GL15 4 house prices are built from 2,655 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £190,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +68.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +20.4%.
Median price paid
£190,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+68.1%
Change in real terms
+20.4%
Median per m²
£2,042
HM Land Registry2,655 sales154 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How GL15 4 prices moved
The chart tracks the median GL15 4 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 | £66,500 | £147,661 |
| 2000s | 10 | £174,000 | £316,977 |
| 2010s | 10 | £232,000 | £327,120 |
| 2020s | 7 | £320,000 | £326,957 |
The highest yearly median on record for GL15 4 is £395,000 in 2026; the lowest is £60,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £65,500 to £395,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £145,441, so the real change over the whole record is +171.6% — about +3.28% 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: +68.1% in cash against +20.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORCHARD RISE Bailey Hill | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| FIR TREE HOUSE Brains Green | 1 Jun 2026 | Detached | £475,000 | £475,000 |
| 2 HILLVIEW New Road | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| ROMILLY New Road | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £420,000 | £420,000 |
| THE LOWFIELDS Church Way | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £845,000 | £845,000 |
| Clayson House | 14 May 2026 | Detached | £575,000 | £575,000 |
| 11 Abbots Gate | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 87 Highbrook Way | 28 Apr 2026 | Detached | £332,000 | £332,000 |
| HAZELDENE Yorkley Wood | 24 Apr 2026 | Detached | £570,000 | £570,000 |
| 21 High Delf Way | 10 Apr 2026 | Detached | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| GABLE COTTAGE Furnace Valley | 2 Apr 2026 | Detached | £664,000 | £664,000 |
| CROOKHAM COTTAGE Brains Green | 26 Feb 2026 | Detached | £420,000 | £420,000 |
| 9 Oaklands Park | 20 Feb 2026 | Detached | £395,000 | £395,000 |
| HOLLY LODGE Tylers Way | 17 Feb 2026 | Detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| ROSE DENE Lower Road | 13 Feb 2026 | Detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| FLAT 4 OLD CO-OP Parkend Road | 12 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £120,000 |
| 9 Abbots Gate | 9 Feb 2026 | Detached | £332,500 | £332,500 |
| 2 Council Villas | 2 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| MEMORIAL HALL COTTAGE Millend | 30 Jan 2026 | Detached | £530,000 | £530,000 |
| AFON VIEW Driffield Road | 29 Jan 2026 | Detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| LILY COTTAGE Stag Hill | 23 Jan 2026 | Detached | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 9 Highbrook Way | 18 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| Merrywood | 12 Dec 2025 | Detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 12 Abbots Gate | 11 Dec 2025 | Detached | £310,000 | £316,739 |
| 23 Church Way | 28 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £319,000 | £325,935 |
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 GL15 4 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORCHARD RISE Bailey Hill | £250,000 (2010) | £450,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
| FIR TREE HOUSE Brains Green | £320,000 (2015) | £475,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.5% |
| 2 HILLVIEW New Road | £264,999 (2021) | £350,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +0.9% |
| ROMILLY New Road | £240,000 (2005) | £420,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 11 Abbots Gate | £220,000 (2019) | £270,000 (2026) | +3.0% | -0.9% |
| 87 Highbrook Way | £284,995 (2022) | £332,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +0.1% |
| HAZELDENE Yorkley Wood | £168,000 (2011) | £570,000 (2026) | +8.5% | +5.4% |
| 21 High Delf Way | £66,000 (1998) | £275,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| GABLE COTTAGE Furnace Valley | £290,000 (2003) | £664,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
| CROOKHAM COTTAGE Brains Green | £415,000 (2021) | £420,000 (2026) | +0.2% | -4.3% |
| 9 Oaklands Park | £210,000 (2016) | £395,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.0% |
| HOLLY LODGE Tylers Way | £176,000 (2004) | £300,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. GL15 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 1,609 | 60.6% | £240,000 | £23,000 – £900,000 |
| Semi-detached | 690 | 26.0% | £152,950 | £18,000 – £550,000 |
| Terraced | 291 | 11.0% | £129,000 | £24,000 – £475,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 65 | 2.4% | £100,000 | £17,000 – £345,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in GL15 4
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 534 certificates cover GL15 4, and their median floor area is 94 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +23.7%. 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 | 94 m² | about 1,012 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 72 m² | about 778 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 135 m² | about 1,453 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 11.4% | 61 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 18.5% | 99 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in GL15 4
84 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2,571 freehold — 3.2% 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 £90,000 and the median freehold sale £195,000 — a gap of +116.7%. 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 | 84 | 3.2% | £90,000 |
| Freehold | 2,571 | 96.8% | £195,000 |
| New build | 234 | 8.8% | £229,748 |
| Existing home | 2,421 | 91.2% | £187,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +22.9%. 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 195 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 GL15 4
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Forest of Dean, 38.6% of 39,729 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 10.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 452 | 1.1% |
| B | 5,467 | 13.8% |
| C | 9,410 | 23.7% |
| D | 12,580 | 31.7% |
| E | 7,732 | 19.5% |
| F | 3,095 | 7.8% |
| G | 993 | 2.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Forest of Dean at £824 a month as of Jun 2026 — £591 for a one-bedroom home and £954 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £190,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.20% 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 GL15 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 GL15 4
The 2021 census counted 87,004 residents in Forest of Dean across 37,217 households. 73.5% of those households own their home and 26.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a GL15 postcode: 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dean Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 816 |
| Severnbanks Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 251 |
| Primrose Hill Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 211 |
| Lydney Church of England Community School | Primary | Academy converter | 199 |
| Bream Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 186 |
| Yorkley Primary School | Primary | Community school | 177 |
| St Briavels Parochial Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 148 |
| Woolaston Primary School | Primary | Community school | 113 |
| Blakeney Primary School | Primary | Community school | 75 |
| Pillowell Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 73 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Norchard (Dean Forest Railway) | Metro or underground | 0.8 km |
| Dean Forest Railway | Tram | 0.8 km |
| Dean Forest Railway | Tram | 1.7 km |
| St Mary's Halt (Dean Forest Railway) | Tram | 2.3 km |
Section 09
How GL15 4 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. GL15 4 sits above that national figure — +20.6%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,042 per square metre, across 154 of the 2,655 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 £17,000 to £900,000. 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.
GL15 4 sits in Forest of Dean, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Forest of Dean at 8.2 times median local earnings of £33,474 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
Other sectors in GL15
The wider district is GL15.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in GL15 4?
The median price paid in GL15 4 across every sale on the register is £190,000. 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 GL15 4?
2,655 sales are on record for GL15 4, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have GL15 4 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +68.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +20.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were GL15 4 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £395,000, set in 2026. 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 GL15 4?
£2,042 per square metre, from the 154 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 5 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, “GL15 4 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.