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Prestbury market report GL52 5, Cheltenham
The GL52 5 (Prestbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,128 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GL52 5 (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 typical home in GL52 5 (Cheltenham) sold for £312,800 in 2026, the median of 48 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier. The mean was £328,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,530 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,128 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
GL52 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside GL52 (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 GL52 5 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 GL52 5
Take the 48 registered 2026 sales in GL52 5 and the middle price, the median, is £312,800. The mean lands at £328,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
GL52 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of GL52 5 home has cost about £3,530 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts GL52 5 10% above the country at large.
A typical GL52 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £312,800 | £312,800 | 48 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 137 |
| 2024 | £307,500 | £326,936 | 120 |
| 2023 | £283,200 | £311,168 | 118 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 137 |
| 2021 | £252,500 | £319,698 | 152 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 161 |
| 2019 | £242,500 | £317,859 | 175 |
| 2018 | £237,200 | £316,192 | 170 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 195 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 177 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 117 |
| 2014 | £188,500 | £267,420 | 141 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 135 |
| 2012 | £189,200 | £278,479 | 80 |
| 2011 | £181,000 | £273,240 | 114 |
| 2010 | £187,500 | £294,048 | 130 |
| 2009 | £179,000 | £287,744 | 147 |
| 2008 | £197,500 | £323,744 | 191 |
| 2007 | £198,200 | £336,202 | 252 |
| 2006 | £147,500 | £256,041 | 135 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 88 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 102 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 109 |
| 2002 | £111,000 | £208,846 | 103 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 129 |
| 2000 | £82,500 | £161,906 | 95 |
| 1999 | £71,000 | £141,499 | 125 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 93 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 101 |
| 1996 | £52,500 | £110,720 | 80 |
| 1995 | £56,500 | £122,822 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical GL52 5 home went from £56,500 in 1995 to £312,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 155%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GL52 5 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 2007 (+34.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What GL52 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.8% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
GL52 5 recorded 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 112 sales a year recently, against 127 a year before 2008. 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 kind of market GL52 5 is
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GL52 5 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.
What tenants pay around GL52 5
GL52 5 falls under Cheltenham, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £312,800 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.
GL52 5 (Prestbury): the questions that come up
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Searches that land here, answered
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 £312,800 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.
What happens to GL52 5 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in GL52 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 365 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GL52 district, not just GL52 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Evesham Road, Cheltenham, Cheltenham
- Ashfield Close, Cheltenham, Cheltenham
- Keepers Mill, Cheltenham, 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 GL52 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%) | — |
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.
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of GL52, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL52 2 | £295,000 | 50 |
| GL52 3 | £442,500 | 36 |
| 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 a home in GL52 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GL52 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the GL52 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GL52 5 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 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GL52 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GL52 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GL52 5 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.