Rubens Close, Dronfield house prices

Rubens Close, Dronfield house prices are built from 56 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 25 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £155,450. Across the 7 years from 1999 to 2006 the median moved +141.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +110.7%.

HM Land Registry56 sales19 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jul 2025

There are too few years of sales in Rubens Close, Dronfield to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.

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 Rubens Close, Dronfield values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

29 of the sales on record are leasehold and 27 freehold — 51.8% 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 £150,000 and the median freehold sale £165,000 — a gap of +10.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 1 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 North East Derbyshire, 41.4% of 49,558 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.8% 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 North East Derbyshire at £780 a month as of Jun 2026 — £560 for a one-bedroom home and £865 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £155,450 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.02% 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 S18, 73 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 28 violent, 3 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 9 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times quieter.

Against the 102,001 residents the 2021 census counted in North East Derbyshire, that is 0.72 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 102,001 residents in North East Derbyshire across 45,987 households. 71.1% of those households own their home and 28.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

14 state and independent schools have a S18 postcode: 13 primary, 1 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. Rubens Close, Dronfield sits below that national figure — -1.3%.

Within Dronfield the street ranks 225 of 341 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £160,000 (-2.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,897 per square metre, across 19 of the 56 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 £30,000 to £325,000. 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.

Rubens Close, Dronfield sits in North East Derbyshire, in the East Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North East Derbyshire at 7.0 times median local earnings of £34,798 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

• Holmley Lane£160,000 median
• Longcroft Road£200,000 median
• Coniston Road£149,975 median
• Shakespeare Crescent£132,000 median
• Stonelow Road£139,000 median
• Chesterfield Road£124,500 median
• Stubley Lane£161,000 median
• Eckington Road£175,500 median
• Carr Lane£169,250 median
• Green Lane£179,025 median
• Snape Hill Crescent£109,000 median
• Ullswater Drive£133,500 median
• Burns Drive£95,000 median
• Hollins Spring Avenue£164,000 median
• Hallowes Rise£130,250 median
• Cemetery Road£148,500 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 40 Rubens Close6 sales
• 23 Rubens Close4 sales
• 34 Rubens Close4 sales
• 9 Rubens Close4 sales
• 17 Rubens Close4 sales
• 27 Rubens Close3 sales
• 12 Rubens Close3 sales
• 16 Rubens Close3 sales
• 15 Rubens Close3 sales
• 3 Rubens Close3 sales
• 10 Rubens Close2 sales
• 11 Rubens Close2 sales
• 18 Rubens Close2 sales
• 36 Rubens Close2 sales
• 26 Rubens Close2 sales

Back to Dronfield house prices.

What is the average house price in Rubens Close, Dronfield?

The median price paid in Rubens Close, Dronfield across every sale on the register is £155,450. 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 Rubens Close, Dronfield?

56 sales are on record for Rubens Close, Dronfield, the most recent completing on 25 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Rubens Close, Dronfield house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +141.1% between 1999 and 2006. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +110.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Rubens Close, Dronfield house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £156,725, 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 Rubens Close, Dronfield?

£1,897 per square metre, from the 19 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 Jul 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, “Rubens Close, Dronfield 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.