Buy-to-let in Amber Valley
Yields, prices, demand and local risks for Amber Valley, covering Alfreton, Belper, Heanor and 1 more ranked towns.
Amber Valley in figures
- Gross rental yield
- 5.1% to 5.8%
- By kind of home, across Amber Valley
- Entry price, across its towns
- £163,000 to £215,000
- The cheapest postcode district's median sale
- Price move, 12 months
- +6.6%
- UK House Price Index, across Amber Valley
- Price move, 10 years
- +63.8%
- UK House Price Index, across Amber Valley
- Population
- 131,894
- Amber Valley, +4.7% growth
- Terraced houses across Amber Valley let for £770/mo against a median sale of £160,000 there: 5.8% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
- ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £799/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
- Prices across Amber Valley rose 6.6% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.
- Prices +64% over ten years (Amber Valley)
- £8,910 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £163,000 buy-to-let
- 819 homes added across Amber Valley
- Band D £2,408 (Amber Valley)
- 1.7% long-term empty across Amber Valley
- +24% five-year forecast for East Midlands as a whole (Savills), not this area
These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Amber Valley report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.
What sits behind the figures
Prices across Amber Valley moved +63.8% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.
Employee jobs across Amber Valley moved −3.8% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).
51% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Alfreton's postcode districts are below band C (19,062 certificates). Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.
A buy-to-let at £163,000 pays £8,910 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.
The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, East Midlands) is a regional figure for East Midlands as a whole, not a forecast for Amber Valley, and Clarity does not rank on it.
Towns in Amber Valley
| Town | Entry price | Gross yield | Tenant demand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfreton | £163,000 | 5.8%terraced houses | 3.6/10 |
| Belper | £215,000 | 5.1%semi-detached houses | 4.2/10 |
| Heanor | £164,000 | 5.8%terraced houses | 3.6/10 |
| Ripley | £180,000 | 5.8%terraced houses | 3.7/10 |
Each yield is Amber Valley's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Amber Valley as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.
The Amber Valley report
The full report measures Amber Valley from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.
Read the cover of the Amber Valley report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.
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Sources and further reading
- HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index
- HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data (England and Wales)
- Registers of Scotland: property market statistics (Scotland)
- ONS: Price Index of Private Rents
- ONS: Population estimates
- ONS: Business Register and Employment Survey
- MHCLG: Energy Performance of Buildings Data (England and Wales)
- HMRC: Stamp Duty Land Tax