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Stafford market report ST18
The ST18 (Stafford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 8,197 registered sales in ST18 (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.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 103 registered 2026 sales put the ST18 (Stafford) median at £358,000, up 25% on five years earlier, with a mean of £380,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,120 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,197 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district ST18 covering Stafford sits in Stafford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where ST18 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 buyers actually paid in ST18
In the ST18 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £358,000, from 103 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £380,000, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
ST18 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put ST18 at roughly £3,120 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving ST18 26% above the national figure.
ST18'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 | £358,000 | £358,000 | 103 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 255 |
| 2024 | £308,000 | £327,467 | 203 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 205 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 285 |
| 2021 | £287,500 | £364,012 | 350 |
| 2020 | £277,500 | £360,062 | 296 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 378 |
| 2018 | £274,000 | £365,247 | 370 |
| 2017 | £249,000 | £339,611 | 416 |
| 2016 | £248,500 | £347,654 | 346 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 258 |
| 2014 | £209,000 | £296,503 | 213 |
| 2013 | £208,000 | £299,291 | 183 |
| 2012 | £179,500 | £264,202 | 175 |
| 2011 | £206,500 | £311,736 | 200 |
| 2010 | £212,000 | £332,471 | 169 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 138 |
| 2008 | £207,000 | £339,317 | 137 |
| 2007 | £225,500 | £382,511 | 248 |
| 2006 | £208,000 | £361,061 | 282 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 245 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 255 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 305 |
| 2002 | £138,700 | £260,963 | 300 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 289 |
| 2000 | £97,000 | £190,363 | 289 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 281 |
| 1998 | £78,200 | £157,852 | 260 |
| 1997 | £74,000 | £151,759 | 271 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 282 |
| 1995 | £63,100 | £137,170 | 210 |
In cash terms the typical ST18 home went from £63,100 in 1995 to £358,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 161%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2005, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2005 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ST18 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 2002 (+32.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−13.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ST18 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +8.5% | +6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +4.3% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 61% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £400,000 against £140,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, ST18
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 | £400,000 | 70 | 4,951 |
| Semi-detached | £276,000 | 15 | 2,158 |
| Terraced | £216,800 | 13 | 937 |
| Flats | £140,000 | 5 | 94 |
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
ST18 recorded 195 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 277 sales a year before the financial crisis and 210 a year over the last five. 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.
Reading the ST18 market
This is detached-house territory: 68% of last year's sales were detached, which props the overall median well above the flat and terrace market underneath it. By median price, ST18 presently tops its postcode area.
What tenants pay around ST18
ST18 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 £358,000 median sold price, £891 a month is £10,692 a year, a gross yield of 3.0%: 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.
Common questions on ST18 (Stafford)
Are property prices falling in ST18 (Stafford)?
Is ST18 (Stafford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ST18 (Stafford)?
Where do ST18 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat 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.
On the market in ST18 today
Everything above is what homes in ST18 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 17 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 44% below the ST18 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (195 in ST18), the 17 homes listed here amount to about 5 weeks of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
19% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 ST18 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.
When homes in ST18 change hands
Across the 1,298 sales completed in ST18 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (12.5% of the total) and April the quietest (6.2%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 93 | 7.2% |
| February | 98 | 7.6% |
| March | 162 | 12.5% |
| April | 80 | 6.2% |
| May | 84 | 6.5% |
| June | 140 | 10.8% |
| July | 89 | 6.9% |
| August | 97 | 7.5% |
| September | 150 | 11.6% |
| October | 113 | 8.7% |
| November | 100 | 7.7% |
| December | 92 | 7.1% |
Bedroom by bedroom: ST prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ST area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £215,000 | £243,000 (+13%) | £285,000 (+17%) | £345,000 (+21%) | £430,000 (+25%) |
| Semi-detached | £165,000 | £172,000 (+4%) | £196,000 (+14%) | £266,000 (+36%) | £340,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £137,500 | £125,000 (-9%) | £154,000 (+23%) | £216,250 (+40%) | £270,000 (+25%) |
| Flat | £92,500 | £115,000 (+24%) | £147,250 (+28%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
ST18 ranks 1 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 ST18, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
How ST18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the ST area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| ST18 (this report) | £358,000 | +25% |
| ST21 | £350,000 | +11% |
| ST20 | £305,000 | +3% |
| ST19 | £290,000 | +9% |
| ST15 | £284,500 | +17% |
| ST9 | £255,000 | +3% |
| ST14 | £250,000 | +9% |
| ST17 | £250,000 | +17% |
| ST10 | £240,000 | +9% |
| ST12 | £231,000 | -19% |
| ST11 | £225,000 | -3% |
| ST7 | £224,500 | +15% |
| ST16 | £222,000 | +15% |
| ST8 | £211,500 | +21% |
| ST13 | £205,000 | +14% |
| ST5 | £190,000 | +23% |
| ST3 | £175,000 | +21% |
| ST2 | £165,000 | +14% |
| ST4 | £164,500 | +10% |
| ST6 | £150,000 | +20% |
| ST1 | £131,000 | +17% |
Thinking of selling in ST18? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ST18, open the average prices map and zoom from the ST18 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ST18 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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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.