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Stafford market report ST16
The standing ST16 (Stafford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 18,598 HM Land Registry entries for ST16 (Stafford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 204 registered 2026 sales put the ST16 (Stafford) median at £223,800, up 16% on five years earlier, with a mean of £233,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,630 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 18,598 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ST16 is the postcode district covering Stafford in Stafford. 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 ST16 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.
What a home in ST16 sells for
204 sales were registered in ST16 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £223,800. The mean works out at £233,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
ST16 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put ST16 at roughly £2,630 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ST16 runs 21% below it.
A typical ST16 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £223,800 | £223,800 | 204 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 532 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 633 |
| 2023 | £218,200 | £239,749 | 537 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 644 |
| 2021 | £193,600 | £245,123 | 750 |
| 2020 | £183,000 | £237,446 | 555 |
| 2019 | £180,000 | £235,937 | 612 |
| 2018 | £169,000 | £225,280 | 739 |
| 2017 | £162,000 | £220,952 | 660 |
| 2016 | £156,000 | £218,246 | 551 |
| 2015 | £146,500 | £207,005 | 583 |
| 2014 | £145,000 | £205,708 | 529 |
| 2013 | £140,500 | £202,165 | 475 |
| 2012 | £128,000 | £188,400 | 350 |
| 2011 | £126,000 | £190,212 | 365 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 342 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 292 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 320 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 669 |
| 2006 | £131,000 | £227,399 | 698 |
| 2005 | £122,000 | £217,111 | 665 |
| 2004 | £121,000 | £219,760 | 669 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 666 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 805 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 709 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 765 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 782 |
| 1998 | £49,500 | £99,919 | 639 |
| 1997 | £46,500 | £95,362 | 659 |
| 1996 | £47,500 | £100,175 | 645 |
| 1995 | £48,400 | £105,214 | 554 |
In cash terms the typical ST16 home went from £48,400 in 1995 to £223,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 113%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ST16 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 (+34.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−7.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £340,000 against £110,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, ST16
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 | 53 | 4,512 |
| Semi-detached | £226,500 | 67 | 6,154 |
| Terraced | £180,000 | 62 | 6,113 |
| Flats | £110,000 | 22 | 1,819 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.7% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in ST16
The year-by-year sales count
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.
ST16 recorded 397 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 706 sales a year before the financial crisis and 510 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 tenants pay around ST16
For renting purposes ST16 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.
Against the £223,800 median purchase price, a rent of £891 a month (£10,692 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
Common questions on ST16 (Stafford)
Is ST16 (Stafford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ST16 (Stafford)?
Are property prices falling in ST16 (Stafford)?
What happens to ST16 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
ST16's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in ST16 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 106 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the ST16 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 →
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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
ST16 ranks 7 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside ST16, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ST16 1 | £245,000 | 104 |
| ST16 2 | £170,000 | 12 |
| ST16 3 | £180,000 | 88 |
How ST16 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 | £230,000 | -19% |
| ST7 | £225,000 | +15% |
| ST16 (this report) | £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% |
Selling in ST16? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ST16, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ST16's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ST16 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ST16.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every ST16 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.