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Caudle Green market report GL53, Cheltenham
The standing GL53 (Caudle Green) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 12,979 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GL53 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in GL53 (Cheltenham) sold for £526,000 in 2026, the median of 130 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £579,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,900 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 12,979 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district GL53 covering Caudle Green, Charlton Kings, Coberley sits in Cheltenham. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where GL53 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 buyers actually paid in GL53
In the GL53 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £526,000, from 130 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £579,300, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
GL53 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put GL53 at roughly £4,900 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving GL53 85% above the national figure.
The price of a typical GL53 home, 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 | £526,000 | £526,000 | 130 |
| 2025 | £500,000 | £511,957 | 363 |
| 2024 | £535,000 | £568,815 | 347 |
| 2023 | £535,800 | £588,713 | 314 |
| 2022 | £500,000 | £586,307 | 414 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 496 |
| 2020 | £450,000 | £583,884 | 388 |
| 2019 | £420,000 | £550,519 | 363 |
| 2018 | £412,500 | £549,870 | 407 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 415 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 450 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 450 |
| 2014 | £335,000 | £475,256 | 476 |
| 2013 | £295,000 | £424,476 | 379 |
| 2012 | £280,000 | £412,125 | 331 |
| 2011 | £271,500 | £409,861 | 320 |
| 2010 | £280,000 | £439,112 | 343 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 320 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 271 |
| 2007 | £270,000 | £457,995 | 459 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 579 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 420 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 448 |
| 2003 | £195,000 | £359,237 | 426 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 437 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 516 |
| 2000 | £126,800 | £248,845 | 438 |
| 1999 | £112,000 | £223,210 | 550 |
| 1998 | £91,200 | £184,094 | 466 |
| 1997 | £79,500 | £163,038 | 476 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 418 |
| 1995 | £69,000 | £149,995 | 369 |
In cash terms the typical GL53 home went from £69,000 in 1995 to £526,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 251%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the GL53 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 1999 (+22.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.4%). 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, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £772,500 against £168,200 for a flat, 4.6 times the price.
Median by property type, GL53
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 | £772,500 | 44 | 3,593 |
| Semi-detached | £530,000 | 47 | 4,449 |
| Terraced | £405,000 | 27 | 3,344 |
| Flats | £168,200 | 12 | 1,593 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.2% | +2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in GL53
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.
The register shows 300 GL53 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 465 sales a year before the financial crisis and 314 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.
Rents around GL53
The local authority for GL53 is Cheltenham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,249 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £861 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,892, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cheltenham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £526,000 median sold price, £1,249 a month is £14,988 a year, a gross yield of 2.8%: 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.
How GL53 trades
GL53 sits 3 of 27 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Common questions on GL53 (Caudle Green)
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What happens to GL53 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
GL53's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in GL53 sold for. The live side of the market holds 131 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 57% above the GL53 median sold price.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in GL: the cost
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
GL53 ranks 4 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.
Winners and losers across the GL area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside GL53, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL53 0 | £538,500 | 38 |
| GL53 7 | £358,000 | 32 |
| GL53 8 | £585,000 | 24 |
| GL53 9 | £622,500 | 36 |
How GL53 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 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Selling in GL53? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GL53, open the average prices map and zoom from the GL53 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GL53 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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Two maps carry on from here: every GL53 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.