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Stafford market report ST16 1
The ST16 1 (Stafford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,317 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ST16 1 (Stafford) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for ST16 1 (Stafford) is £245,000, from 104 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £269,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,870 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,317 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ST16 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ST16 (Stafford). 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 ST16 1 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 ST16 1
In the ST16 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £245,000, from 104 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £269,700, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in ST16 1
By floor space, homes in ST16 1 have sold for about £2,870 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ST16 1 runs 14% below it.
ST16 1's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 104 |
| 2025 | £266,000 | £272,361 | 321 |
| 2024 | £262,600 | £279,198 | 344 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 313 |
| 2022 | £246,000 | £288,463 | 379 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 423 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 308 |
| 2019 | £225,600 | £295,708 | 302 |
| 2018 | £205,000 | £273,269 | 380 |
| 2017 | £191,400 | £261,050 | 326 |
| 2016 | £178,000 | £249,024 | 247 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 258 |
| 2014 | £167,500 | £237,628 | 234 |
| 2013 | £164,000 | £235,980 | 210 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 151 |
| 2011 | £146,000 | £220,404 | 162 |
| 2010 | £144,500 | £226,613 | 142 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 126 |
| 2008 | £156,000 | £255,717 | 145 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 264 |
| 2006 | £148,000 | £256,909 | 304 |
| 2005 | £153,800 | £273,702 | 260 |
| 2004 | £140,500 | £255,175 | 242 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 206 |
| 2002 | £84,500 | £158,986 | 284 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 251 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 251 |
| 1999 | £58,500 | £116,587 | 296 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 247 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 274 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 294 |
| 1995 | £69,000 | £149,995 | 269 |
In cash terms the typical ST16 1 home went from £69,000 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 63%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2019, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2019 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ST16 1 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 2004 (+40.5% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−15.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.9% | −10.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
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 104 ST16 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 292 sales a year over the last five years against 258 before the financial crisis. 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 ST16 1
ST16 1 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 £245,000 median sold price, £891 a month is £10,692 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
How ST16 1 trades
Within ST16, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: ST16 1 (Stafford)
How much did a house sell for in ST16 1 (Stafford)?
Are property prices falling in ST16 1 (Stafford)?
Is ST16 1 (Stafford) a good place to buy a house?
Will ST16 1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 ST16 now
Turning to what is actually available: 106 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ST16 district, not just ST16 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 ST16 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in ST: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ST area. 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%) | — | — |
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ST16
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ST16's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ST16 2 | £170,000 | 12 |
| ST16 3 | £180,000 | 88 |
Zoom out to the full ST16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ST16 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in ST16 1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ST16 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the ST16 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ST16 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ST16 1.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about ST16 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ST16 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.