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Prestbury market report GL52 3, Cheltenham
The GL52 3 (Prestbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,586 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in GL52 3 (Cheltenham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices 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 GL52 3 (Cheltenham) came in at £442,500, out of 36 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £515,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,280 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,586 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 GL52 3 is a single group of streets within GL52 (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 GL52 3 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 a home in GL52 3 sells for
Take the 36 registered 2026 sales in GL52 3 and the middle price, the median, is £442,500. The mean lands at £515,800, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
GL52 3 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in GL52 3 have sold for about £4,280 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving GL52 3 55% above the national figure.
A typical GL52 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £442,500 | £442,500 | 36 |
| 2025 | £401,000 | £410,589 | 104 |
| 2024 | £438,000 | £465,684 | 121 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 103 |
| 2022 | £381,000 | £446,766 | 118 |
| 2021 | £437,500 | £553,931 | 142 |
| 2020 | £362,000 | £469,702 | 95 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 110 |
| 2018 | £364,500 | £485,885 | 170 |
| 2017 | £385,000 | £525,101 | 173 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 123 |
| 2015 | £304,000 | £429,552 | 112 |
| 2014 | £270,700 | £384,035 | 108 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 93 |
| 2012 | £225,000 | £331,172 | 85 |
| 2011 | £244,800 | £369,554 | 100 |
| 2010 | £235,000 | £368,541 | 73 |
| 2009 | £246,700 | £396,572 | 85 |
| 2008 | £275,500 | £451,603 | 74 |
| 2007 | £262,500 | £445,273 | 116 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 136 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 127 |
| 2004 | £230,000 | £417,725 | 135 |
| 2003 | £192,000 | £353,711 | 115 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 121 |
| 2001 | £134,500 | £258,569 | 101 |
| 2000 | £135,000 | £264,938 | 103 |
| 1999 | £99,500 | £198,298 | 130 |
| 1998 | £92,000 | £185,709 | 120 |
| 1997 | £99,000 | £203,029 | 134 |
| 1996 | £79,000 | £166,607 | 117 |
| 1995 | £72,200 | £156,952 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical GL52 3 home went from £72,200 in 1995 to £442,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 182%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GL52 3 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 2000 (+35.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−12.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +10.3% | +7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in GL52 3
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 36 sales completed in GL52 3. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 96 sales a year recently, against 119 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market GL52 3 is
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GL52 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within GL52, this sector trades 33% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around GL52 3
GL52 3 falls under Cheltenham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,249 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £442,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. 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.
Real searches this page gets asked
These are the recorded searches for the wider GL52 report family, answered with this page's own figures.
To the person who searched rental valuation cheltenham
: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £442,500 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Asked and answered: GL52 3 (Prestbury)
Are property prices falling in GL52 3 (Prestbury)?
Is GL52 3 (Prestbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL52 3 (Prestbury)?
Will GL52 3 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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 you could buy in GL52 now
The live side of the market holds 365 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GL52 district, not just GL52 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Evesham Road, Cheltenham, Cheltenham
- Ashfield Close, Cheltenham, Cheltenham
- Keepers Mill, Cheltenham, 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 GL52 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
Real sold prices by size across the GL area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the GL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, GL area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in GL52
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of GL52, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL52 2 | £295,000 | 50 |
| GL52 5 | £312,800 | 48 |
| GL52 6 | £418,000 | 71 |
| GL52 7 | £320,000 | 35 |
| GL52 8 | £286,500 | 62 |
| GL52 9 | £517,000 | 15 |
Zoom out to the full GL52 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GL52 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in GL52 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GL52 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the GL52 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GL52 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working GL52 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GL52 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GL52 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GL52 3 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.