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Fairford market report GL7 2, Cirencester
The GL7 2 (Fairford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,328 registered sales in GL7 2 (Cirencester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for GL7 2 (Cirencester) is £545,000, from 29 registered sales, up 79% on five years earlier; the mean is £510,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,260 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,328 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
GL7 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside GL7 (Cirencester). 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 GL7 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.
What a home in GL7 2 sells for
The 2026 median for GL7 2 is £545,000, taken from 29 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £510,800, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
GL7 2 prices by floor area
A square metre of GL7 2 home has cost about £4,260 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, GL7 2 sits 91% above the national market.
GL7 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £545,000 | £545,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 93 |
| 2024 | £347,000 | £368,932 | 87 |
| 2023 | £360,000 | £395,552 | 79 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 89 |
| 2021 | £305,000 | £386,169 | 124 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 99 |
| 2019 | £306,400 | £401,617 | 92 |
| 2018 | £342,500 | £456,559 | 104 |
| 2017 | £269,200 | £367,162 | 98 |
| 2016 | £279,000 | £390,324 | 110 |
| 2015 | £279,000 | £394,227 | 108 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 113 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 81 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 84 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 87 |
| 2010 | £249,700 | £391,594 | 74 |
| 2009 | £229,500 | £368,923 | 92 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 77 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 129 |
| 2006 | £213,000 | £369,741 | 138 |
| 2005 | £201,800 | £359,123 | 106 |
| 2004 | £198,000 | £359,607 | 127 |
| 2003 | £176,000 | £324,235 | 119 |
| 2002 | £132,000 | £248,357 | 129 |
| 2001 | £117,000 | £224,927 | 138 |
| 2000 | £112,000 | £219,800 | 124 |
| 1999 | £99,800 | £198,896 | 136 |
| 1998 | £83,800 | £169,156 | 124 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 116 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 132 |
| 1995 | £77,700 | £168,908 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical GL7 2 home went from £77,700 in 1995 to £545,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 223%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the GL7 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 2026 (+41.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.9%). 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) | +41.6% | +38.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +12.3% | +7.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.9% | +3.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 29 sales completed in GL7 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 126 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 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.
What homes rent for around GL7 2
For renting purposes GL7 2 sits in Cotswold. The ONS average private rent there is £1,255 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,255 a month is £15,060 a year, which against the £545,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the GL7 2 market
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GL7 2 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 GL7, this sector trades 28% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on GL7 2 (Fairford)
Are property prices falling in GL7 2 (Fairford)?
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How much did a house sell for in GL7 2 (Fairford)?
Are GL7 2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 79% over five years in cash and up 41% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in GL7 right now
The live side of the market holds 120 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GL7 district, not just GL7 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 GL7 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.
What another bedroom costs in GL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the GL area. 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. 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.
GL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in GL7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are GL7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL7 1 | £345,000 | 91 |
| GL7 3 | £475,000 | 23 |
| GL7 4 | £477,500 | 25 |
| GL7 5 | £530,000 | 42 |
| GL7 6 | £537,500 | 20 |
| GL7 7 | £365,000 | 3 |
Zoom out to the full GL7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GL7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in GL7 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 GL7 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.
Estate agents working GL7 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GL7 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GL7 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual GL7 2 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.
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.