That is the middle of 152 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.8 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
152 homes sold in three years: 58 detached houses, 52 semi-detached houses, 23 terraced houses and 19 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for twice what a flat does.
Detached houses£507K
median sale · 58 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£375K–£695K
Last 12 months
£405K11 sold
Semi-detached houses£378K
median sale · 52 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£477K
Last 12 months
£387K14 sold
Terraced houses£280K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£235K–£341K
Flats and maisonettes£240K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£275K
Last 12 months
£240K8 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses38%
Semi-detached houses34%
Terraced houses15%
Flats and maisonettes13%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Bakewell’s homes sold for between £280K and £515K
One sale in ten was under £226K and one in ten over £735K. 17% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £375,000, sits in the £300–400K band
152 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.8 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £76,000 in 1995 to £365,000 in the last 12 months (£340,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
37 sales in the last 12 months, against 90 in 1999, the busiest year, and 38 in 2009. Sales fell by 46% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 21%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Bakewell costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Bakewell, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Flats and maisonettes rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£125K
£169K
£360K
£355K
£345K
£518K
£405K
Semi-detached houses
£67K
£100K
£305K
£250K
£230K
£400K
£387K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£75K
£210K
£215K
£219K
£210K
£240K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
57 new homes have been sold in Bakewell since 1995; the share peaked at 28% in 1999.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
15% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.8% sold leasehold in Bakewell. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Wyedale Crescent is Bakewell’s busiest street, with 8 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Wyedale Crescent
DE45
8
£376,250
Mixed
2
Ashford Road
DE45
7
£430,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Burton Close Drive
DE45
7
£425,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Granby Croft
DE45
6
£467,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Matlock Street
DE45
6
£250,000
Mostly flats
6
Castle Mount Crescent
DE45
5
£425,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Buxton Road
DE45
5
£280,000
Mostly terraced houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Derbyshire
Bakewell is the 3rd most expensive of 59 towns in Derbyshire
Bakewell is one of Derbyshire’s dearest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Bakewell
What is the average house price in Bakewell?
The median home in Bakewell sold for £375,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 152 standard sales (£365,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £507,475, semi-detached houses £377,500, terraced houses £280,000 and flats and maisonettes £240,000.
Are house prices going up in Bakewell?
The median was £376,250 in 2025, down 8% on 2024 (£407,500), and £365,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Bakewell each year?
37 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 56 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Bakewell expensive for Derbyshire?
Bakewell is the 3rd most expensive of 59 towns of 2,500 or more in Derbyshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.