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Gloucester market report GL
The GL (Gloucester) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 367,729 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the GL postcode area (Gloucester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in the GL postcode area (Gloucester) sold for £320,000 in 2026, the median of 4,249 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £386,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,720 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 367,729 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The GL postcode area centred on Gloucester covers 27 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where GL sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in GL
In the GL property market, the 2026 median sale price is £320,000, from 4,249 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £386,900, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
GL prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put GL at roughly £3,720 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, GL runs 12% above it.
GL's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 4,249 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 10,714 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 9,845 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 9,149 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 11,496 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 14,361 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 9,762 |
| 2019 | £255,000 | £334,244 | 10,796 |
| 2018 | £255,000 | £339,920 | 11,683 |
| 2017 | £246,000 | £335,519 | 12,160 |
| 2016 | £227,000 | £317,575 | 12,488 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 12,001 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 12,317 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 10,129 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 8,546 |
| 2011 | £182,000 | £274,750 | 8,191 |
| 2010 | £189,000 | £296,401 | 8,807 |
| 2009 | £172,500 | £277,295 | 8,598 |
| 2008 | £183,000 | £299,976 | 7,710 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 14,211 |
| 2006 | £175,500 | £304,646 | 15,873 |
| 2005 | £168,500 | £299,862 | 11,852 |
| 2004 | £162,000 | £294,224 | 13,704 |
| 2003 | £141,000 | £259,756 | 13,580 |
| 2002 | £122,500 | £230,483 | 15,186 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 14,297 |
| 2000 | £87,500 | £171,719 | 12,942 |
| 1999 | £76,500 | £152,461 | 15,270 |
| 1998 | £68,500 | £138,272 | 13,101 |
| 1997 | £63,500 | £130,226 | 13,767 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 11,661 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 9,283 |
In cash terms the typical GL home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 156%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the GL median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+22.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.3% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 31% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £487,800 against £159,200 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, GL
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £487,800 | 1,266 | 111,580 |
| Semi-detached | £315,000 | 1,355 | 112,396 |
| Terraced | £260,000 | 1,096 | 96,246 |
| Flats | £159,200 | 532 | 47,507 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 7,809 GL sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 13,956 sales a year before the financial crisis and 9,091 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around GL
The local authority for GL is Stroud, the local authority covering most of the GL area (parts fall under Forest of Dean and Cotswold, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,039 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £742 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,660, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Stroud
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,039 a month is £12,468 a year, which against the £320,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
GL (Gloucester): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in GL (Gloucester)?
Is GL (Gloucester) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL (Gloucester)?
Are GL prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in GL right now
Everything above is what homes in GL sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 2,218 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% above the GL median sold price.
GL registered 7,809 sales in the last twelve months; the 2,218 homes listed now would take about 3 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
10% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- High Street, Cheltenham, Cheltenham
- Stanley End, Selsley, Selsley
- Stanley End, Selsley, Stroud, Selsley
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every GL home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Month by month: when GL sells
Across the 55,565 sales completed in GL from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (10.7% of the total) and January the quietest (6.5%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3,632 | 6.5% |
| February | 4,243 | 7.6% |
| March | 5,972 | 10.7% |
| April | 3,642 | 6.6% |
| May | 4,098 | 7.4% |
| June | 5,683 | 10.2% |
| July | 4,296 | 7.7% |
| August | 4,812 | 8.7% |
| September | 5,388 | 9.7% |
| October | 4,714 | 8.5% |
| November | 4,472 | 8.0% |
| December | 4,613 | 8.3% |
Moving up a bedroom in GL: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the GL area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £285,000 | £325,000 (+14%) | £375,000 (+15%) | £470,000 (+25%) | £603,500 (+28%) |
| Semi-detached | £224,000 | £263,000 (+17%) | £299,250 (+14%) | £365,000 (+22%) | £490,000 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £195,000 | £230,300 (+18%) | £270,000 (+17%) | £330,000 (+22%) | £470,000 (+42%) |
| Flat | £130,500 | £176,000 (+35%) | £295,750 (+68%) | £405,000 (+37%) | £562,500 (+39%) |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the GL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, GL area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable GL district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| GL9 Acton Turville, Didmarton | £616,200 | +38% | 4 |
| GL55 Aston Sub Edge, Broad Campden | £575,000 | +18% | 43 |
| GL53 Caudle Green, Charlton Kings | £509,000 | +13% | 169 |
| GL54 Aldsworth, Andoversford | £435,000 | -3% | 155 |
| GL56 Adlestrop, Aston Magna | £427,500 | +14% | 84 |
| GL7 Cirencester, Fairford | £425,000 | +12% | 289 |
| GL8 Ashley, Avening | £395,000 | +0% | 85 |
| GL6 Aston Down, Bell Pitch | £390,000 | -8% | 140 |
| GL12 Alderley, Bagstone | £388,800 | +10% | 78 |
| GL19 Apperley, Ashleworth | £372,500 | -8% | 34 |
| GL10 Bridgend, Colethrop | £343,000 | +10% | 117 |
| GL11 Ashmead Green, Bull Pitch | £343,000 | +14% | 117 |
| GL52 Prestbury, Battledown | £335,000 | +4% | 379 |
| GL5 Amberley, Bourne | £322,500 | +17% | 228 |
| GL13 Abwell, Alkington | £313,800 | +14% | 36 |
| GL2 Arlingham, Cambridge | £303,500 | +15% | 396 |
| GL3 Barnwood, Brockworth | £300,000 | +9% | 290 |
| GL51 Badgeworth, Bamfurlong | £300,000 | +11% | 295 |
| GL50 Montpellier, Lansdown | £296,800 | +4% | 192 |
| GL20 Alderton, Alstone | £290,000 | +12% | 190 |
| GL4 Abbeydale, Abbeymead | £269,000 | +17% | 294 |
| GL16 Bakers Hill, Berry Hill | £265,000 | -3% | 87 |
| GL15 Lydney, Blakeney | £263,000 | +2% | 141 |
| GL18 Newent, Dymock | £256,200 | -13% | 48 |
| GL17 Mitcheldean, Drybrook | £242,500 | -3% | 76 |
| GL14 Cinderford, Westbury-on-Severn | £240,000 | +9% | 77 |
| GL1 The Docks, Central Gloucester | £190,000 | +6% | 205 |
Before you sell in GL: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in GL, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GL's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GL sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GL already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GL sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.