Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent house prices are built from 195 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £50,000. Across the 10 years from 2007 to 2017 the median moved -48.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -60.0%.
Median price paid
£50,000
Change in cash, 2007–2017
-48.9%
Change in real terms
-60.0%
Median per m²
£542
HM Land Registry195 sales46 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent prices moved
The chart tracks the median Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2017. 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 | 5 | £25,000 | £55,512 |
| 2000s | 8 | £40,750 | £74,234 |
| 2010s | 3 | £70,000 | £98,700 |
The highest yearly median on record for Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent is £117,500 in 2007; the lowest is £19,500 in 1995. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £19,500 to £60,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £43,299, so the real change over the whole record is +88.6% — about +2.93% 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: -48.9% in cash against -60.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 218 | 5 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 205 | 18 Dec 2024 | Detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 200 | 13 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 372 | 29 May 2024 | Terraced | £72,000 | £75,761 |
| 429 | 1 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £80,000 | £92,687 |
| 372 | 7 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £60,000 | £69,515 |
| 411 | 8 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £50,000 | £63,172 |
| 364 | 22 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £44,000 | £55,591 |
| 409 | 16 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £40,000 | £50,538 |
| 243 | 16 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £25,000 | £31,586 |
| 23 | 22 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £27,000 | £34,959 |
| 205 | 12 Jun 2020 | Detached | £240,000 | £310,744 |
| 203 | 31 May 2019 | Terraced | £89,000 | £116,410 |
| 287 | 1 Feb 2019 | Terraced | £73,000 | £95,482 |
| 248 | 10 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £120,000 | £159,924 |
| 248 | 29 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £100,000 | £133,270 |
| 78 | 10 May 2018 | Terraced | £40,000 | £53,308 |
| 190 | 31 Jan 2018 | Detached | £305,000 | £406,474 |
| 372 | 15 Dec 2017 | Terraced | £62,000 | £84,382 |
| 362 | 14 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £58,000 | £78,938 |
| 374 | 11 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £67,500 | £91,868 |
| 364 | 13 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £44,000 | £59,884 |
| 227a | 25 Apr 2017 | Terraced | £82,000 | £111,602 |
| 423 | 6 Jan 2017 | Terraced | £55,000 | £74,855 |
| 372 | 1 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £51,000 | £71,198 |
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 Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 205 Waterloo Road | £75,000 (2003) | £290,000 (2024) | +6.7% | +3.7% |
| 200 Waterloo Road | £82,000 (2013) | £210,000 (2024) | +8.9% | +5.7% |
| 372 Waterloo Road | £49,000 (2014) | £72,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +0.8% |
| 411 Waterloo Road | £50,000 (2007) | £50,000 (2021) | 0.0% | -2.3% |
| 364 Waterloo Road | £48,000 (2011) | £44,000 (2021) | -0.9% | -2.8% |
| 203 Waterloo Road | £90,000 (2005) | £89,000 (2019) | -0.1% | -2.4% |
| 248 Waterloo Road | £100,000 (2018) | £120,000 (2018) | +20.0% | +20.0% |
| 362 Waterloo Road | £67,500 (2009) | £58,000 (2017) | -1.9% | -4.2% |
| 167 Waterloo Road | £46,240 (2006) | £90,000 (2016) | +6.9% | +4.3% |
| 206 Waterloo Road | £63,000 (2007) | £51,000 (2016) | -2.3% | -4.7% |
| 272 Waterloo Road | £98,000 (2014) | £87,000 (2015) | -11.2% | -12.7% |
| 250 Waterloo Road | £16,250 (2002) | £133,000 (2014) | +19.1% | +16.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 163 | 83.6% | £47,000 | £8,000 – £210,000 |
| Semi-detached | 20 | 10.3% | £60,000 | £21,080 – £220,000 |
| Detached | 12 | 6.2% | £125,000 | £31,000 – £305,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 195 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 195 | 100.0% | £50,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.5% | £21,080 |
| Existing home | 194 | 99.5% | £50,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -57.8%. 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 56 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 Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Stoke-on-Trent, 38.5% of 127,426 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 339 | 0.3% |
| B | 9,178 | 7.2% |
| C | 39,542 | 31.0% |
| D | 53,732 | 42.2% |
| E | 19,865 | 15.6% |
| F | 3,595 | 2.8% |
| G | 1,175 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Stoke-on-Trent at £707 a month as of Jun 2026 — £512 for a one-bedroom home and £787 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £50,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.97% 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 ST1, 660 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 197 violent, 19 burglary, 21 vehicle-related and 147 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.0 times busier.
Against the 258,366 residents the 2021 census counted in Stoke-on-Trent, that is 2.55 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 Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent
The 2021 census counted 258,366 residents in Stoke-on-Trent across 110,400 households. 57.1% of those households own their home and 42.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a ST1 postcode: 10 primary, 1 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Excel Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,184 |
| Waterside Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 473 |
| Forest Park Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 457 |
| Hanley St Luke's Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 455 |
| St Mark's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 449 |
| Etruscan Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 443 |
| Co-op Academy Grove | Primary | Academy converter | 317 |
| St George and St Martin's Catholic Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 233 |
| Holden Lane Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 222 |
| Co-op Academy Northwood | Primary | Academy converter | 179 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Stoke-on-Trent Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Longport Rail Station | Rail | 3.3 km |
| Longton Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
| Kidsgrove Rail Station | Rail | 8.1 km |
Section 09
How Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent sits below that national figure — -68.3%.
Within Stoke-on-trent the street ranks 4193 of 4584 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £92,995 (-46.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £542 per square metre, across 46 of the 195 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 £8,000 to £305,000. 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.
Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent sits in Stoke-on-Trent, in the West Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Stoke-on-Trent at 4.4 times median local earnings of £34,744 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
- Leek Road£84,450 median
- Leek New Road£73,950 median
- John Street£82,000 median
- Birches Head Road£86,500 median
- Turner Street£52,950 median
- Milton Road£84,500 median
- Barthomley Road£65,000 median
- Buxton Street£62,000 median
- Hanley Road£85,000 median
- Dairyfields Way£77,950 median
- Charles Street£75,000 median
- Lock Keepers Way£73,000 median
- Campbell Terrace£68,000 median
- Denbigh Street£40,000 median
- Bucknall New Road£44,725 median
- Portland Street£36,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 205 Waterloo Road5 sales
- 372 Waterloo Road5 sales
- 427 Waterloo Road5 sales
- 250 Waterloo Road4 sales
- 52 Waterloo Road4 sales
- 368 Waterloo Road4 sales
- 364 Waterloo Road3 sales
- 167 Waterloo Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 254 Waterloo Road3 sales
- 344 Waterloo Road3 sales
- 425 Waterloo Road3 sales
- 436 Waterloo Road3 sales
- 208 Waterloo Road3 sales
- 200 Waterloo Road2 sales
- 411 Waterloo Road2 sales
- 203 Waterloo Road2 sales
- 248 Waterloo Road2 sales
- 362 Waterloo Road2 sales
- 206 Waterloo Road2 sales
- 272 Waterloo Road2 sales
- 92 Waterloo Road2 sales
- 279 Waterloo Road2 sales
- 434 Waterloo Road2 sales
- 100 Waterloo Road2 sales
Back to Stoke-on-trent house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent?
The median price paid in Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent across every sale on the register is £50,000. 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 Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent?
195 sales are on record for Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent, the most recent completing on 5 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -48.9% between 2007 and 2017. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -60.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £117,500, set in 2007. 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 Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent?
£542 per square metre, from the 46 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 5 Sep 2025. 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, “Waterloo Road, Stoke-on-trent 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.