A typical home in Stratford sells for about £445,000, and the price depends mostly on whether the stairs are inside the front door. Flats go for about £350,000. Terraced houses go for about £550,000. Semis hardly ever come up. In Stratford you pay extra for having no neighbour above you.
The Land Registry recorded 232 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £445,000. Flats were the biggest group, with 124 sales at a median of about £350,000. The 103 terraced houses went for about £550,000. Only five semi-detached houses sold, at a median of about £484,000, and five sales can't tell a buyer much about what a semi is worth here. The headline is a midpoint between two separate markets, and most buyers here are shopping in only one of them.
The published house price index for the area fell 1.4% in the twelve months to May 2026, to an average of about £405,000. That is a small fall. Flats did worse, down 3.2% over the same year to an index average of about £338,000. The flats around the Olympic park were sold on what Stratford was going to become, and over the past year their prices went the other way.
Band C is the most common council tax band in Stratford, and about 33% of homes are in Bands A or B. Newham's Band D bill comes to about £1,944 a year, a little less than a two-bedroom flat in the borough costs to rent for a single month.
Rent shows where the pressure sits. Across Newham, the typical private rent was about £1,920 a month in April 2026, up 7% on a year earlier. By size, the borough averages about £1,620 a month for one bedroom, £1,980 for two, £2,190 for three and £2,660 for four or more. These are means from the Office for National Statistics rent index for the whole borough, not prices from Stratford's own listings, and no figure exists for studios or rooms.
Office for National Statistics modelling puts median household income in Stratford at about £61,450 a year, gross, for the financial year to March 2023. Against a median sale price of about £445,000, a typical household will find a flat a stretch and a terraced house a bigger one. Rents are rising faster than flat prices, so for some local renters buying will look less mad than it did a year ago.
Some sales can be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, and that covers 60% of them. For those homes the median price was about £6,260 per square metre, and the typical floor area was about 78 square metres. The remaining 40% of sales could be larger, smaller or older, and the measure doesn't cover them. Most of what sells in Stratford is a flat, so ask for the lease length and the service charge along with the asking price. They change what a flat really costs.
At the 2021 Census, 28% of Stratford homes had one bedroom, 36% had two, 26% had three and 11% had four or more. Two bedrooms is the local norm, and most of the stock is the size a couple buys before they think about children.
Stratford's prices are middling for what they buy. A flat is the realistic way in and a terraced house is the stretch, and the soft past year gives buyers a little room to negotiate.