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Caudle Green market report GL53 9, Cheltenham
The GL53 9 (Caudle Green) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,450 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GL53 9 (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 2026 median for GL53 9 (Cheltenham) is £622,500, from 36 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £687,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,010 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,450 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
GL53 9 is one sector of GL53 (Cheltenham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where GL53 9 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 GL53 9 homes really sell for
In the GL53 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £622,500, from 36 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £687,700, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in GL53 9
Measured by floor area, the last five years of GL53 9 sales average about £5,010 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving GL53 9 118% above the national figure.
GL53 9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £622,500 | £622,500 | 36 |
| 2025 | £585,000 | £598,989 | 70 |
| 2024 | £750,000 | £797,404 | 73 |
| 2023 | £704,500 | £774,073 | 68 |
| 2022 | £597,500 | £700,637 | 103 |
| 2021 | £565,000 | £715,363 | 89 |
| 2020 | £510,000 | £661,736 | 76 |
| 2019 | £465,000 | £609,504 | 47 |
| 2018 | £436,000 | £581,196 | 85 |
| 2017 | £435,000 | £593,296 | 73 |
| 2016 | £441,200 | £617,243 | 88 |
| 2015 | £350,500 | £495,257 | 92 |
| 2014 | £352,500 | £500,083 | 88 |
| 2013 | £373,100 | £536,854 | 90 |
| 2012 | £352,500 | £518,836 | 62 |
| 2011 | £334,000 | £504,212 | 74 |
| 2010 | £326,000 | £511,252 | 70 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 53 |
| 2008 | £290,000 | £475,371 | 59 |
| 2007 | £350,000 | £593,697 | 83 |
| 2006 | £305,000 | £529,441 | 110 |
| 2005 | £276,000 | £491,169 | 87 |
| 2004 | £270,000 | £490,373 | 86 |
| 2003 | £235,000 | £432,927 | 73 |
| 2002 | £192,500 | £362,187 | 55 |
| 2001 | £147,500 | £283,561 | 96 |
| 2000 | £145,000 | £284,563 | 72 |
| 1999 | £140,000 | £279,013 | 91 |
| 1998 | £109,000 | £220,024 | 78 |
| 1997 | £95,500 | £195,851 | 77 |
| 1996 | £94,000 | £198,242 | 76 |
| 1995 | £87,500 | £190,212 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical GL53 9 home went from £87,500 in 1995 to £622,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 227%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the GL53 9 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 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−22.0%). 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) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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
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 GL53 9. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 70 sales a year recently, against 83 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 GL53 9 is
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GL53 9 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 GL53, this sector trades 18% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of GL53 9
The local authority for GL53 9 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 £622,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,249 a month (£14,988 a year) works out at a 2.4% 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.
Common questions on GL53 9 (Caudle Green)
Is GL53 9 (Caudle Green) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL53 9 (Caudle Green)?
Are property prices falling in GL53 9 (Caudle Green)?
What happens to GL53 9 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
On the market in GL53 today
The live side of the market holds 131 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GL53 district, not just GL53 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Hartley Close, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
- Bath Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
- Elkstone, Cheltenham, GL53
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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in GL
Real sold prices by size across the GL area, straight 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. 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.
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 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 8 | £585,000 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full GL53 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GL53 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in GL53 9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GL53 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the GL53 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GL53 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual GL53 9 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.