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The Docks market report GL1 5, Gloucester
The standing GL1 5 (The Docks) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,462 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GL1 5 (Gloucester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 62 registered 2026 sales put the GL1 5 (Gloucester) median at £211,500, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £222,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,730 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,462 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like GL1 5 is a single group of streets within GL1 (Gloucester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where GL1 5 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 5
62 sales were registered in GL1 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £211,500. The mean works out at £222,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
GL1 5 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put GL1 5 at roughly £2,730 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so GL1 5 trades 26% below the country as a whole.
A typical GL1 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £211,500 | £211,500 | 62 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 180 |
| 2024 | £241,500 | £256,764 | 161 |
| 2023 | £230,200 | £252,934 | 132 |
| 2022 | £237,000 | £277,910 | 201 |
| 2021 | £210,000 | £265,887 | 245 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 165 |
| 2019 | £193,000 | £252,977 | 207 |
| 2018 | £183,400 | £244,476 | 226 |
| 2017 | £172,200 | £234,864 | 182 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 171 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 165 |
| 2014 | £131,500 | £186,556 | 181 |
| 2013 | £123,000 | £176,985 | 135 |
| 2012 | £124,000 | £182,513 | 141 |
| 2011 | £117,200 | £176,927 | 138 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 101 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 120 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 141 |
| 2007 | £138,000 | £234,086 | 270 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 305 |
| 2005 | £117,500 | £209,103 | 252 |
| 2004 | £110,000 | £199,781 | 266 |
| 2003 | £96,000 | £176,855 | 315 |
| 2002 | £78,000 | £146,756 | 323 |
| 2001 | £63,800 | £122,652 | 304 |
| 2000 | £59,000 | £115,788 | 280 |
| 1999 | £49,500 | £98,651 | 275 |
| 1998 | £44,500 | £89,826 | 249 |
| 1997 | £41,000 | £84,083 | 235 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 186 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 148 |
In cash terms the typical GL1 5 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £211,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 170%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GL1 5 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 2003 (+23.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.0%). 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) | −8.0% | −10.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 62 GL1 5 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 289 sales a year before the financial crisis and 147 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
How GL1 5 trades
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. Within GL1, this sector trades 13% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of GL1 5
The local authority for GL1 5 is Gloucester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,105 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £738 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,642, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Gloucester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £211,500 median sold price, £1,105 a month is £13,260 a year, a gross yield of 6.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about GL1 5 (The Docks)
Is GL1 5 (The Docks) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL1 5 (The Docks)?
Are property prices falling in GL1 5 (The Docks)?
Where do GL1 5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in GL1 today
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- The Crescent, GLOUCESTER, Gloucesters...
- Commercial Road, City Centre, Gloucester, GL1, Gloucester
- Westgate Street, Gloucester, Gloucester
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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in GL: the cost
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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
GL area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in GL1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of GL1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL1 1 | £152,500 | 14 |
| GL1 2 | £155,000 | 31 |
| GL1 3 | £155,800 | 38 |
| GL1 4 | £195,000 | 27 |
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 5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in GL1 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GL1 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GL1 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working GL1 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GL1 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GL1 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual GL1 5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.