Lightwood Road, Buxton house prices are built from 219 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £143,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -21.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -43.0%.
Median price paid
£143,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-21.4%
Change in real terms
-43.0%
Median per m²
£1,639
HM Land Registry219 sales46 with floor areaLatest sale 19 May 2026
Section 01
How Lightwood Road, Buxton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lightwood Road, Buxton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 4 | £42,000 | £93,260 |
| 2000s | 6 | £104,500 | £190,368 |
| 2010s | 10 | £198,000 | £279,180 |
| 2020s | 4 | £285,000 | £291,196 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lightwood Road, Buxton is £430,000 in 2021; the lowest is £40,225 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £40,225 to £285,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £89,319, so the real change over the whole record is +226.0% — about +4.02% 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: -21.4% in cash against -43.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 | 19 May 2026 | Detached | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| 19 | 17 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 66 | 31 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £227,000 | £227,000 |
| Westray, 98 | 19 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 85 | 28 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 185 | 26 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £352,500 |
| 145 | 22 Aug 2025 | Detached | £510,000 | £521,087 |
| 83 | 6 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £272,000 | £277,913 |
| 160 | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £424,022 |
| 41 | 24 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 103 | 15 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 83 | 1 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| 60 | 15 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £205,000 | £215,709 |
| 171 | 29 Nov 2023 | Detached | £295,000 | £318,736 |
| 189 | 24 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £352,500 | £380,862 |
| 31 | 28 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £149,500 | £161,529 |
| 55 | 14 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £135,000 | £145,862 |
| 53 | 15 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 100 | 18 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £353,369 |
| 127 | 10 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £538,743 |
| 138 | 3 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £660,000 | £764,667 |
| 201 | 10 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £650,000 | £753,081 |
| 43 | 23 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 23 | 12 May 2022 | Terraced | £186,000 | £215,497 |
| 168 | 16 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £324,404 |
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 Lightwood Road, Buxton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 Lightwood Road | £337,500 (2017) | £650,000 (2026) | +7.6% | +3.9% |
| 19 Lightwood Road | £170,000 (2010) | £220,000 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| 66 Lightwood Road | £44,500 (1995) | £227,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| WESTRAY, 98 Lightwood Road | £146,000 (2017) | £285,000 (2025) | +8.7% | +4.9% |
| 185 Lightwood Road | £70,000 (1995) | £345,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 83 Lightwood Road | £180,000 (2024) | £272,000 (2025) | +51.1% | +46.7% |
| 41 Lightwood Road | £68,500 (2003) | £200,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.1% |
| 103 Lightwood Road | £68,000 (1997) | £340,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 60 Lightwood Road | £111,500 (2002) | £205,000 (2024) | +2.8% | +0.0% |
| 189 Lightwood Road | £76,000 (1996) | £352,500 (2023) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 31 Lightwood Road | £64,000 (2001) | £149,500 (2023) | +3.9% | +1.2% |
| 55 Lightwood Road | £98,000 (2005) | £135,000 (2023) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lightwood Road, Buxton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 97 | 44.3% | £230,000 | £12,500 – £660,000 |
| Terraced | 74 | 33.8% | £120,000 | £20,000 – £228,500 |
| Detached | 28 | 12.8% | £295,000 | £48,000 – £701,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 20 | 9.1% | £115,000 | £35,000 – £200,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lightwood Road, Buxton
23 of the sales on record are leasehold and 196 freehold — 10.5% 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 £97,000 and the median freehold sale £153,500 — a gap of +58.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 23 | 10.5% | £97,000 |
| Freehold | 196 | 89.5% | £153,500 |
| New build | 4 | 1.8% | £105,000 |
| Existing home | 215 | 98.2% | £146,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -28.1%. 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 14 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 Lightwood Road, Buxton
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 303 | 0.8% |
| B | 3,780 | 10.5% |
| C | 8,361 | 23.3% |
| D | 12,566 | 35.0% |
| E | 7,205 | 20.1% |
| F | 2,797 | 7.8% |
| G | 905 | 2.5% |
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 £143,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.77% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Lightwood Road, Buxton
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buxton Community School | Secondary | Academy converter | 954 |
| St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 407 |
| Burbage Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 355 |
| St Anne's Catholic Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 252 |
| St Peter's Church of England (VC) Junior School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 165 |
| Peak Dale Primary School | Primary | Community school | 77 |
| Bishop Pursglove CofE (A) Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 75 |
| Taddington and Priestcliffe School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 64 |
| Flagg Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 57 |
| Litton CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 42 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Buxton Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Dove Holes Rail Station | Rail | 6.2 km |
| Chapel-en-le-Frith Rail Station | Rail | 7.9 km |
| Chinley Rail Station | Rail | 11.4 km |
Section 09
How Lightwood Road, Buxton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lightwood Road, Buxton sits below that national figure — -9.2%.
Within Buxton the street ranks 240 of 439 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £145,000 (-1.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,639 per square metre, across 46 of the 219 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 £12,500 to £701,500. 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.
Lightwood Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Park Road£135,000 median
- Green Lane£190,000 median
- Manchester Road£142,500 median
- Sherwood Road£143,000 median
- Brown Edge Road£200,000 median
- Fairfield Road£69,000 median
- Bennett Street£95,500 median
- Burlow Road£125,000 median
- Corbar Road£138,750 median
- St Johns Road£195,500 median
- High Street£120,000 median
- Macclesfield Road£220,000 median
- Nunsfield Road£122,750 median
- West Road£95,000 median
- Dale Road£133,000 median
- Buxton Road£158,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 165B Lightwood Road8 sales
- 7 Lightwood Road7 sales
- 127 Lightwood Road5 sales
- 165A Lightwood Road5 sales
- 185 Lightwood Road4 sales
- 60 Lightwood Road4 sales
- 53 Lightwood Road4 sales
- 143 Lightwood Road4 sales
- 51 Lightwood Road4 sales
- 3 Lightwood Road4 sales
- 39 Lightwood Road4 sales
- 123 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 19 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 103 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 138 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 84 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 37 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 5 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 57 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 56 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 1 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 65 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 146 Lightwood Road3 sales
- 137 Lightwood Road3 sales
Back to Buxton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lightwood Road, Buxton?
The median price paid in Lightwood Road, Buxton across every sale on the register is £143,000. 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 Lightwood Road, Buxton?
219 sales are on record for Lightwood Road, Buxton, the most recent completing on 19 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lightwood Road, Buxton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -21.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -43.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lightwood Road, Buxton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £430,000, set in 2021. 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 Lightwood Road, Buxton?
£1,639 per square metre, from the 46 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 19 May 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, “Lightwood Road, 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.