That is the middle of 820 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
820 homes sold in three years: 144 detached houses, 258 semi-detached houses, 321 terraced houses and 97 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.1 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£409K
median sale · 144 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£333K–£475K
Last 12 months
£420K47 sold
Semi-detached houses£238K
median sale · 258 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£200K–£280K
Last 12 months
£241K72 sold
Terraced houses£177K
median sale · 321 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£158K–£215K
Last 12 months
£190K105 sold
Flats and maisonettes£130K
median sale · 97 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£106K–£140K
Last 12 months
£138K24 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 39% of sales
Detached houses18%
Semi-detached houses31%
Terraced houses39%
Flats and maisonettes12%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Stalybridge’s homes sold for between £161K and £295K
One sale in ten was under £130K and one in ten over £405K. 64% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £210,000, sits in the £200–250K band
820 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £44,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in the last 12 months (£153,250 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
248 sales in the last 12 months, against 708 in 2003, the busiest year, and 232 in 2010. Sales fell by 54% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 54% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Stalybridge costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Stalybridge, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£83K
£120K
£217K
£234K
£220K
£316K
£420K
Semi-detached houses
£48K
£60K
£144K
£138K
£140K
£177K
£241K
Terraced houses
£34K
£38K
£92K
£99K
£97K
£137K
£190K
Flats and maisonettes
£30K
—
£105K
£85K
£81K
£108K
£138K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0.4% of sales in the last 12 months
1,256 new homes have been sold in Stalybridge since 1995; the share peaked at 25% in 2003.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
40% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 32% sold leasehold in Stalybridge. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Huddersfield Road is Stalybridge’s busiest street, with 27 sales in three years
57 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 17 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Huddersfield Road
SK15
27
£222,500
Mostly terraced houses
2
Mottram Road
SK15
21
£345,000
Mixed
3
Warrington Street
SK15
20
£138,875
Mostly flats
4
Higher Tame Street
SK15
17
£120,000
Mostly flats
5
Bramble Court
SK15
16
£91,000
Mostly flats
6
Ridge Hill Lane
SK15
15
£178,320
Mostly terraced houses
7
Stocks Lane
SK15
15
£175,000
Mostly terraced houses
8
Cypress Oaks
SK15
13
£295,000
Mixed
9
Grey Street
SK15
13
£185,000
Mostly terraced houses
10
Mottram Old Road
SK15
12
£463,750
Mostly detached houses
11
Broadhill Road
SK15
12
£217,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Stamford Street
SK15
11
£228,000
Mixed
13
Lindsay Street
SK15
11
£171,500
Mostly terraced houses
14
Corn Mill Lane
SK15
11
£137,000
Mostly flats
15
Wakefield Road
SK15
10
£180,000
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Mottram Old Road: £463,750
Stalybridge median£210K
Mottram Old Road£464K
St James Close£395K
Shaw Moor Avenue£354K
Moorgate Road£349K
Mottram Road£345K
Cheapest streets
Grosvenor House Square: £87,500
Stalybridge median£210K
Grosvenor House Square£88K
Bramble Court£91K
Higher Tame Street£120K
Knowl Street£126K
Castle Street£129K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5.3 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Greater Manchester
Stalybridge is the 56th most expensive of 81 towns in Greater Manchester
Stalybridge is in the middle of Greater Manchester’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Stalybridge
What is the average house price in Stalybridge?
The median home in Stalybridge sold for £210,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 820 standard sales (£220,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £408,750, semi-detached houses £237,500, terraced houses £176,500 and flats and maisonettes £130,000.
Are house prices going up in Stalybridge?
The median was £212,250 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£207,500), and £220,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Stalybridge each year?
248 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 346 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Stalybridge?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Mottram Old Road (SK15, £463,750), St James Close (SK15, £395,000) and Shaw Moor Avenue (SK15, £353,750).
Is Stalybridge expensive for Greater Manchester?
Stalybridge is the 56th most expensive of 81 towns of 2,500 or more in Greater Manchester by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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