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Abbeydale market report GL4, Gloucester
The GL4 (Abbeydale) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 25,995 HM Land Registry entries for GL4 (Gloucester), 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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for GL4 (Gloucester) is £270,000, from 252 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier; the mean is £298,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,300 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 25,995 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
GL4 is the postcode district covering Abbeydale, Abbeymead, Barnwood 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 GL4 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 GL4 prices, from the sold record
252 sales were registered in GL4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £270,000. The mean works out at £298,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in GL4
Per square metre, GL4 homes have averaged around £3,300 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, GL4 sits 5% below the national market.
GL4's median sold price, 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 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 252 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 701 |
| 2024 | £261,600 | £278,135 | 660 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 604 |
| 2022 | £260,500 | £305,466 | 709 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 844 |
| 2020 | £222,000 | £288,050 | 567 |
| 2019 | £205,000 | £268,706 | 719 |
| 2018 | £205,000 | £273,269 | 704 |
| 2017 | £194,000 | £264,597 | 753 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 755 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 786 |
| 2014 | £164,000 | £232,663 | 830 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 674 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 547 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 538 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 564 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 651 |
| 2008 | £155,000 | £254,078 | 570 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 1,022 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 1,125 |
| 2005 | £141,000 | £250,923 | 881 |
| 2004 | £142,500 | £258,808 | 1,112 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 1,121 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 1,071 |
| 2001 | £84,000 | £161,486 | 1,107 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 1,036 |
| 1999 | £64,000 | £127,549 | 1,216 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 1,195 |
| 1997 | £55,500 | £113,819 | 1,167 |
| 1996 | £53,400 | £112,618 | 880 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 634 |
In cash terms the typical GL4 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 139%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GL4 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.7%). 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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £412,500 against £140,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, GL4
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 | £412,500 | 74 | 8,174 |
| Semi-detached | £274,000 | 90 | 9,313 |
| Terraced | £215,000 | 59 | 6,616 |
| Flats | £140,000 | 29 | 1,892 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in GL4
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
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.
The register shows 510 GL4 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 1,059 sales a year before the financial crisis and 585 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.
Reading the GL4 market
In its area's price order GL4 comes 23 of 27, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Rents around GL4
The local authority for GL4 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.
Against the £270,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,105 a month (£13,260 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
Common questions on GL4 (Abbeydale)
Are property prices falling in GL4 (Abbeydale)?
Is GL4 (Abbeydale) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL4 (Abbeydale)?
Where do GL4 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in GL4 now
Everything above is what homes in GL4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 135 homes on the market right now, from 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 30% above the GL4 median sold price.
35% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every GL4 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the GL area, 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
GL4 ranks 3 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.
Five-year change in the median, GL area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside GL4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GL4 0 | £246,200 | 64 |
| GL4 3 | £250,000 | 21 |
| GL4 4 | £265,000 | 59 |
| GL4 5 | £330,000 | 49 |
| GL4 6 | £224,500 | 44 |
| GL4 8 | £623,000 | 15 |
How GL4 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 | £297,700 | +8% |
| GL50 | £287,000 | +0% |
| GL20 | £280,000 | +8% |
| GL18 | £273,900 | -7% |
| GL15 | £273,000 | +6% |
| GL4 (this report) | £270,000 | +17% |
| GL17 | £260,000 | +4% |
Before you sell in GL4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GL4, open the average prices map and zoom from the GL4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GL4 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 GL4.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GL4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GL4 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.
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.