Shropshire's average fell 1.3% to £275,232 in July 2026 as Telford rose 3.2%. Medians by town, from £187,500 in Highley to £345,000 in Church Stretton.
The middle home sold in Shropshire over the last twelve months cost £268,000. That single number covers a county fifty miles across, and it describes almost nowhere in it exactly. Church Stretton’s middle sale was £345,000. Oswestry’s was £199,995. Both are Shropshire Council, twenty five miles apart, and the gap between them is £145,005.
Two official figures are used on this page and they answer different questions. The £275,232 you will see quoted for Shropshire is the UK House Price Index average for July 2026, a modelled monthly figure that is the right thing to watch for direction of travel. The town, ward and property-type numbers below are medians of actual completed sales from the HM Land Registry Price Paid record for the twelve months to 30 June 2026. Every postcode was matched to its parish and ward so that a Powys, Herefordshire or Telford address is not counted as Shropshire. On that basis 3,554 homes changed hands in the council’s area.
One boundary matters throughout: Telford and Wrekin is a separate unitary authority and its market is a different one. Its UK House Price Index average was £226,893 in July 2026, £48,339 below Shropshire’s, and the gap is closing: Telford rose 3.2% over the year while Shropshire fell 1.3%.
Shropshire house prices now: £275,232, down 1.3% in a year
The newest Shropshire figure is for July 2026, published by HM Land Registry in September, and it turned the county’s run of rises around. We read it from the Land Registry’s open data on 4 October 2026:
- Average price £275,232, down 1.3% on July 2025 and down 2.8% in the single month from June.
- That is the lowest monthly average in the past year. Every month from July 2025 to June 2026 sat between £276,799 and £283,161.
- Every property type fell over the year: detached £413,721 (down 1.5%), semi-detached £258,066 (down 0.5%), terraced £206,094 (down 0.8%) and flats £133,923 (down 4.4%).
- Telford and Wrekin went the other way, up 3.2% to £226,893. So did England (up 1.1%) and the West Midlands (up 2.9%).
Two cautions before reading too much into one month. First, the comparison month was a high one: Shropshire’s average jumped 2.9% in July 2025 alone, so the annual figure is being measured against a spike. Second, the index for a county this size rests on a few hundred sales a month and the latest two months are always revised. The May 2026 figure this page first quoted, £280,739 and up 3.1%, now reads £279,970 and up 2.8% after revision. June 2026 was £283,161, up 4.6%. A fall in one provisional month is a reason to watch the August figure, due in late October, not proof of a turn.
| Month | Average price | Change over 12 months | Change on the month |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £275,232 | −1.3% | −2.8% |
| June 2026 | £283,161 | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| May 2026 | £279,970 | +2.8% | −0.8% |
| April 2026 | £282,167 | +3.3% | +1.7% |
| March 2026 | £277,462 | +0.5% | −1.1% |
| February 2026 | £280,469 | +3.2% | +1.0% |
| January 2026 | £277,688 | +2.7% | +0.1% |
| July 2025 | £278,726 | +5.2% | +2.9% |
The town, ward and property-type medians in the rest of this page come from actual completed sales and cover the year to 30 June 2026, so they do not yet include July.
What each town actually paid
| Place | Median sale | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| Church Stretton | £345,000 | 78 |
| Pontesbury | £320,000 | 42 |
| Prees | £310,000 | 39 |
| Craven Arms | £299,000 | 33 |
| Whittington | £292,000 | 41 |
| Oswestry Rural | £290,000 | 43 |
| Bayston Hill | £282,500 | 51 |
| Baschurch | £282,500 | 48 |
| Shifnal | £269,975 | 136 |
| Shrewsbury | £260,000 | 1,068 |
| Bridgnorth | £260,000 | 152 |
| Ludlow | £250,000 | 201 |
| St Martin's | £247,000 | 41 |
| Wem | £235,000 | 91 |
| Cleobury Mortimer | £231,250 | 44 |
| Weston Rhyn | £229,000 | 31 |
| Market Drayton | £225,000 | 172 |
| Whitchurch | £225,000 | 151 |
| Gobowen and Selattyn | £205,000 | 58 |
| Oswestry | £199,995 | 231 |
| Highley | £187,500 | 46 |
Shrewsbury is at £260,000, below the county median, and it is there for the ordinary reason: it sells the most homes and the widest range of them. Its 1,068 sales are 30% of everything the Land Registry recorded in Shropshire over the year. Oswestry, with 231 sales, is the cheapest of the county’s larger towns by a distance, £60,005 below Shrewsbury. Church Stretton, with 78 sales under the Long Mynd, is the dearest place with enough transactions to measure.
