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Arkwright Town market report S44, Chesterfield
The standing S44 (Arkwright Town) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 10,945 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in S44 (Chesterfield) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 154 registered 2026 sales put the S44 (Chesterfield) median at £192,500, up 12% on five years earlier, with a mean of £222,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,340 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 10,945 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
S44 is the postcode district covering Arkwright Town, Ault Hucknall, Bolsover in Chesterfield. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where S44 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 S44 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for S44 is £192,500, taken from 154 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £222,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in S44
Measured by floor area, the last five years of S44 sales average about £2,340 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, S44 runs 32% below it.
The price of a typical S44 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £192,500 | £192,500 | 154 |
| 2025 | £202,900 | £207,752 | 430 |
| 2024 | £212,200 | £225,612 | 452 |
| 2023 | £194,000 | £213,159 | 469 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 474 |
| 2021 | £172,000 | £217,774 | 543 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 379 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 393 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 325 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 321 |
| 2016 | £124,000 | £173,477 | 346 |
| 2015 | £115,000 | £162,495 | 301 |
| 2014 | £109,000 | £154,636 | 305 |
| 2013 | £112,000 | £161,157 | 264 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 244 |
| 2011 | £112,000 | £169,077 | 227 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 209 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 240 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 184 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 367 |
| 2006 | £111,500 | £193,550 | 397 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 301 |
| 2004 | £88,500 | £160,733 | 420 |
| 2003 | £72,000 | £132,641 | 474 |
| 2002 | £50,100 | £94,263 | 410 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 409 |
| 2000 | £45,000 | £88,313 | 340 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 351 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 263 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 273 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 364 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 316 |
In cash terms the typical S44 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £192,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 111%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S44 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 (+43.7% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−7.1%). 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 year (since 2025) | −5.1% | −7.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.7% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. In 2016, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £196,500 against £85,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, S44
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 | £317,500 | 52 | 3,499 |
| Semi-detached | £177,000 | 60 | 4,553 |
| Terraced | £135,000 | 42 | 2,817 |
| Flats | £85,000 (2016) | – | 28 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 275 sales completed in S44. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 396 sales a year recently, against 390 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 S44
S44 falls under Bolsover, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £704 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £496 a month here against £1,124 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Bolsover
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £192,500 median purchase price, a rent of £704 a month (£8,448 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
Reading the S44 market
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.
Common questions on S44 (Arkwright Town)
Are property prices falling in S44 (Arkwright Town)?
Is S44 (Arkwright Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S44 (Arkwright Town)?
Are S44 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in S44 now
Everything above is what homes in S44 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 127 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 30% above the S44 median sold price.
S44 registered 275 sales in the last twelve months; the 127 homes listed now would take about 6 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
8% 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.
- North View Street, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Chesterfield
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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 S44 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.
S44: the homes on offer and the homes that go
Terraced homes are 20% of what sold in S44 over 2024 and 2025 but only 0% of what is listed now: they sell, and there are few to choose from, so a good one is unlikely to hang about.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 56% | 41% |
| Semi-detached | 44% | 39% |
| Terraced | 0% | 20% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (10 here).
When homes in S44 change hands
March is when S44 changes hands most (10.2% of the 2,368 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.0%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 142 | 6.0% |
| February | 156 | 6.6% |
| March | 241 | 10.2% |
| April | 187 | 7.9% |
| May | 210 | 8.9% |
| June | 227 | 9.6% |
| July | 195 | 8.2% |
| August | 217 | 9.2% |
| September | 192 | 8.1% |
| October | 213 | 9.0% |
| November | 179 | 7.6% |
| December | 209 | 8.8% |
What another bedroom costs in S
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the S area. 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 | £210,000 | £230,000 (+10%) | £280,000 (+22%) | £357,000 (+27%) | £475,995 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £160,000 | £170,000 (+6%) | £190,000 (+12%) | £249,995 (+32%) | £350,000 (+40%) |
| Terraced | £130,000 | £135,000 (+4%) | £157,000 (+16%) | £225,000 (+43%) | £290,000 (+29%) |
| Flat | £107,000 | £133,500 (+25%) | £230,000 (+72%) | £306,000 (+33%) | £475,000 (+55%) |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
S44 ranks 26 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside S44, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How S44 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the S area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| S17 | £475,000 | +26% |
| S32 | £440,000 | +11% |
| S11 | £350,000 | +0% |
| S18 | £303,500 | +16% |
| S7 | £300,000 | -6% |
| S33 | £300,000 | -20% |
| S10 | £290,000 | +4% |
| S8 | £250,000 | +19% |
| S42 | £240,000 | +5% |
| S35 | £235,000 | +16% |
| S20 | £230,000 | +24% |
| S6 | £220,000 | +15% |
| S75 | £220,000 | +11% |
| S81 | £220,000 | +7% |
| S21 | £217,500 | +21% |
| S36 | £210,500 | +3% |
| S26 | £210,000 | +8% |
| S60 | £206,200 | +6% |
| S45 | £206,000 | -3% |
| S40 | £205,500 | +3% |
| S66 | £200,000 | +11% |
| S25 | £195,000 | +15% |
| S41 | £195,000 | +3% |
| S44 (this report) | £192,500 | +12% |
Selling in S44? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in S44, open the average prices map and zoom from the S44 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded S44 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to S44. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every S44 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.