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Barlaston market report ST12 9, Stoke-On-Trent
The standing ST12 9 (Barlaston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,835 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ST12 9 (Stoke-On-Trent) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical ST12 9 (Stoke-On-Trent) home changed hands for £230,000 in 2026 (median of 21 registered sales, down 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £246,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,940 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,835 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ST12 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ST12 (Stoke-On-Trent). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where ST12 9 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in ST12 9
Take the 21 registered 2026 sales in ST12 9 and the middle price, the median, is £230,000. The mean lands at £246,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
ST12 9 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ST12 9 sales average about £2,940 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so ST12 9 trades 19% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical ST12 9 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £319,000 | £326,628 | 64 |
| 2024 | £330,500 | £351,389 | 55 |
| 2023 | £243,800 | £267,877 | 58 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 54 |
| 2021 | £285,600 | £361,606 | 100 |
| 2020 | £337,500 | £437,913 | 92 |
| 2019 | £295,000 | £386,674 | 93 |
| 2018 | £290,000 | £386,575 | 76 |
| 2017 | £282,500 | £385,302 | 106 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 89 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 68 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | £154,500 | £222,310 | 38 |
| 2012 | £193,500 | £284,808 | 33 |
| 2011 | £152,000 | £229,462 | 39 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 42 |
| 2009 | £156,000 | £250,771 | 28 |
| 2008 | £202,500 | £331,940 | 34 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 87 |
| 2006 | £154,000 | £267,324 | 69 |
| 2005 | £182,500 | £324,776 | 48 |
| 2004 | £214,000 | £388,666 | 67 |
| 2003 | £164,000 | £302,128 | 67 |
| 2002 | £98,000 | £184,386 | 67 |
| 2001 | £72,500 | £139,378 | 39 |
| 2000 | £92,000 | £180,550 | 31 |
| 1999 | £73,200 | £145,884 | 42 |
| 1998 | £72,000 | £145,337 | 56 |
| 1997 | £68,800 | £141,095 | 40 |
| 1996 | £61,500 | £129,701 | 38 |
| 1995 | £59,500 | £129,344 | 32 |
In cash terms the typical ST12 9 home went from £59,500 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 78%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2015. The market now sits about 50% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ST12 9 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2015 (+91.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−27.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −27.9% | −29.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.2% | −8.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −3.2% | −6.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 21 ST12 9 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 50 sales a year recently, against 59 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How ST12 9 trades
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ST12 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
The rental side of ST12 9
The local authority for ST12 9 is Stafford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £891 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £624 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,341 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Stafford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £230,000 median purchase price, a rent of £891 a month (£10,692 a year) works out at a 4.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: ST12 9 (Barlaston)
How much did a house sell for in ST12 9 (Barlaston)?
Are property prices falling in ST12 9 (Barlaston)?
Is ST12 9 (Barlaston) a good place to buy a house?
Will ST12 9 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 36% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in ST12 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 13 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ST12 district, not just ST12 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Cranwood Road, Tittensor, ST12, Tittensor
- Copeland Avenue, Tittensor, ST12, Tittensor
- Copeland Avenue, Tittensor, ST12, Tittensor
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every ST12 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in ST
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ST area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £240,000 | £334,950 (+40%) | £500,000 (+49%) | £687,500 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £165,000 | £180,000 (+9%) | £228,000 (+27%) | £310,000 (+36%) | £402,500 (+30%) |
| Terraced | £132,000 | £126,000 (-5%) | £165,000 (+31%) | £235,000 (+42%) | £360,000 (+53%) |
| Flat | £95,000 | £125,000 (+32%) | £185,000 (+48%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the ST area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
ST area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Zoom out to the full ST12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ST12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ST12 9? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ST12 9's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ST12 9.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ST12 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual ST12 9 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.