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Barnwood market report GL3, Gloucester
The standing GL3 (Barnwood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 19,772 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in GL3 (Gloucester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in GL3 (Gloucester) came in at £297,700, out of 252 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £314,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,430 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 19,772 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
GL3 is a postcode district covering Barnwood, Brockworth, Churchdown in Gloucester. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where GL3 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 GL3 prices, from the sold record
Across 252 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) GL3 home went for £297,700. The mean is £314,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in GL3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in GL3 costs about £3,430 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts GL3 4% above the country at large.
The price of a typical GL3 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £297,700 | £297,700 | 252 |
| 2025 | £304,000 | £311,270 | 641 |
| 2024 | £305,000 | £324,278 | 785 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 688 |
| 2022 | £305,000 | £357,647 | 807 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 928 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 566 |
| 2019 | £235,100 | £308,160 | 694 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 730 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 702 |
| 2016 | £212,200 | £296,870 | 686 |
| 2015 | £205,000 | £289,665 | 678 |
| 2014 | £187,000 | £265,292 | 690 |
| 2013 | £178,000 | £256,124 | 573 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 447 |
| 2011 | £161,500 | £243,803 | 458 |
| 2010 | £169,000 | £265,036 | 482 |
| 2009 | £156,500 | £251,575 | 500 |
| 2008 | £163,000 | £267,191 | 418 |
| 2007 | £172,500 | £292,608 | 679 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 759 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 501 |
| 2004 | £142,000 | £257,900 | 570 |
| 2003 | £127,500 | £234,886 | 554 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 695 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 680 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 672 |
| 1999 | £68,600 | £136,716 | 780 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 561 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 630 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 529 |
| 1995 | £53,500 | £116,301 | 437 |
In cash terms the typical GL3 home went from £53,500 in 1995 to £297,700 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 156%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the GL3 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 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−5.5%). 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) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £425,000 against £160,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, GL3
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 | £425,000 | 55 | 4,806 |
| Semi-detached | £310,000 | 111 | 8,877 |
| Terraced | £256,000 | 56 | 4,065 |
| Flats | £160,000 | 30 | 2,024 |
Sales activity in GL3
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
GL3 recorded 514 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 635 sales a year recently, against 639 a year before 2008. 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.
What tenants pay around GL3
For renting purposes GL3 sits in Tewkesbury. The ONS average private rent there is £1,020 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £696 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,663, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tewkesbury
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £297,700 median purchase price, a rent of £1,020 a month (£12,240 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
GL3 (Barnwood): the questions that come up
Is GL3 (Barnwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL3 (Barnwood)?
Are property prices falling in GL3 (Barnwood)?
What happens to GL3 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in GL3 now
Everything above is what homes in GL3 sold for. The live side of the market holds 111 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the GL3 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Ermin Park, Brockworth, Gloucester, Brockworth
- Brandon Close, Churchdown, Gloucester, Churchdown
- Ermin Street, Brockworth, Gloucester, Brockworth
"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 GL3 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.
What another bedroom costs in GL
Real sold prices by size across the GL area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
GL3 ranks 14 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 GL3, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL3 1 | £255,000 | 43 |
| GL3 2 | £333,000 | 42 |
| GL3 3 | £297,000 | 61 |
| GL3 4 | £310,000 | 105 |
| GL3 5 | £268,000 | 1 |
How GL3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the GL area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £297,700 | +8% |
| GL50 | £287,000 | +0% |
| GL20 | £280,000 | +8% |
| GL18 | £273,900 | -7% |
| GL15 | £273,000 | +6% |
| GL4 | £270,000 | +17% |
| GL17 | £260,000 | +4% |
Thinking of selling in GL3? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in GL3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GL3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GL3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim GL3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GL3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual GL3 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.