The middle Shropshire home sold for £268,000 over the last year, from £199,995 in Oswestry to £345,000 in Church Stretton. Prices by town, ward and property type.
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 £280,739 you will see quoted for Shropshire is the UK House Price Index average for May 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 £216,685 in May 2026, £64,054 below Shropshire’s, and it fell 0.3% over the year while Shropshire rose 3.1%.
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 five of the eight Shrewsbury wards charted here, including Abbey, which recorded more sales than any other ward in the town. 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 May 2026 was detached £422,328 (up 3.2% over the year), semi-detached £263,556 (up 4.0%), terraced £209,388 (up 3.1%) and flats £136,842, down 0.6%. Flats were the only type that fell.
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 | £302,367 | +3.5% |
| England | £292,095 | +2.3% |
| Herefordshire | £286,995 | +4.7% |
| Shropshire | £280,739 | +3.1% |
| Staffordshire | £249,109 | +4.1% |
| Powys | £235,845 | +4.0% |
| West Midlands region | £233,957 | +2.2% |
| Telford and Wrekin | £216,685 | −0.3% |
| Wrexham | £214,317 | +5.1% |
Shropshire rose 3.1% in the year to May 2026, ahead of England’s 2.3% and its own region’s 2.2%, and fell 0.5% in the month on its own. On the index, where 2023 reads 100, Shropshire is at 104.3.
The striking line in that table is the one directly below Shropshire’s own. The two halves of the historic county have pulled apart: Shropshire up 3.1%, Telford and Wrekin down 0.3%, with £64,054 now between their averages. Everywhere else on the border, Herefordshire, Powys, Wrexham and Staffordshire, rose by 4% or more.
Buyers, sellers and the step up
A first-time buyer in Shropshire paid an average of £226,892 in May 2026. Somebody selling one home here to buy another paid £329,996. The step of £103,104 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, you are selling into a market that has risen for a year while the unitary next door has not.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Shropshire?
The UK House Price Index average for Shropshire was £280,739 in May 2026. 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?
Rising, modestly. Prices were up 3.1% in the year to May 2026 and down 0.5% in the month. That is ahead of England as a whole (up 2.3%) and well ahead of Telford and Wrekin, which fell 0.3%.
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 £136,842 in May 2026, down 0.6% over the year, the only property type that fell.
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 £216,685 in May 2026.
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, 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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