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The Docks market report GL1 2, Gloucester
The standing GL1 2 (The Docks) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,680 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GL1 2 (Gloucester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for GL1 2 (Gloucester) is £155,000, from 31 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £174,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,590 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,680 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
GL1 2 is one sector of GL1 (Gloucester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where GL1 2 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 GL1 2
Take the 31 registered 2026 sales in GL1 2 and the middle price, the median, is £155,000. The mean lands at £174,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
GL1 2 prices by floor area
Per square metre, GL1 2 homes have averaged around £2,590 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so GL1 2 trades 46% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical GL1 2 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £155,000 | £155,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £164,000 | £167,922 | 73 |
| 2024 | £149,000 | £158,418 | 56 |
| 2023 | £156,200 | £171,626 | 76 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 85 |
| 2021 | £148,000 | £187,387 | 92 |
| 2020 | £139,000 | £180,355 | 60 |
| 2019 | £146,500 | £192,026 | 88 |
| 2018 | £150,500 | £200,619 | 76 |
| 2017 | £133,800 | £182,490 | 88 |
| 2016 | £130,000 | £181,871 | 115 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 101 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 90 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 125 |
| 2012 | £112,000 | £164,850 | 131 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 132 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 219 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 92 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 56 |
| 2007 | £156,000 | £264,619 | 122 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 123 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 97 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 90 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 100 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 81 |
| 2001 | £70,500 | £135,533 | 62 |
| 2000 | £74,000 | £145,225 | 59 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 45 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 37 |
| 1997 | £42,200 | £86,544 | 28 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 27 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 23 |
In cash terms the typical GL1 2 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £155,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 78%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2005, and today's median remains roughly 44% under it: a 2005 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GL1 2 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 1999 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−23.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.5% | −7.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.2% | −2.6% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 31 GL1 2 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 92 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
How GL1 2 trades
This is a thin market: 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the GL1 district median, GL1 2 sits 17% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around GL1 2
The local authority for GL1 2 is Gloucester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,105 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £738 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,642 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Gloucester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £155,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,105 a month (£13,260 a year) works out at a 8.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: GL1 2 (The Docks)
Is GL1 2 (The Docks) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL1 2 (The Docks)?
Are property prices falling in GL1 2 (The Docks)?
Are GL1 2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in GL1 now
Turning to what is actually available: 225 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GL1 district, not just GL1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every GL1 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: GL prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the GL area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £329,250 | £450,000 (+37%) | £685,000 (+52%) | £1,050,000 (+53%) |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | £280,000 (+14%) | £330,000 (+18%) | £452,000 (+37%) | £727,500 (+61%) |
| Terraced | £215,000 | £250,000 (+16%) | £300,000 (+20%) | £435,000 (+45%) | £665,000 (+53%) |
| Flat | £148,725 | £206,000 (+39%) | £370,000 (+80%) | £547,500 (+48%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in GL1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are GL1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL1 1 | £152,500 | 14 |
| GL1 3 | £155,800 | 38 |
| GL1 4 | £195,000 | 27 |
| GL1 5 | £211,500 | 62 |
Zoom out to the full GL1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GL1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in GL1 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GL1 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the GL1 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GL1 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working GL1 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GL1 2.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GL1 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GL1 2 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.