The rural parishes go higher still where there are enough sales to say anything. Kinnerley recorded a median of £480,000 from 16 sales and Stoke upon Tern £412,975 from 24. Those are small samples and one big house moves them, but the direction is consistent: in Shropshire, the further you are from a town, the dearer the middle house.
Inside Shrewsbury: a £180,000 spread
If a Shropshire house price figure has never matched your street, this is why. The county average sits above four of the eight Shrewsbury wards charted here, and Abbey, which recorded more sales than any other ward in the town, clears it by only about £10,000. The average is being pulled up by the villages and by a small number of very large houses.
By property type
| Property type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £380,000 | 1,367 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | 1,131 |
| Terraced | £204,375 | 788 |
| Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | 268 |
The detached house is what Shropshire sells. 1,367 of 3,554 sales, more than any other type, at a median of £380,000. That is the opposite of most English districts, where semis or terraces dominate, and it is the arithmetic behind the high county average. Flats are barely a market here at all: 268 sales in a year across the whole county, at a median of £140,000.
On the House Price Index the split by type in July 2026 was detached £413,721 (down 1.5% over the year), semi-detached £258,066 (down 0.5%), terraced £206,094 (down 0.8%) and flats £133,923, down 4.4%. Flats fell furthest, as they did in May, when they were the only type to fall.
The same house in a different town
| Town | Detached | Semi | Terraced | Flat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church Stretton | £499,000 | £337,500 | – | £123,750 |
| Shrewsbury | £395,000 | £250,000 | £219,000 | £162,000 |
| Bridgnorth | £385,000 | £262,000 | £235,000 | £137,500 |
| Whitchurch | £363,500 | £219,000 | £172,000 | £105,000 |
| Ludlow | £325,000 | £240,000 | £217,500 | £110,000 |
| Market Drayton | £317,500 | £210,000 | £181,250 | £110,000 |
| Oswestry | £295,000 | £195,750 | £172,000 | £121,950 |
A detached house in Church Stretton costs £204,000 more than the same description in Oswestry. A Shrewsbury flat costs £57,000 more than one in Whitchurch. Comparing across towns without holding the property type steady is how people talk themselves into the wrong conclusion about a Shropshire market that is really seven or eight separate markets.
The dearest recorded sale in the council’s area over the year was a detached house at £3,300,000 in the Craven Arms area (SY7), followed by £3,100,000 at Ruckley and Langley and £2,000,000 in Shrewsbury’s Porthill ward. The cheapest was a flat in Ludlow at £42,000. You can check any individual address free on the HM Land Registry price paid search.
Which way the market is going
| Area | Average price | Change over 12 months |
|---|---|---|
| Cheshire East | £309,121 | +5.0% |
| England | £293,479 | +1.1% |
| Herefordshire | £289,607 | +1.8% |
| Shropshire | £275,232 | −1.3% |
| Staffordshire | £250,633 | +4.2% |
| Powys | £237,762 | +3.8% |
| West Midlands region | £236,098 | +2.9% |
| Telford and Wrekin | £226,893 | +3.2% |
| Wrexham | £212,778 | +2.2% |
Shropshire fell 1.3% in the year to July 2026, the only area in this table to go down, against England’s 1.1% rise and its own region’s 2.9%. On the index, where 2023 reads 100, Shropshire is at 102.3.
