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The Docks market report GL1 3, Gloucester

The GL1 3 (The Docks) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,159 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GL1 3 (Gloucester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: the 2026 median for GL1 3 (Gloucester) is £155,800, from 38 registered sales, down 40% on five years earlier; the mean is £231,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,760 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,159 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

GL1 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside GL1 (Gloucester). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.

GL1 3 sold prices: where the market stands

The GL1 3 median stands at £155,800 for 2026, built from 38 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £231,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

GL1 3 prices by floor area

A square metre of GL1 3 home has cost about £2,760 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.

Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, GL1 3 runs 45% below it.

In cash terms the typical GL1 3 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £155,800 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 69%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 52% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+44.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−29.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

The long view: annualised growth

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.

How many homes change hands in GL1 3

The register shows 38 GL1 3 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 207 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 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.

Rents around GL1 3

GL1 3 falls under Gloucester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,105 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £738 a month here against £1,642 for four or more bedrooms.

£1,105 a month is £13,260 a year, which against the £155,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 8.5%. 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.

The shape of the GL1 3 market

Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GL1 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the GL1 district median, GL1 3 sits 17% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.

Common questions on GL1 3 (The Docks)

Are GL1 3 prices heading up or down?

Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 40% over five years in cash but down 52% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.

What is for sale in GL1 right now

The price of an extra bedroom in GL

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the GL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

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:

Zoom out to the full GL1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GL1 compares with its neighbours.

Selling a home in GL1 3? Price it on the evidence

Go deeper

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GL1 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every GL1 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.