Stockport's average home reached £317,913 in July, up £12,734 in a year and rising almost four times as fast as England. Terraces led, flats did not.

The average home in Stockport borough sold for £317,913 in July, according to the UK House Price Index published by HM Land Registry. That is £12,734 more than the same month last year, a rise of 4.2%.

England as a whole managed 1.1% over the same twelve months. Stockport is therefore rising almost four times as fast as the country it sits in, and its average is now £24,434 above the England figure of £293,479.

One caveat before the numbers. The index is a mean average, not a median, so a handful of expensive sales pull it upwards in a way a typical Stockport house never feels. It is best read as a direction of travel rather than a valuation of your own home.

The terrace is winning, the flat is not

The most useful part of the July release is the split by property type, because the borough’s four housing markets are pulling apart.

Property type July 2026 average Change on the year
Detached £554,456 +3.8%
Semi-detached £348,405 +4.9%
Terraced £254,382 +5.0%
Flat or maisonette £174,854 +1.0%

Terraced houses rose fastest of the four, and semis were barely behind. Flats went almost nowhere, up 1.0% in a year, which is roughly what England managed across every type combined.

The practical effect is that the gap between a Stockport terrace and a Stockport flat has widened to £79,528. If you bought a flat as a first step onto the ladder, the step up to a terrace got further away this year, not closer.

A first-time buyer in the borough paid an average of £264,215, up 4.5%. Someone selling one home to buy another paid £382,097, up 4.0%. The £117,882 between those two figures is the size of the move from a first flat or terrace to a family semi in the Heatons or Bramhall.

Where Stockport sits in Greater Manchester

Stockport is the second dearest of the ten Greater Manchester boroughs, behind Trafford, and £108,190 above the cheapest, Tameside. On the rate of increase it is mid-table: five boroughs rose faster.

Annual house price change, the ten Greater Manchester boroughs, July 2026 Horizontal bar chart of the twelve-month change in average house price to July 2026. Trafford up 9.6 per cent, average 400,688 pounds. Bolton up 5.9 per cent, 204,379 pounds. Oldham up 4.7 per cent, 217,171 pounds. Rochdale up 4.5 per cent, 209,389 pounds. Stockport up 4.2 per cent, 317,913 pounds. Wigan up 3.9 per cent, 194,551 pounds. Bury up 2.8 per cent, 242,437 pounds. Manchester up 1.2 per cent, 252,309 pounds. England up 1.1 per cent, 293,479 pounds. Salford up 0.3 per cent, 229,462 pounds. Tameside down 0.1 per cent, 209,723 pounds. Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index, July 2026. Greater Manchester house prices: the year to July 2026 Change in the average price over twelve months, with the July average alongside each borough 0% +5% +9.6% Trafford £400,688 +9.6% Bolton £204,379 +5.9% Oldham £217,171 +4.7% Rochdale £209,389 +4.5% Stockport £317,913 +4.2% Wigan £194,551 +3.9% Bury £242,437 +2.8% Manchester £252,309 +1.2% England £293,479 +1.1% Salford £229,462 +0.3% Tameside £209,723 -0.1% Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index, July 2026. England shown as a benchmark. Graphic by Stockport Today
Trafford is in a category of its own at 9.6%. Tameside, next door to Reddish and Bredbury, is the only Greater Manchester borough where prices fell.

Trafford is the outlier at 9.6%, and it is the only borough that is both dearer than Stockport and rising faster. At the other end, Tameside fell 0.1% over the year and 1.2% in July alone. That matters on this side of the border, because Tameside begins at the edge of Reddish, Bredbury and Woodley, and a buyer priced out of Stockport can now cross the boundary into a market that is going the other way.

Just outside Greater Manchester, Cheshire East reached £309,121, up 5.0%, and High Peak £258,856, up 5.8%. Both grew faster than Stockport.

The June figure has moved

When we last wrote up the index, June’s Stockport average was £314,495 and the annual change was 3.5%. In this release June reads £314,255, and the annual change 3.4%. The £240 difference is a revision, not an error in the earlier figure: the index is recalculated as more completed sales are registered.

What it means for you

  • If you are selling a terrace or a semi, you are in the part of the market that moved this year. Those two types account for most of the borough’s housing and rose 5.0% and 4.9%.
  • If you own a flat, the last twelve months added about 1%. On a £174,854 flat that is roughly £1,700, which will not cover the cost of moving.
  • If you are buying, £317,913 is a mean that includes Bramhall and Woodford. Our Stockport house prices page has the local ladder, from Bramhall down to Bredbury, and the by-type figures in full.
  • If you are looking just over the boundary, Tameside is the only borough in Greater Manchester where the average fell this year.

Over five years the borough average has gone from £255,313 in July 2021 to £317,913, a rise of £62,600 or 24.5%.

The next release, covering August 2026, is due from HM Land Registry in mid-October.

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