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Fairford market report GL7, Cirencester
The GL7 (Fairford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 24,283 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GL7 (Cirencester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in GL7 (Cirencester) sold for £425,000 in 2026, the median of 234 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £502,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,380 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 24,283 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 GL7 covering Cirencester, Fairford sits in Cirencester. 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 GL7 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 GL7 homes really sell for
In the GL7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £425,000, from 234 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £502,200, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in GL7
The last five years of sales put GL7 at roughly £4,380 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, GL7 sits 49% above the national market.
GL7'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 234 |
| 2025 | £407,500 | £417,245 | 683 |
| 2024 | £420,000 | £446,546 | 610 |
| 2023 | £445,000 | £488,946 | 663 |
| 2022 | £420,000 | £492,498 | 745 |
| 2021 | £380,000 | £481,129 | 941 |
| 2020 | £380,000 | £493,058 | 683 |
| 2019 | £327,500 | £429,274 | 629 |
| 2018 | £340,000 | £453,226 | 719 |
| 2017 | £336,200 | £458,543 | 840 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 894 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 775 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 835 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 691 |
| 2012 | £244,200 | £359,432 | 626 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 611 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 556 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 517 |
| 2008 | £243,400 | £398,984 | 454 |
| 2007 | £234,000 | £396,929 | 911 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 1,017 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 719 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 877 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 909 |
| 2002 | £156,700 | £294,830 | 994 |
| 2001 | £135,000 | £259,531 | 983 |
| 2000 | £124,000 | £243,350 | 878 |
| 1999 | £112,000 | £223,210 | 977 |
| 1998 | £91,500 | £184,699 | 859 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 883 |
| 1996 | £74,400 | £156,906 | 854 |
| 1995 | £68,600 | £149,126 | 716 |
In cash terms the typical GL7 home went from £68,600 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 185%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GL7 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 (+22.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−6.0%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £650,000 against £195,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, GL7
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 | £650,000 | 81 | 8,473 |
| Semi-detached | £430,000 | 53 | 6,338 |
| Terraced | £335,000 | 74 | 6,773 |
| Flats | £195,000 | 26 | 2,699 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.3% | +1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
GL7 recorded 536 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 911 sales a year before the financial crisis and 587 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How GL7 trades
Among the 27 measurable districts of its area, GL7 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What tenants pay around GL7
The local authority for GL7 is Cotswold, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £425,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,255 a month (£15,060 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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.
GL7 (Fairford): the questions that come up
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What happens to GL7 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in GL7 today
Everything above is what homes in GL7 sold for. The live side of the market holds 120 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% above the GL7 median sold price.
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.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: GL prices by size
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
GL7 ranks 9 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside GL7, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 5 | £530,000 | 42 |
| GL7 6 | £537,500 | 20 |
| GL7 7 | £365,000 | 3 |
How GL7 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 | £526,000 | +17% |
| GL54 | £428,000 | -5% |
| GL7 (this report) | £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 GL7? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in GL7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GL7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GL7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual GL7 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.