Water Lane, Matlock house prices are built from 113 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £139,950. Across the 11 years from 2007 to 2018 the median moved -33.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -49.1%.
Median price paid
£139,950
Change in cash, 2007–2018
-33.6%
Change in real terms
-49.1%
Median per m²
£2,056
HM Land Registry113 sales6 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Water Lane, Matlock prices moved
The chart tracks the median Water Lane, Matlock house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2018. 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 | £45,500 | £101,031 |
| 2000s | 4 | £78,725 | £143,414 |
| 2010s | 3 | £116,250 | £163,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for Water Lane, Matlock is £215,000 in 2016; the lowest is £45,500 in 1999. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £45,500 to £116,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £92,710, so the real change over the whole record is +67.1% — about +2.74% 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: -33.6% in cash against -49.1% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| 20 | 27 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £270,500 | £270,500 |
| 30 | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 11 | 28 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £112,000 | £114,435 |
| 17 | 24 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 34 | 31 May 2024 | Terraced | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| 11 | 28 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £281,505 | £296,210 |
| 16 | 5 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £285,000 | £307,931 |
| 44 | 27 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| Weir House | 6 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £347,576 |
| Yew Tree House, 25 | 4 Aug 2022 | Detached | £490,000 | £567,707 |
| 21 | 21 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £181,500 | £229,315 |
| 20 | 14 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £227,500 | £287,433 |
| 4 | 15 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £120,000 | £151,613 |
| Alport House, 10 | 15 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £278,000 | £359,945 |
| 18 | 15 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £265,000 | £343,113 |
| 20 | 22 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £155,500 | £201,336 |
| 7 | 8 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £148,500 | £192,273 |
| 12 | 27 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £134,000 | £175,269 |
| 1 | 23 May 2019 | Detached | £270,000 | £353,154 |
| Water Lane Cottage | 14 May 2019 | Terraced | £156,000 | £204,045 |
| 16 | 20 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £206,000 | £269,443 |
| 14 | 30 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £339,839 |
| 2 | 16 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £122,500 | £163,256 |
| 10 | 3 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £110,000 | £146,597 |
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 Water Lane, Matlock values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Water Lane | £40,500 (1998) | £175,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 20 Water Lane | £78,950 (2002) | £270,500 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.4% |
| 11 Water Lane | £93,500 (2004) | £112,000 (2025) | +0.9% | -2.0% |
| 17 Water Lane | £139,950 (2003) | £255,000 (2025) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 34 Water Lane | £71,500 (2002) | £245,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +2.9% |
| 16 Water Lane | £142,000 (2003) | £285,000 (2023) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 44 Water Lane | £34,000 (1995) | £200,000 (2023) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| WEIR HOUSE Water Lane | £225,000 (2007) | £300,000 (2022) | +1.9% | -0.8% |
| YEW TREE HOUSE, 25 Water Lane | £242,500 (2004) | £490,000 (2022) | +4.0% | +1.3% |
| 21 Water Lane | £80,450 (2002) | £181,500 (2021) | +4.4% | +2.1% |
| 4 Water Lane | £50,000 (2002) | £120,000 (2021) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
| ALPORT HOUSE, 10 Water Lane | £145,000 (2017) | £278,000 (2020) | +24.2% | +22.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Water Lane, Matlock 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 | 77 | 68.1% | £122,500 | £20,000 – £285,000 |
| Semi-detached | 24 | 21.2% | £175,000 | £38,000 – £300,000 |
| Detached | 12 | 10.6% | £175,000 | £53,000 – £490,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Water Lane, Matlock
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 113 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 | 113 | 100.0% | £139,950 |
| New build | 8 | 7.1% | £140,975 |
| Existing home | 105 | 92.9% | £139,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +1.4%. 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 7 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 Water Lane, Matlock
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 £139,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.80% 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 DE4, 43 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 11 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 9 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.9 times quieter.
Against the 126,206 residents the 2021 census counted in Amber Valley, that is 0.34 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 Water Lane, Matlock
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.
27 state and independent schools have a DE4 postcode: 25 primary, 2 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highfields School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,298 |
| Anthony Gell School | Secondary | Academy converter | 776 |
| All Saints CofE Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 218 |
| Darley Dale Primary School | Primary | Community school | 214 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 156 |
| All Saints CofE Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 142 |
| Castle View Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 130 |
| Lea Primary School | Primary | Community school | 128 |
| Middleton Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 93 |
| St Giles Church of England Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 89 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Matlock Bath Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Matlock (Peak Rail) | Metro or underground | 1.3 km |
| Matlock (Peak Rail) | Metro or underground | 1.3 km |
| Matlock Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
Section 09
How Water Lane, Matlock compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Water Lane, Matlock sits below that national figure — -11.1%.
Within Matlock the street ranks 441 of 588 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £170,000 (-17.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,056 per square metre, across 6 of the 113 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 £20,000 to £490,000. 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.
Water Lane, Matlock 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 Street£199,950 median
- Chesterfield Road£181,000 median
- Church Street£175,500 median
- Smedley Street£145,500 median
- Main Road£190,000 median
- The Hill£124,000 median
- Cavendish Road£179,000 median
- Derby Road£162,000 median
- Morledge£229,995 median
- Starkholmes Road£181,000 median
- Dale Road£136,000 median
- Wellington Street£151,000 median
- The Common£162,500 median
- Bakewell Road£128,475 median
- Cromford Road£172,000 median
- Northwood Lane£186,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 20 Water Lane8 sales
- 12 Water Lane7 sales
- 19 Water Lane7 sales
- 1 Water Lane6 sales
- WATER LANE COTTAGE Water Lane6 sales
- 44 Water Lane5 sales
- 2 Water Lane5 sales
- 24 Water Lane5 sales
- 34 Water Lane4 sales
- 16 Water Lane4 sales
- 21 Water Lane4 sales
- 42 Water Lane4 sales
- 11 Water Lane3 sales
- WEIR HOUSE Water Lane3 sales
- 4 Water Lane3 sales
- 14 Water Lane3 sales
- 10 Water Lane3 sales
- 46 Water Lane3 sales
- 6 Water Lane3 sales
- 17 Water Lane2 sales
- YEW TREE HOUSE, 25 Water Lane2 sales
- ALPORT HOUSE, 10 Water Lane2 sales
- 18 Water Lane2 sales
- 36 Water Lane2 sales
Back to Matlock house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Water Lane, Matlock?
The median price paid in Water Lane, Matlock across every sale on the register is £139,950. 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 Water Lane, Matlock?
113 sales are on record for Water Lane, Matlock, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Water Lane, Matlock house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -33.6% between 2007 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -49.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Water Lane, Matlock house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £215,000, set in 2016. 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 Water Lane, Matlock?
£2,056 per square metre, from the 6 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 5 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, “Water Lane, Matlock 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.