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Badgeworth market report GL51 7, Cheltenham
The GL51 7 (Badgeworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,854 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GL51 7 (Cheltenham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for GL51 7 (Cheltenham) is £210,000, from 25 registered sales, down 17% on five years earlier; the mean is £229,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,240 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,854 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
GL51 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside GL51 (Cheltenham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where GL51 7 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.
GL51 7 sold prices: where the market stands
In the GL51 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £210,000, from 25 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £229,600, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in GL51 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of GL51 7 sales average about £3,240 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, GL51 7 runs 26% below it.
A typical GL51 7 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £210,000 | £210,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £254,200 | £260,279 | 80 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 66 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 55 |
| 2022 | £240,100 | £281,545 | 106 |
| 2021 | £253,800 | £321,344 | 94 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 63 |
| 2019 | £215,000 | £281,814 | 71 |
| 2018 | £195,000 | £259,939 | 86 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 91 |
| 2016 | £166,500 | £232,935 | 124 |
| 2015 | £165,500 | £233,852 | 84 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 97 |
| 2013 | £167,600 | £241,160 | 86 |
| 2012 | £153,800 | £226,374 | 65 |
| 2011 | £144,500 | £218,139 | 42 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 69 |
| 2009 | £147,500 | £237,108 | 79 |
| 2008 | £141,000 | £231,129 | 53 |
| 2007 | £139,800 | £237,140 | 132 |
| 2006 | £134,900 | £234,169 | 143 |
| 2005 | £161,000 | £286,515 | 143 |
| 2004 | £119,700 | £217,399 | 118 |
| 2003 | £118,500 | £218,306 | 166 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 173 |
| 2001 | £77,500 | £148,990 | 90 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 84 |
| 1999 | £61,800 | £123,164 | 92 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 73 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 87 |
| 1996 | £45,200 | £95,325 | 68 |
| 1995 | £41,500 | £90,215 | 49 |
In cash terms the typical GL51 7 home went from £41,500 in 1995 to £210,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 133%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 35% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GL51 7 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 2005 (+34.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−17.4%). 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) | −17.4% | −19.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.7% | −8.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 25 sales completed in GL51 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 131 sales a year before the financial crisis and 66 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 homes rent for around GL51 7
The local authority for GL51 7 is Cheltenham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,249 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £861 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,892, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheltenham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £210,000 median sold price, £1,249 a month is £14,988 a year, a gross yield of 7.1%: 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.
The shape of the GL51 7 market
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GL51 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within GL51, this sector trades 30% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: GL51 7 (Badgeworth)
Is GL51 7 (Badgeworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL51 7 (Badgeworth)?
Are property prices falling in GL51 7 (Badgeworth)?
Where do GL51 7 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 17% over five years in cash but down 35% 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 GL51 now
The live side of the market holds 122 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GL51 district, not just GL51 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% 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.
- Ennerdale Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
- Planets Lane, Cheltenham
- Hatherley, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
"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 GL51 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in GL
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%) | — |
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
The spread across the GL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
GL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in GL51
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of GL51, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL51 0 | £272,500 | 34 |
| GL51 3 | £331,800 | 50 |
| GL51 4 | £585,000 | 12 |
| GL51 6 | £373,000 | 51 |
| GL51 8 | £313,000 | 37 |
| GL51 9 | £260,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full GL51 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GL51 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in GL51 7? 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 GL51 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GL51 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GL51 7 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 GL51 7.
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The live map plots every individual GL51 7 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.