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UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/region/east-midlands

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House prices in the East Midlands

Homes in the East Midlands sold for a median of £250,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 127,434 standard sales.

That makes the East Midlands the fifth cheapest of the nine English regions and Wales, 15% below the £295,000 median across England and Wales.

Median sale price£250,000127,434 standard sales
Middle half of prices£187,000 to £335,000
Change since 2016+48%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Council areas ranked by median price

The dearest council area was Rushcliffe, at £342,000, and the cheapest was Bolsover, at £183,000.

The next dearest were Rutland and Harborough, and the next cheapest Lincoln and Mansfield.

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Each dot is a council area, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The ranked list below gives the same figures.

16 of the 35 council areas had a median above £250,000, the figure for the East Midlands as a whole. The most sales were in West Northamptonshire (11,506), North Northamptonshire (10,115), Derby (5,690), Nottingham (5,211) and Charnwood (4,815).

Council areas with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. Rushcliffe3,857 sales£342,000£3,504−1%
  2. Rutland1,196 sales£340,000£3,298−6%
  3. Harborough3,232 sales£332,000£3,501−4%
  4. Derbyshire Dales1,991 sales£320,000£3,2850%
  5. West Northamptonshire11,506 sales£300,000£3,3750%
  6. Blaby2,718 sales£282,000£3,269+2%
  7. Oadby and Wigston1,298 sales£280,000£3,300+2%
  8. Charnwood4,815 sales£275,000£3,242+3%
  9. North West Leicestershire3,464 sales£272,500£3,1210%
  10. Melton1,772 sales£270,000£2,9290%
  11. Hinckley and Bosworth3,552 sales£265,000£3,049+4%
  12. South Kesteven4,321 sales£265,000£2,916−2%
  13. High Peak2,719 sales£265,000£3,280+2%
  14. North Northamptonshire10,115 sales£264,000£3,0060%
  15. South Derbyshire3,633 sales£260,000£2,9230%
  16. Broxtowe3,067 sales£253,500£3,0170%
  17. Gedling3,394 sales£250,000£3,0260%
  18. North East Derbyshire2,773 sales£245,000£2,872+4%
  19. Leicester4,276 sales£243,000£3,000+1%
  20. North Kesteven3,703 sales£242,500£2,794+6%
  21. Newark and Sherwood3,709 sales£240,000£2,658+1%
  22. South Holland2,924 sales£239,000£2,513+1%
  23. Amber Valley3,793 sales£235,000£2,9730%
  24. West Lindsey3,022 sales£232,000£2,527+3%
  25. Derby5,690 sales£220,000£2,860+2%
  26. Erewash2,984 sales£218,000£2,680+2%
  27. East Lindsey4,128 sales£215,500£2,500−1%
  28. Bassetlaw3,424 sales£210,000£2,458+2%
  29. Boston1,614 sales£205,000£2,185+6%
  30. Ashfield3,293 sales£200,000£2,7010%
  31. Chesterfield2,796 sales£200,000£2,541+4%
  32. Nottingham5,211 sales£200,000£2,540+5%
  33. Mansfield2,732 sales£190,000£2,403+3%
  34. Lincoln2,326 sales£188,500£2,432+6%
  35. Bolsover2,386 sales£183,000£2,3130%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in Boston, Lincoln and North Kesteven, up 6%, and fell most in Rutland, down 6%.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in the East Midlands, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached48,880£350,000£277,000 to £445,000£3,158/m²from 2,161 sales
Semi-detached43,931£230,000£187,000 to £278,000£2,797/m²from 1,704 sales
Terraced27,758£190,000£151,000 to £236,000£2,475/m²from 933 sales
Flats and maisonettes6,865£132,000£105,000 to £168,000£2,290/m²from 204 sales

Detached houses and semi-detached houses sold in similar numbers in the East Midlands, at 38% and 35% of sales.

Leasehold is less common here: 7% of sales were leasehold, against 21% across England and Wales, the lowest share of the nine English regions and Wales.

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
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  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 48%, from £168,500 in 2016 to £250,000 in 2025, more than the 35% rise across England and Wales as a whole.

From 2016 to 2025, the median rose most in Leicester, up 68%, and least in Lincoln, up 36%, among council areas with at least 50 sales in both years.

Postcode areas in the East Midlands

About these figures

The 127,434 standard sales behind these figures are placed in the East Midlands by each home's postcode, and 5,002 of them have a floor area for the price per m² (our methodology).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.