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Amberley market report GL5, Stroud
The GL5 (Amberley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 18,111 HM Land Registry entries for GL5 (Stroud), 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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in GL5 (Stroud) came in at £320,000, out of 183 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £394,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,770 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 18,111 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
GL5 is the postcode district covering Amberley, Bourne, Bowbridge in Stroud. 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 GL5 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 GL5 prices, from the sold record
The GL5 median stands at £320,000 for 2026, built from 183 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £394,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
GL5 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of GL5 sales average about £3,770 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, GL5 sits 12% above the national market.
The price of a typical GL5 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 183 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 502 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 457 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 437 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 519 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 624 |
| 2020 | £265,000 | £343,843 | 425 |
| 2019 | £239,400 | £313,796 | 510 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 533 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 578 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 605 |
| 2015 | £206,000 | £291,078 | 550 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 691 |
| 2013 | £176,500 | £253,966 | 525 |
| 2012 | £172,800 | £254,340 | 448 |
| 2011 | £168,700 | £254,672 | 432 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 461 |
| 2009 | £159,000 | £255,594 | 457 |
| 2008 | £172,000 | £281,944 | 408 |
| 2007 | £188,000 | £318,900 | 713 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 778 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 646 |
| 2004 | £158,300 | £287,504 | 660 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 659 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 813 |
| 2001 | £92,500 | £177,827 | 669 |
| 2000 | £84,200 | £165,243 | 636 |
| 1999 | £70,100 | £139,706 | 751 |
| 1998 | £62,500 | £126,161 | 615 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 743 |
| 1996 | £53,500 | £112,829 | 627 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 456 |
In cash terms the typical GL5 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 183%: 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 12% 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 GL5 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 (+29.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.5%). 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, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £535,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, GL5
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 | £535,000 | 56 | 4,648 |
| Semi-detached | £336,800 | 60 | 6,187 |
| Terraced | £276,200 | 40 | 4,432 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 27 | 2,844 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 401 GL5 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 697 sales a year before the financial crisis and 420 a year over the last five. 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 homes rent for around GL5
For renting purposes GL5 sits in Stroud. The ONS average private rent there is £1,039 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £742 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,660, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Stroud
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £320,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,039 a month (£12,468 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
GL5 (Amberley): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in GL5 (Amberley)?
Are property prices falling in GL5 (Amberley)?
Is GL5 (Amberley) a good place to buy a house?
Where do GL5 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in GL5 right now
Everything above is what homes in GL5 sold for. The live side of the market holds 192 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 25% above the GL5 median sold price.
35% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Stanley End, Selsley, Selsley
- Laggar Lane, South Woodchester, Stroud, Gloucestershire
- Stroud, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
"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 GL5 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
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%) | — |
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
GL5 ranks 5 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.
Winners and losers across the GL area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside GL5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GL5 1 | £312,000 | 59 |
| GL5 2 | £412,500 | 28 |
| GL5 3 | £353,800 | 26 |
| GL5 4 | £280,000 | 45 |
| GL5 5 | £540,000 | 25 |
How GL5 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 (this report) | £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% |
| GL17 | £260,000 | +4% |
Selling a home in GL5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GL5, open the average prices map and zoom from the GL5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GL5 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 GL5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GL5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GL5 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.