town market report S44 5, Chesterfield
The S44 5 (Arkwright Town) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,506 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in S44 5 (Chesterfield) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for S44 5 (Chesterfield) is £196,500, from 40 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £227,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,470 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,506 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
S44 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside S44 (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 S44 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.
The going rate for a home in S44 5
40 sales were registered in S44 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £196,500. The mean works out at £227,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
S44 5 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in S44 5 have sold for about £2,470 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts S44 5 31% below the country at large.
S44 5'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 | £196,500 | £196,500 | 40 |
| 2025 | £227,500 | £232,940 | 124 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 132 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 130 |
| 2022 | £194,000 | £227,487 | 116 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 157 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 121 |
| 2019 | £163,000 | £213,654 | 127 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 113 |
| 2017 | £144,400 | £196,947 | 122 |
| 2016 | £142,800 | £199,779 | 132 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 99 |
| 2014 | £123,000 | £174,497 | 99 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 94 |
| 2012 | £127,000 | £186,928 | 73 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 107 |
| 2010 | £122,500 | £192,112 | 96 |
| 2009 | £121,000 | £194,509 | 84 |
| 2008 | £131,000 | £214,737 | 56 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 115 |
| 2006 | £126,400 | £219,414 | 112 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 93 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 130 |
| 2003 | £78,500 | £144,616 | 137 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 103 |
| 2001 | £57,100 | £109,772 | 106 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 121 |
| 1999 | £53,700 | £107,021 | 142 |
| 1998 | £47,200 | £95,277 | 90 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 90 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 136 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical S44 5 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £196,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 101%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 20% 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 S44 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 2005 (+26.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What S44 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.6% | −15.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 40 sales completed in S44 5. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 108 sales a year recently, against 115 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.
Rents around S44 5
The local authority for S44 5 is North East Derbyshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £774 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £196,500 median sold price, £774 a month is £9,288 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
What kind of market S44 5 is
This is a thin market: 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Asked and answered: S44 5 (Arkwright Town)
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Where do S44 5 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 20% 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.
On the market in S44 today
Turning to what is actually available: 152 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S44 district, not just S44 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- The Richardson, Shuttlewood Road, Bolsover, Bolsover
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every S44 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.
Moving up a bedroom in S: the cost
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%) | — |
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. 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.
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 S44
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of S44, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S44 6 | £180,000 | 82 |
Zoom out to the full S44 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S44 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in S44 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at S44 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.
Estate agents working S44 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim S44 5.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about S44 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual S44 5 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.
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.