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Stafford market report ST16 3
The standing ST16 3 (Stafford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 8,938 registered sales in ST16 3 (Stafford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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 middle 2026 sale in ST16 3 (Stafford) came in at £180,000, out of 88 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £196,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,350 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,938 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
ST16 3 is one sector of ST16 (Stafford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where ST16 3 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.
ST16 3 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 88 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) ST16 3 home went for £180,000. The mean is £196,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
ST16 3 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in ST16 3 have sold for about £2,350 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 3 runs 37% below it.
ST16 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 88 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 185 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 229 |
| 2023 | £182,000 | £199,974 | 197 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 227 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 293 |
| 2020 | £152,000 | £197,223 | 211 |
| 2019 | £140,500 | £184,162 | 250 |
| 2018 | £140,000 | £186,623 | 303 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 302 |
| 2016 | £143,500 | £200,758 | 278 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 289 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 274 |
| 2013 | £129,500 | £186,338 | 234 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 177 |
| 2011 | £123,000 | £185,683 | 169 |
| 2010 | £121,500 | £190,543 | 172 |
| 2009 | £133,000 | £213,799 | 145 |
| 2008 | £128,000 | £209,819 | 154 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 329 |
| 2006 | £121,200 | £210,388 | 342 |
| 2005 | £112,500 | £200,205 | 357 |
| 2004 | £113,800 | £206,683 | 354 |
| 2003 | £86,000 | £158,433 | 395 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 411 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 382 |
| 2000 | £54,000 | £105,975 | 467 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 444 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 352 |
| 1997 | £43,800 | £89,825 | 345 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 316 |
| 1995 | £43,200 | £93,910 | 267 |
In cash terms the typical ST16 3 home went from £43,200 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 92%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2009; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2009 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ST16 3 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 (+32.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−8.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ST16 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in ST16 3
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 88 sales completed in ST16 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 380 sales a year before the financial crisis and 185 a year over the last five. 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 3
For renting purposes ST16 3 sits in Stafford. The ONS average private rent there is £891 a month (May 2026). 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 £180,000 median sold price, £891 a month is £10,692 a year, a gross yield of 5.9%: 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 3 trades
Within ST16, this sector trades 20% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
ST16 3 (Stafford): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in ST16 3 (Stafford)?
Is ST16 3 (Stafford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ST16 3 (Stafford)?
Will ST16 3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
What you could buy in ST16 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 106 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ST16 district, not just ST16 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every ST16 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.
What another bedroom costs in ST
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ST area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
The spread across the ST area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the ST area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in ST16
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ST16, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ST16 1 | £245,000 | 104 |
| ST16 2 | £170,000 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full ST16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ST16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in ST16 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ST16 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ST16 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ST16 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working ST16 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ST16 3.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about ST16 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual ST16 3 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.