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Badgeworth market report GL51 8, Cheltenham
The standing GL51 8 (Badgeworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,758 HM Land Registry entries for GL51 8 (Cheltenham), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in GL51 8 (Cheltenham) came in at £313,000, out of 37 registered, up 19% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £342,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,500 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,758 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like GL51 8 is a single group of streets within GL51 (Cheltenham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where GL51 8 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.
What buyers actually paid in GL51 8
Across 37 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) GL51 8 home went for £313,000. The mean is £342,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
GL51 8 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in GL51 8 costs about £3,500 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 GL51 8 10% above the country at large.
The price of a typical GL51 8 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 | £313,000 | £313,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 109 |
| 2024 | £301,500 | £320,556 | 99 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 98 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 106 |
| 2021 | £262,600 | £332,485 | 137 |
| 2020 | £238,800 | £309,848 | 102 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 135 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 134 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 167 |
| 2016 | £222,600 | £311,420 | 197 |
| 2015 | £203,000 | £286,839 | 134 |
| 2014 | £181,800 | £257,915 | 108 |
| 2013 | £171,000 | £246,052 | 90 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 89 |
| 2011 | £161,500 | £243,803 | 62 |
| 2010 | £160,000 | £250,921 | 69 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 75 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 69 |
| 2007 | £174,000 | £295,152 | 159 |
| 2006 | £163,900 | £284,509 | 186 |
| 2005 | £157,000 | £279,397 | 148 |
| 2004 | £151,200 | £274,609 | 134 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 130 |
| 2002 | £122,000 | £229,542 | 151 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 134 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 121 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 141 |
| 1998 | £55,500 | £112,031 | 126 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 123 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 109 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 79 |
In cash terms the typical GL51 8 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £313,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 188%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GL51 8 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 (+28.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−11.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.3% | +1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 37 sales completed in GL51 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 145 sales a year before the financial crisis and 90 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.
The shape of the GL51 8 market
This is a thin market: 37 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.
The rental side of GL51 8
The local authority for GL51 8 is Cheltenham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,249 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £861 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,892 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheltenham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £313,000 median sold price, £1,249 a month is £14,988 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
GL51 8 (Badgeworth): the questions that come up
Is GL51 8 (Badgeworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL51 8 (Badgeworth)?
Are property prices falling in GL51 8 (Badgeworth)?
Are GL51 8 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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 is for sale in GL51 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 122 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GL51 district, not just GL51 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Ennerdale Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
- Planets Lane, Cheltenham
- Hatherley, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
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 GL51 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.
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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in GL51
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of GL51, one report each:
| 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 7 | £210,000 | 25 |
| 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.
Before you sell in GL51 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in GL51 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GL51 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GL51 8 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 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GL51 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GL51 8 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.
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.