School Board Lane, Chesterfield house prices

School Board Lane, Chesterfield house prices are built from 164 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 2 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £99,975. Across the 17 years from 2008 to 2025 the median moved +42.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.5%.

HM Land Registry164 sales48 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median School Board Lane, Chesterfield house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 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.

The highest yearly median on record for School Board Lane, Chesterfield is £162,500 in 2023; the lowest is £33,500 in 1998. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £33,500 to £153,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £69,463, so the real change over the whole record is +125.8% — about +3.06% 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: +42.1% in cash against -13.5% 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 School Board Lane, Chesterfield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

87 of the sales on record are leasehold and 77 freehold — 53.0% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £99,950 and the median freehold sale £100,000 — a gap of +0.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -33.6%. 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 13 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 Chesterfield, 42.5% of 53,602 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.7% 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 Chesterfield at £744 a month as of Jun 2026 — £531 for a one-bedroom home and £816 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £99,975 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.93% 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 S40, 434 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 172 violent, 16 burglary, 12 vehicle-related and 68 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.6 times busier.

Against the 103,569 residents the 2021 census counted in Chesterfield, that is 4.19 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 103,569 residents in Chesterfield across 48,058 households. 62.9% of those households own their home and 36.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

13 state and independent schools have a S40 postcode: 11 primary, 2 secondary. 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. School Board Lane, Chesterfield sits below that national figure — -36.5%.

Within Chesterfield the street ranks 1568 of 2230 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £119,950 (-16.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,555 per square metre, across 48 of the 164 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 £14,500 to £395,000. 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.

School Board Lane, Chesterfield sits in Chesterfield, in the East Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Chesterfield at 5.2 times median local earnings of £37,319 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 nearby

• Chatsworth Road£124,950 median
• Derby Road£79,975 median
• Ashgate Road£165,000 median
• Old Road£121,000 median
• Old Hall Road£103,750 median
• New Street£66,000 median
• John Street£84,000 median
• Archdale Close£120,000 median
• Walton Road£170,000 median
• Langer Lane£165,000 median
• Brushfield Road£120,000 median
• Hazel Drive£128,000 median
• Brockwell Lane£148,750 median
• Heaton Street£124,850 median
• Boythorpe Road£108,000 median
• Walgrove Road£115,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 25 School Board Lane6 sales
• FLAT 7, the STUDIOS School Board Lane6 sales
• 21 School Board Lane5 sales
• FLAT 18, the STUDIOS School Board Lane5 sales
• 8 School Board Lane5 sales
• FLAT 14, the STUDIOS School Board Lane5 sales
• FLAT 5, the STUDIOS School Board Lane5 sales
• 9 School Board Lane5 sales
• FLAT 6, the STUDIOS School Board Lane5 sales
• FLAT 8, the STUDIOS School Board Lane4 sales
• 2 School Board Lane4 sales
• FLAT 10, the STUDIOS School Board Lane4 sales
• FLAT 9, the STUDIOS School Board Lane4 sales
• 24 School Board Lane4 sales
• FLAT 22, the STUDIOS School Board Lane4 sales
• 44 School Board Lane4 sales
• 54 School Board Lane4 sales
• FLAT 21, the STUDIOS School Board Lane4 sales
• 15 School Board Lane3 sales
• FLAT 4, the STUDIOS School Board Lane3 sales
• FLAT 11, the STUDIOS School Board Lane3 sales
• 48 School Board Lane3 sales
• FLAT 27, the STUDIOS School Board Lane3 sales
• 50 School Board Lane3 sales

Back to Chesterfield house prices.

What is the average house price in School Board Lane, Chesterfield?

The median price paid in School Board Lane, Chesterfield across every sale on the register is £99,975. 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 School Board Lane, Chesterfield?

164 sales are on record for School Board Lane, Chesterfield, the most recent completing on 2 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have School Board Lane, Chesterfield house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +42.1% between 2008 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were School Board Lane, Chesterfield house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £162,500, 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 School Board Lane, Chesterfield?

£1,555 per square metre, from the 48 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 2 Mar 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, “School Board Lane, Chesterfield 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.