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Cardington market report SY6, Church Stretton
The SY6 (Cardington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,866 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SY6 (Church Stretton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SY6 (Church Stretton) home changed hands for £370,000 in 2026 (median of 41 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £425,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,450 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,866 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SY6 is the postcode district covering Church Stretton, Cardington in Church Stretton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SY6 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 SY6 homes really sell for
Take the 41 registered 2026 sales in SY6 and the middle price, the median, is £370,000. The mean lands at £425,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
SY6 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in SY6 have sold for about £3,450 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SY6 30% above the national figure.
The price of a typical SY6 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £370,000 | £370,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £392,500 | £401,886 | 100 |
| 2024 | £407,500 | £433,256 | 96 |
| 2023 | £376,800 | £414,011 | 92 |
| 2022 | £392,500 | £460,251 | 116 |
| 2021 | £372,500 | £471,633 | 134 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 107 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 105 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 109 |
| 2017 | £289,000 | £394,167 | 112 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 128 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 127 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 139 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 128 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 95 |
| 2011 | £248,800 | £375,592 | 102 |
| 2010 | £239,000 | £374,814 | 107 |
| 2009 | £255,000 | £409,915 | 82 |
| 2008 | £243,000 | £398,328 | 77 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 115 |
| 2006 | £233,000 | £404,458 | 171 |
| 2005 | £227,000 | £403,969 | 135 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 151 |
| 2003 | £162,200 | £298,812 | 200 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 153 |
| 2001 | £134,000 | £257,608 | 167 |
| 2000 | £109,000 | £213,913 | 107 |
| 1999 | £111,500 | £222,214 | 147 |
| 1998 | £84,000 | £169,560 | 122 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 163 |
| 1996 | £80,000 | £168,716 | 119 |
| 1995 | £74,000 | £160,865 | 119 |
In cash terms the typical SY6 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £370,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 130%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SY6 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 (+38.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−8.0%). 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) | −5.7% | −7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 56% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £545,000 against £160,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, SY6
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 | £545,000 | 23 | 2,164 |
| Semi-detached | £330,000 | 9 | 761 |
| Terraced | £320,000 (2024) | – | 352 |
| Flats | £160,000 | 5 | 577 |
How many homes change hands in SY6
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 83 sales completed in SY6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 150 sales a year before the financial crisis and 89 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How SY6 trades
This is a thin market: 83 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. By median price, SY6 presently tops its postcode area.
Rents around SY6
The local authority for SY6 is Shropshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £813 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £600 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,384, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Shropshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £370,000 median sold price, £813 a month is £9,756 a year, a gross yield of 2.6%: 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.
What people ask about SY6 (Cardington)
How much did a house sell for in SY6 (Cardington)?
Are property prices falling in SY6 (Cardington)?
Is SY6 (Cardington) a good place to buy a house?
Will SY6 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SY6 right now
Everything above is what homes in SY6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 6 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the SY6 median sold price.
50% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Station View, Leebotwood, Church Stretton, SY6, Shropshire
- Clive Avenue, Church Stretton, Shropshire, SY6, Shropshire
- Madeira Walk, Church Stretton, Shropshire
"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 SY6 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SY: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SY 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 | — | £257,700 | £355,000 (+38%) | £522,750 (+47%) | £680,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £187,500 | £220,000 (+17%) | £257,000 (+17%) | £347,500 (+35%) | £440,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £155,000 | £183,750 (+19%) | £215,000 (+17%) | £275,500 (+28%) | £385,000 (+40%) |
| Flat | £124,000 | £176,500 (+42%) | £280,000 (+59%) | — | — |
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
SY6 ranks 18 of 25 in the SY 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 SY area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SY6, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SY6 6 | £370,000 | 25 |
| SY6 7 | £442,500 | 16 |
How SY6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SY area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SY6 (this report) | £370,000 | -1% |
| SY14 | £329,000 | -3% |
| SY7 | £328,000 | +9% |
| SY5 | £325,000 | +4% |
| SY3 | £312,500 | +14% |
| SY4 | £305,000 | +6% |
| SY2 | £290,000 | +10% |
| SY8 | £280,000 | +10% |
| SY10 | £280,000 | -4% |
| SY13 | £275,000 | +2% |
| SY12 | £272,500 | +18% |
| SY21 | £261,500 | +11% |
| SY9 | £257,000 | -16% |
| SY15 | £240,000 | +4% |
| SY23 | £240,000 | +19% |
| SY22 | £237,500 | +3% |
| SY25 | £235,000 | +21% |
| SY1 | £230,000 | +21% |
| SY19 | £230,000 | -10% |
| SY11 | £228,900 | +14% |
| SY20 | £210,000 | +23% |
| SY24 | £201,500 | -20% |
| SY16 | £195,000 | +12% |
| SY18 | £194,800 | -7% |
Before you sell in SY6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SY6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SY6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SY6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual SY6 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.