GL53 house prices are built from 12,942 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 17 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £250,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +36.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.0%.
Median price paid
£250,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+36.8%
Change in real terms
-2.0%
Median per m²
£2,929
HM Land Registry12,942 sales1,959 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Jun 2026
Section 01
How GL53 prices moved
The chart tracks the median GL53 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £79,500 | £176,528 |
| 2000s | 10 | £225,000 | £409,884 |
| 2010s | 10 | £335,000 | £472,350 |
| 2020s | 7 | £501,250 | £512,147 |
The highest yearly median on record for GL53 is £535,750 in 2023; the lowest is £69,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £69,000 to £520,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £153,213, so the real change over the whole record is +239.4% — about +4.02% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +36.8% in cash against -2.0% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ealac House | 17 Jun 2026 | Detached | £975,000 | £975,000 |
| 72 Horsefair Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £550,000 | £550,000 |
| 3 Mornington Drive | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £474,500 | £474,500 |
| 28 Cirencester Road | 10 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £875,000 | £875,000 |
| 23C Lyefield Road East | 4 Jun 2026 | Detached | £625,000 | £625,000 |
| 40 Little Herberts Road | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £920,000 | £920,000 |
| 15 Vineries Close | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £700,000 | £700,000 |
| 4 the Close | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £465,000 |
| 1 Blackthorn End | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £809,000 | £809,000 |
| 25 Everest Road | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £625,000 | £625,000 |
| 6 Upper Norwood Street | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £555,000 | £555,000 |
| 8 King Henry Close | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £550,000 | £550,000 |
| 27 Naunton Lane | 21 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £690,000 | £690,000 |
| 55 Collum End Rise | 21 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £620,000 | £620,000 |
| 106 Honeysuckle Avenue | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £580,000 | £580,000 |
| 111 Leckhampton Road | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £1,075,000 | £1,075,000 |
| 7 Nourse Close | 15 May 2026 | Detached | £710,000 | £710,000 |
| 7 Grovelands Close | 14 May 2026 | Detached | £640,000 | £640,000 |
| 46 Longway Avenue | 12 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £500,000 |
| 15 Ewlyn Terrace | 8 May 2026 | Terraced | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| FLAT 31 WATERFORD COURT Moorend Park Road | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £70,000 |
| 3 Emmanuel Gardens | 6 May 2026 | Terraced | £356,000 | £356,000 |
| 94 Church Road | 1 May 2026 | Detached | £925,000 | £925,000 |
| 16 Southfield Manor Park | 1 May 2026 | Detached | £645,000 | £645,000 |
| 215 Old Bath Road | 1 May 2026 | Terraced | £570,000 | £570,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to GL53 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 Horsefair Street | £100,000 (1997) | £550,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 3 Mornington Drive | £195,000 (2006) | £474,500 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
| 28 Cirencester Road | £398,000 (2013) | £875,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.2% |
| 23C Lyefield Road East | £685,000 (2024) | £625,000 (2026) | -4.5% | -6.9% |
| 40 Little Herberts Road | £197,000 (2001) | £920,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.5% |
| 15 Vineries Close | £247,000 (2008) | £700,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.0% |
| 6 Upper Norwood Street | £225,000 (2002) | £555,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
| 8 King Henry Close | £225,000 (2006) | £550,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.6% |
| 1 Blackthorn End | £370,000 (2005) | £809,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
| 25 Everest Road | £400,000 (2022) | £625,000 (2026) | +11.8% | +7.8% |
| 27 Naunton Lane | £85,000 (1999) | £690,000 (2026) | +8.1% | +5.3% |
| 55 Collum End Rise | £101,000 (1996) | £620,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. GL53 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 4,440 | 34.3% | £250,000 | £13,000 – £2,000,000 |
| Detached | 3,577 | 27.6% | £424,000 | £9,000 – £3,920,000 |
| Terraced | 3,337 | 25.8% | £215,000 | £7,000 – £1,370,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,588 | 12.3% | £135,000 | £13,500 – £1,375,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in GL53
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,566 certificates cover GL53, and their median floor area is 90 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +18.4%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 90 m² | about 969 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 63 m² | about 678 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 129 m² | about 1,389 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 19.8% | 507 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 17.0% | 436 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in GL53
1,612 of the sales on record are leasehold and 11,330 freehold — 12.5% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £134,950 and the median freehold sale £279,000 — a gap of +106.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 1,612 | 12.5% | £134,950 |
| Freehold | 11,330 | 87.5% | £279,000 |
| New build | 713 | 5.5% | £395,995 |
| Existing home | 12,229 | 94.5% | £247,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +60.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 434 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in GL53
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cheltenham, 45.3% of 65,902 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 371 | 0.6% |
| B | 5,973 | 9.1% |
| C | 23,495 | 35.7% |
| D | 24,621 | 37.4% |
| E | 8,791 | 13.3% |
| F | 2,097 | 3.2% |
| G | 554 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cheltenham at £1,254 a month as of Jun 2026 — £865 for a one-bedroom home and £1,346 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £250,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.02% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
No street-level crime was published for GL53 in Jun 2026 by Gloucestershire. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around GL53
The 2021 census counted 118,836 residents in Cheltenham across 52,899 households. 64.3% of those households own their home and 35.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
6 state and independent schools have a GL53 postcode: 5 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balcarras School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,427 |
| Leckhampton Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 630 |
| Naunton Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 402 |
| Charlton Kings Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 381 |
| Charlton Kings Infants' School | Primary | Academy converter | 311 |
| Coberley Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 74 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Cheltenham Spa Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Cheltenham Racecourse (Gloucs Warwicks Railway) | Tram | 4.9 km |
| Cheltenham Racecourse (Gloucs Warwicks Railway) | Metro or underground | 4.9 km |
| Gotherington (Gloucs Warwicks Railway) | Metro or underground | 10.0 km |
Section 09
How GL53 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. GL53 sits above that national figure — +58.7%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,929 per square metre, across 1,959 of the 12,942 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £7,000 to £3,920,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
GL53 sits in Cheltenham, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cheltenham at 7.8 times median local earnings of £41,147 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside GL53
The closest districts
- GL502.6 km · £180,000
- GL513.7 km · £160,000
- GL524.6 km · £198,000
- GL37.7 km · £172,000
- GL411.2 km · £142,000
- GL112.3 km · £112,500
- GL2014.3 km · £165,000
- GL214.4 km · £165,995
This district mostly covers Cheltenham.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in GL53?
The median price paid in GL53 across every sale on the register is £250,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in GL53?
12,942 sales are on record for GL53, the most recent completing on 17 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have GL53 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +36.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were GL53 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £535,750, set in 2023. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in GL53?
£2,929 per square metre, from the 1,959 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 17 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “GL53 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.