Lower Somercotes, Alfreton house prices are built from 108 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 21 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £77,450. Across the 11 years from 2006 to 2017 the median moved -6.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -28.8%.
Median price paid
£77,450
Change in cash, 2006–2017
-6.9%
Change in real terms
-28.8%
HM Land Registry108 salesLatest sale 21 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Lower Somercotes, Alfreton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lower Somercotes, Alfreton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2017. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1 | £17,625 | £39,136 |
| 2000s | 3 | £60,000 | £109,302 |
| 2010s | 2 | £68,650 | £96,797 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lower Somercotes, Alfreton is £83,750 in 2006; the lowest is £17,625 in 1998. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £17,625 to £78,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £36,546, so the real change over the whole record is +190.5% — about +5.77% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: -6.9% in cash against -28.8% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 485 | 21 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £119,000 | £121,587 |
| 561 | 28 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £122,500 | £128,899 |
| 346 | 24 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £125,000 | £131,530 |
| 525 | 16 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £157,500 | £165,728 |
| 535 | 15 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £107,000 | £115,609 |
| 523 | 23 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £135,000 | £145,862 |
| 543 | 12 May 2023 | Terraced | £143,000 | £154,506 |
| 475 | 24 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £152,000 | £164,230 |
| 561 | 16 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £105,000 | £121,652 |
| 388 | 13 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £95,000 | £110,066 |
| 565 | 11 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £200,550 | £232,355 |
| 344 | 9 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £112,000 | £141,505 |
| 507 | 21 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £96,000 | £121,290 |
| 543 | 13 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £111,000 | £143,719 |
| 519 | 6 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £100,000 | £130,798 |
| 467 | 18 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £110,000 | £143,878 |
| 545 | 19 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £95,000 | £124,258 |
| 475 | 3 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £108,000 | £141,262 |
| 589 | 22 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £193,242 |
| 527 | 31 May 2018 | Terraced | £78,000 | £103,951 |
| 561 | 24 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £78,000 | £106,158 |
| 519 | 6 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £67,500 | £91,868 |
| 539 | 7 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £82,000 | £111,602 |
| 507b | 6 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £65,500 | £89,146 |
| 473 | 3 Apr 2017 | Semi-detached | £85,000 | £115,685 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Lower Somercotes, Alfreton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 485 Lower Somercotes | £59,750 (2013) | £119,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +2.8% |
| 561 Lower Somercotes | £25,000 (2002) | £122,500 (2024) | +7.5% | +4.6% |
| 346 Lower Somercotes | £65,000 (2011) | £125,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.2% |
| 525 Lower Somercotes | £48,000 (2004) | £157,500 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.2% |
| 523 Lower Somercotes | £29,950 (1996) | £135,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 543 Lower Somercotes | £111,000 (2020) | £143,000 (2023) | +8.8% | +2.4% |
| 475 Lower Somercotes | £40,500 (1998) | £152,000 (2023) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 388 Lower Somercotes | £73,500 (2006) | £95,000 (2022) | +1.6% | -1.1% |
| 565 Lower Somercotes | £23,000 (1995) | £200,550 (2022) | +8.4% | +5.8% |
| 344 Lower Somercotes | £23,500 (1996) | £112,000 (2021) | +6.4% | +4.2% |
| 519 Lower Somercotes | £27,950 (1996) | £100,000 (2019) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
| 467 Lower Somercotes | £68,000 (2003) | £110,000 (2019) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lower Somercotes, Alfreton is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 60 | 55.6% | £63,500 | £14,250 – £200,000 |
| Semi-detached | 32 | 29.6% | £87,000 | £23,000 – £200,550 |
| Detached | 14 | 13.0% | £185,000 | £46,500 – £400,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 1.9% | £75,000 | £75,000 – £81,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lower Somercotes, Alfreton
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 108 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 108 | 100.0% | £77,450 |
| New build | 1 | 0.9% | £100,000 |
| Existing home | 107 | 99.1% | £76,950 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +30.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 10 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Lower Somercotes, Alfreton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Amber Valley, 40.1% of 61,836 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 754 | 1.2% |
| B | 7,153 | 11.6% |
| C | 16,914 | 27.4% |
| D | 23,702 | 38.3% |
| E | 9,837 | 15.9% |
| F | 2,727 | 4.4% |
| G | 749 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Amber Valley at £793 a month as of Jun 2026 — £579 for a one-bedroom home and £906 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £77,450 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.29% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of DE55, 94 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 39 violent, 3 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 8 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times quieter.
Against the 126,206 residents the 2021 census counted in Amber Valley, that is 0.74 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Lower Somercotes, Alfreton
The 2021 census counted 126,206 residents in Amber Valley across 56,277 households. 72.5% of those households own their home and 27.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
31 state and independent schools have a DE55 postcode: 25 primary, 4 secondary, 2 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swanwick Hall School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,025 |
| Tibshelf Community School | Secondary | Community school | 834 |
| David Nieper Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 810 |
| Frederick Gent School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 801 |
| Swanwick Primary School | Primary | Community school | 379 |
| Glebe Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 365 |
| Riddings Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 236 |
| Woodbridge Junior School | Primary | Community school | 226 |
| Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 225 |
| Stonebroom Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 211 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Alfreton Rail Station | Rail | 0.3 km |
| Kirkby in Ashfield Rail Station | Rail | 8.0 km |
| Ambergate Rail Station | Rail | 8.6 km |
| Sutton Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 8.6 km |
Section 09
How Lower Somercotes, Alfreton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lower Somercotes, Alfreton sits below that national figure — -50.8%.
Within Alfreton the street ranks 571 of 680 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £103,500 (-25.2%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £14,250 to £400,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Lower Somercotes, Alfreton sits in Amber Valley, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Amber Valley at 6.5 times median local earnings of £35,912 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Main Road£93,700 median
- High Street£86,000 median
- Alfreton Road£94,000 median
- Birchwood Lane£96,500 median
- Nottingham Road£70,750 median
- New Street£72,000 median
- Sleetmoor Lane£84,950 median
- Sough Road£91,950 median
- Mansfield Road£90,000 median
- South Street£72,000 median
- Carter Lane East£79,950 median
- Derby Road£125,750 median
- James Street£142,000 median
- Somercotes Hill£79,325 median
- Birchen Holme£84,475 median
- Greenhill Lane£75,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lower Somercotes, Alfreton?
The median price paid in Lower Somercotes, Alfreton across every sale on the register is £77,450. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Lower Somercotes, Alfreton?
108 sales are on record for Lower Somercotes, Alfreton, the most recent completing on 21 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lower Somercotes, Alfreton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -6.9% between 2006 and 2017. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -28.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lower Somercotes, Alfreton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £83,750, set in 2006. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Lower Somercotes, Alfreton?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 21 Nov 2025. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Lower Somercotes, Alfreton house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.