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Badgeworth market report GL51, Cheltenham
The standing GL51 (Badgeworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 28,805 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in GL51 (Cheltenham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 240 registered 2026 sales put the GL51 (Cheltenham) median at £299,000, up 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £334,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,760 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 28,805 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
GL51 is a postcode district covering Badgeworth, Bamfurlong, Bentham in Cheltenham. 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 GL51 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.
The going rate for a home in GL51
The 2026 median for GL51 is £299,000, taken from 240 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £334,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in GL51
By floor space, homes in GL51 have sold for about £3,760 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so GL51 trades 5% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical GL51 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £299,000 | £299,000 | 240 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 803 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 715 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 583 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 792 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 974 |
| 2020 | £249,500 | £323,731 | 688 |
| 2019 | £238,500 | £312,616 | 772 |
| 2018 | £235,200 | £313,526 | 828 |
| 2017 | £225,000 | £306,877 | 845 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 1,004 |
| 2015 | £197,000 | £278,361 | 898 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 929 |
| 2013 | £182,000 | £261,880 | 831 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 667 |
| 2011 | £167,500 | £252,861 | 612 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 663 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 723 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 585 |
| 2007 | £172,200 | £292,099 | 1,282 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 1,374 |
| 2005 | £163,000 | £290,074 | 1,054 |
| 2004 | £153,000 | £277,878 | 1,245 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 1,157 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 1,181 |
| 2001 | £93,000 | £178,788 | 1,223 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 1,011 |
| 1999 | £69,500 | £138,510 | 1,191 |
| 1998 | £61,400 | £123,940 | 1,024 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 1,125 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 966 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 820 |
In cash terms the typical GL51 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £299,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 150%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GL51 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 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.1%). 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, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £527,500 against £147,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, GL51
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 | £527,500 | 40 | 5,244 |
| Semi-detached | £334,500 | 95 | 10,789 |
| Terraced | £260,000 | 62 | 8,018 |
| Flats | £147,000 | 43 | 4,754 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.3% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in GL51
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
GL51 recorded 562 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,191 sales a year before the financial crisis and 627 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.
The rental side of GL51
For renting purposes GL51 sits in Cheltenham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,249 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £861 a month here against £1,892 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheltenham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,249 a month is £14,988 a year, which against the £299,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about GL51 (Badgeworth)
Are property prices falling in GL51 (Badgeworth)?
Is GL51 (Badgeworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL51 (Badgeworth)?
Will GL51 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in GL51 right now
Everything above is what homes in GL51 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 122 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 30% above the GL51 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Ennerdale Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
- Planets Lane, Cheltenham
- Hatherley, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
"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 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.
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. 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
GL51 ranks 11 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 GL51, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 8 | £313,000 | 37 |
| GL51 9 | £260,000 | 31 |
How GL51 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 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in GL51? 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GL51's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GL51 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim GL51.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual GL51 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.