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Caudle Green market report GL53 8, Cheltenham
The standing GL53 8 (Caudle Green) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,137 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in GL53 8 (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 2026 median for GL53 8 (Cheltenham) is £585,000, from 24 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier; the mean is £617,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,840 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,137 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like GL53 8 is a single group of streets within GL53 (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 GL53 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.
GL53 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for GL53 8 is £585,000, taken from 24 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £617,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
GL53 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, GL53 8 homes have averaged around £4,840 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so GL53 8 trades 105% above the country as a whole.
GL53 8's median sold price, 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 | £585,000 | £585,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £530,000 | £542,674 | 88 |
| 2024 | £485,000 | £515,655 | 78 |
| 2023 | £485,000 | £532,897 | 67 |
| 2022 | £473,500 | £555,233 | 87 |
| 2021 | £478,000 | £605,210 | 117 |
| 2020 | £415,000 | £538,471 | 80 |
| 2019 | £380,000 | £498,089 | 79 |
| 2018 | £375,000 | £499,882 | 92 |
| 2017 | £415,000 | £566,018 | 93 |
| 2016 | £347,500 | £486,156 | 92 |
| 2015 | £320,000 | £452,160 | 112 |
| 2014 | £277,500 | £393,682 | 101 |
| 2013 | £290,100 | £417,425 | 93 |
| 2012 | £263,000 | £387,103 | 86 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 74 |
| 2010 | £267,500 | £419,509 | 98 |
| 2009 | £222,500 | £357,671 | 86 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 73 |
| 2007 | £242,800 | £411,856 | 126 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 142 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 105 |
| 2004 | £221,500 | £402,287 | 116 |
| 2003 | £176,500 | £325,156 | 103 |
| 2002 | £173,000 | £325,498 | 117 |
| 2001 | £137,500 | £264,337 | 145 |
| 2000 | £119,200 | £233,930 | 118 |
| 1999 | £106,200 | £211,651 | 144 |
| 1998 | £93,000 | £187,727 | 122 |
| 1997 | £78,500 | £160,988 | 99 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 93 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 87 |
In cash terms the typical GL53 8 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £585,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 314%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 3% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the GL53 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 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.0%). 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) | +10.4% | +7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.1% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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, 24 sales completed in GL53 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 122 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
Rents around GL53 8
The local authority for GL53 8 is Cheltenham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £585,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,249 a month (£14,988 a year) works out at a 2.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the GL53 8 market
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GL53 8 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 GL53, this sector trades 11% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
GL53 8 (Caudle Green): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in GL53 8 (Caudle Green)?
Is GL53 8 (Caudle Green) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL53 8 (Caudle Green)?
Are GL53 8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in GL53 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 131 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GL53 district, not just GL53 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% 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.
- Hartley Close, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
- Bath Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
- Elkstone, Cheltenham, GL53
"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 GL53 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.
What another bedroom costs in GL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the GL area, 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%) | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the GL area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in GL53
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are GL53's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL53 0 | £538,500 | 38 |
| GL53 7 | £358,000 | 32 |
| GL53 9 | £622,500 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full GL53 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GL53 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in GL53 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at GL53 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim GL53 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GL53 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual GL53 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.