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Barlaston market report ST12, Stoke-On-Trent
The ST12 (Barlaston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 1,835 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in ST12 (Stoke-On-Trent) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to June 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in ST12 (Stoke-On-Trent) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 21 registered sales, down 19% on five years earlier. The mean was £246,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,940 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,835 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
ST12 is the postcode district covering Barlaston in Stoke-On-Trent. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where ST12 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.
Today's ST12 prices, from the sold record
21 sales were registered in ST12 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £230,000. The mean works out at £246,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in ST12
The last five years of sales put ST12 at roughly £2,940 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ST12 sits 19% below the national market.
The price of a typical ST12 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| 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 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2015; the current median sits about 50% below that. Someone who bought at the 2015 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ST12 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% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 50% of the typed total. In 2007, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £290,000 against £153,000 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, ST12
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £340,000 | 5 | 883 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | 8 | 599 |
| Terraced | £170,500 | 6 | 270 |
| Flats | £153,000 (2007) | – | 23 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 47 sales completed in ST12. 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.
Rents around ST12
The local authority for ST12 is Stafford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £891 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £624 a month here against £1,341 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Stafford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£891 a month is £10,692 a year, which against the £230,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the ST12 market
This is a thin market: 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
Asked and answered: ST12 (Barlaston)
Is ST12 (Barlaston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ST12 (Barlaston)?
Are property prices falling in ST12 (Barlaston)?
Where do ST12 prices go next?
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 is for sale in ST12 right now
Everything above is what homes in ST12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 13 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% above the ST12 median sold price.
38% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Cranwood Road, Tittensor, ST12, Tittensor
- Copeland Avenue, Tittensor, ST12, Tittensor
- Copeland Avenue, Tittensor, ST12, Tittensor
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every ST12 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in ST
Real sold prices by size across the ST area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
ST12 ranks 21 of 21 in the ST area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the ST area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside ST12, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ST12 9 | £230,000 | 21 |
How ST12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the ST area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| ST18 | £362,500 | +26% |
| ST21 | £350,000 | +11% |
| ST20 | £312,500 | +6% |
| ST19 | £287,500 | +8% |
| ST15 | £280,000 | +15% |
| ST9 | £265,000 | +7% |
| ST14 | £250,000 | +9% |
| ST17 | £246,200 | +15% |
| ST10 | £240,000 | +9% |
| ST12 (this report) | £230,000 | -19% |
| ST7 | £225,000 | +15% |
| ST16 | £223,800 | +16% |
| ST11 | £218,800 | -6% |
| ST8 | £214,000 | +22% |
| ST13 | £195,000 | +8% |
| ST5 | £188,000 | +21% |
| ST3 | £175,000 | +21% |
| ST2 | £165,000 | +14% |
| ST4 | £165,000 | +10% |
| ST6 | £150,000 | +20% |
| ST1 | £130,500 | +17% |
Thinking of selling in ST12? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ST12, open the average prices map and zoom from the ST12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ST12 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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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.