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Stoke market report ST4 8, Stoke-On-Trent
The standing ST4 8 (Stoke) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 7,335 HM Land Registry entries for ST4 8 (Stoke-On-Trent), 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical ST4 8 (Stoke-On-Trent) home changed hands for £268,000 in 2026 (median of 71 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier), with the mean at £294,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,930 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,335 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ST4 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ST4 (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 ST4 8 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.
ST4 8 sold prices: where the market stands
In the ST4 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £268,000, from 71 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £294,400, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in ST4 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ST4 8 sales average about £2,930 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so ST4 8 trades 6% below the country as a whole.
A typical ST4 8 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 | £268,000 | £268,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 194 |
| 2024 | £273,500 | £290,787 | 245 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 179 |
| 2022 | £251,000 | £294,326 | 201 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 330 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 255 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 262 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 223 |
| 2017 | £187,500 | £255,731 | 281 |
| 2016 | £178,800 | £250,143 | 244 |
| 2015 | £172,800 | £244,166 | 240 |
| 2014 | £158,800 | £225,286 | 204 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 184 |
| 2012 | £155,500 | £228,877 | 156 |
| 2011 | £149,000 | £224,933 | 126 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 155 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 146 |
| 2008 | £158,000 | £258,995 | 127 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 291 |
| 2006 | £153,000 | £265,588 | 309 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 210 |
| 2004 | £148,000 | £268,797 | 335 |
| 2003 | £130,200 | £239,860 | 400 |
| 2002 | £96,500 | £181,564 | 295 |
| 2001 | £84,200 | £161,870 | 264 |
| 2000 | £70,500 | £138,356 | 260 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 255 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 222 |
| 1997 | £57,200 | £117,306 | 276 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 207 |
| 1995 | £55,800 | £121,301 | 188 |
In cash terms the typical ST4 8 home went from £55,800 in 1995 to £268,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 121%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ST4 8 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 (+34.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.7%). 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) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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 71 ST4 8 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 296 sales a year before the financial crisis and 178 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.
Reading the ST4 8 market
Against the ST4 district median, ST4 8 sits 62% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around ST4 8
The local authority for ST4 8 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 £268,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.2%. 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.
Common questions on ST4 8 (Stoke)
Are property prices falling in ST4 8 (Stoke)?
Is ST4 8 (Stoke) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ST4 8 (Stoke)?
What happens to ST4 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 ST4 today
The live side of the market holds 102 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ST4 district, not just ST4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Shelton Old Road, Stoke, Stoke On Trent, Stoke On Trent
- Princes Road, Stoke On Trent, ST4, Stoke On Trent
- Princes Road, Stoke On Trent, ST4, 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 ST4 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
ST area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ST4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ST4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ST4 1 | £85,000 | 5 |
| ST4 2 | £115,000 | 11 |
| ST4 3 | £113,000 | 32 |
| ST4 4 | £128,800 | 36 |
| ST4 5 | £140,000 | 34 |
| ST4 6 | £175,000 | 26 |
| ST4 7 | £142,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full ST4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ST4 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in ST4 8? 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 ST4 8'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ST4 8.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about ST4 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ST4 8 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.
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.