House prices in DN22 (Retford)

This article shows price per square metre data and various charts to help you understand the housing market in DN22 - stats were last calculated on 03 December 2024.

Defining 'DN22'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "DN22", this is also called the postcode district. There are no official postcode district names so I've just labelled it DN22, Retford. It is shown in red on the map below.

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in DN22 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

For example in October 2024, 18, Cherry Holt, Retford, DN22 7LZ sold for £335,000. Given the internal area of 121 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £335,000 ÷ 121 sqm = £2,768.

England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). It is a huge pain to code the automatic conversion for square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on DN22 and elsewhere. All the conditionals turn my tidy code for into spaghetti. I will get around to it at some point, but for now you can just divide everything by 10 in your head, move a decimal place and you'll be close enough. If you want to be more precise 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.

Distribution of £ per sqm for houses vs flats in DN22

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in DN22 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £2,350 to £2,500, £2,500 to £2,650, £2,650 to £2,800 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 1,051 sales that took place in DN22, in the last 24 months.

Generate a custom histogram like the one above but based on your own criteria.

You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in DN22, Retford. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £2,710 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of DN22 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for DN22

Tip: click on the chart to see the values.

The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. Retford. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'DN22' as well as the 'DN' postcode area.

  • Median: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median (£ per square meter). This is the midpoint of the data, meaning 50% of the prices are below this value, and 50% are above. The middle price per square metre in 'DN22' is £2,270.
  • Interquartile Range (IQR): The box spans from the 25th percentile (Q1) to the 75th percentile (Q3). This is the range where the middle 50% of the data lies, giving a good indication of the typical price spread. Of the 1,051 transactions in DN22, Retford half were sold for between £1,680 and £2,710 per square metre.
  • Whiskers: In our case, the whiskers extend from the 9th percentile (at the lower end) to the 91st percentile (at the upper end), This provides a slightly broader view of the distribution by including the middle 82% of records. The whiskers capture most of the variation but exclude extreme outliers caused by data errors in recording sold house prices or internal area.
  • 'n=' is the number of property transactions the box plot is based on; 1,051 for DN22, Retford.

    • Property price map for Retford

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'DN22' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for Retford
    House price map for Retford

    Will DN22 house prices drop in 2025?

    I cannot tell what house prices will do in the future and don't believe anyone who says they can. However we can plot price trends, I have done this in the chart below for DN22 (Retford) compared with the wider postcode area 'DN'. You can extrapolate from this based on your own views on future interest rates, inflation and other factors.

    House price index for DN22

    Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines

    Download house price index as CSV (premium users only).

    The chart above shows changes in 'DN22' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in DN22 and is set to 100 in 2004. The chart compares trends for DN22, Retford against those of the broader postcode area 'DN'. What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire Bassetlaw local authority.

    The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:

    Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1
    In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.

    Historic returns for DN22
    DN area DN22 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 2.9% 0.2% 2.6% -0.1%
    20 yr total 77.4% 5.1% 66.4% -1.4%
    10 yr per annum 3.5% 0.7% 3.9% 1.1%
    10 yr total 40.6% 6.7% 47.1% 11.7%
    5 yr per annum 4.2% 0.1% 3.9% -0.2%
    5 yr total 22.7% 0.4% 21.2% -0.8%
    1 yr per annum 3.4% -0.8% 0.5% -3.5%
    1 yr total 3.4% -0.8% 0.5% -3.5%

    This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.

    The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:

    Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1

    The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:

    CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1

    Some specific examples:

    • Over the past 20 years, DN area have seen a 0.2% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 5.1% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, DN22 district have seen a -0.2% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of -0.8% in real terms.

    Most recent DN22 sales

    For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.

    Tip: hover over dots to see details

    Street level data

    Street Avg size Avg £sqm Recent sales
    Charter Court, , DN22 7Z 53 sqm £2,142 24
    Mill Bridge Close, , DN22 6F 58 sqm £1,570 23
    West Carr Road, , DN22 7N 74 sqm £1,638 19
    Moorgate, , DN22 6R 71 sqm £1,764 16
    Holdenby Close, , DN22 6U 56 sqm £2,095 14
    Welham Grove, , DN22 6T 68 sqm £2,444 14
    Waterfields, , DN22 6R 96 sqm £1,702 14
    Ollerton Road, , DN22 7T 92 sqm £1,709 14

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'DN22' compares to the other postcode districts nearby 'DN22'.

    District Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    S81 Worksop £1,870 sqm £2,390 sqm £2,780 sqm 1,067
    S80 Worksop £1,210 sqm £1,760 sqm £2,420 sqm 908
    NG22 New Ollerton £1,880 sqm £2,390 sqm £2,850 sqm 725
    LN1 Lincoln £2,060 sqm £2,460 sqm £2,880 sqm 748
    DN9 Auckley £2,090 sqm £2,530 sqm £2,860 sqm 528
    DN8 Thorne £1,340 sqm £1,660 sqm £2,070 sqm 435
    DN7 Hatfield £1,470 sqm £2,010 sqm £2,500 sqm 675
    DN6 Woodlands £1,190 sqm £1,630 sqm £2,280 sqm 676
    DN5 Bentley £1,450 sqm £1,950 sqm £2,460 sqm 918
    DN41 Healing £2,090 sqm £2,270 sqm £2,510 sqm 136

    Raw data

    Our analysis of DN22 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

    Address Paid sqm £/sqm
    18, Cherry Holt, £335,000
    Oct-2024
    		 121 2,768
    53, Pilgrim Close, £165,000
    Oct-2024
    		 93 1,774
    6, Sherwood Square, £237,000
    Oct-2024
    		 79 3,000

    See the entire list of all sales in DN22 here.

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