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Fairford market report GL7 5, Cirencester
The GL7 5 (Fairford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,245 HM Land Registry entries for GL7 5 (Cirencester), 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for GL7 5 (Cirencester) is £530,000, from 42 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £657,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,980 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,245 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
GL7 5 is one sector of GL7 (Cirencester): 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 GL7 5 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.
Today's GL7 5 prices, from the sold record
In the GL7 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £530,000, from 42 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £657,500, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in GL7 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of GL7 5 sales average about £4,980 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 GL7 5 86% above the national figure.
A typical GL7 5 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £530,000 | £530,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £590,000 | £604,109 | 139 |
| 2024 | £566,000 | £601,774 | 105 |
| 2023 | £547,500 | £601,569 | 102 |
| 2022 | £575,000 | £674,253 | 146 |
| 2021 | £534,500 | £676,746 | 182 |
| 2020 | £481,000 | £624,107 | 122 |
| 2019 | £397,500 | £521,027 | 132 |
| 2018 | £401,500 | £535,207 | 114 |
| 2017 | £460,000 | £627,394 | 131 |
| 2016 | £360,000 | £503,644 | 161 |
| 2015 | £446,000 | £630,198 | 146 |
| 2014 | £395,000 | £560,377 | 151 |
| 2013 | £390,000 | £561,171 | 107 |
| 2012 | £321,800 | £473,649 | 96 |
| 2011 | £322,500 | £486,851 | 106 |
| 2010 | £300,000 | £470,477 | 98 |
| 2009 | £336,800 | £541,409 | 100 |
| 2008 | £290,000 | £475,371 | 87 |
| 2007 | £315,000 | £534,328 | 159 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 182 |
| 2005 | £296,200 | £527,117 | 100 |
| 2004 | £247,200 | £448,963 | 150 |
| 2003 | £244,000 | £449,507 | 171 |
| 2002 | £195,000 | £366,891 | 205 |
| 2001 | £190,000 | £365,265 | 186 |
| 2000 | £170,500 | £334,606 | 144 |
| 1999 | £155,000 | £308,907 | 157 |
| 1998 | £140,000 | £282,600 | 133 |
| 1997 | £123,200 | £252,658 | 144 |
| 1996 | £105,000 | £221,440 | 135 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 112 |
In cash terms the typical GL7 5 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £530,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 187%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 22% 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 GL7 5 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 2017 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−19.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What GL7 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.2% | −12.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The register shows 42 GL7 5 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 162 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 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 GL7 5
The local authority for GL7 5 is Cotswold, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,255 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £871 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,044, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cotswold
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £530,000 median sold price, £1,255 a month is £15,060 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.
Reading the GL7 5 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. 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. Against the GL7 district median, GL7 5 sits 25% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about GL7 5 (Fairford)
How much did a house sell for in GL7 5 (Fairford)?
Are property prices falling in GL7 5 (Fairford)?
Is GL7 5 (Fairford) a good place to buy a house?
Are GL7 5 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in GL7 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 120 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GL7 district, not just GL7 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 →
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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the GL area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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.
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.
Other sectors in GL7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of GL7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GL7 1 | £345,000 | 91 |
| GL7 2 | £545,000 | 29 |
| GL7 3 | £475,000 | 23 |
| GL7 4 | £477,500 | 25 |
| 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 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GL7 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the GL7 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GL7 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim GL7 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GL7 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every GL7 5 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.