Sold Price History


S18 1 house prices

S18 1 house prices are built from 3,523 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £159,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +48.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.6%.

Median price paid

£159,000

Change in cash, 2016–2026

+48.8%

Change in real terms

+6.6%

Median per m²

£2,046

HM Land Registry3,523 sales766 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026

Section 01

How S18 1 prices moved

The chart tracks the median S18 1 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

S18 1 house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2026
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£56,500£125,457
2000s10£139,975£254,993
2010s10£175,000£246,750
2020s7£285,000£291,196
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for S18 1 is £295,000 in 2022; the lowest is £54,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £54,000 to £295,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £119,906, so the real change over the whole record is +146.0% — about +2.95% 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: +48.8% in cash against +6.6% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
13 Byron Close5 Jun 2026Detached£265,000£265,000
27 HALLAM COURT Pembroke Road5 Jun 2026Flat or maisonette£110,000£110,000
69 Highfields Road5 Jun 2026Semi-detached£60,000£60,000
52 Burns Drive28 May 2026Flat or maisonette£117,500£117,500
12 HALLAM COURT Pembroke Road1 May 2026Flat or maisonette£99,750£99,750
25 Hallowes Drive17 Apr 2026Semi-detached£265,000£265,000
72 Cemetery Road10 Apr 2026Semi-detached£270,000£270,000
40 Gosforth Lane1 Apr 2026Semi-detached£295,000£295,000
42 Salisbury Avenue30 Mar 2026Semi-detached£300,000£300,000
65 Hallowes Lane25 Mar 2026Detached£435,000£435,000
58 Burns Drive23 Mar 2026Detached£425,000£425,000
4 Ford Close20 Mar 2026Detached£365,000£365,000
81 Lea Road20 Mar 2026Semi-detached£170,000£170,000
TREETOPS, 79 Hilltop Road19 Mar 2026Detached£660,000£660,000
17 Romney Drive19 Mar 2026Semi-detached£350,000£350,000
86 Shakespeare Crescent26 Feb 2026Flat or maisonette£145,000£145,000
8 Beechwood Road11 Feb 2026Detached£445,000£445,000
7 Lindisfarne Road27 Jan 2026Semi-detached£260,000£260,000
11A Quoit Green16 Jan 2026Terraced£145,000£145,000
1 Vale Close9 Jan 2026Semi-detached£395,000£395,000
37 Hogarth Rise9 Jan 2026Detached£332,000£332,000
3 Turner Close8 Jan 2026Detached£349,000£349,000
1 Pembroke Road6 Jan 2026Detached£500,000£500,000
1 Eastfield Road19 Dec 2025Semi-detached£290,000£296,304
2 Netherfields Crescent17 Dec 2025Semi-detached£310,000£316,739
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 S18 1 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
69 Highfields Road£49,000 (1997)£60,000 (2026)+0.7%-1.9%
27 HALLAM COURT Pembroke Road£65,000 (2011)£110,000 (2026)+3.6%+0.7%
13 Byron Close£62,000 (1995)£265,000 (2026)+4.8%+2.1%
52 Burns Drive£58,500 (2003)£117,500 (2026)+3.1%+0.3%
12 HALLAM COURT Pembroke Road£31,000 (1997)£99,750 (2026)+4.1%+1.4%
25 Hallowes Drive£201,500 (2021)£265,000 (2026)+5.6%+0.8%
72 Cemetery Road£54,500 (2000)£270,000 (2026)+6.3%+3.6%
40 Gosforth Lane£150,000 (2019)£295,000 (2026)+10.1%+6.0%
42 Salisbury Avenue£146,000 (2009)£300,000 (2026)+4.3%+1.3%
58 Burns Drive£23,500 (2000)£425,000 (2026)+11.8%+8.8%
81 Lea Road£41,000 (1999)£170,000 (2026)+5.4%+2.7%
4 Ford Close£170,000 (2009)£365,000 (2026)+4.6%+1.6%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. S18 1 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Semi-detached1,58044.8%£154,950£13,517 – £500,000
Detached1,23935.2%£210,000£15,600 – £895,000
Terraced46013.1%£127,995£21,000 – £420,000
Flat or maisonette2446.9%£87,000£20,000 – £347,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 05

How big homes are in S18 1

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 691 certificates cover S18 1, and their median floor area is 80 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +5.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

MeasureFloor areaSample
Median floor area80 m²about 861 sq ft
Smaller quarter, up to58 m²about 624 sq ft
Larger quarter, from101 m²about 1,087 sq ft
Under 60 m²29.5%204 homes
150 m² and over6.7%46 homes
EPC certificates inspected between 10 Jan 2022 and 30 Jun 2026.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in S18 1

1,852 of the sales on record are leasehold and 1,671 freehold — 52.6% 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 £170,000 — a gap of +13.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold1,85252.6%£150,000
Freehold1,67147.4%£170,000
New build300.9%£128,250
Existing home3,49399.1%£159,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -19.3%. 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 98 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 S18 1

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.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A3520.7%
B6,18312.5%
C13,97828.2%
D21,00142.4%
E6,14012.4%
F1,5353.1%
G3690.7%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in North East Derbyshire.

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 £159,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.89% 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.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around S18 1

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.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Dronfield Henry Fanshawe SchoolSecondaryVoluntary controlled school1,810
Dronfield Junior SchoolPrimaryCommunity school319
Gorseybrigg Primary School and NurseryPrimaryCommunity school252
William Levick Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school207
Dronfield Infant SchoolPrimaryCommunity school199
St Andrew's CofE Methodist (Aided) Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school193
Northfield Junior SchoolPrimaryCommunity school165
Holmesdale Infant SchoolPrimaryCommunity school150
Dronfield Stonelow Junior SchoolPrimaryCommunity school139
Barlow CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school86
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Dronfield Rail StationRail0.4 km
Dore & Totley Rail StationRail4.1 km
Herdings ParkMetro or underground5.3 km
Herdings Park PlatformTram5.3 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How S18 1 compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. S18 1 sits above that national figure — +1.0%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,046 per square metre, across 766 of the 3,523 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 £13,517 to £895,000. 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.

S18 1 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.

Section 10

Nearby on the record

Other sectors in S18

The wider district is S18.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in S18 1?

The median price paid in S18 1 across every sale on the register is £159,000. 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 S18 1?

3,523 sales are on record for S18 1, 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 S18 1 house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +48.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were S18 1 house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £295,000, set in 2022. 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 S18 1?

£2,046 per square metre, from the 766 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, “S18 1 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.