Buxton house prices

Buxton house prices are built from 16,884 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £145,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +42.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.1%.

HM Land Registry16,884 sales3,025 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Buxton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Buxton is £267,995 in 2023; the lowest is £53,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £53,500 to £256,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £118,795, so the real change over the whole record is +115.9% — about +2.51% 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: +42.5% in cash against +2.1% 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.

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.

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 Buxton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Buxton is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,011 certificates cover Buxton, and their median floor area is 82 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +7.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

2,959 of the sales on record are leasehold and 13,925 freehold — 17.5% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £112,000 and the median freehold sale £155,000 — a gap of +38.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +40.8%. 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 1,073 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Derbyshire Dales, 34.6% of 35,917 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 10.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Derbyshire Dales at £807 a month as of Jun 2026 — £585 for a one-bedroom home and £896 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £145,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.68% 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 SK17, 26 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 8 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 5 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 6.4 times quieter.

Against the 71,540 residents the 2021 census counted in Derbyshire Dales, that is 0.36 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.

The 2021 census counted 71,540 residents in Derbyshire Dales across 32,283 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

23 state and independent schools have a SK17 postcode: 20 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Buxton sits below that national figure — -7.9%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,776 per square metre, across 3,025 of the 16,884 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £250 to £1,600,000. 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.

Buxton sits in Derbyshire Dales, in the West Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Derbyshire Dales at 8.9 times median local earnings of £35,253 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.

Streets in Buxton

• Park Road309 sales
• Green Lane231 sales
• Manchester Road231 sales
• Sherwood Road221 sales
• Lightwood Road219 sales
• Brown Edge Road195 sales
• Fairfield Road191 sales
• Bennett Street186 sales
• Burlow Road184 sales
• Corbar Road182 sales
• High Street176 sales
• St Johns Road176 sales
• Macclesfield Road174 sales
• Nunsfield Road174 sales
• West Road159 sales
• Dale Road157 sales
• Buxton Road155 sales
• Victoria Park Road149 sales
• London Road148 sales
• Hallsteads139 sales
• Berwick Road135 sales
• Leek Road134 sales
• Queens Road129 sales
• Otterhole Close128 sales
• Broad Walk126 sales
• Solomons View126 sales
• Macclesfield Old Road124 sales
• Main Street120 sales
• Bath Road113 sales
• Haddon Court105 sales
• Marlborough Road99 sales
• Kings Road98 sales
• Granby Road92 sales
• Silverlands Park90 sales
• Lismore Road89 sales
• Church Street88 sales
• Rockfield Road87 sales
• Carr Road85 sales
• Market Street84 sales
• South Avenue84 sales
• Batham Gate Road83 sales
• Queen Street83 sales
• Harpur Hill Road82 sales
• Central Drive80 sales
• Beech View Drive78 sales
• Cliff Road77 sales
• Windsor Road75 sales
• Curlew Avenue74 sales
• Dovedale Crescent73 sales
• Sterndale Moor72 sales
• Temple Road72 sales
• Eagle Parade71 sales
• Chatsworth Road68 sales
• Alma Street67 sales
• New High Street66 sales
• St James Terrace66 sales
• Overdale Avenue65 sales
• Holmfield64 sales
• Sheraton Way63 sales
• Hollins Street62 sales

Postcode districts covering Buxton

• SK17£145,000 median

What is the average house price in Buxton?

The median price paid in Buxton across every sale on the register is £145,000. 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 Buxton?

16,884 sales are on record for Buxton, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Buxton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +42.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Buxton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £267,995, set in 2023. 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 Buxton?

£1,776 per square metre, from the 3,025 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 25 Jun 2026. 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, “Buxton 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.