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Longton market report ST3 2, Stoke-On-Trent
The ST3 2 (Longton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,880 registered sales in ST3 2 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 33 registered 2026 sales put the ST3 2 (Stoke-On-Trent) median at £170,000, up 22% on five years earlier, with a mean of £188,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,070 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,880 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ST3 2 is one sector of ST3 (Stoke-On-Trent): 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 ST3 2 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.
Today's ST3 2 prices, from the sold record
Across 33 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) ST3 2 home went for £170,000. The mean is £188,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in ST3 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ST3 2 costs about £2,070 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ST3 2 sits 40% below the national market.
A typical ST3 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £171,000 | £175,089 | 90 |
| 2024 | £161,000 | £171,176 | 87 |
| 2023 | £148,000 | £162,616 | 79 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 76 |
| 2021 | £139,500 | £176,625 | 101 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 82 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 86 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 101 |
| 2017 | £115,000 | £156,848 | 84 |
| 2016 | £112,000 | £156,689 | 84 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 78 |
| 2014 | £95,000 | £134,774 | 96 |
| 2013 | £90,000 | £129,501 | 75 |
| 2012 | £86,200 | £126,876 | 64 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 61 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 60 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 44 |
| 2008 | £101,000 | £165,560 | 69 |
| 2007 | £95,500 | £161,995 | 143 |
| 2006 | £96,000 | £166,644 | 131 |
| 2005 | £85,000 | £151,266 | 105 |
| 2004 | £79,500 | £144,388 | 140 |
| 2003 | £59,500 | £109,613 | 121 |
| 2002 | £53,000 | £99,719 | 128 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 92 |
| 2000 | £40,500 | £79,481 | 97 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 77 |
| 1998 | £31,800 | £64,191 | 102 |
| 1997 | £33,000 | £67,676 | 86 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 105 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 103 |
In cash terms the typical ST3 2 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 96%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 4% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ST3 2 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 (+33.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.9%). 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% | −2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in ST3 2
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 33 ST3 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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 ST3 2 market
This is a thin market: 33 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.
The rental side of ST3 2
The local authority for ST3 2 is Stoke-on-Trent, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £709 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £514 a month here against £1,073 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Stoke-on-Trent
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £170,000 median sold price, £709 a month is £8,508 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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 ST3 2 (Longton)
Are property prices falling in ST3 2 (Longton)?
Is ST3 2 (Longton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ST3 2 (Longton)?
Are ST3 2 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
ST3's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 61 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ST3 district, not just ST3 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% 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.
- 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
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
What another bedroom costs in ST
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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £156,000 | 25 |
| 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.
Selling a home in ST3 2? 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 ST3 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ST3 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ST3 2 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 ST3 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ST3 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual ST3 2 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.