Two months earlier the picture was the reverse. In May, Shropshire was up 2.8% and Telford and Wrekin up just 0.5% on the revised figures, and the gap between their averages was over £61,000. By July Telford was up 3.2% and the gap had narrowed to £48,339. Every neighbour on the border, Herefordshire, Powys, Wrexham, Staffordshire and Cheshire East, was still rising.
Buyers, sellers and the step up
A first-time buyer in Shropshire paid an average of £222,517 in July 2026. Somebody selling one home here to buy another paid £323,570. The step of £101,053 is smaller than in most of southern England, but it maps exactly onto the property-type table: the distance from the median terrace at £204,375 to the median detached house at £380,000 is what a Shropshire housing career costs.
If you are buying in Shrewsbury, the cheapest routes into the town are Sundorne and Old Heath (£200,000), Harlescott (£210,000) and Castlefields and Ditherington (£220,000). Check what is proposed nearby on Shropshire planning news first: the council cannot demonstrate five years of housing land, which makes new applications on the edge of towns harder for it to refuse.
If you are buying elsewhere in the county, Oswestry and Highley are the two cheapest places with real transaction volumes, both under £200,000. Neither has a station of its own, and what that costs in commuting time is on Shropshire trains to London.
If you are selling, the latest month is the first in over a year to show Shropshire below where it was twelve months earlier, while the unitary next door is rising. Price to the July figures, not last spring’s.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Shropshire?
The UK House Price Index average for Shropshire was £275,232 in July 2026, the latest month published. The middle completed sale across the council’s area over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was £268,000 from 3,554 recorded sales (HM Land Registry Price Paid).
Are Shropshire house prices rising or falling?
Falling, on the latest figure. Prices were down 1.3% in the year to July 2026 and down 2.8% in the month, while England rose 1.1% and Telford and Wrekin rose 3.2%. It is one provisional month after a year of rises (June was up 4.6%), and July 2025 was itself a spike, so treat it as a warning rather than a trend.
Where is the cheapest place to buy in Shropshire?
Of the places with 30 or more recorded sales, Highley was cheapest at a median of £187,500, then Oswestry at £199,995 and Gobowen and Selattyn at £205,000. Inside Shrewsbury, the Sundorne and Old Heath ward was cheapest at £200,000.
Where is the most expensive?
Church Stretton, at a median of £345,000 from 78 sales. Several small rural parishes read higher, Kinnerley at £480,000 from 16 sales for instance, but the samples are too small to rely on. At ward level, Hodnet led at £447,500.
How much is a flat in Shropshire?
The median flat or maisonette sold for £140,000 over the twelve months, from just 268 sales across the whole county. On the House Price Index the average flat was £133,923 in July 2026, down 4.4% over the year, the steepest fall of any property type.
Do these figures include Telford?
No. Telford and Wrekin is a separate unitary authority and every figure on this page excludes it. Its own House Price Index average was £226,893 in July 2026, up 3.2% over the year.
Sources
- UK House Price Index, Shropshire (ONS / HM Land Registry) for the county average, the property-type and buyer-type figures and the annual and monthly changes.
- Land Registry UK HPI open data, Shropshire, July 2026, with the monthly series from July 2025 and the July 2026 records for the same comparison areas, read 4 October 2026. July is the latest month published; the May figures were re-read the same day and had been revised.
- Land Registry UK HPI open data, Shropshire, May 2026 and the matching records for Telford and Wrekin, Herefordshire, Powys, Wrexham, Staffordshire, Cheshire East, the West Midlands and England for the comparison table.
- HM Land Registry Price Paid linked data for the parish, ward and property-type medians, being every completed residential sale recorded in the SY1 to SY13, WV15, WV16, TF9, TF11 and DY14 postcode districts between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026, with each postcode matched to its parish, ward and council area through the postcodes.io lookup so that only Shropshire Council sales are counted.
- HM Land Registry price paid search to check any individual address.
Land Registry figures are provisional and are revised as more sales complete, and the last couple of months of any window are under-counted by registration lag. The index runs two to three months behind. Confirm the latest numbers against the linked sources before making a decision. What is being built near you is on Shropshire planning news.
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