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Aldsworth market report GL54 2, Cheltenham
The standing GL54 2 (Aldsworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,569 HM Land Registry entries for GL54 2 (Cheltenham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical GL54 2 (Cheltenham) home changed hands for £407,500 in 2026 (median of 42 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £603,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,310 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,569 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
GL54 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside GL54 (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 GL54 2 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.
GL54 2 sold prices: where the market stands
In the GL54 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £407,500, from 42 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £603,800, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in GL54 2
By floor space, homes in GL54 2 have sold for about £4,310 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, GL54 2 sits 43% above the national market.
GL54 2's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £407,500 | £407,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 116 |
| 2024 | £442,000 | £469,937 | 105 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 129 |
| 2022 | £420,000 | £492,498 | 119 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 166 |
| 2020 | £353,900 | £459,193 | 104 |
| 2019 | £347,500 | £455,489 | 138 |
| 2018 | £375,000 | £499,882 | 171 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 229 |
| 2016 | £376,200 | £526,308 | 238 |
| 2015 | £320,000 | £452,160 | 203 |
| 2014 | £326,200 | £462,772 | 170 |
| 2013 | £290,000 | £417,281 | 144 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 106 |
| 2011 | £271,500 | £409,861 | 100 |
| 2010 | £289,000 | £453,226 | 95 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 133 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 100 |
| 2007 | £300,000 | £508,884 | 138 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 149 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 127 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 140 |
| 2003 | £225,000 | £414,505 | 133 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 181 |
| 2001 | £137,500 | £264,337 | 141 |
| 2000 | £135,000 | £264,938 | 159 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 196 |
| 1998 | £94,000 | £189,746 | 174 |
| 1997 | £76,000 | £155,861 | 210 |
| 1996 | £76,500 | £161,335 | 108 |
| 1995 | £83,000 | £180,429 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical GL54 2 home went from £83,000 in 1995 to £407,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 126%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the GL54 2 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 2003 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−16.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.4% | −9.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.8% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 42 GL54 2 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 146 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
The shape of the GL54 2 market
This is a thin market: 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
What homes rent for around GL54 2
GL54 2 falls under Cotswold, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,255 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £871 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,044 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cotswold
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £407,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,255 a month (£15,060 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
What people ask about GL54 2 (Aldsworth)
Is GL54 2 (Aldsworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GL54 2 (Aldsworth)?
Are property prices falling in GL54 2 (Aldsworth)?
Are GL54 2 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in GL54 today
The live side of the market holds 83 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GL54 district, not just GL54 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 19% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every GL54 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: GL prices by size
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%) | — |
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.
GL area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in GL54
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of GL54, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL54 1 | £484,700 | 12 |
| GL54 3 | £435,500 | 21 |
| GL54 4 | £470,000 | 11 |
| GL54 5 | £395,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full GL54 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GL54 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in GL54 2: 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 GL54 2'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 GL54 2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GL54 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every GL54 2 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.
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.