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Staffordshire Housing Market

The county of Staffordshire is fairly rural and has a number of famous landmarks and areas of outstanding beauty, including Cannock Chase, Stafford Castle, the famous potteries around Stoke-on-Trent and of course Alton Towers Theme park. The capital town of the county, Stafford, is home to the largest timber framed house in England, now open as a museum and the county is also where the famous English breed of Staffordshire Bull Terrier came from, designed as a fighting dog when bear baiting was banned. For more details on the Staffordshire click the link.

Staffordshire offers a wide range of housing from lovely tall Victorian town houses to pretty stone cottages as well as pre-war bungalows and modern developments. It is excellently located for accessing the whole of England as well as Scotland. The M6 motorway gives direct access to Birmingham and then down to London via the M1. Wales is a quick drive across country on the M54 motorway and the north west of England and Scotland are easily reached by heading north up the M6. There are four main airports and five mainline trains.

Property prices remain fairly low compared to the South with a large family home fetching around £200,000. It is also a fairly cheap place to rent. Staffordshire is a university county and so there are many opportunities for investment in student accommodation and the university is only 10 minutes outside of Stafford.

Traditionally Staffordshire was a centre for the steel industry as well as brewing but now Stoke-on-Trent comes in the top 100 English cities for business and is the economic capital of the region and the city has had millions of pounds invested to regenerate the area. The cultural quarter of the city now offers a wide range of restaurants, bars, theatres and nightclubs.

There are a number of schemes in place to ensure regeneration of the region. The main government funded scheme is the Renewal North Staffordshire project which aims to attract new families to the area and build new homes, thus helping the economy and stabilising the housing market in Staffordshire. However, the scheme has come under criticism for mainly knocking down houses and not building many new houses for sale in staffordshire