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The Docks market report GL1, Gloucester
The house prices in GL1 (The Docks): the full public record, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 21,097 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GL1 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in GL1 (Gloucester) came in at £187,200, out of 172 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £207,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,590 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 21,097 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
GL1 is the postcode district covering The Docks, Central Gloucester, Kingsholm in Gloucester. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where GL1 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.
Today's GL1 prices, from the sold record
Take the 172 registered 2026 sales in GL1 and the middle price, the median, is £187,200. The mean lands at £207,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in GL1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of GL1 sales average about £2,590 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts GL1 34% below the country at large.
GL1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £187,200 | £187,200 | 172 |
| 2025 | £191,200 | £195,772 | 502 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 436 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 503 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 644 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 711 |
| 2020 | £167,800 | £217,724 | 456 |
| 2019 | £165,000 | £216,276 | 614 |
| 2018 | £151,500 | £201,952 | 653 |
| 2017 | £143,500 | £195,720 | 663 |
| 2016 | £138,000 | £193,063 | 679 |
| 2015 | £129,500 | £182,984 | 638 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 611 |
| 2013 | £114,000 | £164,035 | 501 |
| 2012 | £114,000 | £167,794 | 466 |
| 2011 | £113,000 | £170,587 | 468 |
| 2010 | £120,800 | £189,446 | 554 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 385 |
| 2008 | £122,800 | £201,295 | 440 |
| 2007 | £132,000 | £223,909 | 987 |
| 2006 | £123,000 | £213,512 | 1,142 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 885 |
| 2004 | £105,000 | £190,701 | 942 |
| 2003 | £92,000 | £169,486 | 1,058 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 1,130 |
| 2001 | £58,000 | £111,502 | 925 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 800 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 769 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 692 |
| 1997 | £37,000 | £75,880 | 642 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 582 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 447 |
In cash terms the typical GL1 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £187,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 153%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GL1 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 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £372,000 against £145,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, GL1
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 | £372,000 | 9 | 1,269 |
| Semi-detached | £238,000 | 49 | 5,677 |
| Terraced | £192,000 | 49 | 8,319 |
| Flats | £145,000 | 65 | 5,832 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 383 sales completed in GL1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 984 sales a year before the financial crisis and 451 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.
What tenants pay around GL1
For renting purposes GL1 sits in Gloucester. The ONS average private rent there is £1,105 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,105 a month is £13,260 a year, which against the £187,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.1%. 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.
How GL1 trades
By median price GL1 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
Common questions on GL1 (The Docks)
How much did a house sell for in GL1 (The Docks)?
Are property prices falling in GL1 (The Docks)?
Is GL1 (The Docks) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to GL1 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 you could buy in GL1 now
Everything above is what homes in GL1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 225 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% below the GL1 median sold price.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- The Crescent, GLOUCESTER, Gloucesters...
- Commercial Road, City Centre, Gloucester, GL1, Gloucester
- Westgate Street, Gloucester, Gloucester
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every GL1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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. 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
GL1 ranks 18 of 27 in the GL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
GL area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside GL1, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| GL1 5 | £211,500 | 62 |
How GL1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the GL area, and GL1 itself, which ranks 27 of 27 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| GL9 | £616,200 | +38% |
| GL55 | £527,500 | +8% |
| GL53 | £526,000 | +17% |
| GL54 | £428,000 | -5% |
| GL7 | £425,000 | +12% |
| GL56 | £413,500 | +10% |
| GL12 | £392,500 | +11% |
| GL8 | £392,000 | -1% |
| GL6 | £390,000 | -8% |
| GL10 | £355,000 | +14% |
| GL11 | £345,000 | +15% |
| GL19 | £345,000 | -15% |
| GL52 | £333,000 | +3% |
| GL13 | £325,000 | +18% |
| GL5 | £320,000 | +16% |
| GL2 | £300,000 | +13% |
| GL51 | £299,000 | +11% |
| GL3 | £297,700 | +8% |
| GL50 | £287,000 | +0% |
| GL20 | £280,000 | +8% |
| GL18 | £273,900 | -7% |
| GL15 | £273,000 | +6% |
| GL4 | £270,000 | +17% |
| GL1 (this report) | £187,200 | +4% |
Selling in GL1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GL1, open the average prices map and zoom from the GL1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GL1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim GL1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GL1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual GL1 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.
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.