Stern Close, Barking house prices are built from 318 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 10 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £115,998. Across the 10 years from 2008 to 2018 the median moved +66.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +32.3%.
Median price paid
£115,998
Change in cash, 2008–2018
+66.7%
Change in real terms
+32.3%
Median per m²
£2,119
HM Land Registry318 sales113 with floor areaLatest sale 10 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Stern Close, Barking prices moved
The chart tracks the median Stern Close, Barking house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2018. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 9 | £134,995 | £245,921 |
| 2010s | 4 | £175,000 | £246,750 |
The highest yearly median on record for Stern Close, Barking is £250,000 in 2018; the lowest is £60,000 in 1999. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £77,250 to £250,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £160,180, so the real change over the whole record is +108.0% — about +3.73% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +66.7% in cash against +32.3% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 10 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 20 | 29 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £378,000 | £397,746 |
| Flat 11 Liberty Court | 21 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £259,310 |
| Flat 16 Admiral Court | 5 Apr 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £275,517 |
| 9 | 16 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £355,000 | £411,298 |
| Flat 1 Liberty Court | 31 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £277,000 | £320,929 |
| 17 | 14 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £430,000 | £498,192 |
| 56 | 29 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £330,000 | £416,935 |
| 14 | 9 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £485,000 | £612,769 |
| 53 | 28 May 2021 | Terraced | £320,000 | £404,301 |
| 13 | 17 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £310,000 | £401,377 |
| 11 | 3 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £290,000 | £379,314 |
| 20 | 1 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £287,000 | £375,390 |
| Flat 14 Liberty Court | 27 Sep 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £306,522 |
| 49 | 16 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £260,000 | £346,503 |
| Flat 15 Admiral Court | 7 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £333,176 |
| 31 | 6 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £280,000 | £373,157 |
| Flat 2 Admiral Court | 16 Feb 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £233,000 | £310,520 |
| Flat 15 Liberty Court | 21 Dec 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £313,031 |
| Flat 16 Admiral Court | 11 Jul 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £217,500 | £296,018 |
| Flat 8 Fortune Court | 31 Mar 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £216,000 | £293,977 |
| Flat 1 Admiral Court | 20 Mar 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £217,000 | £295,338 |
| 3 | 29 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £250,000 | £349,010 |
| Flat 18 Fortune Court | 22 Nov 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £307,129 |
| 4 | 8 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £259,500 | £362,272 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Stern Close, Barking values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 Stern Close | £77,000 (1999) | £340,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 20 Stern Close | £79,000 (1999) | £378,000 (2024) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| FLAT 11 LIBERTY COURT Stern Close | £60,000 (1999) | £240,000 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| FLAT 16 ADMIRAL COURT Stern Close | £64,000 (1999) | £255,000 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 9 Stern Close | £189,995 (2007) | £355,000 (2022) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| FLAT 1 LIBERTY COURT Stern Close | £59,500 (1999) | £277,000 (2022) | +6.9% | +4.3% |
| 17 Stern Close | £92,500 (1998) | £430,000 (2022) | +6.6% | +4.1% |
| 56 Stern Close | £150,000 (2006) | £330,000 (2021) | +5.4% | +3.0% |
| 14 Stern Close | £99,950 (1998) | £485,000 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| 13 Stern Close | £71,500 (1998) | £310,000 (2020) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
| 11 Stern Close | £71,500 (1998) | £290,000 (2019) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
| FLAT 14 LIBERTY COURT Stern Close | £63,000 (1999) | £230,000 (2018) | +7.1% | +4.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Stern Close, Barking is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 186 | 58.5% | £105,000 | £58,000 – £277,000 |
| Terraced | 127 | 39.9% | £133,000 | £69,500 – £485,000 |
| Detached | 4 | 1.3% | £140,000 | £84,950 – £340,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1 | 0.3% | £91,000 | £91,000 – £91,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Stern Close, Barking
188 of the sales on record are leasehold and 130 freehold — 59.1% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £106,000 and the median freehold sale £132,500 — a gap of +25.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 188 | 59.1% | £106,000 |
| Freehold | 130 | 40.9% | £132,500 |
| New build | 116 | 36.5% | £64,000 |
| Existing home | 202 | 63.5% | £138,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -53.8%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 22 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Stern Close, Barking
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Barking and Dagenham, 46.5% of 98,155 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 513 | 0.5% |
| B | 17,509 | 17.8% |
| C | 27,594 | 28.1% |
| D | 40,171 | 40.9% |
| E | 10,356 | 10.6% |
| F | 1,539 | 1.6% |
| G | 473 | 0.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Barking and Dagenham at £1,693 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,373 for a one-bedroom home and £1,891 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £115,998 here, that rent is a gross yield of 17.51% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of IG11, 774 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 259 violent, 26 burglary, 81 vehicle-related and 124 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.6 times busier.
