Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,906 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ST12 (Stoke-On-Trent) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to April 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
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
Click the map to open ST12 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£230,000median sold price, 2026
-19%five-year change (cash)
83sales in the last 12 months
4.6%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in ST12 sells for
The 2026 median in ST12 is £230,000, from 11 registered sales; the mean, £245,500, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so ST12 trades 16% below the country as a whole.
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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£230,000
£230,000
11
2025
£314,000
£314,000
66
2024
£330,200
£342,871
60
2023
£242,200
£259,904
65
2022
£310,000
£355,021
64
2021
£285,600
£353,161
108
2020
£300,000
£380,165
99
2019
£295,000
£377,644
104
2018
£290,000
£377,547
83
2017
£280,000
£372,973
115
2016
£329,900
£450,754
95
2015
£310,000
£427,800
70
2014
£170,000
£235,542
64
2013
£155,000
£217,821
43
2012
£193,500
£278,156
33
2011
£152,000
£224,103
39
2010
£195,000
£298,668
42
2009
£156,000
£244,915
28
2008
£202,500
£324,188
34
2007
£170,000
£281,633
87
2006
£154,000
£261,081
69
2005
£182,500
£317,191
48
2004
£214,000
£379,589
67
2003
£164,000
£295,072
67
2002
£98,000
£180,080
67
2001
£72,500
£136,122
39
2000
£92,000
£176,333
31
1999
£73,200
£142,477
42
1998
£72,000
£141,943
56
1997
£68,800
£137,800
40
1996
£61,500
£126,672
38
1995
£59,500
£126,323
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. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 82%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 49% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 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 (+82.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−26.8%). 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)
−26.8%
−26.8%
5 years (since 2021)
−4.2%
−8.2%
10 years (since 2016)
−3.5%
−6.5%
20 years (since 2006)
+2.0%
−0.6%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
ST12 recorded 83 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 53 sales a year recently, against 59 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around ST12
ST12 falls under Stafford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £891 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £624 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,341, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Stafford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £891 a month is £10,692 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Will ST12 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 35% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and 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.
Five-year change in the median, ST area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside ST12, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.