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Longton market report ST3 1, Stoke-On-Trent
The standing ST3 1 (Longton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,900 registered sales in ST3 1 (Stoke-On-Trent) 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 2026 median for ST3 1 (Stoke-On-Trent) is £156,000, from 25 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier; the mean is £150,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,200 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,900 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ST3 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ST3 (Stoke-On-Trent). 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 ST3 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.
What a home in ST3 1 sells for
Take the 25 registered 2026 sales in ST3 1 and the middle price, the median, is £156,000. The mean lands at £150,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in ST3 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ST3 1 sales average about £2,200 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ST3 1 runs 45% below it.
A typical ST3 1 home, priced year by year (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 | £156,000 | £156,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £157,000 | £160,754 | 75 |
| 2024 | £150,000 | £159,481 | 58 |
| 2023 | £147,000 | £161,517 | 61 |
| 2022 | £137,500 | £161,234 | 87 |
| 2021 | £128,000 | £162,065 | 93 |
| 2020 | £126,500 | £164,136 | 68 |
| 2019 | £118,000 | £154,670 | 79 |
| 2018 | £105,000 | £139,967 | 75 |
| 2017 | £105,000 | £143,209 | 97 |
| 2016 | £103,200 | £144,378 | 76 |
| 2015 | £102,200 | £144,409 | 58 |
| 2014 | £91,000 | £129,099 | 83 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 61 |
| 2012 | £95,000 | £139,828 | 49 |
| 2011 | £89,200 | £134,658 | 46 |
| 2010 | £92,800 | £145,534 | 50 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 57 |
| 2008 | £94,000 | £154,086 | 75 |
| 2007 | £106,000 | £179,806 | 191 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 137 |
| 2005 | £87,800 | £156,249 | 114 |
| 2004 | £76,000 | £138,031 | 155 |
| 2003 | £66,000 | £121,588 | 163 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 138 |
| 2001 | £43,200 | £83,050 | 116 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 104 |
| 1999 | £42,800 | £85,298 | 113 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 135 |
| 1997 | £36,400 | £74,649 | 86 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 111 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical ST3 1 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £156,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 105%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ST3 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 2003 (+32.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.6% | −3.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 25 sales completed in ST3 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 140 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 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.
Rents around ST3 1
The local authority for ST3 1 is Stoke-on-Trent, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £709 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £514 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,073 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Stoke-on-Trent
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£709 a month is £8,508 a year, which against the £156,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How ST3 1 trades
This is a thin market: 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the ST3 district median, ST3 1 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
ST3 1 (Longton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in ST3 1 (Longton)?
Are property prices falling in ST3 1 (Longton)?
Is ST3 1 (Longton) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to ST3 1 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
ST3's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 61 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ST3 district, not just ST3 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Bernard Grove, Meir Heath, Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent
- Falcon Road, Meir Park, Stoke-on-trent, Stoke-on-trent
- Upper Belgrave Road, Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-On-Trent
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 ST3 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.
Moving up a bedroom in ST: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the ST area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in ST3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ST3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ST3 2 | £170,000 | 33 |
| ST3 3 | £164,200 | 24 |
| ST3 4 | £173,800 | 38 |
| ST3 5 | £175,000 | 74 |
| ST3 6 | £171,000 | 38 |
| ST3 7 | £235,000 | 61 |
Zoom out to the full ST3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ST3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in ST3 1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ST3 1's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ST3 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ST3 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ST3 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.