Against the 218,869 residents the 2021 census counted in Barking and Dagenham, that is 3.54 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Stern Close, Barking
The 2021 census counted 218,869 residents in Barking and Dagenham across 73,902 households. 44.1% of those households own their home and 55.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
16 state and independent schools have a IG11 postcode: 12 primary, 3 secondary, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College | Secondary | Community school | 2,418 |
| Eastbury Community School | All-through | Community school | 2,039 |
| Riverside School | Secondary | Free schools | 1,550 |
| Greatfields School | Secondary | Free schools | 1,248 |
| Gascoigne Primary School | Primary | Community school | 1,115 |
| Ripple Primary School | Primary | Community school | 856 |
| Northbury Primary School | Primary | Community school | 832 |
| Eastbury Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 777 |
| George Carey Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 619 |
| Manor Junior School | Primary | Community school | 590 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Upney Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.6 km |
| Upney Station | Tram | 0.7 km |
| Barking Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Barking Underground Station | Metro or underground | 1.1 km |
Section 09
How Stern Close, Barking compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Stern Close, Barking sits below that national figure — -26.4%.
Within Barking the street ranks 217 of 250 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £170,000 (-31.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,119 per square metre, across 113 of the 318 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £58,000 to £485,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Stern Close, Barking sits in Barking and Dagenham, in London.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Barking and Dagenham at 9.5 times median local earnings of £39,599 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Longbridge Road£132,000 median
- Arboretum Place£172,500 median
- Abbey Road£254,000 median
- Gurney Close£100,000 median
- Westrow Drive£264,500 median
- Greenslade Road£66,995 median
- Ripple Road£145,000 median
- Salisbury Avenue£218,500 median
- Waterside Close£105,000 median
- Cambridge Road£287,000 median
- Wilmington Gardens£237,000 median
- Blessing Way£74,995 median
- Spring Place£172,500 median
- Wanderer Drive£85,000 median
- Cavendish Gardens£250,000 median
- Bastable Avenue£148,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 15, LIBERTY COURT Stern Close7 sales
- FLAT 16, ADMIRAL COURT Stern Close6 sales
- 48 Stern Close5 sales
- FLAT 15, ADMIRAL COURT Stern Close5 sales
- FLAT 16, LIBERTY COURT Stern Close5 sales
- FLAT 11, LIBERTY COURT Stern Close4 sales
- 17 Stern Close4 sales
- 56 Stern Close4 sales
- 14 Stern Close4 sales
- FLAT 14, LIBERTY COURT Stern Close4 sales
- 3 Stern Close4 sales
- FLAT 20, LIBERTY COURT Stern Close4 sales
- 30 Stern Close4 sales
- FLAT 3, ADMIRAL COURT Stern Close4 sales
- FLAT 28, LIBERTY COURT Stern Close4 sales
- FLAT 10, ADMIRAL COURT Stern Close4 sales
- 39 Stern Close4 sales
- FLAT 9, FORTUNE COURT Stern Close4 sales
- 55 Stern Close4 sales
- FLAT 5, FORTUNE COURT Stern Close4 sales
- FLAT 22, ADMIRAL COURT Stern Close4 sales
- 25 Stern Close4 sales
- 37 Stern Close4 sales
- 45 Stern Close4 sales
Back to Barking house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Stern Close, Barking?
The median price paid in Stern Close, Barking across every sale on the register is £115,998. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Stern Close, Barking?
318 sales are on record for Stern Close, Barking, the most recent completing on 10 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Stern Close, Barking house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +66.7% between 2008 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +32.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Stern Close, Barking house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £250,000, set in 2018. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Stern Close, Barking?
£2,119 per square metre, from the 113 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 10 Apr 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Stern Close, Barking house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.