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Kidsgrove market report ST7 1, Stoke-On-Trent
The ST7 1 (Kidsgrove) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,603 HM Land Registry entries for ST7 1 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 56 registered 2026 sales put the ST7 1 (Stoke-On-Trent) median at £198,100, up 35% on five years earlier, with a mean of £205,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,220 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,603 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like ST7 1 is a single group of streets within ST7 (Stoke-On-Trent), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where ST7 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 ST7 1 homes really sell for
56 sales were registered in ST7 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £198,100. The mean works out at £205,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
ST7 1 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ST7 1 sales average about £2,220 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving ST7 1 30% below the national figure.
ST7 1's median sold price, 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 | £198,100 | £198,100 | 56 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 152 |
| 2024 | £162,000 | £172,239 | 180 |
| 2023 | £180,000 | £197,776 | 161 |
| 2022 | £170,200 | £199,579 | 172 |
| 2021 | £146,500 | £185,488 | 188 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 142 |
| 2019 | £141,000 | £184,817 | 177 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 197 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 188 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 182 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 149 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 140 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 148 |
| 2012 | £101,200 | £148,954 | 82 |
| 2011 | £94,200 | £142,206 | 96 |
| 2010 | £104,500 | £163,883 | 64 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 69 |
| 2008 | £110,500 | £181,133 | 92 |
| 2007 | £114,000 | £193,376 | 189 |
| 2006 | £106,000 | £184,002 | 174 |
| 2005 | £91,000 | £161,943 | 169 |
| 2004 | £81,500 | £148,020 | 178 |
| 2003 | £66,900 | £123,246 | 192 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 187 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 128 |
| 2000 | £41,000 | £80,463 | 141 |
| 1999 | £36,200 | £72,145 | 110 |
| 1998 | £36,000 | £72,669 | 106 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 148 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 136 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical ST7 1 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £198,100 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 146%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the ST7 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 2002 (+22.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.1% | +4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.2% | +1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
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.
ST7 1 recorded 56 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 144 sales a year recently, against 170 a year before 2008. 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.
The rental side of ST7 1
ST7 1 falls under Newcastle-under-Lyme, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £826 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £574 a month here against £1,301 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Newcastle-under-Lyme
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£826 a month is £9,912 a year, which against the £198,100 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
Reading the ST7 1 market
This is a thin market: 56 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the ST7 district median, ST7 1 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on ST7 1 (Kidsgrove)
How much did a house sell for in ST7 1 (Kidsgrove)?
Are property prices falling in ST7 1 (Kidsgrove)?
Is ST7 1 (Kidsgrove) a good place to buy a house?
Are ST7 1 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 35% over five years in cash and up 7% 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.
On the market in ST7 today
Turning to what is actually available: 85 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ST7 district, not just ST7 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% 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.
- Crowson Drive, Alsager, Stoke-on-Tren...
- Ashenhurst Road, Alsager, Cheshire, ST7
- Lower Ash Road, Kidsgrove, Stoke-On-T...
"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 ST7 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in ST: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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.
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.
Other sectors in ST7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ST7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ST7 2 | £260,000 | 95 |
| ST7 3 | £272,500 | 36 |
| ST7 4 | £200,000 | 81 |
| ST7 8 | £184,200 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full ST7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ST7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in ST7 1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ST7 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the ST7 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ST7 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working ST7 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ST7 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ST7 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ST7 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.
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.