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Dymock market report GL18, Newent
The GL18 (Dymock) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,309 HM Land Registry entries for GL18 (Newent), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 48 registered 2026 sales put the GL18 (Newent) median at £256,200, down 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £285,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,230 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,309 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district GL18 covering Newent, Dymock sits in Newent. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where GL18 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.
GL18 sold prices: where the market stands
The GL18 median stands at £256,200 for 2026, built from 48 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £285,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in GL18
Per square metre, GL18 homes have averaged around £3,230 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, GL18 sits 10% below the national market.
The price of a typical GL18 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £256,200 | £256,200 | 48 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 126 |
| 2024 | £284,800 | £302,801 | 135 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 166 |
| 2022 | £299,500 | £351,198 | 213 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 205 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 125 |
| 2019 | £253,000 | £331,622 | 119 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 126 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 170 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 153 |
| 2015 | £178,700 | £252,503 | 116 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 168 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 139 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 119 |
| 2011 | £194,000 | £292,865 | 139 |
| 2010 | £189,000 | £296,401 | 118 |
| 2009 | £167,500 | £269,258 | 104 |
| 2008 | £212,500 | £348,332 | 95 |
| 2007 | £184,500 | £312,963 | 142 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 139 |
| 2005 | £161,800 | £287,939 | 102 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 119 |
| 2003 | £141,000 | £259,756 | 135 |
| 2002 | £119,000 | £223,897 | 161 |
| 2001 | £92,500 | £177,827 | 140 |
| 2000 | £87,400 | £171,523 | 128 |
| 1999 | £86,000 | £171,394 | 174 |
| 1998 | £71,500 | £144,328 | 106 |
| 1997 | £63,000 | £129,200 | 146 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 127 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical GL18 home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £256,200 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 80%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 31% 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 GL18 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 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−21.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £380,000 against £65,000 for a flat, 5.8 times the price.
Median by property type, GL18
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 | £380,000 | 19 | 1,944 |
| Semi-detached | £249,000 | 14 | 1,170 |
| Terraced | £189,000 | 10 | 942 |
| Flats | £65,000 | 5 | 235 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −11.7% | −13.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.8% | −7.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +0.4% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in GL18
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
GL18 recorded 84 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 138 sales a year recently, against 133 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the GL18 market
This is a thin market: 84 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. 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. In its area's price order GL18 comes 24 of 27, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What homes rent for around GL18
The local authority for GL18 is Forest of Dean, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £823 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £590 a month here against £1,442 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Forest of Dean
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £256,200 median sold price, £823 a month is £9,876 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
GL18 (Dymock): the questions that come up
Is GL18 (Dymock) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL18 (Dymock)?
Are property prices falling in GL18 (Dymock)?
What happens to GL18 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 31% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in GL18 today
Everything above is what homes in GL18 sold for. The live side of the market holds 45 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the GL18 median sold price.
Set against 84 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 45 homes on the market here are roughly 6 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
Of everything listed here, 10% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 GL18 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.
What is for sale against what sells in GL18
Sellers of semi-detached homes in GL18 have company: 36% of current listings against 27% of recent sales. When a type is offered faster than it sells, the buyer usually holds the better hand.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 47% | 42% |
| Semi-detached | 36% | 27% |
| Terraced | 17% | 23% |
| Flats | 0% | 8% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side.
Month by month: when GL18 sells
Take the 845 GL18 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 14.4% of the total, August trails with 5.8%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 52 | 6.2% |
| February | 70 | 8.3% |
| March | 122 | 14.4% |
| April | 69 | 8.2% |
| May | 61 | 7.2% |
| June | 110 | 13.0% |
| July | 52 | 6.2% |
| August | 49 | 5.8% |
| September | 73 | 8.6% |
| October | 55 | 6.5% |
| November | 69 | 8.2% |
| December | 63 | 7.5% |
What another bedroom costs in GL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the GL area, 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
GL18 ranks 27 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside GL18, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How GL18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the GL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| GL9 | £616,200 | +38% |
| GL55 | £575,000 | +18% |
| GL53 | £509,000 | +13% |
| GL54 | £435,000 | -3% |
| GL56 | £427,500 | +14% |
| GL7 | £425,000 | +12% |
| GL8 | £395,000 | +0% |
| GL6 | £390,000 | -8% |
| GL12 | £388,800 | +10% |
| GL19 | £372,500 | -8% |
| GL10 | £343,000 | +10% |
| GL11 | £343,000 | +14% |
| GL52 | £335,000 | +4% |
| GL5 | £322,500 | +17% |
| GL13 | £313,800 | +14% |
| GL2 | £303,500 | +15% |
| GL3 | £300,000 | +9% |
| GL51 | £300,000 | +11% |
| GL50 | £296,800 | +4% |
| GL20 | £290,000 | +12% |
| GL4 | £269,000 | +17% |
| GL16 | £265,000 | -3% |
| GL15 | £263,000 | +2% |
| GL18 (this report) | £256,200 | -13% |
Selling in GL18? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at GL18's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GL18. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GL18 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.