Sapphire Drive, Ripley house prices are built from 82 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2001 and the most recent on 24 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £208,250. Across the 6 years from 2001 to 2007 the median moved +77.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +56.9%.
Median price paid
£208,250
Change in cash, 2001–2007
+77.0%
Change in real terms
+56.9%
Median per m²
£1,753
HM Land Registry82 sales18 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Sapphire Drive, Ripley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Sapphire Drive, Ripley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2001 to 2007. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | £173,500 | £316,066 |
The highest yearly median on record for Sapphire Drive, Ripley is £240,625 in 2007; the lowest is £135,950 in 2001. Across the full 7-year record the cash median has moved from £135,950 to £240,625.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £266,606, so the real change over the whole record is +56.9% — about +7.80% 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: +77.0% in cash against +56.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 24 Oct 2025 | Detached | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 9 | 21 Mar 2025 | Detached | £535,000 | £546,630 |
| 38 | 16 Feb 2024 | Detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 19 | 16 Dec 2022 | Detached | £390,000 | £451,849 |
| 19 | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £352,000 | £444,731 |
| 20 | 5 May 2021 | Detached | £287,000 | £362,608 |
| 12 | 19 Feb 2021 | Detached | £285,000 | £360,081 |
| 35 | 11 Mar 2020 | Detached | £262,000 | £339,229 |
| 7 | 30 Aug 2019 | Detached | £355,000 | £464,332 |
| 17 | 1 Mar 2019 | Detached | £265,000 | £346,614 |
| 31 | 30 Nov 2018 | Detached | £242,000 | £322,514 |
| 16 | 20 Oct 2017 | Detached | £299,000 | £406,940 |
| 8 | 14 Sep 2016 | Detached | £315,000 | £439,752 |
| 28 | 14 Sep 2015 | Detached | £252,500 | £356,025 |
| 15 | 31 Jul 2015 | Detached | £210,000 | £296,100 |
| 29 | 24 Sep 2014 | Detached | £185,000 | £265,361 |
| 34 | 22 Aug 2014 | Detached | £233,000 | £334,212 |
| 25 | 11 Oct 2013 | Detached | £225,000 | £328,077 |
| 21 | 16 Aug 2013 | Detached | £213,000 | £310,579 |
| 17 | 16 Nov 2012 | Detached | £209,000 | £312,172 |
| 33 | 17 May 2012 | Detached | £178,000 | £265,869 |
| 32 | 10 Feb 2012 | Detached | £245,000 | £365,943 |
| 38 | 9 Dec 2011 | Detached | £217,500 | £333,342 |
| 18 | 14 Oct 2011 | Detached | £310,000 | £475,109 |
| 28 | 16 Apr 2010 | Detached | £222,500 | £355,294 |
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 Sapphire Drive, Ripley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Sapphire Drive | £125,500 (2001) | £395,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 9 Sapphire Drive | £178,995 (2001) | £535,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 38 Sapphire Drive | £173,500 (2002) | £325,000 (2024) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
| 19 Sapphire Drive | £194,995 (2003) | £390,000 (2022) | +3.7% | +1.1% |
| 12 Sapphire Drive | £148,900 (2002) | £285,000 (2021) | +3.5% | +1.2% |
| 35 Sapphire Drive | £162,995 (2002) | £262,000 (2020) | +2.7% | +0.4% |
| 7 Sapphire Drive | £160,000 (2001) | £355,000 (2019) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
| 17 Sapphire Drive | £193,000 (2003) | £265,000 (2019) | +2.0% | -0.3% |
| 31 Sapphire Drive | £170,995 (2002) | £242,000 (2018) | +2.2% | -0.1% |
| 16 Sapphire Drive | £189,995 (2003) | £299,000 (2017) | +3.3% | +0.9% |
| 8 Sapphire Drive | £169,500 (2001) | £315,000 (2016) | +4.2% | +1.9% |
| 28 Sapphire Drive | £177,995 (2002) | £252,500 (2015) | +2.7% | +0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Sapphire Drive, Ripley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 82 | 100.0% | £207,500 | £40,000 – £535,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Sapphire Drive, Ripley
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 82 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 | 82 | 100.0% | £208,250 |
| New build | 35 | 42.7% | £177,995 |
| Existing home | 47 | 57.3% | £236,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -24.6%. 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.
Section 07
Living in Sapphire Drive, Ripley
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 £208,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.57% 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 DE5, 157 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 82 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 27 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 126,206 residents the 2021 census counted in Amber Valley, that is 1.24 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 Sapphire Drive, Ripley
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.
11 state and independent schools have a DE5 postcode: 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ripley Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 920 |
| John Flamsteed Community School | Secondary | Academy converter | 850 |
| Ripley St John's Church of England Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 359 |
| Ripley Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 327 |
| Codnor Community Primary School Church of England Controlled | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 248 |
| Waingroves Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 213 |
| Ripley Infant School | Primary | Community school | 157 |
| Denby Free CofE VA Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 113 |
| Ripley Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 98 |
| Street Lane Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 93 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Ambergate Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Langley Mill Rail Station | Rail | 5.6 km |
| Belper Rail Station | Rail | 5.8 km |
| Alfreton Rail Station | Rail | 6.6 km |
Section 09
How Sapphire Drive, Ripley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Sapphire Drive, Ripley sits above that national figure — +32.2%.
Within Ripley the street ranks 46 of 291 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £120,000 (+73.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,753 per square metre, across 18 of the 82 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 £40,000 to £535,000. 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.
Sapphire Drive, Ripley 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
- Derby Road£104,000 median
- Nottingham Road£105,000 median
- Church Street£117,750 median
- Heage Road£134,500 median
- Denby Bank£153,450 median
- Warmwells Lane£100,500 median
- Jessop Street£75,000 median
- Bridle Lane£108,975 median
- Mill Lane£77,000 median
- Peasehill Road£86,000 median
- Street Lane£129,250 median
- Holborn View£120,000 median
- Waingroves Road£110,000 median
- Argyll Road£99,250 median
- Peasehill£86,500 median
- Heanor Road£148,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 38 Sapphire Drive4 sales
- 19 Sapphire Drive4 sales
- 17 Sapphire Drive4 sales
- 21 Sapphire Drive4 sales
- 6 Sapphire Drive3 sales
- 9 Sapphire Drive3 sales
- 28 Sapphire Drive3 sales
- 15 Sapphire Drive3 sales
- 34 Sapphire Drive3 sales
- 32 Sapphire Drive3 sales
- 4 Sapphire Drive3 sales
- 3 Sapphire Drive3 sales
- 12 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 35 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 7 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 31 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 16 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 8 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 29 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 25 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 33 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 18 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 26 Sapphire Drive2 sales
- 2 Sapphire Drive2 sales
Back to Ripley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Sapphire Drive, Ripley?
The median price paid in Sapphire Drive, Ripley across every sale on the register is £208,250. 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 Sapphire Drive, Ripley?
82 sales are on record for Sapphire Drive, Ripley, the most recent completing on 24 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Sapphire Drive, Ripley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +77.0% between 2001 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +56.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Sapphire Drive, Ripley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £240,625, set in 2007. 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 Sapphire Drive, Ripley?
£1,753 per square metre, from the 18 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 24 Oct 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, “Sapphire Drive, Ripley 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.