Cheltenham house prices

Cheltenham house prices are built from 105,166 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £194,995. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +33.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.4%.

HM Land Registry105,166 sales16,414 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Cheltenham 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Cheltenham is £355,000 in 2024; the lowest is £60,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £60,000 to £346,900.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £133,228, so the real change over the whole record is +160.4% — about +3.14% 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: +33.4% in cash against -4.4% 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.

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.

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 Cheltenham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cheltenham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 23,158 certificates cover Cheltenham, and their median floor area is 78 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +2.6%. 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.

23,244 of the sales on record are leasehold and 81,922 freehold — 22.1% 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 £135,000 and the median freehold sale £220,000 — a gap of +63.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +29.0%. 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 5,560 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.

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.

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 £194,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.72% 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 GL52 in Jun 2026. 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.

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.

13 state and independent schools have a GL52 postcode: 11 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cheltenham sits above that national figure — +23.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,400 per square metre, across 16,414 of the 105,166 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 £1,800 to £10,500,000. 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.

Cheltenham 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.

Streets in Cheltenham

• London Road909 sales
• Gloucester Road867 sales
• Lansdown Road598 sales
• High Street592 sales
• Evesham Road591 sales
• The Park534 sales
• Pittville Circus Road516 sales
• St Georges Road501 sales
• Brookbank Close499 sales
• Station Road479 sales
• Hatherley Road468 sales
• Prestbury Road467 sales
• Hewlett Road436 sales
• River Leys405 sales
• Old Bath Road403 sales
• Church Road400 sales
• Bath Road381 sales
• Queens Road377 sales
• Pittville Lawn338 sales
• Hales Road336 sales
• Cirencester Road333 sales
• Park Place328 sales
• St Stephens Road327 sales
• Broad Oak Way322 sales
• Leckhampton Road306 sales
• St Georges Place306 sales
• Lansdown Crescent305 sales
• Suffolk Square296 sales
• Christchurch Road273 sales
• Ryeworth Road262 sales
• Brooklyn Road260 sales
• Ashlea Meadow258 sales
• Montpellier Spa Road253 sales
• Swindon Road249 sales
• Millbrook Street247 sales
• Sheldons Court243 sales
• Clarence Square242 sales
• Malvern Road242 sales
• St Peters Close238 sales
• Gretton Road234 sales
• Priory Street233 sales
• Montpellier Grove230 sales
• Windyridge Gardens230 sales
• Moorend Road229 sales
• Arle Road228 sales
• Brunswick Street228 sales
• Orchard Avenue228 sales
• Shurdington Road228 sales
• Naunton Crescent222 sales
• Priors Road222 sales
• Roman Road222 sales
• Mandarin Way218 sales
• Rosehill Street216 sales
• The Cornfields216 sales
• Canterbury Walk213 sales
• Churchfields213 sales
• Reddings Park207 sales
• Montpellier Terrace206 sales
• Park Street205 sales
• Wellington Square205 sales

Postcode districts covering Cheltenham

• GL52£198,000 median
• GL51£160,000 median
• GL50£180,000 median
• GL54£275,000 median
• GL53£250,000 median
• GL20£165,000 median

What is the average house price in Cheltenham?

The median price paid in Cheltenham across every sale on the register is £194,995. 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 Cheltenham?

105,166 sales are on record for Cheltenham, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Cheltenham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +33.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Cheltenham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £355,000, set in 2024. 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 Cheltenham?

£2,400 per square metre, from the 16,414 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 26 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, “Cheltenham 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.